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British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010

Variable Details

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LabelAffected F Crisis-Which Other Ways
Question text Please indicate how you have you been affected.
Responses
Am struggling to survive on reduced salary 1
Bonus 1
Can't sell my house 1
Care home charges for my Father 1
Credit Limits cut on Credit Cards 1
Depends on which of the previous topics, some better some worse 1
Drop in income from inheritance through sale of property 1
Drop in value of the pound 1
Due to strict Immigration points system placed on English speaking Nurses those outside EU even when there is a shortage 1
Everything has gone up in price except my wages. 1
Everything is costing more,Immigration is out of control,MP's are not looking after us,they only think of lining their own pockets,cost of fuel ect,motoring,its all bad. 1
Everything is much more expensive and getting more expensive each week but my budget is not changing 1
Exchange rate 1
Family breakup 1
Family lost jobs ahd to lend them mortgage payments 1
Friends and families situations 1
Fuel bills, even less money than usual 1
HOLIDAYS 1
Have 3 Public sector pensions but only the basic element of the state pension was increased. In addition as tax allowances were frozen I pay more tax plus loss in allownce as increase in state pension results in allowance deduction of £1 for every £2 ex 1
Home insurers products 1
House prices have risen too much. 1
Husband lost his job 1
I am getting little interest on my savings despite having been prudent and not overborrowed like some have.MY youngest son who graduated in 2008 cannot find a job and the governments so called help for under 24's especially graduates are frankly a complet 1
I am selling my house - in 12 month only 3 couples have viewed and it is a good property. 1
I had to reduce the price of my house by 20,000 1
I have been unable to sell my house 1
I have been unable to sell my house for its true value in order to move out of London as long planned 1
I have no option but to depend entirely upon Pension Credit and disability benefits. These have not been uprated in a way which has kept pace with the massive, soaring rises in ACTUAL fuel, food and petrol inflation. And NOT the government's fiddled infla 1
I havent been affected! 1
I live oart of the time abroad where the fall in the value of the pound has meant an effective rise in my costs in that country of 33 percent. 1
I lost a huge amount of money on selling my house 1
I rent out properties and good company long lease tennents are very hard to find 1
I'm self-employed and my clients keep dropping my rates. 1
Income has dropped dramatically, cannot find money for bills. 1
Inheritance decreased by about 40% 1
Interest on savings and other investments is negligable 1
Interrest on my savings 1
It has made me less happy, I really hate to see people doing well out of this who really dont deserve it 1
Job politicised 1
Lack of employment for family due to immigration 1
Less money to use 1
Loan payments reduced in line with bank of england interest rates 1
Loss of interest on my savings. 1
Low interest rate on savings 1
Low return on savings 1
Made Redundant 1
My Pay 1
My daughter has lost her job due to the recession. 1
My husband is self employed, so the amount of pupils he has taking out driving has dropped considerably because people take driving lessons as a luxury 1
My husband was made redundanct after 35 years in the same job 1
My husband will lose his job when the company folds in this town next year, rising costs on petrol, groceries, VAT, heeating etc. while pay rises are low or non-existant and interest on savings is about nil. lack of jobs available for people being made re 1
My husbands business 1
My partner has been unable to secure a reasonable financial settlement with his ex-wife and unable to sell their property, which in turn means we are unable to move in together 1
My partner was almost made redundant. 1
My property value 1
My son lost his job our fioiod prices travekl utilities and general cost of daily living has risen have very little work and no money 1
My wife's job 1
My wifes job 1
PAY CUT 1
Partner lost job 1
Partner made redundant 1
Partner on reduced working hours and friends and family llost jobs 1
Partner's job; performance of savings; availability of housing 1
Pay freeze 1
Pay freeze due to poor public finances 1
People holding back on getting work done means less work for my husband, less money etc. A fixed rate mortgage means no benefit in the interest rate drops for us. 1
Premiums bond yield is pathetic. 1
Price increases 1
Reduced hours last year, no pay increase this year 1
Rising prices of gas, electricity, food, etc. 1
Savings not worth doing 1
Simply by hearing about it and reading about it. Own situation not great to begin with so used to 'making do'. 1
Slow housing market delayed sale of property 1
Stress thinking about greedy bankers and politicians 1
That's my business!! 1
The company I work for has not grown as fast as expected 1
The cost of living 1
The lack of accessible housing for wheelchair users.. 1
Unable to sell my house 1
Unemployed children 1
Unemployed most of last year 1
Unemployed,unable to get employment and having to lose my credit cards and credit worthiness 1
Was going to sell my house but couldn't as house prices fell 1
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almost non existent interest rates,quantative easing ie devaluation by any other name,draconian taxes,assetless uki 1
bankruptcy, redundancy 1
benefits slashed 1
can't afford to fund my hobby 1
children have employment problems 1
cost of holidays have gone up dramatically 1
credit card rate increased 1
credit card rates 1
credit facilities withdrawn 1
decision to buy propery posponed because government will do anything to keep house prices high. 1
delaying purchasing a house 1
disabled pensioner, not getting interest on savings etc because of the bank rate so hae to use savings to get by on instead of the interest & paying more in council tax as well. 1
dk 1
drop in bank interest and rising costs of food, etc 1
everything costs a lot more but pensions do not rise to cover these costs so we have to spend less on essentials and sell surplus items 1
exchange rate with $ 1
exchange rates when going abroad 1
extra expense on heating and fuel bills 1
family have been made unemployed 1
food prices 1
food prices have gone up dramatically as has fuel 1
frozen income higher costs 1
general costs up 1
giving to church is down 1
health 1
high fuel bills 1
higher costs 1
husbands job 1
husbands lack of work 1
i dont have any money 1
i lost my IT job at the bank. 1
impact to come on public services 1
impossible to live on interest from savings 1
income from pensions 1
increased cost on everything 1
increased costs 1
inheritance 1
inheritance was lost in the bank collapse 1
interest rate on savings 1
lack of credit - lack of trust in the future 1
lack of money 2
less money 1
less work available 1
living on basic means 1
loss of business, reduced income 1
loss of charity funding 1
low interest rates, pension 'frozen' 1
my benefits 1
my husband is about to loose his job because of cuts in his workplace 1
my husband will shortly be out of work when a contract ends. We fear foreign workers are coming in to take the local jobs 1
my husband's firm went under and he had to get a lower paid job that doesn't cover all the bills. 1
my inheritance was in shares 1
my landlord has put the rent up a lot 1
no 3
no work 1
northern rock 1
parent lost job 1
partner redundant 1
partners business, property price slump and unable to sell house 1
partners wages 1
pension has gone down 1
pension is not what was promised. 1
perspective and priorities 1
petrol and electric take ALL my wages 1
price of food 1
prices especially petrol have gone up 1
prices have gone up in the shops 1
prices have increased greatly, our income has decreased by quite a lot. Very hard to find decent jobs - evenhard to find menial jobs as the immigrants have taken over all of theose in our area 1
profits down at the company i am a director of 1
property prices 1
quality of life 1
rent payments 1
savings 2
see above - these questions have not been properly thought out 1
share prices 1
shares 1
taxes, weekly shopping bill increasing 1
the increase in fuel (both domestic and for motoring) 1
through family who have been affected, by difficulties getting credit 1
trying to sell my house...what more do I need to say 1
value of my house dropped considerably 1
worse off in every way 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
Interviewer InstructionsOPEN TEXTBOX
UniverseElectors resident in Great Britain during 2005-2009.;National
SamplingQuota sample
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort; The dataset contains six survey waves.