Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2009

Variable Details

VariableTelFilt
LabelTelephone: does hhold pay for an account?
Question text The next questions are about telephone accounts paid by you (or other members of this household). May I first check, does your household pay for at least one telephone account or are all your phone bills paid direct by someone outside this household?
Responses
1 HHld pays at least one account 5365
2 Whole bill paid by someone else 45
3 Spontaneous - Does not pay for telephone use 355
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2009
Interviewer InstructionsExclude mobile phone top-up or 'pay as you go' cards. Exclude payments into coin boxes & telephone cards.
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2009.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;Due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS.