Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2011

Variable Details

VariableTelFilt
LabelTelephone Services: does hhold pay for an account?
Question text [1] Apart from the telephone/mobile service that is part of the combined package(s) you mentioned earlier, do you (or other members of this household) pay for at least one other telephone or mobile service? [2] The next questions are about telephone and mobile services paid for by you (or other members of this household). May I first check, do you (or other members of this household) pay for at least one telephone or mobile service or is all your telephone use paid direct by someone outside this household?
Responses
1 HHld pays at least one account 4682
2 Whole telephone mobile services paid by 84
3 Spontaneous - Does not pay for telephone use 94
4 Spontaneous - Does not pay for telephone use 798
Sysmiss 33
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2011
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 2011.
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.