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UK Data Service variable record for:

Consumer Energy Supplier Switching: Data from 'The Big Switch' and Subsequent Surveys, 2012-2014

Variable Details

VariableQ3.7_TEXT
LabelAre you?  Please tick the answer which best describes your situation.  -TEXT
Responses
#NAME? 1
Activist 1
AgeUK Volunteer 1
Also retired 1
Both employed and self employed 1
But also do casual work 1
Care giver 1
Carer 13
Chair & vice chair of local organisations 1
Chronic Ill-health 1
Chronically ill 1
Clinical Trials 1
Company Director 3
Company pension, plus freelance working 1
Currently not seeking work 1
DISABLED 2
DLA 1
Director 1
Disability. 1
Disabled 16
Disabled & unable to work 1
Disabled (Industrial Injury) 1
Disabled and unable to work 1
Disabled non-working 1
Disabled unfit to work again ever 1
ESA 1
ESA Support Group 2
Early retirement with some freelance work 1
Economically inactive 1
Elected Councillor 1
Emeritus Physicist 1
Employed full time hours term time only 1
Employed part time on a self employed basis 1
Employed part-time as assistant teacher 1
Employed, Self-employed, and retired 1
Freelance part-time 1
Full time carer 1
Going through retirement on health grounds from full time employment 1
I am semi-retired, but write for a number of magazines on a freelance basis 1
I am working but not in paid employment 1
Illness 1
In between jobs having moved home 1
In full time employment but not working due to long term serious health condition 1
LONG-TERM DISABLED 1
Limited Company Contractor 1
Long term sick 2
Long term sick/disabled 1
Long term sickness 1
Long-term illness 2
Looking after rental interests. 1
Mainly retired but some self employed work. 1
Mainly retired, c12 weeks work pa 1
Medically Retired 1
Medically retired 1
Mine is now coing less 1
Non executive Director 1
Occasional contracting consultant 1
Own company 1
Part retired 1
Part work part retired 1
Pension but do some part time work 1
Receing ESA due to illness 1
Registered disabled 1
Retied but lecture part time 1
Retired 1
Retired - Part Time Worker 1
Retired and teaching part time 1
Retired but Supply Teaching if and when. 1
Retired but also undertake paid work as Chair of a Social Enterprise Company 1
Retired but doing8 hours a week paid work 1
Retired but occasional work 1
Retired but running a small Bus and registered as selfemployed 1
Retired but work part-time as a sculptor 1
Retired but working 1
Retired but working part time 1
Retired but working part-time 1
Retired due to Health 1
Retired early due to ill health 1
Retired from full time employment but on-call firefighter 1
Retired from own work but unpaid support for partner's own business as a new venture. 1
Retired on medical grounds 1
Retired with part time job 1
Retired, but doing some temporary part time work 1
SEMI RETIRED 1
Seer 1
Self employed 1
Self employed as well as part time employed 1
Self employed but earning very little 1
Self-employed semi-retired 1
Self-enployed + Employed part-time 1
Semi retired 4
Semi retired i.e. I have both a pension but a number of paid and voluntary roles 1
Semi-Retired 2
Semi-retired 5
Semi-retired and self employed part time. Also doing voluntary work. 1
Sessional worker 1
Sickness Lung Disease 1
Smallholder 1
Stateless 1
Town & County Councillor 1
Unable to work 2
Unable to work due to disability/illness 1
Unable to work due to poor health 1
Unemployed Disabled 1
Unemployed due to health problems 1
Unemployed due to ill health 1
Unemployed/disabled 1
Unpaid full-time employment 1
Voluntary driver 1
Voluntary work 2
Voluntary work (CAB) only 1
Voluntary worker 1
Volunteer 2
Volunteering 1
Wife's Full Time Carer 1
Working part-time, retiring in two weeks 1
bi polar 1
businees owner 1
carer 7
carer for son 1
casual worker 2
company director 1
contract 1
currently unable to work due to illness but intend on returning to work. 1
currently working 3 month notice period before becoming homemaker 1
disabed 1
disabled 13
disabled by chronic illness 1
disabled non-working 1
disabled unable to work 1
disabled/esa 1
disabled/unable to work 2
disabled/unemployed 1
employed & self employed 1
employed 80%; self-employed 20% 1
employed off sick long term 1
esa 1
forced ill-health retired 1
foster carer 1
free lance consultancy 1
full time carer 3
full time ma student, part time self employed 1
home parent 1
house-bound disabled 1
ill-health retired lecture 1
ill/disabled 1
income from private means 1
independent means 1
informal carer of relative 1
local councillor 1
long term disabled 1
long term illness 1
long term sick 5
long term sick leave 1
long term unable to work 1
medical leave 1
medically retired 4
mental health problems 1
non disclosed 1
not working 1
not working due to ill health 1
occasional self employed and retired 1
old age 1
on disability benefits 1
on maternity leave 1
on sick leave 1
part retired part self employed 1
part time self employed & retired 1
part time self employed with disabilities 1
part-time self-employed 1
pension&part time&self employed 1
regular charity worker 1
retired 4
retired and working part time 1
retired but actively make money from several investment sources 1
retired but part timeself employed 1
retired but some p/t tutoring work 1
retired but working PT 1
retired early due to fibro but trying to get healthy as I love to work and help people 1
retired from main job but doing some part time work 1
retired injured 1
retired on ill health grounds 1
retred but undertaking paid consultancy work 1
sabatical 1
self employed AND employed part time 1
self-employed part-time 1
semi retired 13
semi retired - self employed 1
semi retired but working 1
semi-retired 4
semi-retired with some self employment 1
semi-retired/self-employed 2
semi-retired; work pro bono 1
several of the above 1
severly disabled 1
solo parent to teenager & carer to elderly parents 1
unable to work due to terminal illness 1
unable to work for health reasons 1
unemployed long term due to chronic pain 1
voluntary work 1
volunteer 3
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationConsumer Energy Supplier Switching: Data from 'The Big Switch' and Subsequent Surveys, 2012-2014