Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2014

Variable Details

VariableTelFilt
LabelTelephone Services: Does your household pay for at least one telephone account or are all paid by someone outside this household?
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 4841
2 Whole telephone mobile services paid by 95
3 Household does not have other telephone 44
4 @BSpontaneous - @BDoes not pay for telep 140
Sysmiss 13
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2014
Interviewer InstructionsExclude mobile phone top-up or 'pay as you go' cards. Exclude payments into coin boxes & telephone cards.
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2014.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
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.