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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

European Working Conditions Survey, 2015

Variable Details

VariableQ100
LabelQ100 - Thinking of your households total monthly income, is your household able to make ends meet..?
Question text A household may have different sources of income and more than one household member may contribute to it. Thinking of your household’s total monthly income, is your household able to make ends meet... Very easily, Easily, Fairly easily, With some difficulty, With difficulty, With great difficulty?
Responses
1 Very easily 3866
2 Easily 9065
3 Fairly easily 11760
4 With some difficulty 11800
5 With difficulty 4532
6 With great difficulty 2425
8 DK/no opinion (spontaneous) 196
9 Refusal (spontaneous) 206
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationEuropean Working Conditions Survey, 2015
Interviewer InstructionsSHOW CARD Q100 - ONLY ONE ANSWER POSSIBLE
UniverseLocation of units of observation: Cross-national; National;Population: All residents of the countries mentioned above aged 15 or older (16 or older in Bulgaria, Norway, Spain and the UK) and in employment at the time of the survey. People were considered to be in employment if they had worked for pay or profit for at least an hour in the week preceding the interview (ILO definition).
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; Sixth survey in the EWCS series.
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