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1. a private pension or annuity a widow s or war widow s pension a widowed mother s allowance severe disablement allowance industrial industry or disablement allowance the care component of disability living allowance the mobility component of disability living allowance disability living allowance disabled person s tax credit formerly known as disability working allowance attendance allowance invalid care allowance war disability pension incapacity benefit income support job seeker s allowance 2T INC_35 INC_36 INC_37 INC_38 INC_39 INC_40 INC_51 INC_52 INC_53 INC_54 INC_55 INC_56 INC_57 INC_58 child benefit Jone parent child benefit working family tax credit maternity allowance housing benefit rent rebate or allowance council tax benefit educational grant trade union or friendly society payments maintenance or alimony payments from a family member not living with you rent from boarders or lodgers living with you rent from other property foster allowance sickness or accident insurance A2 Respondent specific variables INTDATE INTMON N2_01 N2_02 Date of wave 11 interview Month of wave 11 interview Number of A levels reported up to and including wave 11 Based on D66 corresponding to D65 10 and D76 quali
2. none code is also provided Grid questions e g V1 in the values section Verbatim text entry Questions with a date to be entered Questions with an amount to entered pounds hours etc Error screens Single response questions skip automatically to the next relevant question On multiple response questions and questions where you need to enter a date an amount or text you will need to tap lt Next gt to go forward Entry of person numbers There are various points in the questionnaires where you need to enter person numbers e g who owns or rents the accommodation who does the respondent provide care for etc For these questions you will be given a list of possible person numbers and a code for No one else if required Date entry There are two main types of date entry throughout the questionnaire 1 If the date is restricted in some way e g the dates for receiving benefits then the screen will give you a list of possible months and a list of possible years You should simply code the relevant month s and the relevant year 2 If the date is not restricted to a limited number of years e g date of birth or the date a job started then you are asked to enter the day month year into the boxes Where you are asked to enter a year you must use 4 digits i e 1968 not 68 Entry of amounts Amounts are entered directly into boxes There are no leading zeros but please check you are entering the amount accurately
3. 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 Grimsby College FE Guildford College FE Guildhall School of Music and Drama H Hackney Community College London FE Hadlow College Tonbridge FE Halesowen College FE Halton College Widnes FE Hammersmith and West London College FE Harlow College FE Harper Adams University College Harrow College FE Hartlepool College of Further Education FE Hastings College of Arts and Technology FE Hatfield Polytechnic Havering College of Further and Higher Education Hornchurch FE Henley College Coventry FE Henley Management College Herefordshire College of Art and Design FE Herefordshire College of Technology FE Heriot Watt University Hertford Regional College Turnford FE Hertfordshire University of Highbury College Portsmouth FE Highlands and Islands University of the see UHI Millennium Institute Hillcroft College Surbiton Surrey FE Hopwood Hall College Rochdale FE Huddersfield Technical College FE Huddersfield University of Hull College FE Hull Scarborough Campus University of Hull University of Humberside University of Huron University USA in London I Imperial College at Wye University of London Imperial College of Science Technology amp Medicine Institute for System Level Integration Livingston Institute
4. 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 Plymouth University of Polytechnic of Wales Polytechnic of West London Polytechnic South West Portsmouth University of Preston Polytechnic Priestley College Warrington FE Q Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh Queen Mary University of London Queen s University Belfast R Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication Reading College and School of Arts and Design FE Reading University of Reaseheath College Nantwich FE Redcar and Cleveland College FE Regents Business School Regent s College London Richmond Adult and Community College Twickenham FE Richmond upon Thames College Twickenham FE Richmond The American International University in London Ridge Danyers College Stockport FE Robert Gordon University Roehampton Institutes Rose Bruford College Rother Valley College Sheffield FE Rotherham College of Arts and Technology FE Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Royal Academy of Music Royal Agricultural College Royal College of Art Royal College of Music Royal Forest of Dean College Coleford FE Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine Royal Holloway University of London Royal Military College of Science Cranfield University Royal Northern College of Music Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Royal Veterinary College Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Rugby College FE Ruski
5. Code 4 applies to any split off household that has become ineligible for interview Code 5 applies to any other split off household NOT issued to field eg un traced movers out of scope For all codes 4 and 5 the Actual Interviewer Area will be 300 and the Interviewer Number 0 s on the front page of the Coversheet Progress code col 45 This should be updated as necessary throughout fieldwork until the household is finally completed when it is coded 1 Re issue details col 46 62 This information must be completed for any coversheet that is re issued back into the field The information must also be punched into the booking in program 68 NEW COVERSHEETS CREATED BY INTERVIEWERS Check to make sure that where a new Coversheet has been created by the interviewer for a split off household i e where one or more members of the original household has moved locally to a new household and been traced by the interviewer Check also that the household number is not O and the check digit has been left blank CORRECT AS NECESSARY For all split off households traced by interviewers two addresses should be entered on the front page of the new Coversheet all information from the pre printed issued address including the Wave 11 FID and full details of the new address of interview If any information is incomplete and cannot be reconstructed flag with a yellow post it and alert your supervisor Check that all pre printed info
6. FE Burton College Burton Upon Trent FE Bury College FE C Calderdale Colleges Corporation Halifax FE Camberwell College Camberwell College of Arts Cambridge University of Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology Cannington College FE Canterbury Christ Church University College Canterbury College FE Capel Manor Horticultural and Environmental Centre Enfield FE Cardiff University Cardiff University of Wales Institute Carlisle College FE Carmarthenshire College Llanelli FE Carshalton College FE Castlereagh College of Further and Higher Education Belfast FE Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Education Coleraine FE Central England in Birmingham University of Central England University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire University of Central School of Speech and Drama Central St Martins College of Art and Design 91 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 Centre for Jewish Christian Relations Chelsea College Chelsea College of Art and Design Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education see Gloucestershire University of Chester College Chesterfield College FE Chichester College of Arts Science and Technology FE City and Islington College Lo
7. In all cases you will have some combination of don t know refused nothing or same as now codes If an amount entered seems too low or too high you will be asked to confirm whether it is correct In the employment section there are some questions on the hourly amount people are paid On these questions you are asked to enter the amount in pounds and pence and to code whether the amount is an estimate or exact Separate Don t know and refused codes are also provided Warning and error screens There are a variety of error screens you may find come up many of which relate to invalid dates and others for invalid response combinations Some of these are warnings that you have entered something which is invalid such as entering an amount and coding don t know on the screen or perhaps you have failed to code anything at all Or it could be a warning that a date you have entered is invalid e g the start date of a job entered is after the date of interview If an error screen appears it will give you details of what the problem is and tell you what you need to do to correct it e g Please enter lt NEXT gt and amend your response If you enter an amount or a number which is out of range a warning will appear telling you what is valid for that question For example a date before 1900 is not valid for anything other than date of birth FIELDWORK PROCEDURES Advance Letters and Gift Vouchers You will
8. Investment asset income increased higher interest rates profit on selling shares property Less expenses spending reduced lower bills taxes mortgages etc prices fallen Had windfall payment eg inheritance gifts redundancy payments Earned income decreased lost job pay reduced less hours Benefits reduced stopped Investment asset income decreased lower interest rates losses on selling shares property More expenses spending increased cost of living up inflation higher bills taxes mortgages etc prices higher Unexpected one off expenditure eg wedding moved house Combination of income down and expenses down Combination of income up and expenses up inflation Combination of benefits down and expenses up Combination of benefits up and expenses up inflation Savings down but standard of living the same Good management thrift No change in income benefits expenses not elsewhere specified Other reasons for being better off not elsewhere specified Other reasons for being worse off not elsewhere specified Other reasons neither better nor worse off not elsewhere specified Other Don t know 105 99 Refused 106 Flla Purpose of saving F18 F22 CODE FIRST TWO MENTIONS 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 96 98 99 Holidays Old age retirement specifically mentioned include pension schemes plans Car Child ren include children s education and if buyi
9. Limavady College of Further and Higher Education FE Lincoln University of Lincolnshire and Humberside University of Lisburn Institute of Further and Higher Education FE Liverpool Community College FE Liverpool Hope University College Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool Polytechnic Liverpool University of Llandrillo College Colwyn Bay FE London Business School London College of Fashion London College of Music 95 266 267 268 269 270 271 212 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 London College of Printing London Contemporary Dance School London Guildhall University London Metropolitan University formed from London Guildhall University and University of North London London School of Economics London University of Long Road Sixth Form College Cambridge FE Loughborough College FE Loughborough University Loughborough University School of Art and Design Luton University of M Macclesfield College FE Manchester Business School Manchester College of Arts and Technology FE Manchester Institute of Science and Technology UMIST University of Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester University of Matthew Boulton College Birmingham FE Merrist Wood College Guildford FE Merton College
10. Morden FE Mid Cheshire College Northwich FE Middlesex University Mid Kent College Chatham FE Moray College Elgin FE Moray House Institute of Education Moulton College Northampton FE N Napier University Neath Port Talbot College FE Nelson and Colne College FE Nene College New College Durham FE New College Nottingham FE New College Swindon FE New College Telford FE Newbury College FE Newcastle College FE Newcastle Polytechnic Newcastle Upon Tyne University of Newcastle under Lyme College FE Newham College of Further Education London FE Newman College of HE Newport University of Wales College Newry and Kilkeel Institute FE North Devon College Barnstaple FE North Down and Ards Institute of Further and Higher Education Bangor FE 96 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 North East Institute of Further and Higher Education Ballymena FE North East Surrey College of Technology Epsom FE North East Wales Institute of Higher Education North East Worcestershire College Bromsgrove FE North Hertfordshire College Hitchin FE North Highland College FE North Lincolnshire College FE North Lindsey College Scunthorpe FE North London University of now London Metrop
11. don t know If you do soa warning screen will appear and you will have to go back and delete whichever response is in error Questions requiring text entry or numeric entry have a pop up keyboard or number pad which appears automatically on the screen for you to use Remember that you can move this keyboard to a different place on the screen by clicking on the top bar and dragging it to where you want it to be If the keyboard does not appear automatically tap the entry box or tap the keyboard option on the menu bar at the top of your screen Some interviewers find it easier to have the keyboard for text entry set for capital letters If you wish to do this then please do so You can enter a note at any point in the questionnaire by tapping on the note option on your menu bar at the top of the screen This will give you a pop up text box to write in your comment Close the note box by tapping the X in the top right hand corner of the note box Please use the notes facility if you are uncertain about the response you have entered for a question as it does not seem to apply to the respondent or have any problems with a specific question We will be looking at the comments as soon as the interviews are received Question Types You will come across several main question types e Single response questions Multiple response questions usually with an exclusive code for don t know or not answered Where applicable a
12. followed by CX01 i e the final filter from D78 should be to CXO1 instead of DA65 CX01 IF ANY YES AT D24 AND D2550 OR D74 EQ 1 AND D75 gt 0 X07 then DA65 IF NO NEW QUALIFICATIONS REPORTED DA65 X07 Ask for each new qual reported at D25 D26 D74 D75 You have told me that you have gained lt N1_x gt lt QUAL_x gt since last time we interviewed you and my records show that you previously had lt N2_x gt lt QUAL_x gt so you now have a total of lt N1_x N2_x gt lt QUAL_x gt is that correct IF RESPONDENT DISAGREES INTERVIEWER PROBE TO ESTABLISH WHICH ANSWER WRONG Yes correct No our previous records are wrong Text box for verbatim explanation No current response was wrong Text box for verbatim explanation If there is another new qual X07 If no other new qual DA65 15 2 Current Employment Table 4 Record structure for current employment questions Question Records Independent Proactive DI Reactive DI E5 lpdwrkr Iboccup Icoccup E6 Ipdwrkr Iboccup Icoccup E6a Ipdwrkr Iboccup Icoccup E7 Ipdwrkr Iboccup Icoccup E8 lemplyee Iboccup Icoccup E9 lemplyee Iboccup Icoccup E10 lemplyee Iboccup Icoccup Ix11 Iboccup 1x12 Iboccup 1x13 Iboccup 1x14 Iboccup 1x15 Iboccup 1x16 Icoccup 1x17 Icoccup 1x18 Icoccup 1x19 Icoccup 1x20 Icoccup rdi_followup 1x21 Icoccup rdi_followup 1x22 Icoccup rdi_followup INDEPENDENT Standard wave 12 i
13. month If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 5 year If E22 valid E26 1 E23 1 week If E22 valid E26 1 E23 2 fortnight If E22 valid E26 1 E23 3 four weeks If E22 valid E26 1 E23 4 month If E22 valid E26 1 E23 5 year If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 1 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 2 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 3 four weeks If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 4 month If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 5 year week fortnight If E20 valid and E22 8 or 9 gross If E22 valid and E26 1 net If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E29 1 or 3 gross If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E29 2 net Usual gross pay at wave 11 If E26 2 and E29 1 or 3 E27 PA YUW 13 3 Otherwise 1 Usual net pay at wave 11 If E26 2 and E29 2 E27 PAYUW 13 3 If E26 1 and E22 valid not DK Ref E22 PAYNW 13 3 Otherwise 1 Main activity status at w11 D17 or D34 Text variable describing KACT If D17 or D34 01 If D17 or D34 02 If D17 or D34 09 If D17 or D34 10 self employed in paid employment Etc to on a government training scheme text as entered at w11 Start month and year of main activity at w11 30 J5 or J7 c 27 32 KACTMTX Text variable describing KACTM e g If KACTM 082001 August 2001 If KACTM 03 1997 March 1997 Etc KINC_0O1 1 If F1 01 0 Otherwise KINC_02 1 If
14. 9 14 pages 3 4 of the Coversheet and check that all current household members are listed on the Household Grid IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THEIR COVERSHEET PERSON NUMBER IS RETAINED AND CORRECTLY TRANSFERRED TO THE HOUSEHOLD GRID and to all other individual level documents NB This might mean the numbers on the Household Grid do not run in sequence They could for instance go something like 02 03 05 if Person Numbers 1 and 4 on the issued coversheet have left the household PLEASE DO NOT renumber them The preservation of this error is the only way that Institute staff can correct an interviewers mistake with person numbers later on Check to make sure that all boxes 3 13 have a code value The HRP has to be correct according to the HRP definition Note that the HRP is not necessarily line 01 This means that the relationship column can easily be corrected Please note that the first person on the list must always be an eligible respondent transferred from the coversheet An unlisted member must never be the first person recorded on the household grid 71 If the owner tenant of the accommodation is no longer a household member eg husband moved out the next logical person should be coded as the HRP The HRP has to be a current household member 3 SEX Replace 8 s and blanks if this information is known elsewhere 4 DATE OF BIRTH Replace 98 s and blanks if this information is known elsewhere 5 6 PRE PRINTED SEX and DoB LA
15. F1 02 0 Otherwise And similarly for KINC_03 to KINC_58 excluding 41 33 variables in total as numbering is not consecutive 31 Appendix 5 Variables Derived Within Wave 12 Interview for Dependent Interviewing N1_01 Number of A levels reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 Sum of D26 for D25 04 and D25 05 plus sum of D76 04 and D76 05 N1_02 Number of GCSE grades A C reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 02 plus D76 02 N1_03 Number of GCSE grades D G reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 01 plus D76 01 N1_11 Number of GNVQs reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 03 plus D76 03 N1_12 Number of standard grades at grade 1 3 reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 08 plus D76 08 N1_13 Number of standard grades at grade 4 7 reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 07 plus D76 07 N1_17 Number of AS levels reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 06 plus D76 06 N1_18 Number of Higher grades reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 09 plus D76 09 N1_19 Number of certificates of 6 year studies reported at wave 12 as having been gained since wave 11 D26 for D25 10 plus D76 10 EMPSTAT2_ Text variable to be used as textfill If E7 1 an employee If E7 2 self employed WORKTXL Text varia
16. FE Other UK institution Non UK institution Don t know Refused Other time period D105 Weight in grams Code to nearest gram There are 1000 grams to a kilo Eg 3 kilos and 250 grams 3250 EMPLOYMENT ES CODE USING CASOC 6 digits 102 Standardise question number to four digits E005 for entry into CASOC E6 CODE TO 1992 SIC 4 digits If fine level of distinction can not be made for coding use next highest level of aggregation If description lists several items which would lead to completely disparate coding go with the first mention eg a company makes metal products and chemical products E21 Code other time period E23 Code other time period E23c Code other time period E23e Code other time period E28 Code other time period E55 Code other time period E92 Code other time period E117 CODE USING CASOC 6 digits Standardise question number to four digits E117 for entry into CASOC E133 CODE USING CASOC 6 digits Standardise question number to four digits E133 for entry into CASOC Employment History J14 spells 1 4 CODE USING CASOC 6 digits Standardise question number to four digits J14 plus spell number as entered on questionnaire i e J141 J144 J147 etc for entry into CASOC J22 spells 1 4 CODE TO 1992 SIC 4 digits J25 Code other time period J28 Main thing attracted respondent about new job READ WHOLE ANSWER BUT CODE ONLY ONE MENTION 103 PRIORITY CODE Lower numbered c
17. IN Contact name Employer Firm name 502s 2ics ate sees crite sateen demas Address details GO TO F55_W11 26 Appendix 4 Feed Forward Variables for Dependent Interviewing Note all question numbers in this appendix refer to the numbering used at wave 11 A1 Constant text fills These had the same value for all sample members and were therefore not added to the data file They were used in the derivation of some feed forward variables and as interview text fills in their own right QUAL_01 QUAL_02 QUAL_03 QUAL_04 QUAL_05 QUAL_06 QUAL_07 QUAL_08 QUAL_09 QUAL_10 QUAL_11 QUAL_12 QUAL_13 QUAL_14 QUAL_15 QUAL_16 QUAL_17 QUAL_18 QUAL_19 INC_01 INC_02 INC_03 INC_04 INC_05 INC_06 INC_16 INC_18 INC_19 INC_20 INC_21 INC_22 INC_23 INC_24 INC_25 INC_26 INC_32 INC_34 A levels GCSE grades A C GCSE grades D G O levels before 1975 O level grades A C O level grades D E CSEs grade 1 CSEs grade 2 5 school certificate higher school certificate GNVQs standard grades 1 3 standard grades 4 7 SCE ordinary grades bands D E or 4 5 O grades pass bands A C or 1 3 school leaving certificate AS levels higher grades certificate of 6 year studies national insurance retirement pension a pension from a previous employer a pension from a spouse s previous employer
18. INTDATE gt the number of people employed at the place where you work has changed from being lt WORKTXK3 gt to lt WORKTXL gt is that correct Yes Ell No ENTER EXPLANATION then E11 18 3 Income from Current Employment Table 5 Record structure for questions on income from current employment Question Records Question Records le20 lemployee le26 lemployee le20dk lemployee le27 lemployee le21 lemployee le27dk lemployee le21loc lemployee le28 lemployee le22 lemployee le280c lemployee le22dk lemployee le29 lemployee le23 lemployee le30a lemployee le230c lemployee le30b lemployee le23a lemployee le30c lemployee le23b lemployee le30d lemployee le23bdk lemployee le30e lemployee le23c lemployee le30f lemployee le23coc lemployee le30g lemployee le23d lemployee le30h lemployee le23ddk lemployee le30i lemployee le23e lemployee 1x31 lemployee le23eoc lemployee 1x32 lemployee le24 lemployee 1x33 lemployee le25 lemployee Ix3as rdi_followup le25dk lemployee 1x3bs rdi_followup INDEPENDENT Standard wave 12 questions PROACTIVE DI Add before E20 CX31 AUTO CHECK IF VALPAY 1 ASK X31 OTHERWISE ASK E20 X31 Last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATES gt our records show that your pay was lt KAMT gt per lt KPERIOD gt lt KGROSS gt Is that still the case now or has your pay changed Same E20 Changed E20 REACTIVE DI Add before E31 CX32 AUTO CHECK IF KUSUPAYN gt 0 AND LUSUPAYN3 gt 0 CX33 ELSEIF K
19. This page allows you to specify in more detail the reason for any household refusal or non contact you get This allows us to tailor our conversion procedures more 29 accurately We need to know as much detail as possible about those we couldn t interview and those we did CONVERSION RE ISSUE HOUSEHOLD OUTCOME PAGE 11 The codes refer to the whole household These allow us to update the final household outcome following an initial refusal or non contact 30 HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE CAPI Please ensure that a Household Questionnaire is present for all households where at least one interview is achieved Even if some or all of the questions cannot be answered by your respondent you should complete as much as you can and use the don t know or not answered codes as necessary H2 H3 H4 H9 H10 Exclude any rooms currently or usually sublet to persons outside the household but include any rooms solely occupied by lodgers within households You should already know if lodgers are present if necessary check Does this include the rooms occupied by Exclude conservatories Shared ownership includes co ownership and equity sharing schemes a share in the property is being bought The occupier may never become the sole owner of the property but will receive a cash sum on leaving the scheme Where accommodation is owned or part owned by ex spouse or separated spouse or spouse away on business for six months
20. a few questions Household Finances Cut F53 F53a No self completion No Proxy No Youth questionnaire No telephone interviews 13 Appendix 2 Dependent Interviewing Specification The following documents the questions developed for the dependent interviewing DI experiment Respondents were randomly allocated to one of three treatment groups Independent interviewing INDI proactive dependent interviewing PDI and reactive dependent interviewing RDI The INDI questions were the standard BHPS questions PDI questions used answers from the previous interview in the formulation of the questions while RDI used previous information to prompt follow up questions if the answers indicated a change in the respondent s circumstances since the previous interview New questions most of which were slight variants on existing questions are labelled Xnn and new automatic routing check questions are labelled CXnn The information fed forward from the 2001 interview is referred to as lt K VARIABLE gt and information derived within the ISMIE interview is referred to as lt L VARIABLE gt the contents of which are described in Appendix 4 and Appendix 5 The specification details for each questionnaire section are introduced by a summary table of the question numbers and record structure for the three treatment groups 1 School Based Qualifications Table 3 Record structure for school based qualification questions Question
21. and Design Surrey Roehampton University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Sutton Coldfield College FE Swansea College FE Swansea Institute of Higher Education Swansea University of Wales Swindon College FE T Tameside College Manchester FE Tamworth and Lichfield College FE Teesside Tertiary College Middlesbrough FE Teesside University of Telford College of Arts and Technology FE Thames Polytechnic Thames Valley University Thanet College Broadstairs FE The College of North West London FE The College of St Mark and St John The London Institute The School of Pharmacy Thomas Danby College Leeds FE Totton College Southampton FE Tower Hamlets College London FE Trinity and All Saints College of the University of Leeds Trinity College of Music Trinity College Carmarthen Truro College FE 100 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 U UHI Millennium Institute Ulster University of United Medical and Dental Schools University College Chichester University College London University College Northampton Upper Bann Institute of Further and Higher Education Portadown FE Uxbridge College FE W Wakefield College FE Wales College of Medicine University of Wales U
22. baby born in the past year D97B 1 Each baby exists as a separate record It covers questions D99 D106 LPDWRKR This record exists for all respondents who have a job E1 1 or E2 1 The questions covered are E3 E7 E101 E110 Questions E5 to E7 are only asked of INDI respondents LEMPLYEE This record exists for all respondents who are employed E7 1 or EB7 1 or EC7 1 The questions covered are E8 E50 Questions E8 to E10 are only asked of INDI respondents LBOCCUP This record exists for all PDI respondents who have a job E1 1 or E2 1 The questions covered are X11 BES X12 BE6 X13 BE7 X14 BE8 BE9 X15 BE10 LCOCCUP This record exists for all RDI respondents who have a job E1 1 or E2 1 The questions covered are CE5 X16 X17 CE6 X18 X19 CE7 X20 CE8 X21 CE9 CE10 X22 LOEMP This records exists for all employees interviewed last year The questions covered are E52 to E56 LSELFEMP This record exists for all respondents who are self employed E7 2 or EB7 2 or EC7 2 The questions covered are E73 E80 E95 E100 LSESOLE This record exists for all self employed respondents who work on their own account E80 1 The questions covered are E81 to E85 LSEPART This record exists for all self employed respondents who are in partnership E80 2 The questions covered are E86 to E90 LSENOACC This record exists for all self employed respondents who do not prepare accounts E79
23. be proxied if away atthe time Include children at boarding school irrespective of age children aged 16 or over who normally live at home while attending University or College but who are temporarily away e g on holiday or a residential course children aged 16 or over who have finished a college course and are now living at home as their sole residence even if they are planning to move to another place soon and children working away in a temporary job Anyone staying with a friend while looking for a flat or house of their own if they have no other residence Anyone for whom this is the sole residence in the UK even if this is a temporary residence while they are searching for permanent accommodation This does not therefore include someone on holiday or a business visit Examples Under rule la you would exclude amongst other groups those working away from home on a permanent basis Children working away from home in a temporary job would however be included in the parental household as are all children at boarding school Under rule 1b you would exclude individuals who have been in hospital or prison for 6 months or more and children who have been in care for an extended period 20 Under rule 2a you would include a widowed mother who had been staying in her son s or daughter s home for more than 6 months even though she still had her own home and intended to return there Note on students If a young person has just
24. but if the new address is not known or is an out of scope address use code 2 at col 31 If no corrections are required 1 should be coded at col 28 Please ensure there is a code for all households including household refusals non contacts etc INTERVIEWER AREAS Check that the issued interviewer area number actual interviewer area number name and number have all been completed In most cases the area number will be the same in both boxes In the case of re issues from another area the issued interviewer area will belong to the first interviewer and another area number will be entered in the boxes for actual interviewer area There are two situations where the Actual Interviewer Area will be 300 and the Interviewer Number 0 s 1 In cases where a Coversheet is not re issued during fieldwork as a new address cannot be traced 2 Where a split off Coversheet with only ineligible resident is created IN ALL OTHER CASES INCLUDING REFUSALS enter the Actual Interviewer Area and Interviewer Number of the interviewer who attempted the contact NUMBER OF CALLS Check that the number of calls entered in boxes for address on label and any new addresses are consistent with the call record If the interview s takes place at the Issued Address pre printed on the label the total number of calls will be recorded at cols 52 53 and blank at cols 54 55 If there is a New Address ie code 1 at col 31 the number of calls entere
25. check details of their employment is included at the end of the section 62 Wave 12 Documents General Design Date conventions These have not changed since last year Year dates are still four digits instead of two digits with 19 pre printed in front of the date Where there is no separate don t know code we have four blank boxes which interviewers will have to fill in This is so they can enter 9998 for don t know and 9999 for refused if necessary These conventions apply all throughout the questionnaire Coversheet Now incorporates the tracking information The household grid is still included on pages 6 amp 7 and must be completed for all persons present in co operating households regardless of whether they have been interviewed or not The update and tracking form has been incorporated into the Coversheet this is now on page 8 now called Tracking Information As more people get mobile phones and become connected to the Internet we now collect these details as well if we can Address status box For the issued address there are three codes which are code all that apply so that we can distinguish postcode corrections from other types of corrections For new addresses there are two codes Work contact telephone number with person number it applies to in brackets interviewers are not required to ask for this but if information is volunteered by respondents it can be recorded here for future us
26. company pension schemes to set up their own private personal pension Changes in the law have made it possible from July 1988 onwards for employees to leave company pension schemes as long as one sets up one s own pension scheme Any money earned from SERPS State Earnings Retired Pension Scheme can be transferred to the personal pension There are a variety of personal pensions which should be included here Prior to July 1988 self employed people had what were called retirement annuity premiums These should be included as being taken out before July 1988 Also prior to July 1988 a few employees could top up their company premiums with what were known as free standing additional voluntary pensions If you come across this type of pension enter it as being taken out before July 1988 Exclude contracting out options As an inducement to invest in a personal pension scheme employees but nor the self employed are provided this whereby the DSS will contribute towards the employee s own personal pension scheme a sum representing the employer s and the employee s contributions to SERPS plus for a period of years as a bonus As an inducement to invest in a personal pension scheme the DSS will contribute towards an employee s own personal pension scheme a sum representing the employee s contributions to SERPS plus a bonus for a period of years Exclude contracting out option Include a win on the lottery even if part of a sy
27. compare the responses from the different groups will not be reliable Summary of Wave 12 Changes This year the Household and Individual questionnaires are on CAPI as usual The only remaining paper documents are the Coversheet and the Untraced Mover s Form There is no Proxy Self completion or Youth Questionnaire this time so your task is much simpler The other change is that we are only asking you to interview permanent sample members who did a full interview last time at Wave 11 We do not want you to interview anyone else No new entrants will be interviewed nor will 16 year olds who have become eligible for a full interview for the first time You can see who is eligible for interview this year in Column 6 Key Check A on page 2 of the Coversheet Anyone who is code 1 YES should be interviewed and if they have moved followed for interview You will still be collecting information about all household members on the Household Grid but only doing a full interview with those who are eligible The CAPI script will not allow you to interview anyone who is not coded as eligible this year The overall content and the format of the questionnaires is much the same as usual but we have shortened some of the sections We estimate that the Individual Questionnaire will take 30 35 minutes to complete as we have cut some of the longer sections The names and addresses of your sample have been pre printed onto the Coversheets Before you start workin
28. country following the end of their course 19 INCLUSIONS 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f Anyone who has been living continuously at an address for 6 months or more should be included at that address even if this person has their main residence elsewhere Please note therefore that this rule takes precedence over the two residences rule Any respondent at whose address in this country you are calling should be included even if the address is a temporary one for example while they are searching for permanent accommodation you should not however include anyone who is making a holiday or business visit only and who remains resident abroad Boarders that is unrelated individuals paying for food and accommodation should be included as members of the household provided that no more than three boarders are being catered for If four or more boarders are catered for the guests should be excluded as they live in an institution Include people who only rarely stay at an address but nevertheless have it as their main residence e g merchant seamen fishermen oil rig workers and military personnel Please note the difference from temporary addresses mentioned earlier This rule applies only to spouses of a sample member Thus a child in the army away last year and therefore not a sample member returning briefly this year would not now be included But he or she would be included if a spouse of a sample member These people can
29. cut Only two questions remain Employment Usual content Includes different versions of the occupational description and pay questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview We are asking everyone for their National Insurance number at the end of the employment section Job History Usual content Includes different versions of the questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Values and Opinions Majority of section has been cut Only a few questions Household Finances Usual content Includes different versions of the finance grid questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Questions asking for consent to link the respondent s survey data to Department of Work and Pensions data are included at the end of the section A question asking for consent to contact the respondent s employer to check details of their employment is included at the end of the section THE PAPER DOCUMENTS 1 COVERSHEET including the Household Grid and Tracking information A detailed Coversheet is needed in order to record household changes The starting point here is the Enumeration Grid which lists everyone in the household according to the latest information This will be used to record all household changes before completing the Household Grid for those currently resident All departures and arrivals have to be recorded here before the household grid is completed for the curre
30. e current job E5 then calendar J9 if current job started since Sept 1 2001 PROACTIVE DI Add following questions immediately before ES CX11 AUTO CHECK IF KJOB 1 ASK X11 IF KJOB 2 ASK E5 then E6 etc usual routing IF KJOB 3 E5 then CX12 X11 Last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATES gt you said your occupation was lt OCCUP gt Are you still in that same occupation Yes CX12 No E5 then CX12 CX12 AUTO CHECK IF KEMP 1 ASK X12 IF KEMP2 2 or 3 E6 E6a then CX13 X12 And last time you said that you were working for lt EMPLOYER gt Are you still working for the same employer Yes CX13 No E6 E6a then CX13 CX13 AUTO CHECK IF KEMPST 1 ASK X13 IF KEMPST 2 E7 then CX14 If E7 1 otherwise E73 16 X13 And are you still lt EMPSTAT gt Yes CX14 No E7 then CX14 CX14 AUTO CHECK IF KMANAG 1 ASK X14 IF KMANAG 2 or 3 E8 then CX15 X14 And last time you said that you were lt MANAG gt Is that still the case Yes E9 then CX15 No E8 E9 then CX15 CX15 AUTO CHECK IF KWKFORCE 1 ASK X15 IF KWKFORCE or 3 E10 X15 And last time you said that there were lt WORKTXK gt people employed at the place where you work Is that still the case Yes E11 No E10 REACTIVE DI Add the following immediately after ES CX16 AUTO CHECK IF KJOB 1 X16 IF KJOB 2 E6 IF KJOB 3 X17 X16 Can I just check is that the same occupation that you had last time
31. for matching with administrative records plus c employer s contact details if permission given Appendix 3 describes the questions added for the validation studies The sample consisted of the 1 167 primary sample members PSMs who were interviewed in person at wave 11 1 157 of whom were PSMs at wave 11 and 10 of whom had become PSMs subsequently We split the sample into three roughly equal sized treatment groups and attached a treatment group identifier LGROUP The three groups are the independent interviewing INDI proactive dependent interviewing PDI and reactive dependent interviewing RDI groups There were five sets of questions where dependent interviewing was tested These were e School based qualifications e Current employment e Income from current employment e Employment history since last interview e Current sources of income Appendix 2 details the modifications for these experimental sections Note that the INDI treatment group received the standard wave 12 interview less items sections that had been removed The variations affected only the other two treatment groups 7 Variable Naming Convention Variables are named as far as possible according to their questionnaire number prefixed by L Where a question has more than one constituents these will appear as separate variables One example of this are questions where there is a substantive numeric value and an alternate DK refused
32. from standard practices for the British Household Panel Survey BHPS Users are referred to the BHPS documentation for background information on the ECHP sub sample and general survey processes and data characteristics The BHPS documentation is available at http www iser essex ac uk ulsc bhps doc 2 Route Guide for Users of ISMIE Data As an introduction to the ISMIE data we recommend the following reading 1 The summary of the survey design and methodological work in Sections 4 and 5 of this document 2 The questionnaire content compared to BHPS wave 12 in Section 6 and Appendix 1 3 The specification of the dependent interviewing questions in Appendix 2 4 The description of the record structure of the ISMIE data in Section 8 of variable naming conventions in Section 7 and key linkage variables in Section 3 5 The working paper describing the background of the ISMIE study and documenting the collection of validation data from employers and administrative records Jackle A Sala E Jenkins S P and Lynn P 2004 Validation of Survey Data on Income and Employment the ISMIE Experience ISER Working Paper No 2004 14 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 14 pdf The ISMIE data consist of 36 different records The reason for the large number of records is the complex nature of the household interviews there are records containing information at the household level records
33. have the advance letters to post for everyone who is eligible to be interviewed in your sample As we are interviewing PSMs interviewed at wave 11 there is only one version of the letter Their gift voucher is enclosed in the letter A change of address card is also included for everyone with an advance letter Some spares of each letter will be included in your work pack in case respondents do not receive the mailed out copy You will have spare gift vouchers to hand over at the point of interview for any eligible sample members who did not get their voucher in advance If you need additional vouchers please contact the field department at NOP London who will issue them to you The memory of the letter and voucher must be fresh in respondent s minds for it to have the optimum effect so please call on the respondent s within a few days of posting the advance letter You should be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the letters and leaflets as respondents may query points in them The letter and leaflet give a freephone number for respondents wishing to contact the Institute Every effort is made by staff to pass on messages from respondents to interviewers immediately Finding Addresses In the vast majority of cases you should have no difficulty in finding your addresses as they are the same as the ones you or most of you have interviewed in the past Contacting the issued address On your first contact at a sample address you mus
34. left a parental home to live away at College that person counts as an expected sample member i e in the household last year A split off coversheet should be made for them and they will be interviewed at their new address if they did an interview last year Checking Household Composition This is done using the Enumeration Grid where the names and other details about the people you expect to find at that address have been pre printed You should go through each listed member in turn checking with your respondent whether or not this person is still a member of his or her household and entering the relevant code in Column 9 beginning obviously with your respondent Check their name only do not read out any of the other details printed These are for any cases of doubt and for determining the type of interview for each person For each unlisted person who has moved into the household record their TITLE FIRST NAME AND SURNAME at column 2 in the row immediately following the last listed member Do not complete columns 3 8 for these people unless they are a rejoiner to the household i e code 5 at column 9 When you have recorded all unlisted members read out the names of the people you have listed as current members coded 1 2 5 6 or 7 at Column 9 and ask if there are any other residents you may have missed including children and young babies Detailed instructions for each of the columns Columns 1 to 8 These are filled in with your
35. number 2 Dependent Interviewing Tests The second thing we are doing is testing alternative ways of asking questions using information the respondent gave us at their previous interview Wave 11 2001 We call this dependent interviewing as the way the question is asked depends on what they told us last time One of the problems with data collected in a panel survey such as LIB is that people tend to report things differently year on year and it is not always clear whether there has been a real change in their lives or whether they have just forgotten what they were doing over the past year or have just reported the same thing in a different way For example someone calling themselves a heating engineer one year may call themselves a plumber the next Even if they are in the same job they will get a different occupation code To do the dependent interviewing tests we have randomly divided the eligible sample members into three treatment groups A B and C Each group will get different versions of particular questions This means that within one household you may have people in different groups getting different versions on some questions You do not need to worry about this as the routing is built into the CAPI script along with the responses people gave at their last interview The script will use the data needed for each of the groups and route them to the correct version of the questions There are five questions or sets of questio
36. of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of Education University of London Institute of English Studies Institute of Germanic Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies 94 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 Institute of Romance Studies Institute of United States Studies Isle of Wight College FE K Keele University Keighley College FE Kensington and Chelsea College London FE Kent Institute of Art and Design Kent University of Kidderminster College FE King Alfred s College Winchester King s College London Kingston College Kingston Upon Thames FE Kingston University Kingsway College London FE Knowsley Community College Kirkby FE L Laban Centre London Lambeth College London FE Lampeter University of Wales Lancaster and Morecambe College FE Lancaster University Leeds College of Art and Design FE Leeds College of Building FE Leeds College of Music FE Leeds College of Technology FE Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds University of Leek College FE Leicester College FE Leicester Polytechnic Leicester University of Lewisham College London FE Lews Castle College Stornoway FE
37. option e g H30 Another is on period codes where there is an office code for Other e g H31 The variables for questions H30 and H31 are LH30 LH30DK LH31 LH310C This naming convention differs from BHPS practices where variables are named using meaningful mnemonics given the data content To translate between BHPS variable names and ISMIE question numbers users can use two functions of the BHPS documentation i The description of BHPS variables by their mnemonic names states the question number which is the same as in the ISMIE survey http www iser essex ac uk ulsc bhps doc volb ii The annotated BHPS questionnaires show the BHPS variable names next to each question number http www iser essex ac uk ulsc bhps doc pdf_versions questionnaires bhpsw12q pdf 8 ISMIE Record Structure There are very few derived variables in the ISMIE data These are on LTHHOLD and LEHHMEM only and are described below The ISMIE data do not include weights 8 1 Coversheets Information from the coversheets is contained in three records LTHHOLD LEHHMEM and LAHHMEM LTHHOLD This is equivalent to LHHSAMP in the BHPS data It consists of variables from the front and back pages of the coversheet As there are no question numbers on the front page this record does not follow the naming convention in full Derived variables LHHORIG the household level sample origin flag value either 2 or 3 LFHO Final household outcome a combinati
38. or more treat as owned code 1 Do not count as rent free cases where a rent would normally be paid but the whole amount is rebated or paid direct to the landlord by the DSS through Housing Benefit Code people who live in rent free accommodation owned by relatives as rent free If rent is paid for them by a relative or charity this should be recorded as a regular receipt in the finance grids If part owned with someone outside household enter 00 for this person and give details If household rents give person actually responsible to landlord for rent With adult sharers establish if there is a joint tenancy or if it is in one or two person s names with others paying their share of the cost to them If rent free give number of person responsible for the rent free occupancy by virtue of job or family position We need here the total purchase price of the property including any payment for the land fixtures and fittings garages etc If respondent purchased with others record total cost rather than respondent s share Accept estimate if exact year not known If accommodation was previously rented by household members who then purchased as sitting tenants record year bought outright or first started paying mortgage 31 H19 H21 H22 H24 H26 H27 H28 H29 H30 H32 An endowment mortgage has a long term insurance policy attached which pays off the original loan Do not count as endowment policies m
39. prepared to be flexible and make more than one visit to the household if necessary Comments Sheets One of the best means of avoiding a non contact or a refusal is to use whatever information you have about the circumstances of the household and tailor your approach accordingly This is why we provide you with the various comments sheets detailed below The comments sheets you may be given in your pack are the comments you or another interviewer recorded about contacting the household or respondent last year They may also contain information that has been passed to the Essex Institute since the last interview e g a person has died or is very ill Please check these comments sheets as they may contain important information that will help you achieve the interview You may also receive address update forms telling you the household or respondent has told us they have moved from the issued address since the Coversheets were printed Please check these to save your own time in tracking movers If you or another interviewer had to call more than six times before getting an interview in a household last year we have copied the call record for you This could help you to call at the best time for making contact Hints on how to counteract refusal All of you will have your own style for trying to persuade unwilling people to co operate in surveys The main points to remember are I Make these people feel that they are the most important pe
40. refers to the Council Tax valuation bands not the market value of the respondent s house Please ask them to check their Council Tax bill if possible Many renters may not know the band if it is included in their rent Code these as Don t know If the household accommodation is not valued separately e g a granny flat or a bedsit code 09 Include both owned and rented items Include items made available by the landlord or others for personal use by household members Include second hand purchases Include home computers even if only used for games but only if it has a keyboard Include computers used for business purposes by self employed people but not those provided by employers for work at home Exclude any items which are broken and will not be repaired Include hire purchase and credit sale but not rentals with a future option to purchase Exclude gifts or loans to household members from persons outside the household but include gifts between household members DSS Social Fund loans are normally paid back through a reduction in benefit This question applies to the household rather than individual members of the household This question is about ability to pay regardless of whether the household actually wants the item They are asked to say whether they could afford them if they wanted them The answer is yes if it applies to any adult household member not necessarily the whole household Do not include ho
41. than normal code other If other time period code 9 and specify answer in the pop up box 41 E39 E40 E44 E52 E56 E54 E55 E60 E62 E63 E73 E100 Performance related pay is any which is directly dependent on the respondent achieving the specified targets within the job e g commissions on sales Do not include where the only profit related pay has been via an increase in their take home pay rather than paid as a separate lump sum s bonus Include in house unions such as company staff associations Exclude employers organisations e g National Farmers Union Code one only We need to know here when the respondent started his or her current job that is the job described at E5 for the current employer If necessary refer to E5 and read details to respondent If she or he has had one or more spells of working in this job for the current employer then the start date of the most recent spell should be recorded For temps agency nurses etc start date is when begun working for the agency itself In cases where people have been promoted or otherwise changed jobs with their current employer record the date they started the job they are doing now If the respondent s company changed ownership but his or her conditions of work remained the same do not count as a change of employer but record date began working in current post for the company itself If the respondent s employment contrac
42. these changes De Defining household membership to provide the basis for completing this year s household grid and to show who is eligible for an individual interview 3 Identifying which treatment group A B or C the respondent belongs to for routing through the Individual Questionnaire 4 Recording household and individual interview outcomes Because of the special importance of these functions for the survey it is essential both that you understand clearly how to complete the Coversheet before you make any calls and that you carry out the various procedures methodically and consistently If at any time you are uncertain about how to proceed in completing the Coversheet you should consult either NOP or the Institute as soon as possible The Wave 12 Sample The issued sample this year consists of everyone who is listed on the pre printed coversheets In most cases the person answering the door will be an expected sample member contacted last time While you can clarify with any other household member whether or not a sample member is resident at the address you must not proceed to complete the Coversheet until you can do so with a listed member While you may complete the Coversheet with any of last year s respondents you should not go on to complete the Household Questionnaire until you can do so with one of the respondents who is eligible for interview this time Ideally this will be the current HRP or HRP s spouse or partner
43. weeks code 120 etc One off or lump sum 666 Time period for pay received given in hours only 777 80 COVERSHEET Individual within household refusal reasons Page 5 card no 002 cols 57 58 Competence of respondent 01 Tooill 02 Too elderly 03 R is senile or otherwise incompetent 04 R does not speak English 05 Stressful family situation eg bereavement divorce Too busy 10 Looking after ill elderly 11 Looking after child ren 12 R almost never home 13 R is temporarily absent 14 Too busy not elsewhere specified Personal reasons 20 Unhappy about confidentiality 21 Questions too personal Attitudes towards survey 30 R doesn t want to be bothered 31 Nothing has changed since last year 32 Survey is too long frame cont over page 81 Individual Within Household Refusal Reasons Continued 33 34 35 Survey is a waste of time suspicious of survey opposed to survey Previous bad experience with surveys in general Has had problems with LIB voucher payment in past Family pressure 40 41 42 43 Other 96 99 Other family member opposes R s participating includes refusal of parental permission Someone has convinced R to refuse Other household member refuses on behalf of R Never interviewed pressure may jeopardise other interviews in hhold Other No reason given 82 Whole household refusal reasons Coversheet page 9 card no 005 cols 33 34 Competence of respondent s 01 Tooil
44. with information at the individual level and records organised by substantive contents for example job spells or income sources In addition for the sections subject to the dependent interviewing experiment there are separate files for each treatment group for a discussion of the treatment groups see Appendix 2 Table 1 summarises the survey content and corresponding questionnaires and data records Table 1 Overview of survey contents questionnaires and corresponding data records Contents Questionnaire Data Records Independent Interviewing Proactive Dependent I Reactive Dependent I Coversheet Household questionnaire Individual questionnaire Neighbourhood and individual demographics Health and caring Employment Employment history Values and opinions Household finances coversheet doc hhold doc sectionD doc sectionM doc sectionE doc sectionJ doc section V doc sectionF doc Ithhold dta lehhmem dta lahhmem dta lihhold dta lownocc dta Imort dta ltenant dta lia dta liaprev dta Ifteduc dta Ipteduc dta Ibabes dta lia dta lia dta Ipdwrkr dta lemplyee dta loemp dta lselfemp dta Isesole dta Isepart dta Isenoacc dta Inpdemp dta lia dta lempstat dta lespell dta lia dta lia dta lextran dta lincpay dta Ibquals dta Iboccup dta Ibpjstat dta Ibincpay dta Icquals dta Icoccup dta lempstat dta lespell dta Icincpay dta lincome dta Iffvars dta r
45. 004b The Impact of Interviewing Method on Measurement Error in Panel Survey Measures of Benefit Receipt Evidence from a Validation Study ISER Working Paper No 2004 28 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 28 pdf Lynn P and Sala E 2004 The Contact and Response Process in Business Surveys Lessons from a Multimode Survey of Employers in the UK JSER Working Paper No 2004 12 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 12 pdf Sala E and Lynn P 2004 The Effect of Dependent Interviewing on Measures of Employment Characteristics SER Working Paper No 2004 26 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 26 pdf 12 Appendix 1 Cuts to BHPS Wave 12 Questionnaire We used the Wave 12 BHPS script as the basis for the ISMIE interview introducing additional routing as required An outline of the cuts to the questionnaire is below Coversheet As per BHPS no changes Household Questionnaire Cut H5 H16 H17 H40 H41 H44 H46 49 H54 H58 H59 H62 H63 Individual questionnaire Demographics Cut D29 D66 new entrant questions that will not apply D79 D96 D107 D114 Health Cut M9 M52 so cut entire section apart from the first few questions Employment No cuts Employment History No cuts Values and Opinions Cut V2 V3 V5 V8 V10 V71 so cut entire section apart from
46. 1 for every resident eligible member should household outcome be code 10 completely co operating If any codes 2 3 or 4 at question 14 or 17 household outcome is partially co operating Code 11 12 or 13 as required NB This is based on current household membership excluding movers and persons who have died For non interviewed households check that Questions 4 5 and 6 are correctly coded For question 5 page 9 the household grid would only be 1 yes at col 26 if the 67 interviewer managed to ask the respondent the relevant questions If codes 21 to 40 at Question 6 reasons for refusal should be written in below Pass all refusals to Institute staff for decisions on re issues CONVERSION RE ISSUE HOUSEHOLD OUTCOME Check that this is complete and correct in all cases where a refusal conversion was attempted ie where col 35 on page 10 is coded 1 Conversion re issue information page 10 cols 35 36 Institute staff to code col 35 for all households codes 21 40 at Question 6 page 9 Any refusal household re issued to field code 1 at col 36 If not re issued to field code 2 OFFICE USE ONLY BOX page 10 Coversheet issued to field col 44 All household 0 s issued to field will be code 1 All split off Coversheets created during field where contact is attempted will be code 1 Households can never become a code 2 or 3 during fieldwork Codes 4 and 5 will be assigned during fieldwork as required
47. 13 Eligibility for interview An Individual Interview must be sought with all people coded 1 YES at column 6 page 2 on the Coversheet No other household members are eligible this time Household ID This is the identification number which is to be transferred to all questionnaire documents both paper and CAPI It is used to link documents and information both for members of the same households and for the same individuals across Waves It is thus essential that this number be entered correctly on the CAPI questionnaires and transcribed both accurately and legibly to the paper documents It is particularly important as it is these identifiers which will be used to match up the CAPI interviews with the paper documents you return to Chelmsford So please be as accurate as possible The Household ID consists of Wave No 12 This is the twelfth Wave of the LIB survey Serial No A five digit number identifying the address Household No When the sample is issued at the beginning of fieldwork this will always be 0 Subsequently as we track split offs from existing households and reissue these sample members to new addresses this will be incremented to 1 2 3 etc as appropriate Check No This is for checks made at the data entry stage Issued Address This is the last known address for the person s listed inside the Coversheet In over 90 of cases this should be the address where interviews were carried out last time Telephone STD N
48. 2 or 3 The questions covered are E91 to E94 LNPDEMP This record exists for all respondents who are not working El 2 or E2 2 The questions covered are E111 to E124 LEXTRAN This records contains data for those respondents who make external transfers F41 1 Each external transfer exists as a separate record It covers questions F42 to F45 LFFVARS This record consists of all the variables fed forward for the dependent interviewing The variables that exist are LGROUP DOI D M Y N2_01 to N2_19 KJOB to KACTY KINCO to KINC58 RDI_LFOLLOWUP This record contains the answers to the RDI follow up questions which are not in the remainder records W11_SIC92 This record contains the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification for respondents current occupation at wave 11 The following records constitute the equivalent of LJOBHIST in the BHPS data LEMPSTAT This record exists for INDI and RDI respondents who have changed their job or employment status in the past year J8 2 The questions covered are J9 J10 LESPELL This record exists for INDI and RDI respondents who have had a different job in the past year J8 2 The questions covered are J13 to J28 LBPJSTAT This record exists for PDI respondents who have changed their job or employment status in the past year J8 2 The questions covered are X43 X43CK BJ10 to BJ28 The following records constitute the equivalent of LINCOME in the BHPS data LINCOME This derive
49. A are capable of work and available for work and actively seeking work and have a current jobseeker s agreement with the Employment Service Full time students those on temporary release from prison and those receiving maternity allowance or statutory maternity pay are not eligible for JSA There are two types of JSA Contribution based and Income based The Contribution based component is paid in the first 26 weeks of unemployment if enough NI contributions have been paid The Income based component is a means tested benefit paid after 26 weeks for those who qualify for Contribution based and pass the means test Is normally paid to the mother unless there is none in the household and should be shown as her income Where it is paid into a joint bank account the names of both account holders will be on the benefit order book This should still be recorded as the mother s income Formerly one parent benefit is paid to lone parents those receiving child benefit It is paid for the eldest child and the amount is detailed in the child benefit payment booklet This replaced Family Credit in October 1999 It is paid to families with low earnings and at least one dependent child It is paid either as a tax credit through the respondent s paycheck or as a direct benefit It can also be paid as a lump sum covering a period of 26 weeks in some cases Please note Where a married or cohabiting couple are receiving WFTC they cannot be receivi
50. BELS SAME Check that the information coded matches the Coversheet If an interviewer has had to make up a new coversheet and transfer the details assume that they have transferred this correctly and check against this 7 10 If aged under 16 ensure 8 10 are coded 0 00 and 0 8 MARITAL STATUS If two persons are divorced and are only in the same living accommodation for financial reasons code relationship as other we have no code for ex spouse and code spouse partner number as 00 Marital status in the grid is marital status within the household Two divorced people living together as a couple should be coded as living as couple Marital status in the individual questionnaire is the person s legal marital status Thus these two items may be inconsistent Leave marital status as is self reported by respondent with the following exception Married couples and persons living as a couple must be properly coded as such in the grid Still count as married those persons whose spouse is absent even cases where the spouse is living in another country or an institution Count as separated cases where a spouse lives outside the household to allow the other spouse to claim benefits because they have an agreement to live apart 10 PAID EMPLOY Leave as reported even if this is inconsistent with the Individual Questionnaire 11 12 MOTHER FATHER NO If interviewer has specifically put in 00 for mother or father number but this see
51. Brother sister in law 13 Natural parent 14 Other parent adopted foster step 15 Mother father in law 16 Any grand parent incl of partner 17 Any grand child incl of partner 18 Any cousin incl of partner 19 Any aunt uncle incl of partner 20 Any nephew niece incl of partner 21 Any other relative 22 Employee e g nanny 23 Lodger boarder 24 Unrelated sharer 30 Other Household questionnaire H31 Code other time period H36 Code other time period 85 INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRE Neighbourhood and Individual Demographics D4 Main reason would like to move HOUSING RELATED REASONS 01 Wants larger accommodation other than reference solely to garden garage 02 Wants smaller cheaper accommodation 03 Wants accommodation of their own to form their own household other than wanting to purchase accommodation 04 To buy somewhere 05 Health reasons eg house too damp house not healthy other than needing accommodation without stairs 06 To bungalow accommodation with no stairs ground floor flat 07 Wants other specific type of accommodation eg detached house NB Only use this code if no reference to larger better or smaller cheaper accommodation 08 Wants change in other aspects of the property eg wants a garden larger garden garage 09 Dislikes current house flat not elsewhere specified 10 Wants better accommodation not elsewhere specified AREA RELATED REASONS 11 Dislikes isolation absen
52. E Bath Spa University College Bath University of Bedford College FE Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education FE Bell College Hamilton Bexley College Belvedere Kent FE Bicton College of Agriculture FE Birkbeck College University of London Birmingham College of Food Tourism and Creative Studies FE Birmingham Polytechnic Birmingham School of Speech and Drama Birmingham University of Bishop Auckland College FE Bishop Burton College Beverley FE Bishop Grosseteste College 90 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 Blackburn College FE Blackpool and The Fylde College FE Bolton Community College FE Bolton Institute Boston College Lincolnshire FE Bournemouth and Poole College of Further Education FE Bournemouth University Bracknell and Wokingham College FE Bradford College FE Bradford University of Braintree College FE Bridgwater College FE Brighton University of Bristol Polytechnic Bristol University of Bromley College of Further and Higher Education FE Brooklands College Weybridge FE Broxtowe College Nottingham FE Brunel University West London Buckingham University of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College Buckinghamshire College of HE Burnley College
53. Ideally this would be done by completing the Household Enumeration Section pages 2 5 of the Coversheet with either the current HRP or spouse Sometimes however this may not be possible Your first contact may be with someone who is unwilling to be re interviewed You should try to convert this person as normal but if they continue to refuse you should then try to gain access to any other listed members who may also be resident Enumerating the Wave 12 Household There are four parts to household enumeration Determining which listed household members from last year are still present Identifying all new people to the survey i e unlisted members Identifying all listed members who have left the household Identifying any sample members who may have rejoined this household from another eS All listed sample members are automatically to be included In order to know which unlisted members should or shouldn t be included in the household you will need to be very clear about the household definition we use Just to remind you our definition of a household is as follows One person living alone or a group of people who either share living accommodation OR share one meal a day and who have the address as their only or main residence Household membership Sharing at least one meal a day this should consist of a main meal but does not imply that the household must always sit down together for the meal as long as food is bought fo
54. Mobility Component Disabled Person s Tax Credit Attendance Allowance Invalid Care Allowance War Disability Pension Incapacity Benefit Showcard F3 Income Support the person is under 16 the Allowance will normally be paid to the person responsible for them In such cases it should be recorded as income on the questionnaire for the responsible adult for the child Where someone is 16 or over this should be recorded on the person s own questionnaire Paid for those unable or virtually unable to walk as a component of Disability Living Allowance This benefit replaced Mobility Allowance This replaced Disability Working Allowance in October 1999 It is paid to people with disabilities either in work or seeking work who are aged under 66 It can be paid either as a tax credit via the respondent s pay packet or direct as a benefit These payments can also be made as a lump sum for a 26 week period in some cases Paid to people who need high levels of care because of severe disability Include Constant Attendance Allowance If paid for a child under 16 include as mother s income or if there is no mother then father guardian Weekly paid benefit for people of working age who give up working to look after someone receiving Attendance Allowance Payable to members of the armed forces disabled in the 1914 18 war or after 2nd September 1939 Merchant seamen and civilians disabled in the Second World War are als
55. Now ask J10a_Iter1 J10a_Iter1 On what date did you stop doing that Enter date dd mm yyyy GO TO X43 Not ended this is current job status 1 If Not ended this is current job status GO TO J28a_2 Summary screen X43 SHOWCARD J2 Can you look at this card please and tell me which of the descriptions comes closest to what you were doing immediately after that If X43 01 or 02 ask X43_Check Else go to J10a X43_Check INTERVIEWER CHECK Is this respondent s current job spell of self employment YES GO TO J28a_2 summary screen NO ASK J14 J28 J10a On what date did you stop doing that Enter date dd mm yyyy GO TO X43 Not ended this is current job status 1 If Not ended this is current job status GO TO J28a_2 Summary screen 21 Small amendment to J24 Please think back to lt INTDATE gt lt STARTDATE gt At that time REACTIVE DI Same as wave 12 J1 J38 followed by CX41 AUTOMATIC CHECK IF lt KACT gt lt LKACT gt AND lt KACTM gt lt LKACTMS gt ASK J39 IF lt KACT gt NE lt LKACT gt ASK X44 IF lt KACT gt lt LKACT gt AND lt KACTM gt NE lt LKACTMS ASK X45 X44 May I just check something According to our records when we last interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt you were lt KACTTX gt That spell had started in lt KACTMTX gt But the information that you have just given me implies that you were lt LKACTTX gt at that time It may be that I hav
56. USUPAYG gt 0 AND LUSUPAYG3 gt 0 CX34 ELSE E31 CX33 IF lt LUSUPAYN gt gt 1 1 x lt KUSUPAYN gt OR IF lt LUSUPAYNS lt 0 9 x lt KUSUPAYN3 gt X32 then E31 X32 So your net pay has gone lt UPDOWN gt since last time we interviewed you from lt KAMT gt per lt KPERIOD gt to lt LAMT gt per lt LPERIOD gt is that correct Yes E31 19 No ENTER EXPLANATION INCLUDING ANY CORRECTED AMOUNTS PERIODS then E31 CX34 IF lt LUSUPAYG gt gt 1 1 x lt KUSUPAYG gt OR IF lt LUSUPAYG gt lt 0 9 x lt KUSUPAYG gt X33 then E31 X33 So your gross pay has gone lt UPDOWNS since last time we interviewed you from lt KAMT gt per lt KPERIOD gt to lt LAMT gt per lt LPERIODS is that correct Yes E31 No ENTER EXPLANATION INCLUDING ANY CORRECTED AMOUNTS PERIODS then E31 4 Employment History since Last Interview Table 6 Record structure for employment history since last interview Question Records Independent Proactive DI Reactive DI J1 lia lia J2 lia lia J3 lia lia J4 lia lia J5 lia lia J6 lia lia J7 lia lia J8 lia lia Lx41 lia Lx42 lia J10it lia J9 lempstat lempstat J10 lempstat lempstat J11 J12 lia lia J13 lespell lespell J14 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J15 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J16 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J17 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J18 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J19 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J20 lespell Ibpjstat
57. University of Essex INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL amp ECONOMIC RESEARCH USER GUIDE Improving Survey Measurement of Income and Employment ISMIE Survey Edited by Annette Jackle with Peter Lynn Fran Williams Jonathan Burton Stephen P Jenkins and Emanuela Sala March 2005 Revised October 2005 Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ Contents Li introduction dasaideso tei aceiaat Ball a a elle Sees atl e S AASI a a ERR oan see 2 2 Route Guide for Users of ISMIE Data sisisi asne nasai ae Ae 2 3 Linking Records Key Vat ables orescyn uita e i t 3 Ar S ryey DESIGN 4 cssninurernn a a n Eaa E A Ri E A E A EEES 4 5 Me thodol gica W otkiecsnredniena e a a a ae iei E EOE 4 67 Questionnaire Contentisiispis unina e a E iA A a iiia 5 7 Variable Naming Convention sseesssseseesseeesseeesstessressesseeesseesstesseesseesseeessesssresstesseesset 6 ISMIE Record StruCt re stoties uei isei iee e essi a a sisii 6 8 1 Coyersheets irion oe a i ee Bde a a ee ees 6 8 2 Household Questionnaire ccccecsessscccecccecessssssecececececseseseceeeccceesenensaaeceseeeeeeeeneas 7 8 3 Individiial Questionnaire rann a a lindas a a aa a a 7 8 4 Employer Suryey neren A E E E A A E a E 11 e N LIAE E ET E E E AE 12 Appendix 1 Cuts to BHPS Wave 12 Questionnaire sssssssessseseessesseessessseresseersseesseesseessees 13 Appendix 2 Dependent Interviewing Specificat
58. able 2 summarises the contents of the employer survey the question numbers and corresponding variable names in the ISMIE records LPDWRKR and LEMPLYEE The record contains observations for all ISMIE respondents who gave consent to contact their employers even if the employer did then not return the survey The variable OUTCOME can be used to identify whether validation information is available for the respondent Table 2 Contents of employer survey compared to individual questionnaire Question variable name Question content Employer survey Individual questionnaire Vi LE6 1992 SIC of employer V2 LE10 Number employed at workplace V3 LES Occupation SOC V4 LE7 Employee or self employed v5 LE8 Managerial duties V6 LE11 No of hours normally worked per week V6_a Normal or average hours V7_a V7_h LE48a LE48h Working hours arrangement V8_a Date of last payment day V8_b Date of last payment month V8_c Date of last payment year v9 LE20 Gross pay at last payment V10 LE21 Pay period last gross pay Vil LE22 Take home pay at last payment Vila LE22dk No deductions V12_a V12h LE30a LE30h Last pay unusual V13 LE31 Salaried or hourly pay Vi4_a LE341 Hourly rate pounds V14_b LE34p Hourly rate pence V15 Set hourly rate of pay Vi6_a LE351 Overtime pay pounds V16_b LE35p Overtime pay pence V17 Overtime set hourly rate of pay V18 LE49 Pension scheme run by employer V19 LESO Member of employer s p
59. ade the respondent to refer to his or her current or last pay slip you should do so Please prompt for approximate amount if don t know The time period is very important e g one day per week week not other If other time period code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box E23c amp e If other time period code 5 and specify answer in the pop up box E25 E26 E27 E28 E30 When entering the tax code please left justify the figure and don t enter leading or ending zeros some boxes may be left blank for example 3 4 4 L Usual pay should be straightforward for the large majority of cases If queried usually means since the last change in circumstances affecting pay such as a pay rise or a change of job Include bonus or overtime payments if these are usually received If the respondent is on short time the usual pay should be that received before short time working began For seasonal workers record the usual amount earned in a year If the respondent s pay varies for a specific number of weeks during the year note the amounts and periods Please prompt for approximate amount if don t know If other time period code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box Code 3 should normally be used only for tax refunds where longer than normal amounts of tax are deducted code as other and write in details Use code 7 only where more overtime than usual was worked where less
60. ails at 11 Finally enter the date they left the household at Column 12 Enter their current location at Column 13 Deceased Code 4 Where listed members have died you should enter 4 at Column 9 and enter 0 at Column 10 Then code the 1 at Column 11 enter the date they died at Column 12 and code 07 at Column 13 If someone was in hospital for a period before death the date of that person s death rather than the date of entering hospital should be recorded 22 After checking for all listed members you should then ask And does anyone else usually live here with you You must be clear about the household definition rules and exclude those who do not count as resident such as children usually attending college away from home Unlisted Joiners Unlisted joiners fall into two categories new members of the household and in a small number of cases people who have been previously enumerated moved out and have rejoined the household In cases where our sample member has moved to join an already existing household it is the other unlisted members who are assumed to have joined him or her for the purposes of household enumeration Rejoiners Code 5 If you have a case where you realise that a respondent was present in the household in an earlier wave left the household and has since come back to the household in Wave 12 e g a student has moved away for a year and then returned to the household they are a rejoiner Write in their pre pr
61. ain numbers of each qualification passed D28 Full time course only Exclude courses under 3 months Exclude part time correspondence and Open University courses and courses run by employers for employees Include sandwich courses Include those attending nursing school and teaching hospitals even when respondents were also working in the hospital D67 D78 These grids collect details of all training schemes or courses taken in the past year excluding periods of full time education D68 If more than three training schemes or courses complete grid for three longest starting with the most recent course Include courses that have started but not yet finished D69 The main place is where the most hours of teaching or instruction were done D72 As at D23 Plus If employer provided training on or off job code 03 D74 As at D24 D75 amp D76 As at D25 amp 26 D97 D106 These questions ask about births of children Still births adopted and step children should be excluded HEALTH AND CARING M1 People may be registered as disabled either with their local council Social Services Department or with the Dept of Employment who provide a Green Card Registered blind count as registered disabled M2 Where respondent gives the name of a specific condition other than those on the card e g angina or multiple sclerosis code as other and record the name given Where respondents query difficulties in seeing this excludes tho
62. al s first occupation coded 1 Use the full 5 digit household serial number household number and check digit but drop the wave number 2z Add the person number one digit only 3 Add the question number standardised to four digits as detailed The first entry for each individual will therefore use the full twelve digit range allowed For each subsequent entry for that individual enter the standardised question number only 79 CODING OF OTHER TIME PERIODS Coding will need to be done on items where a non standard period of time is associated with an amount variable and is coded other These are found throughout the Household and Individual Questionnaires as separately detailed above The number of weeks should be calculated as demonstrated Multiply number of months x 4 33 and round the result e g 1 day 2 weeks 2 months 9 weeks 3 months 13 weeks Quarter 13 weeks applies on Individual Questionnaire only 4 months 17 weeks year 52 weeks If the time period is less than one week code the appropriate fraction of a week as follows l day 2 of a week code 0 0 2 2 days 4 of a week code 0 0 4 3 days 6 of a week code 0 0 6 4 days 8 of a week code 00 8 If the time period is 1 9 weeks it should be coded as 1 week code 0 10 1 weeks code 015 2 weeks code 0 20 3 weeks code 03 0 etc If the time period is 10 weeks or more it should be entered as 10 weeks code 100 11 weeks code 110 12
63. al new entrants might have more than one residence Where there is doubt because respondents have more than one residence their MAIN residence should be decided by the person him or herself However the following special rules take priority over your respondent s assessment and should always be applied EXCLUSIONS la Adult children that is those aged 16 and over who live away from home for purposes of either work or study and come home only for holidays should not be included at their parental address This does not include those at boarding school who are listed as household members Therefore students who live away from home while attending professional or vocational education such as studying at University or College full time or other further or higher education such as nursing schools are excluded from their parental household even if they happen to be at their parents address when you call 1b Anyone who has been away from the address continuously for 6 months or more should be excluded even if your respondent continues to think of it as their main residence with the exception of certain people working away from home Ic A weekend or holiday home can never be a main residence and this should be coded as ineligible ld You should exclude people from abroad who have come to Britain specifically to take up a particular post for a fixed term foreign servicemen and foreign diplomatic staff and overseas students who will leave the
64. and alternative matching variables ii We asked respondents for permission to contact their employer so that key details of their employment situation hours worked pay occupation could be validated directly with their employer This involved collecting the name and address details of the employer for those who agreed Lynn and Sala 2004 described the contact and response process for the employer survey and Jenkins et al 2004a analysed respondents propensities to consent to matching with administrative data or contacting employers iii We incorporated an experiment on dependent interviewing for some measures using responses fed forward from Wave 11 These included alternative question versions experimentally allocated for qualifications occupation pay job history and finance grid items The effects of dependent interviewing are documented in Lynn et al 2004a 2004b Sala and Lynn 2004 and J ckle and Lynn 2004 6 Questionnaire Content The questionnaire was based on the BHPS wave 12 questionnaires We aimed to maintain the context of the interview as far as we could but also wanted to shorten the questionnaire by removing sections or questions that were not needed for this project Appendix 1 documents the questions that were cut Amendments also had to be made for the purpose of the dependent interviewing experiment and new questions were added to ask for permission to a contact employers and b pass details to the DWP
65. any money subsequently put back into the business E90 amp E94 This may be Class 2 or Class 4 NI Code one only Someone who works at home does the major part of their work there e g someone running a home typing service Someone who works from home has the home as their base e g for telephone calls and travels to customers homes or businesses to work e g a plumber If other code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box If respondent works mainly by travelling around or travels to one or more places ask how long it takes to get to an office or depot if this place is visited at least once a week Note this is for getting to work not the full round trip time Please only use the Doesn t apply code in extreme cases where it is 43 E97 E100 E104 E105 E107 E108 E110 E111 E112 E114 E118 E130 impossible to give any kind of average i e the respondent never visits a depot etc If other code 9 and specify answer in the pop up box Here we want to know when respondents started their current spell of being self employed as their sole or main job Exclude time spent working self employed on the side while having another main job or previous spells of being self employed In all circumstances the responsible adult is the mother of the children If someone is a legal stepmother they may still be the responsible adult However if a couple only cohabit and the woman is not the child s
66. applies if adult is joiner reyjoiner TSM or has otherwise not completed a full interview at wave 11 see also eligibility Key Check A When all eligible respondents have moved away from the issued household O leaving only ineligibles behind the movers should appear on a split off coversheet Codes 13 to 15 should be used only in cases of complete non contact ie the interviewer has recorded no information about the current household at questions 9 to 13 Code 15 Ineligible split off applies only to cases where the ineligible mover s has moved without any PSMs Question 15 Check that Voucher Confirmation is completed 70 Question 16 For all within household refusals non contacts i e codes 3 or 4 at question 14 the reason for the refusal non contact must be coded here If it is not flag it and the interviewer will be approached for further details Question 17 To be completed by Institute staff only if respondent is a within household refuser Question 18 To be coded where any conversion has been attempted or refusals have been re issued to field These may be either within household refusals or whole household refusals A final interview outcome must be coded for all those listed on page 2 of the coversheet even if no conversion is achieved MAKE ANY CORRECTIONS WHERE NECESSARY and note any problems under section 1 of the HOUSEHOLD VISUAL EDIT FORM Coversheet back page HOUSEHOLD GRID Look at questions
67. ave changed but also to those where they have stayed the same The questions are too personal or intrusive Remind them of their rights to refuse individual questions The interview is completely voluntary and we encourage the respondent to refuse questions they find too personal sensitive or intrusive The questions you do answer will still be important to us no matter how few Too busy Stress that this group is the most important group in the survey Because of the large numbers of unemployed and retired we need all the information that only full time workers can supply to give us a really accurate view of working life in Britain Always make it clear that you will fit in with their requirements Relative in nursing home Ask How are they Would they like a visit from the interviewer to brighten up their day Perhaps the relative would like to be present or have a member of the nursing staff present Not all questions have to be answered just whatever they feel like answering We can fit in with them any time of day Break the interview up into a few short visits to make it easier Can telephone first for appointment Worried about confidentiality State that We are governed by the Data Protection Agency and the Data Protection Act of 1998 The Data Protection Agency is extremely strict and we follow their rules explicitly Our guarantee is that no information you give can be linked to you Only a handful of people have access to the
68. ble to be used as textfill If E10 1 1 or 2 If E10 2 between 3 and 9 If E10 3 between 10 and 24 Etc LAMT Text variable reflecting usual pay at w12 but including sign Example 9 500 Amount should come from the following source If E20 valid and E22 8 or 9 E20 If E22 valid and E26 1 E22 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E27 32 LPERIOD LGROSS LUSUPAYG LUSUPAYN UPDOWN LKACT Text variable reflecting period to which KAMT refers If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 1 week If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 2 fortnight If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 3 four weeks If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 4 month If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 5 year If E22 valid E26 1 E23 1 week If E22 valid E26 1 E23 2 fortnight If E22 valid E26 1 E23 3 four weeks If E22 valid E26 1 E23 4 month If E22 valid E26 1 E23 5 year If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 1 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 2 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 3 four weeks If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 4 month If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E28 5 year week fortnight If E20 valid and E22 8 or 9 gross If E22 valid and E26 1 net If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E29 1 or 3 gross If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E29 2 net Usual gross pay at wave 12 If E26 2 and E29 1 or 3 E27 E28WK 13 3 Ot
69. by the CAPI script Groups B and C will form our experimental groups and each get some new and different types of questions Group A forms our control group and has a simplified but standard wave 12 BHPS individual questionnaire There are two elements to this work 1 Checking the accuracy of income information The first thing we will be doing is to compare the data on income we collect from respondents with independent external sources of income We have permission from the Department for Work and Pensions DWP to link the survey data from our respondents from the administrative records about their pension or benefits payments held by the DWP In addition to checking income data we also want to check the accuracy of the information about the respondent s current job if they have one 2 Dependent Interviewing Tests The second thing that we are doing is testing alternative ways of asking questions using information the respondent gave us at their previous interview Wave 11 2001 We call this dependent interviewing as the way the question is asked depends on what they told us last time To do the dependent interviewing tests we have randomly divided the eligible sample members into three treatment groups A B and C Each group will get different versions of particular questions There are five questions or sets of questions where dependent interviewing is being tested These are e Sch
70. call excluding overtime If the hours vary or the work is intermittent e g casual workers try to obtain the weekly average over the past few months Round answers to the nearest whole number i e 37 6 hours up to 38 Round 5 to nearest odd number Include unpaid overtime This includes any time for which respondents are paid above and beyond their basic wage or salary Such overtime payments need not be at any increased rate Code one only If more than one applies code one which applies to greatest part of working time If respondent works mainly by travelling around or travels to one or more places ask how long it takes to get to an office or depot if this place is visited at least once a week Note this is for getting to work not the full round trip time There is a new code for Doesn t apply Please only use this code in 40 E17 E20 amp E22 QX31 E21 amp E23 extreme cases where it is impossible to give any kind of average i e the respondent never visits a depot etc Main means is for the greatest part of the distance covered between home and work Where a car pool system is used where members drive some days and travel as passengers for others code for most frequent in a usual week If other code 9 and specify answer in the pop up box Include cases where respondent received Statutory Sick Pay or Statutory Maternity Pay i e is currently on paid maternity leave If it is possible to persu
71. cause of illness or for some other reason including attending a college based course If respondents are not normally employer based that is they usually attend a college or other training centre they should be coded 2 at El and E2 with the following exceptions 1 those who have employment outside the training scheme Code here as employed and take details of this secondary employment 2 those sent on training schemes by employers who continue to pay their wages or salaries Treat as employed and code 4 at E3 Record details of their job with the employer who has seconded them to the training scheme E2 Include any persons who were absent because of holiday strike sickness maternity leave lay off or a similar reason provided they have a job to return to with the same employer Do not include those receiving redundancy payments who have no job to return to Do not include people who have a job arranged but have not yet started work in it such people should be coded 3 A job exists if there is a definite arrangement for work on a regular basis i e every week or every month whether this work is full time or part time The number of hours worked each week may vary considerably but as long as some work is done on a regular basis a job exists E3 Code one only if more than one reason ask respondent And which of these would you say was the main reason Maternity leave only women who are on the special period of materni
72. ce of facilities 12 Wants move to a more rural environment 13 Dislike of urban environment pollution not elsewhere specified see 14 15 amp 16 14 Dislikes traffic include noise or danger from traffic frame cont over page 86 D4 Main reason would like to move Continued 15 Dislikes crime vandalism etc area unsafe 16 Noise other than traffic 17 Unfriendly area Dislikes neighbours 18 Wants to move to specific place not elsewhere specified 19 Dislikes area not elsewhere specified OTHER REASONS 21 Wants to move for new job to find work 22 Wants to move to reduce commuting time 23 Wants to move because of retirement NB if retirement is specifically mentioned this code takes precedence over other codes 24 Wants to be closer to family friends 25 Wants more privacy 26 Wants a change 27 Wants to move for child s education 96 Other 97 No reason given written in 98 Don t know 99 Refused Not available 87 D10 Other main reasons for moving Code first two mentions PERSONAL REASONS 31 To marry move in with partner 32 To separate divorce split up from spouse partner 33 Moved in with family moved back with family other than 01 34 Moved away from family other than 02 35 Moved in with friends 36 Moved to be closer to family friends EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT RELATED REASONS 41 Moved to be closer to for term time accommodation college or university 42 Left education ended course 43 Job related reason fo
73. ce pay repayment of expenses by employers and any lump sum payments 48 F3b F3f F53 F54 F55 Be sure to record all relevant months on the months received screen If an informant is still receiving payments of an income type remember to code the current month There is a separate code if the payment has been received for all months since September 1 2001 This is to record situations where payment is made jointly to two or more people as is the case with some pensions and benefits This does not include cases where a respondent receives benefits or other payments from which they expect to support other members of their household If a respondent answers jointly to f you should ask May I just check is that payment made to you jointly in both your names If not code as sole receipt This should be asked in every case and in all circumstances not only in cases where someone is currently living with spouse or partner A respondent may now be living alone but during the year a spouse or partner may have left or died and the income they may have shared a payment the respondent for all or some of the time it has been received These are the consent questions to link the survey data to data held by the DWP There are a series of prompts that you should use if respondents query why we want the permission what will happen and how the link will be done Please try and be as reassuring as possible We guarantee to maintain th
74. checking on the coversheets 00 10 Complete non response households eceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 EDITING 100 Visual ECU rerainan 15 Partial edit of all questionnaires 2 0 cecteteeeeeeeeeeeeees 19 Question by Question Instructions essssesseseerreeeeeseeee 23 CODING Marking Guidelines 2c tissu situate easy 48 The Coding Manuals 49 59 Introduction Owing to insufficient funding the ECHP sub sample added to LIB in 1997 was permanently retired from the BHPS at the end of Wave 11 However shortly after Wave 12 of the Living in Britain survey went into the field funding for a separate project into the improvement of survey methodology allowed the reactivation of the ECHP sub sample for a one off experiment ISER will maintain the ECHP sub sample for future pilot and experimental work but it is unlikely that its members will rejoin the BHPS at any point The survey for this sample is special as we are using it to carry out a number of tests and experiments to assess the quality of the data we collect from respondents Extra funding from the Economic and Social Research Council has been gained for this project which we call Improving Survey Measurement of Income and Employment ISMIE For the purposes of this experiment we have split the ECHP sample into three separate groups A B and C Each group follows a separate path through a revised BHPS individual questionnaire as dictated
75. clude such things as Back to Work Bonus Job Release Allowance and Transitional Payments Include also Enterprise Allowance and YTS ET and New Deal Allowances If any Transitional Payments are received it is important to record which benefit it replaces or tops up Do not include Payments from the Social Fund these are loans or other one off payments from either DSS or local authority social services Include all grants or scholarships paid in respect of education or training but not YTS or ET Allowances which should be recorded as Other Grants and scholarships may be provided by Local Authorities the DES Research Councils charities prospective employers e g companies or the Armed Forces educational institutions family trusts and a number of other bodies such as Trade Unions Do not include Student Loans taken out by the respondent to cover their living expenses or fees Include here as an Educational Grant any payment from any source other than from family members which is intended to cover the living expenses or fees over_a period of time of someone in full or part time education specifically so they may undertake that education 53 Trade Unions Friendly Societies Maintenance Alimony Regular payment from family members not living here Rent from boarders or lodgers Sickness Accident Insurance Grants are often paid in a lump sum at the beginning of a term or quarter to cover that term or a quarte
76. computer which contains the information you give The files are protected by secret codewords which are changed frequently In addition we guarantee that no information will ever be released with your name or address on it We have found that stressing the number crunching aspect of statistics helps when people refuse because they are worried information on their own household might for example get into the hands of Government Departments For this category of refuser it helps to 11 say that the statistics present them as a percentage figure of the population rather than singling out their particular family However it is obviously crucial not to let the respondent think they can easily be substituted or that we don t care because they are just a number RETURN OF WORK Whenever you complete any CAPI interviews you should dial in to return the work that evening if possible even if there are further interviews to be carried out The CAPI department at NOP will be sending you a weekly report of the CAPI interviews they have received from you Your supervisor will check this with you as part of progress chasing to make sure that all the interviews you have dialled in have been received When you have completed all of your interviews for a household you should return all of the paper documents to Chelmsford as soon as possible using the envelopes provided The paper documents must be sent back to Chelmsford as soon as the household i
77. d addresses on the tracking section are legible Next year an interviewer will have to find these people again Make sure you ask for full information at Question 2 including postcode and telephone number It is vital that we can trace people if they move therefore the tracking information must be clear and detailed Finally you should check at Question 4 whether or not someone is likely to move from their current address within the next year If they are definitely moving you should then check if they have a specific new address to move to If the new address is known then record this on a Change of Address card and return this with the other documents for the household Once the Tracking Information is completed send this and other interview documents to Chelmsford HOUSEHOLD OUTCOME PAGE 10 Only use code 10 if you interviewed all eligible members of the current household HOUSEHOLD REFUSAL NON INTERVIEW INFORMATION PAGE 10 Where it is not possible to make contact at a household you must make every attempt to find out how many listed members are still resident at the address Stress that this is vital for ensuring that our survey is statistically reliable If possible complete the Enumeration Section stressing that this is the only information we will need Failing this attempt to find out the number of current household members e g Can I just check one thing is it still just you and your wife living here and record it here
78. d in the boxes at cols 54 55 should be consistent with the information entered in the call record If no calls are made at a 66 new address leave the boxes blank Please code personal calls only and not those made by telephone If a mover is interviewed at an old address ie the parental home record the number of calls at new address as 00 If no calls made at issued address and calls only made to new address enter 00 at cols 52 53 MAKE ANY CORRECTIONS WHERE NECESSARY COVERSHEET PAGE 9 Check that column 21 Question 1 is code 1 only if the interviewer has written in details of difficult to find addresses or information relevant to recontacting the respondent s next year for example behind Eccles Estate in cul de sac don t call on Sunday or respondent is slightly deaf blind etc CHANGE CODE TO 2 IF INTERVIEWER HAS PUT COMMENTS SUCH AS nice family might gt move probably staying just got a new dog etc HOUSEHOLD OUTCOMES Please note that some normal LIB household outcomes do not apply for this sample For interviewed households Code 11 Some interviewed and some proxies is redundant as there are no proxy interviewed Codes 13 and 14 are likewise redundant For non interviewed households Code 44 now describes ALL ineligible households Check the final household outcome is consistent with the individual interview outcome at question 14 OR 18 Only if question 14 or 17 and 18 is coded
79. d record corresponds to the BHPS LINCOME file and contains information from LIA LINCPAY LBINCPAY and LCINCPAY for all three treatment groups LINCPAY An occurrence of LINCPAY exists for each item coded at F1 The questions covered are F3A F3BALL F3B01 F3B20 F3C F3F Note There was a problem of double reporting of income sources in LBINCPAY and LINCPAY for the PDI group Duplicates have been removed from the derived record LINCOME and flagged up in LINCPAY variable DUPFLAG LBINCPAY This record type only exists for PDI respondents There is an occurrence of this record type for every occurrence of KINCPAY at Wave 11 i e where KINC_x 1 The questions covered are XSIA XSIBALL X51B01 X51B20 XS51C X51F 10 LCINCPAY This record type only exists for RDI respondents The is an occurrence of this record type for every occurrence of KINCPAY at Wave 11 KINC_x 1 which is not mentioned at F1 The questions covered are X52A X52 XS2BALL X52B01 X52B20 X52C X52F 8 4 Employer Survey The record VALIDATION_EMPLOYER contains information from the employer survey which was conducted to collect validation data about respondents employment situation for details see Jackle et al 2004 and Lynn and Sala 2004 The validation data can be linked with the respondents survey answers using LPNO and LHID or PID Variables in this record are named according to the question number in the employer questionnaire T
80. dealt with in the individual questionnaire Thus a married person living apart from his or her spouse is coded as separated not as married A married but separated person living with someone else is coded as living together A divorcee or widow who has remarried is coded as married or as living together if cohabiting It is important not to code friends sharing accommodation as partners but equally there might be cases where couples appear at first sight only to be friends If these relationships become apparent during interview you might then need to amend the household grid Those who describe themselves as living together with a partner of the same sex should be coded as living together 9 Spouse partner number Ask if each person s spouse or partner lives in the household It is important that partners those coded as living together are included in this column Code their person numbers in the relevant columns The relationship to household reference person column will not always reveal people who are married or living together for instance a young couple living with one of their parents where the parent is reference person Please take care to code correctly and consistently however obvious relationships might appear in most instances If the person does not have a spouse or partner enter 00 10 Paid Employment Ask Last week were you was this person in paid employment at all including being away temporarily from a job they
81. di_followup dta wll_sic92 dta Feed forward variables RDI follow up Wave 11 Standard Industrial Classification Employer Survey employer_survey doc validation_employer dta These records contain information for all three treatment groups unless alternative Proactive or Reactive Dependent Interviewing records are specified 3 Linking Records Key Variables The key linking variables are PID LPNO and LHID LPNO the wave 12 person number can be used together with the household identifier LHID to merge individual level ISMIE records cross sectionally LHID the wave 12 household identifier can be used cross sectionally to link household level records or to attach household level information to individual level records PID the individual cross wave identifier can be used for longitudinal linkage of individual level records with records from previous waves of the ECHP These variables are available on all records except the household level records which contain only LHID 4 Survey Design The ISMIE survey had the following key characteristics 1 ii iii iv v vi The survey returned to the ECHP low income sub sample which had been interviewed annually since 1997 as part of the British Household Panel Survey BHPS sample Fieldwork took place between February and May 2003 CAPI interviews were sought with all primary sample members PSMs interviewed at wave 11 of BHPS 2001 New entrants and t
82. e This is not being punched The Voucher Confirmation column page 5 should be completed for all households and for everyone in the household even if they were non contact a refusal or ineligible The tracking information should be completed on page 8 It is crucial we have tracking information on our respondents any interviewers who have not completed contact information for an interviewed household should have a copy of the form sent to them for full completion The Movers Form Complete this form for any sample member who has moved and you cannot find a new address for Return to Chelmsford together with the Coversheet as soon as possible so that tracing can be done Household Questionnaire CAPI This should only be completed for co operating households 63 Individual Questionnaire CAPI Some sections have been shortened and the experimental groups have new questions Wave 12 Following Rules We are only interviewing permanent sample members who did a full interview last time at Wave 11 We do not want you to interview anyone else No new entrants will be interviewed nor will 16 year olds who have become eligible for a full interview for the first ttme Temporary sample members who have interviewed continuously will also not be followed You can see who is eligible for interview this year in Column 6 Key Check A on page 2 of the cover sheet Anyone who is a code 1 YES should be interviewed and if they have moved foll
83. e e g seasonal workers those on short time work or laid off through strikes 44 E132 Those with a main job should be asked about any second job odd jobs or work done from time to time apart from that main job Those with no main job should be asked about odd jobs or work done from time to time Include any kind of work that generates income as a result of time or effort e g professional or directors fees income from a regular second job casual work done for friends or neighbours or income from the sale of items or produce Include only work that generates actual income exclude any where payment is in kind or reciprocal services E136 Last calendar month means e g January 2003 for those interviewed in February 2003 If respondent did not work in their second job last month then record details of earnings in last month in which they did work in that job E137 This is a new question asking for people s National Insurance number If possible we would like the number to be taken from some official document or source such as a payslip so we can be sure it is correct If the respondent tells you from memory what their NI number is check whether they are sure it is correct and code at E138 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY This section comprises an employment history to cover any spells in or out of paid employment over the past 18 months to September 1 2001 Depending on the treatment group the respondent is in the script may ask yo
84. e any particular questions that were affected please note them here If the respondent completed the Tracking Form please record here whether they gave a mobile phone number and or an email address You are asked to note down any ambiguous or conflicting situations in the interview that you feel we should know about This should include confusing family situations or relationships etc Try to note down person numbers where appropriate indicating relationships if possible for example respondent s daughter PN 03 If there are any situations throughout the interview that you feel editors and coders should be aware of please write these here This will be helpful in clarifying problems that might arise during coding It would be helpful if you write down here things that might have a bearing on our understanding of the interview or respondent or comments that would help us when trying to re contact the respondent or household for example respondent is illiterate and needs the showcards read out or time of day NOT to call 57 Appendix 7 Booking In Editing and Coding Instructions Living In Britain ECHP Wave 12 ISMIE Experiment BOOKING IN EDITING amp CODING INSTRUCTIONS CONTENTS W12 Questionnaires and associated documents 1 Wave 12 following Rules cccccceesseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaneeeees 4 BOOKING IN Completely and partially co operating households 5 Individual level
85. e confidentiality of our respondents and giving permission for the link will not lead to them being contacted by the DWP in any way The DWP will not have access to our survey data This is the permission question for employees asking if we can contact their employer If they agree to this please collect the details of the contact name at the employer s the full address details including postcode if possible and a telephone number We will be contacting employers by post and by telephone so it is very important we have complete details We will not tell the employer anything the respondent has told us but will ask for a few simple pieces of information such as the hours worked by the respondent and their job title 49 Showcard F1 NI Retirement Pension Occupational Pensions from former employers Pension from a spouse s previous employer Widow s Pension War Widow s Pension Widowed Mother s Allowance Showcard F2 Severe Disablement Allowance Industrial Injury or Disablement Allowance Disability Living Allowance Care Component For married couples you should try to get the separate amount paid for the respondent rather than any joint amount If the respondent is unable to separate it show the whole amount received and record it as received jointly If the wife is aged under 60 she will not be receiving a state pension in her own right Therefore any NI pension income is solely the husband s Retireme
86. e recorded something wrongly and it is important to us that our information is accurate so can you just clarify that for me PROBE FOR DETAILS AND RECORD IN TEXT BOX Then J39 X45 May I just check something According to our records when we last interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt your current spell of lt KACTTX gt had started in lt KACTMTX gt But the information that you have just given me implies that this spell started in lt LKACTMTX gt It may be that I have recorded something wrongly and it is important to us that our information is accurate so can you just clarify that for me PROBE FOR DETAILS AND RECORD IN TEXT BOX Then J39 Sources of Income Table 7 Record structure for questions on income sources Question Records Independent Proactive DI Reactive DI Fl lia lia lia F2 lia lia lia F2rn lia lia lia F3a lincpay lincpay lincpay F3b lincpay lincpay lincpay F3c lincpay lincpay lincpay F3d lincpay lincpay lincpay F3e lincpay lincpay lincpay F3f lincpay lincpay lincpay Lx52 Icincpay Lx51 Ibincpay INDEPENDENT Same as wave 12 F1 F3f PROACTIVE DI Before F1 ask X51 for each source from showcard F1 reported at wave 11 ae if KINC_x 1 X51 According to our records when we last interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt you were receiving lt INC_x gt either yourself or jointly For which months since 22 lt INTMON gt have you received lt INC_x gt Include an option to indicate none T
87. e which single description best applies Full time course only Exclude courses under 3 months Exclude part time correspondence and Open University courses and courses run by employers for employees Include sandwich courses Include those attending nursing school and teaching hospitals even when respondents were also working in the hospital D19 D28 These questions collect details of up to three periods of full time D21 D22 education in the past year since Sept Ist 2001 You should start with the most recent period of education The period of education may have started earlier than Sept Ist 2001 You should include it if the course continued beyond Sept Ist 2001 Collects the start date of any spell begun since Sept Ist 2001 Collects the end date or is coded not ended D23 and D72 Include direct fees paid for course but exclude living travel other expenses associated with the period of education Code 03 employer future employer includes past employer Code 04 New Deal Scheme for those aged 16 24 and for lone parents unemployed for more than six weeks If other arrangement code 7 and specify answer in pop up box 35 D24 and D74 Asked for each separate period of education Include only qualifications gained from each separate period so we know which qualifications come from which spell of education D25 amp D26 and D75 amp D76 School qualifications please note you must obt
88. elance jobs such as musicians or journalists In recent years there has also been a growth in the number of people employed by firms to carry out work on a freelance basis that they were formerly directly employed to do Building workers on the lump sum self employed labour only sub contractors should be classed as self employed These workers are usually paid a wage by the contractor and have the standard rate of income tax deducted from that wage They are however responsible for payment of their own National Insurance contributions Respondents receiving Enterprise Allowance must be coded as self employed All relevant self employed questions should be asked but the allowance received should not be included as income at E65 E70 or E78 but in the Household Finances Section Employees covers anyone directly employed by the respondent other than the respondent him or herself where they pay wages and are responsible for Tax or NI deductions etc Exclude those employed by firms as consultants etc Exclude fellow partners in professional practice or business These are all separately self employed Those who are paid for labour only may keep accounts for presentation to the Inland Revenue and have an accountant but they should only be coded 1 if they regard themselves as having a specific small business If other code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box E86 Take any period for which figures are available Include
89. ension scheme outcome Final outcome of employer survey qreturn Stage postal questionnaire returned lhid Ipno pid lhid Ipno pid Linkage variables 9 References Jackle A and Lynn P 2004 Dependent Interviewing and Seam Effects in Work History Data ISER Working Paper No 2004 24 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 24 pdf Jackle A Sala E Jenkins S P and Lynn P 2004 Validation of Survey Data on Income and Employment the ISMIE Experience SER Working Paper No 2004 14 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 14 pdf Jenkins S P Cappellari L Lynn P J ckle A and Sala E 2004a Patterns of Consent Evidence from a General Household Survey SER Working Paper No 2004 27 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 27 pdf Jenkins S P Lynn P Jackle A and Sala E 2004b Linking Household Survey and Administrative Record Data What Should the Matching Variables Be JSER Working Paper No 2004 23 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 23 pdf Lynn P J ckle A Jenkins S P and Sala E 2004a The Effects of Dependent Interviewing on Responses to Questions on Income Sources SER Working Paper No 2004 16 Colchester University of Essex http www iser essex ac uk pubs workpaps pdf 2004 16 pdf 2
90. ey Don t Vif know or neither agree or disagree and code accordingly v4 If other code 7 or 8 as appropriate and specify answers in the pop up box HOUSEHOLD FINANCES A major focus of our research programme is on how people go about making a living and how they get by In addition an overall measure of income is necessary for research into housing health employment and other vital matters This applies whether people are rich poor or neither This section is straightforward and causes few problems If any respondents query this section you should remind them that anything they tell us is completely confidential Nothing about them will be recorded in a way that will identify them There are many possible sources of income for people if we only asked about a few sources we would be in great danger of underestimating the incomes of many people There are also great changes taking place in the relative importance of certain types of income For example many more people these days are getting quite large incomes from things such as occupational pensions or stocks and shares Generally you are asked to record to the nearest pound You should probe to ensure answers are accurate as possible Please ask respondents to consult relevant documents where possible F1 F3 QX51 For all payments the actual amount received net of any tax or other deductions should be recorded Exclude any payments in kind any redundancy or severan
91. fications from part time education and training from whichever was the R s year of first interview w7 in 91 of cases plus any subsequent D26 and D76 corresponding to D25 4 or 5 all subsequent waves Number of GCSE s A C reported up to and including wave 11 Based on D66 corresponding to D65 05 and D76 qualifications from part time education and training from whichever was the R s year of first interview plus any subsequent D26 and D76 corresponding to D25 02 all subsequent waves N2_03 to N2_17 Equivalent corresponding to each of QUAL_03 to QUAL_19 QUALTXT1 Text variable to be used as a text fill It is a summary list of school KJOB level academic qualifications reported up to and including wave 11 To be based on N2_x and QUAL_x for each category with a non zero value of N2_x Where there are no school level qualifications QUALTXT1 0 Example 4 GCSE grades A C 2 GCSE grades D G 1 GNVQ 1 Useable job details given at w11 E5 2 Not in paid work at w11 E2 2 or 3 3 In work at w11 but no useable job details from E5 28 OCCUP KEMP EMPLOYER KEMPST EMPSTAT KMANAG MANAG KWKFORCE WKFORCE WORKTXK VALPAY KAMT Text variable to be used as a text fill Combination of both parts of wll E5 Example Accounts manager dealing with all aspects of the client accounts of a building contractor 1 Useable employer name at w11 E6a 2 Not in paid work at w11 E2 2 or 3 3 In
92. g please check that the Coversheets are correct by comparing them with the issued sample listing for your area If you have any queries please contact your supervisor The issued sample details are still incorporated into the CAPI system so that when you tell the computer which household you are in it will ask you to verify certain details like the issued address names and person numbers This will make it less likely for errors entering serial numbers to occur As well as checking that you are interviewing the right person in the right household the CAPI program also has the key checks built into the system This means that for anyone being interviewed in their issued household you will be routed automatically through the individual questionnaire Summary of main changes to questionnaire For this sample we are not asking the new questions on children s education and aspirations for the future that we included in the main LIB LIS LIW questionnaire at Wave 12 Coversheet Key Check A page 2 Tells you who is eligible for interview this year Key Check B page 2 Tells you which group the sample member is in for the different experiments we are doing Household Questionnaire Shortened but similar to last year Individual Questionnaire Demographics Shortened Includes different versions of the school level qualifications questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Health Majority of section has been
93. gs accurately expecially when we are asking them to remember events or dates in the past So the survey this year has been designed to see what level of error or accuracy we have in the LIB data There are two elements to this work 1 Checking the accuracy of income information The first thing we will be doing is to compare the data on income we collect from respondents with independent external sources of information We have permission from the Department for Work and Pensions DWP to link the survey data from our respondents to the administrative records about their pension or benefit payments held by the DWP In order to do this we must ask respondents for their permission to link their survey data to the DWP records as some personal details will be used to carry out the link Once the data have been linked we will remove any personal details from the file so we can guarantee the confidentiality of respondents The DWP will not have access to any information from the survey about the income the respondent has reported In addition to checking income data we also want to check the accuracy of information about the respondent s current job if they have one We are asking respondents who are currently employed if we can contact their employer for details about their current job Again we need permission from the respondent to do this and we also need you to collect details of a contact name their employer s full address and a telephone
94. hanges aiseria ia a aai 5 The Paper DOC UIC MS rrn A ae cee ate E O 6 CAPLQ estONAIE Sua enen e EANA aea eE a inden nets a 7 Fieldwork Procedures onessoeiicoinauoieio e ia 10 Renn ot Work esemes EN 13 The Questionnaire Components Cover het arrire a a E 14 Creating new coversheets for split off movers ssssssssssesssssesse 18 Enumerating thesampleerauneioniociieridiniaiaiai i 19 Completeing the Household Grid ssoseseesseeeeeeesseeeeessssesressseeee 2l Household Questionnaire sccccuhetus cased Man Pwarcnovasiagssuadeeanurnuscnes 32 Individual Questionnaire cccccccccccccccecesseessseseececceceeeeeaeaaeees 36 Introduction Wave 12 of the Living in Britain survey went into the field in September 2002 and many of you will have worked on it for us The sample we are issuing for this survey starting on February 11 2003 is the sub set of sample members we added to the main LIB survey in 1997 and have been interviewing ever since They were not issued as part of the main Wave 12 sample in 2002 and have been held back until this point The survey for this sample is special as we are using it to carry out a number of tests and experiments to assess the quality of the data we collect from respondents Extra funding from the Economic and Social Research Council has been gained for this project which we call Improving Survey Measurement of Income and Employment As you all know respondents do not always report thin
95. he data we provide is accurate and giving the correct information To ensure that our records are complete and accurate we would like to use information held by the Department for Work and Pensions and Inland Revenue about your benefits and tax credits but NOT about your income tax F53 Are you happy to give us your permission to link your answers with the administrative records held by these government departments Yes GO TO E137 No GO TO F55 Don t know respondent queries why GO TO F53_Prompt F53_Prompt IF ASKS WHY Researchers want to check accuracy and completeness of the survey answers about benefits and tax credits IF ASKS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF SAYING YES Like everything else you have told us this information will be completely confidential and will be used solely for research purposes No information that can identify you will be made available to the Department for Work and Pensions the Inland Revenue or anyone else outside the research team Taking part in this study will not affect your benefit or tax credit entitlements or dealings with any Government Departments now or in the future IF ASKS HOW THE LINK WILL BE DONE To link the information from the Department for Work and Pensions and Inland Revenue with your answers we shall pass them your name address sex and age These personal details will be removed as soon as the information has been linked GO TO F54 F54 Are you happy
96. heir PID sex date of birth interview status codes and sample status code must be entered at questions 3 8 col 21 40 In cases where the interviewer does not have this information to transfer from another coversheet they must contact Chelmsford to obtain the correct details In all cases of previously enumerated members rejoining a household i e anyone coded 5 at qu 9 page 3 their details must be checked with the issued coversheet information held at Chelmsford In a few cases you may find a retired rejoiner These are people we have withdrawn permanently from the sample as we never expect to see them again but who reappear in a sample household Please check the listing of retired sample members Code 13 at qu 6 and 8 at qu 9 Obtain sample status code and whether ever interviewed information from the Research Centre if necessary Questions 3 8 on the enumeration grid must be completed for these cases Check to make sure all boxes for questions 9 through 15 have a code value if there is any sort of interview Check that interview outcome recorded at Question 14 page 4 is consistent with the documents received Codes 01 to 11 should be used in all cases where the interviewer has made contact with the household and established who is resident even if no interviews are achieved Please note that Codes 02 08 09 and 10 are now redundant as there are no youth or proxy interviews in this survey Code 11
97. hen F3c F3f Then amended version of F1 Flax SHOWCARD F1 I am going to show you and tell me if since lt INTDATE gt you have received any other of the types of income Then equivalent questioning for each of showcards F2 F3 excluding code 41 and F4 excluding code 59 in turn Route past summary screen REACTIVE DI Same as wave 12 F1 F3f followed by CX51 AUTO CHECK If any income source reported at w11 but not w12 ask X52 for each source reported at w11 but not w12 OTHERWISE GO TO F4 X52 Can I just check according to our records you have in the past received lt INC_x gt Have you received lt INC_x gt at any time since lt INTDATE gt Yes Ask F3a F3f about this source No X52 about next source reported only at w11 or F4 if no more sources 23 Appendix 3 Consent Questions for Collection of Validation Data This section describes the consent questions which were added to the end of the individual interview to ask for permission to link the survey responses to administrative data and to collect validation data from employers 1 Data Linkage with the DWP F53_intro This is a special year for the survey as we have gained funding to carry out additional analysis to assess the quality of the data we collect on the survey This work is especially important as data from the survey are used by many policy makers and government departments So it is important that we can say with certainty that t
98. here has been a partial household move the household number should be incremented from 0 to 1 for the first split off household from 1 to 2 for the second split off household and so on The check digit for split offs should have been written in by interviewers as the CAPI programme provides this for them If it missing it must be correctly assigned NEW ADDRESSES Check that issued address details have been correctly transferred onto new Coversheets created by interviewers If there are any movers out of the country or the address is unknown a completed Mover s Form should be 65 present Coversheets should be created for all split off movers even split offs who are ineligible for interview ADDRESS STATUS If a household is still at the issued address and corrections have been made to the postcode this should be coded 2 at col 29 and the new postcode should be entered into the boxes provided then punched into the booking in program If the postcode is missing for new addresses flag with a yellow post it The postcode is punched as it is used for geographical coding on the survey database For the rare cases where the postcode is not 4 3 digits for the first four boxes left justify when only 2 or 3 digits For the second three boxes right justify if less than 3 digits If any other corrections have been made to the address 3 should be coded at col 30 If the household is at a known new address they should be coded 1 at col 31
99. herwise 1 where E28WK is E28 recoded to weeks i e 3 4 4 4 333 5 52 Usual net pay at wave 12 If E26 2 and E29 2 E27 E28WK 13 3 If E26 1 and E22 valid not DK Ref E22 E23WK 13 3 Otherwise 1 where E23WK is E23 recoded to weeks As for E28WK If LUSUPAYN gt 1 1 x KUSUPAYN up If LUSUPAYN lt 0 9 x KUSUPAYN down If LUSUPAYN 1 OR KUSUPAYN 1 AND LUSUPAYG gt 1 1 x KUSUPAYG up If LUSUPAYN 1 OR KUSUPAYN 1 AND LUSUPA YG lt 0 9 x KUSUPAYG down Main activity at lt INTDATE gt as reported at w12 Only needs to be defined for PDI and RDI groups 33 LKACTTX LKACTM LKACTMTX RDI group J9 for the first spell reported with a start date J10 before lt INTDATE gt PDI group X41 Yes KACT PDI group X41 No X42 Text variable describing LKACT 99 66 in paid employment work etc self employed unemployed or looking for Start month of main activity at lt INTDATE gt time of w11 interview as recorded at w12 Only needs to be defined for RDI group J10 for the spell that straddles lt INTDATE gt Text variable describing LKACTM If LKACTM 082001 August 2001 If LKACTM 03 1997 March 1997 Etc 34 Appendix 6 Interviewer Instructions Living in Britain ECHP INTERVIEWER INSTRUCTIONS WAVE 12 MAINSTAGE Wave 12 Living in Britain ECHP Instructions CONTENTS TVG OC GO 0s eae aa E ERES AEI eh atte eaten 3 Summary of Wave 12 c
100. hose not interviewed at the previous wave were not interviewed The total interviewed ECHP sample members at Wave 11 were 1 167 individuals in 785 households If respondents eligible to be interviewed i e they were interviewed at Wave 11 had moved they were followed to their new address ECHP sample members not eligible for interview who had moved without any eligible sample members were not followed Instruments included Coversheet Household questionnaire shortened to 4 minutes on average Individual questionnaire shortened to 20 25 minutes on average There were no self completion proxy or youth questionnaires The BHPS wave 12 CAPI questionnaires required re scripting to a shorten the questionnaire and b include additional elements that were needed for the methodological work Editing coding and data processing were as per the main BHPS survey 5 Methodological Work The work involved three distinct elements which had implications for the survey 1 Respondents were asked for their permission to match the survey data to administrative records held by the Department of Work and Pensions To aid in this process we asked respondents for their National Insurance Number NINO This was partly to help with data matching but is also to test the feasibility of collecting NINOs and the accuracy of NINOs provided Jenkins et al 2004b reported on the data linkage and investigated the quality of matches made using NINOs
101. hould be asked to decide for him herself whether or not a payment is to be classed as regular Rent from accommodation let at respondent s address However do not include payments from boarders or lodgers who are part of the immediate family of the respondent Do not include payments for keep from family members or rent from property outside the respondent s accommodation Code the latter as 56 Include any payments to compensate for lost wages during time off work through sickness but not one off payments to meet specific expenses such as medical fees or the cost of glasses or false teeth etc 54 Other Regular Specify type of income and source Exclude any payments from Payments investments stocks and shares bonds and other interest F11 F12 F14 F20 F39 payments e g building society and bank savings accounts Exclude money put by to meet regular monthly or quarterly bills e g gas telephone electricity etc and regular budget payments for utilities but include saving for Christmas or holidays and for yearly expenses such as TV licences Include even if saving is irregular Include PEP s Share purchase schemes Life Insurance TESSAs Record amount saved by respondent alone If jointly with other household member divide the total in half and enter that figure Obtain total amount even if held in more than one account or place Probe for estimation Include those where employees have opted out of their
102. inted details in full on the next available person number line and code them as Code 5 Rejoiner Even though you have written this respondent s details on to the enumeration grid as you will do for any unlisted members these respondents are not new to the sample If you suspect someone is a rejoiner but are unsure and have no pre printed information from another coversheet it is essential to contact Essex for their details before you carry out an interview You need to know whether they are eligible for interview this year to complete the interview If a respondent is a rejoiner ensure that as well as rejoining them to their new household you complete a Coversheet for them at their issued address Code the household outcome as Code 43 Moved back to previous wave household if it is a whole household move Code rejoiners 5 at Column 9 the appropriate code from 1 to 8 in Columns 10 0 in Column 11 the date they rejoined the household at Column 12 and O at Column 13 Resident Code 6 Where unlisted members are now household members and present in the household you should enter 6 at Column 9 the appropriate code from 1 to 8 at Column 10 Code Column 11 as 0 enter the date they joined the household at Column 12 and 0 at Column 13 If the person joined the household because of marriage and the date of marriage is not the same as the date the person began living in the household then record the latter Absent Code 7 Where unli
103. ion ssssseseseseessesseesseesseesseerssreseesseressees 14 Appendix 3 Consent Questions for Collection of Validation Data seeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeeeese 24 Appendix 4 Feed Forward Variables for Dependent Interviewing eeeeeseeeeeceereeresreree 27 Appendix 5 Variables Derived Within Wave 12 Interview for Dependent Interviewing 32 Appendix 6 Interviewer Instructions ccccessscecssncecsscceessccecssccecssccesscesessceesacesenseeeseeeees 35 Appendix 7 Booking In Editing and Coding Instructions oie eeeeeeceeeeeneeenneeenaeeneeneees 58 1 Introduction The ISMIE survey was undertaken to analyse issues of data validation and dependent interviewing The end of funding for the European Community Household Panel ECHP in 2001 presented a rare opportunity to collect data for this purpose The validation exercise had two parts comparisons of survey reports of social security benefit income with administrative records and of survey reports of employment characteristics pay hours status etc with employer records The survey also contained an experiment to test alternative dependent interviewing strategies and compare them with traditional independent interviewing in terms of impact on validity and accuracy The data currently deposited are the household survey and the validation data collected from employers This document describes the survey design methodological work and data structure in so far as it differs
104. issued interviewer area is used in the CAPI questionnaire to check that the Household ID entered is correct and for verifying names and addresses It is important that you enter it accurately or else you will not be able to enter the Household ID or continue with the questionnaire Household Questionnaire completed When you have completed the Household Questionnaire on CAPI please circle code I This will provide confirmation that the questionnaire has been completed and will be used for matching up the paper data with the CAPI data Call Record Record here all calls made Use the end box to show no reply made appointment time of appointment and to record progress e g wife interviewed husband in after 6pm only Record first the total number of calls made at the issued address on the label and then the total number of calls made at any new address es If no calls are made at a new address leave the boxes blank Please code personal calls only and not those made by telephone 16 Creating New Coversheets For all split off movers you will need to create a new Coversheet s for those movers You will need to 1 Copy the Household ID exactly as printed on the coversheet except increment the household number by 1 for each split off created from the original household For example the issued household is household 0 and if two lodgers moved to different addresses the first split off household you contacted
105. l 02 Too elderly 03 R s is senile or otherwise incompetent 04 R s does not speak English 05 Stressful family situation eg bereavement divorce Too busy 10 Looking after ill elderly 11 Looking after child ren 12 R s almost never home 13 R s are temporarily away absent 14 Too busy not elsewhere specified Personal reasons 20 Unhappy about confidentiality 21 Questions too personal Attitudes towards survey 30 R s doesn t want to be bothered 31 Nothing has changed since last year 32 Survey is too long frame cont over page 83 Whole Household Refusal Reasons Continued 33 Survey is a waste of time suspicious of survey opposed to survey 34 Previous bad experience with surveys in general 35 Have had problems with LIB voucher payment s in past Family pressure 40 Other family member s oppose participation 41 One family member refuses on behalf of all R s no reason specified Other 94 Address occupied no contact 95 R s have moved out of scope institutionalised 96 Other 99 No reason given 84 HOUSEHOLD GRID 2 Relationship to Reference Person Codes 01 Reference person 02 Lawful spouse husband wife 03 Live in partner common law husband wife cohabitee include same sex partner 04 Natural child 05 Adopted child 06 Foster child 07 Step child 08 Partner s child 09 Daughter son in law 10 Natural brother sister half brother sister 11 Other brother sister adopted step 12
106. ld Grid Replace 98 s and blanks in the Household Grid if this information is known elsewhere If birth dates are not consistent between documents and there is a marginal comment explaining which is the correct date correct as necessary If birth dates are not consistent between documents and there is no marginal comment explaining which is the correct date alert your supervisor Check the consistency of questions 5 and 6 on the Household Grid with the pre printed information on the Coversheet Enumeration Grid If questions 5 or 6 are code Yes the information entered on the Household Grid must be consistent with the information entered on the Coversheet Enumeration Grid If a name change or correction has occurred this must be recorded in the Tracking Information on page 8 CORRECT AS NECESSARY page 8 Check that Tracking Information is complete If tracking information is not fully written out but there are notes from the interviewer giving the relevant tracing details just leave the note Don t take the time to transfer the information However If tracking information has been written on documents that will become 13 separated from the Coversheet transfer the details The interviewer should not put comments like same as last year if this does happen the page should be copied and sent back to the interviewer for further clarification If contact details are illegible make a photocopy of the document and return it to the in
107. lespell J21 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J22 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J23 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J24 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J24dk lespell Ibpjstat lespell J25 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J250c lespell Ibpjstat lespell J26 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J27 lespell Ibpjstat lespell J28 lespell Ibpjstat lespell Lx44 rdi_followup Lx45 rdi_followup Lx43 Ibpjstat Lx43ck Ibpjstat Lbj10 d m y ne Ibpjstat 20 INDEPENDENT Standard wave 12 questions J1 J28 PROACTIVE DI Replace J1 J8 with X41 When we last interviewed you on lt INTDATES gt our records show that you were lt KACTTX gt Is that correct Yes Intro A No X42 X42 SHOWCARD AS J1 plus employee 01 and self employed 02 Please look at this card and tell me which best describes your situation on lt INTDATE gt Now to intro B Intro A Pd like to ask you a few questions now about what you might have been doing since lt INTDATE gt in the way of paid work rest of text from J9 the same employer Pl start by asking about what you were doing immediately after your job spell of lt KACTTX gt which you were doing on lt INTDATE gt Now ask J10a_Iter1 Intro B Pd like to ask you a few questions now about what you might have been doing since lt INTDATE gt in the way of paid work rest of text from J9 the same employer Pl start by asking about this job spell of lt LKACTTX gt which you were doing on lt INTDATE gt
108. lidays which do not have to be paid for such as staying free with friends or relatives If some food is not bought weekly attempt a weekly estimate Include meals bought from take aways but eaten in Exclude meals eaten outside the home 33 H61 Include vehicles on long term hire and company vehicles if for private use Exclude those hired from time to time and if used solely in the course of work and vehicles currently unfit for use if there is no intention to repair 34 INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRE The question by question instructions below are for the standard questionnaire and do not include specific instructions for the dependent interviewing questions for Groups B and C NEIGHBOURHOOD AND INDIVIDUAL DEMOGRAPHICS This section provides us with information about people s backgrounds This is important in its own right and also for comparison with the Census D7 D9 D14 D17 D18 Lived here continuously other than being away for holidays in hospital etc If respondent has lived in address more than once e g has returned after being away at college etc the relevant date is the beginning of their current spell of residence Own job only Exclude cases where people have moved because of spouse s employment If the respondent is separated but not legally separated they are coded as married here and separated on the Household Grid Code one only If respondent says more than one applies ask him her to choos
109. ms to conflict with what is written in under relationship do not change the mother father number columns These take precedence over the 72 written in relationship and at a later stage will be used to fix relationship Don t fix relationship Go with self report If missing and can easily be reconstructed do so 13 RESP ADULT Check that the responsible adult has been coded correctly In most circumstances the responsible adult is the mother of the children If someone is a step mother who is married to the child s father they may still be the responsible adult However if a couple are cohabiting and the woman is not the child s natural mother she is not necessarily the responsible adult In this case and if there is no mother present at all the father can be the responsible adult Persons who will turn 16 during the fieldwork ie on or before December 1st 2002 are interviewed In the grid they should be treated according to their age at the date of interview i e if under 16 items 8 10 are entered as 00 s and they will have a responsible adult Circle appropriate 1st level check code on VISUAL EDIT FORM on Coversheet CHECKING THE CONSISTENCY OF SEX AND DATE OF BIRTH Verify that the documents labelled for each person are really for that person Make sure that sex and date of birth in the individual documents are consistent with each other and with the information listed for the person in the Enumeration Grid and the Househo
110. n College Oxford FE Rutland College FE Rycotewood College Thame FE S 98 401 402 403 404 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 Sabhal Mor Ostaig Isle of Skye FE Salford College FE Salford University College Salford University of Salisbury College FE Sandwell College FE School of Advanced Study University of London School of Oriental and African Studies University of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London School of Textiles Heriot Watt University Scottish Agricultural College Scottish College of Textiles now Scottish Borders Campus of Heriot Watt University Selby College FE Sheffield College FE Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Polytechnic Sheffield University of Shetland College of Further Education Lerwick FE Shipley College FE Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology FE Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College FE Solihull College FE Somerset College of Arts and Technology Taunton FE South Bank University South Birmingham College Hall Green FE South Cheshire College Crewe FE South Devon College Torquay FE South Downs College Hampshire FE South East Derbyshire College Ilkeston FE South East Essex College Southend FE South Kent C
111. n you have completed the household grid please check the details Small errors can lead to great problems for the coders You should have completed a line for each member of the household if certain questions did not apply to them e g spouse number for the never married then 00 should be entered No boxes should be left blank 28 TRACKING INFORMATION PAGE 8 The aim of the tracking information is to ensure we do not lose touch with respondents The tracking section must be completed for every interviewed household member aged 16 or over We need one separate contact name for each interviewed household member in case they separate from the rest of the household If someone queries this by pointing out that we asked for this information last time reassure them that we are only seeking to keep our records up to date For reasons of confidentiality we do not carry forward information on contact names given in the past People s circumstances change from time to time and they may lose touch with friends First check the respondent s full name We are recording mobile phone numbers and e mail addresses if respondents have them We hope this will give us another means of keeping in touch with respondents Please be sure to ask for these as you complete the tracking schedule and use the column provided to record these Then ask for the name of someone outside the household such as a friend or relative It is particularly important that names an
112. natural mother she is not the responsible adult In this case and if there is no mother present at all the father is the responsible adult If respondent has more than one child who is cared for differently or if a child receives a mix of care code all that apply up to 3 mentions In other words three codes does not have to mean three children The question refers to numbers of types of child care not numbers of children If other code 11 and specify answer in the pop up box Paid for by respondent or by someone else on their behalf Count as paid for if an employer pays for children to attend nurseries etc outside the workplace That is how much is paid altogether by respondent or other people on his or her behalf including by employers If other code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box Include as looking for work being registered at any government or private employment agency approaching employers checking newspaper advertisements making inquiries of friends etc Include as Yes anyone who would like paid work but is unable to take up paid work because of problems due to health disability age or having to care for dependants Where a respondent replies that they are currently unable to work at all because of reasons of disability childcare or other caring responsibilities you should code 0 here write a marginal comment in the note function and go to E120 People signing on while in work includ
113. ndicate and collect the amount respondent received There is no lower limit i e collect amount even if only 10 Exclude tax rebates 55 F41 F44 Code a pay out from premium bonds or any other answer as code 7 and specify Do not include payments to charity repayment of loans to banks or finance companies or rent to landlords Exclude Pocket money for children Probe for an approximate amount If don t know there will be a series of questions to find out the range of the amount Those who refuse will be routed past the follow up questions 56 INTERVIEWER OBSERVATIONS At the end of the individual questionnaire you are asked to record information about the interview you have just completed Please remember that no names or other identifying information should be written on the questionnaire or in the interviewer observations If necessary you may use Person Numbers Il P B3 I5a 18 19 110 Other people present during interview At the end of every section of the questionnaire you are asked to record if others were present Please check here if anyone was present during any part of the interview If you feel there was any influence on the respondent because others were present please answer giving your perception of the amount and nature of this influence on the respondent s answers Please record in what way the respondent was influenced describing the situation If there wer
114. ndon FE City College Coventry FE City College Norwich City College Birmingham FE City College Manchester FE City Literary Institute London FE City of Bath College FE City of Bristol College FE City of London Polytechnic City of Sunderland College FE City of Westminster College London FE City University London Cleveland College of Art and Design Middlesbrough FE Colchester Institute FE Coleg Ceredigion Aberystwyth FE Coleg Gwent Main centres Abergavenny Crosskeys Ebbw Vale Newport Pontypool Usk FE College of North East London FE Cordwainers College Hackney London FE Cornwall College FE Coventry University Cranfield University Craven College Skipton FE Crawley College FE Cricklade College Andover FE Croydon College FE Cumbria College of Art and Design D Darlington College of Technology FE Dartington College of Arts Daventry Tertiary College FE De Montfort University Dearne Valley College Rotherham FE Derby Tertiary College Wilmorton FE Derby University of Derwentside College Consett FE Dewsbury College FE Doncaster College FE Dudley College FE Dundee University of Dunstable College FE 92 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 Durham Uni
115. ng it jointly They will have had to say which couple member was to receive the benefit or tax credit Also note that it is not possible to receive both Disabled Person s Tax Credit and Working Families Tax Credit at the same time A benefit which applies only to women not eligible for 52 Allowance Housing Benefit Council Tax Benefit Other State Benefits Showcard F4 Educational Grants Statutory Maternity Pay Usually women receiving Maternity Allowance will be either self employed or will have recently changed jobs Is benefit paid to help with housing costs either by the DSS or the Local Authority Include here only if it is paid direct to the respondent Where Housing Benefit is either deducted from the rent council tenants or paid direct to the landlord details should be recorded in the Household Questionnaire As with Housing Benefit Council Tax Benefit is usually credited to the council directly so the benefit would show on a reduced tax bill People on income support however will claim council tax benefit along with their housing benefit claim form Obtain amount deducted and period covered Do not include students who pay a reduced charge If respondent is unable to give details of benefit received write details of amount he or she actually pays in margin the amount deducted from the full charge and the amount of that benefit can then be calculated List each separately and record full details In
116. ng shares to invest in children s education Housing property purchase inc land purchase Home improvements Household bills eg TV license etc also include motor maintenance such as car bike insurance tax servicing Special events eg weddings burials Christmas No particular reason specified eg just saving for a rainy day to be safe emergencies just in case Shares schemes Own education Grandchild Other include shares not elsewhere specified Don t know Refused Not available Code other time period Code other time period 107 F42 To whom payments made F45 CODE PERSONS 1 3 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 96 Parent s if both mentioned eg Mum and Dad code once only Child inc step adopted Current separated spouse Ex spouse Parents in law Other relative Other individual Organisation but code maintenance payments or alimony paid into court or to DSS as 2 4 above as apply Other Code other time period 108
117. niversity of Walford College Shropshire FE Walsall College of Arts and Technology FE Waltham Forest College Walthamstow London FE Warburg Institute Warrington Collegiate Institute FE Warwick University of Warwickshire College Royal Leamington Spa and Moreton Morrell FE Webster Graduate Studies Center Welsh College of Horticulture Mold FE West Cheshire College FE West Cumbria College FE West Dean College Chichester West Herts College FE West Kent College Tonbridge FE West Nottinghamshire College FE West of England University of the West Oxfordshire College Witney FE West Thames College Isleworth FE Westhill University of Birmingham Westminster College Westminster College Oxford Westminster College London FE Westminster Institute of Education Oxford Brookes University Westminster University of Weston College FE Weymouth College FE Wigan and Leigh College FE Wigston College of Further Education FE Wiltshire College Main centres Chippenham Lackham Trowbridge FE Wimbledon School of Art Wirral Metropolitan College FE Wolverhampton College FE Wolverhampton University of Worcester College of Technology FE Worcester University College 101 545 546 547 548 549 550 600 700 998 999 D71 Writtle College Y Yeovil College FE York College FE York St John College York University of Yorkshire Coast College Scarborough
118. ns where dependent interviewing is being tested These are e School based qualifications e Current occupation and industry e Income from current employment employees only e Employment History since last interview e Current sources of non employment income Group A will get the normal questionnaire This is our control group Group B will get a version of dependent interviewing which tells the respondent what they told us at the last interview and then checks to see if this is still the same For example Last time we interviewed you on date of last interview you said your occupation was a plumber Are you still in that same occupation Group C will get a version of dependent interviewing which asks the question as usual but then checks what you have just been told against the information they gave us last time For example the respondent tells you that his current occupation is a plumber You will then ask Can I just check is that the same occupation that you had last time we interviewed you on date of last interview when we recorded your occupation as a heating engineer For you the interview will be much the same as usual but it is important you are aware of what version of question may be asked and read the question exactly as it is presented to you on the screen You need to do this so we can be sure that every respondent has been asked the questions in exactly the same way otherwise the results we get when we
119. nt Pensions may have an earnings related supplement This is normally paid on the same order book and should be included in the amount recorded Include all employer s pensions not just retirement pensions Include pensions paid before retirement i e a respondent may still be working for an employer but has become entitled to receive payments and pensions paid for early retirement Women may also be receiving an occupational pension in respect of a deceased spouse these should be recorded as 03 Check that any amount recorded is net of tax and other deductions Do not include pensions from a Trade Union or Friendly Society unless the pension is received as a direct result of the respondent s employment by them Do not include Widow s Benefit a single lump sum payment Is for people of working age who have not been able to work for at least 28 weeks but who cannot get Incapacity Benefit Married women unable to perform household work may also receive it Is a variable amount paid to someone disabled through either a work accident or an industrial disease Since April 1992 this has replaced Attendance Allowance for people aged between 5 and 66 although many people will continue to call the allowances by their old names In addition some people not previously entitled to Attendance Allowance will receive this benefit Those aged 66 or over will continue to receive Attendance Allowances Where 50 Disability living allowance
120. nt household this is on pages 6 7 of the Coversheet After all the interviews have been completed return to the Coversheet to make a record of the interview outcomes The Update and Tracking form has been incorporated into the Coversheet this is now on page 8 now called Tracking Information As more people get mobile phones and become connected to the Internet we now collect these details as well if we can There is a question for every respondent asking for their mobile phone number and email address if they have them If respondents are concerned about confidentiality please assure them that email addresses and mobile phone numbers will not be passed on to any outside person or organisation We will only use them in case we need to contact or trace the respondent 2 MOVERS FORM Conmplete this form for any sample member who has moved and you cannot find a new address for Return to Chelmsford together with the Coversheet as soon as possible so that tracing can be done CAPI QUESTIONNAIRES When you dial in for the CAPI questionnaires you will pick up two CAPI questionnaires The Household Questionnaire and the Individual Questionnaire These are separate scripts and for each household you should complete one Household Questionnaire and as many Individual Interviews as required You MUST dial in to pick up the final versions of the questionnaires following your briefing After dialling in please check to make sure you have the correct questi
121. ny doubtful case ask What is the agreement with your landlord and code accordingly Do not count as rent free cases where a rent would normally be paid but the whole amount is rebated or paid direct to the landlord by the DSS through Housing Benefit Code people who live in rent free accommodation owned by relatives as rent free If rent is paid for them by a relative or charity this should be recorded as a regular receipt in the finance grids If normal amount paid includes payment for hot water or heating or rent for amenities such as garages try to get the amount paid for rent only Where it is not possible to get a separate rent amount record whole amount paid and extra items paid for at H32 Include farms as land or business premises 32 H33 H37 H39 H45 H50 H56 H57 H58 H60 Both rent rebate and rent allowances are forms of housing benefit If the recipient is in council accommodation they will receive a rent rebate i e pay a reduced rent But if the respondent is renting privately then a rent allowance will be paid either directly to the recipient or to the recipient s landlord Applies to any accommodation lived in by HRP or spouse during the past 12 months not just current accommodation If a mortgage has only recently been taken out refer to previous housing situation Exclude cases where non payment was accidental e g the bank failed to pay a standing order This question
122. o If after a minimum of three calls at an address you have been unable to make any contact at all at an address you may try to contact the household by telephone You should only do so however to find out whether or not any members of the issued household at all are present at the address and to arrange appointments If you have a note from the respondent requesting you telephone for an appointment please do so Do not attempt to update the Enumeration Grid or carry out any interviewing by telephone Address Status This is for you to code the status of the address We need to know whether the household is now at a new address and if so this needs to be recorded in the box If they are still at the old address and any corrections need to be made to the address information on the label these need to be recorded Please ring the appropriate codes even for non response households i e refusals non contacts etc 14 This is the issued address If the issued address details are correct code 1 If there is an error in the postcode you should circle code 2 If other pre printed address details or the telephone number is incorrect or missing please enter the changes to be made and circle code 3 Code all that apply where multiple corrections are required This is a new address You should enter full address details for any new address you trace in the box If the new address is known code 1 If the new address is unknown or out
123. o eligible The amount paid varies according to an individual s rank and the extent of the disability This was introduced in April 1995 It replaces NI Sickness Benefit and Invalidity Benefit which officially do not exist any more If a respondent reports receiving NI Sickness Benefit and or Invalidity Benefit code as Incapacity Benefit and record total amount received in grid Income Support replaced Supplementary Benefit sometimes called Social Security Benefit The rate is assessed on the grounds of age and marital status with a flat rate premium for children and special premiums for people such as lone parents people with disabilities and pensioners 51 Jobseeker s Allowance Child Benefit Child Benefit Lone Parent Working Families Tax Credit Maternity Income Support is often paid along with other benefits as a supplement You should try wherever possible to record the amount of Income Support separately even in the case where it is paid with Job Seeker s Allowance or with a state pension The specific amount paid as Income Support will usually be shown on the cover of the Benefit Order Book Any maintenance payments from a former or separated spouse or for child support which are paid through the DSS or other government agencies should not be included as Income Support or any other benefit These should be recorded using Showcard F4 This replaced Unemployment Benefit in October 1996 Those receiving JS
124. odes have priority over higher numbers O01 More better money 02 Better promotion or career prospects 03 More responsibility 04 New job more secure 05 Work in new job more interesting 06 To do specific type of work eg is what I want to do like working with elderly young people etc 07 Given chance to be own boss NB Self employed only 08 More opportunity to work on use_own initiative other than self employed 09 Closer to home less travelling time to work or while working 10 Shorter fewer hours 11 More flexible hours eg work when I want to flexitime 12 Health reasons eg changed jobs because of health problems associated with conditions of previous employment 13 New job better suited to respondent s qualifications training or experience eg what R had been trained for what R used to do 14 Work less _demanding easier than previous job other than health reason 15 Preferred to previous job not elsewhere specified 16 New job better not elsewhere specified 96 Other 98 Don t know 99 Refused Not available Household Finances F3e Code other time period 104 F6 Reasons better worse off Code first mention if 2 reasons given and can t decide which is main reason 01 02 03 04 05 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 31 32 33 96 98 Earned income has increased more pay new better job Benefits have increased include pensions child benefit
125. of scope code 2 When entering the postcode please left justify and do not add leading zeros Work contact no This space has been provided for you to place a work or contact phone number if the respondent volunteers this information If we have to trace a person through this number it is crucial that we know who the number corresponds to Please make sure that if you give a contact telephone number you write in a corresponding respondent number e g resp 01 and any details such as work number or mother s number Instructions 1 Whole Household Moves If it is immediately clear that the whole issued household has moved either because the address is vacant or because you are told so by the new occupants you should begin enquiries immediately to establish a new address a telephone number or other details which might be used to trace the moved household If there are no new occupants at the address begin by asking neighbours Remember always to show your ID card and refer to the survey stress both confidentiality and the fact that you are expected to call If neighbours do not know any new address check if they know of someone who might If the issued address includes a telephone number you should check this too as some local movers transfer their existing number to their new address If you get a new private address for all or any eligible members of the household Check whether or not it is local that is within reas
126. olitan University North Nottinghamshire College FE North Oxfordshire College FE North Trafford College Manchester FE North Tyneside College Wallsend FE North Warwickshire and Hinckley College Nuneaton FE North West Institute of Further and Higher Education Londonderry FE North West Kent College of Technology Dartford FE Northampton College FE Northampton University College Northbrook College Sussex FE Northern School of Contemporary Dance Northumberland College FE Northumbria University Northumbria University of Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education FE Norwich School of Art and Design Nottingham Trent University Nottingham University of O Oaklands College St Albans FE Oldham College FE Open University Orkney College Kirkwall FE Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture Ipswich FE Oxford Brookes University Oxford College of Further Education FE Oxford Polytechnic Oxford University of P Paisley University of Park Lane College Leeds FE Penwith College Penzance FE People s College Nottingham FE Pershore Group of Colleges FE Perth College FE Peterborough Regional College FE Plumpton College Lewes Sussex FE Plymouth College of Art and Design FE Plymouth College of Further Education FE 97 357 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383
127. ollege Folkestone FE South Nottingham College West Bridgeford FE South Thames College Wandsworth London FE South Trafford College Manchester FE South Tyneside College South Shields FE Southampton City College FE Southampton Institute Southampton University of Southgate College London FE Southport College FE Southwark College London FE Sparsholt College Winchester FE Spelthorne College Ashford FE St Andrews University of St George s Hospital Medical School University of London St Helens College FE St John s Seminary Wonersh St Martin s College 99 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 49 492 493 494 495 496 497 St Mary s College Twickenham St Mary s University College Belfast St Andrews College of Education Stafford College FE Staffordshire University Stamford College FE Stephenson College Leicester FE Stirling University of Stockport College of Further and Higher Education FE Stockton and Billingham College of Further Education FE Stoke on Trent College FE Stourbridge College FE Stratford upon Avon College FE Strathclyde University of Strode College Somerset FE Stroud College of Further Education FE Suffolk College Ipswich FE Sunderland University of Surrey Institute of Art
128. on of LCS3 and LCS6 LFHOL Longitudinal FHO as per LIVFHO in the BHPS LADDSTAT Address status a combination of the variables LCSIADD 1 3 and LCSNADD LEHHMEM This is equivalent to LINDSAMP in the BHPS data It covers pages 2 5 of the coversheet and the variables are LEG2 to LEG17 ignore LEG18 and LEG19 New entrants to the household have a PID of 0 Derived variables LMEMORIG the individual level sample origin flag value either 2 or 3 LFIOL Longitudinal final individual outcome as per LIVFIO in the BHPS LFINLOC final location flag as per LFINOC in the BHPS LMOVER Mover flag as per LMOVEST in the BHPS LAHHMEM This is equivalent to LINDALL in the BHPS data It covers pages 6 7 of the coversheet and the variables are LHG2 to LHG13 8 2 Household Questionnaire The four record types below together constitute the equivalent of LHHRESP on the BHPS data LIHHOLD This is the main household record containing all variables not in the other three record types This covers HO to H3 and H37 to H65 of the questionnaire LOWNOCC This record exists for all owner occupiers H3 1 or 2 and covers questions H4 to H12 of the questionnaire LMORT This record exists for all mortgage payers H6 2 and covers questions H13 to H24 of the questionnaire LTENANT This record exists for all tenants H3 gt 3 and covers questions H25 to H36 of the questionnaire 8 3 Individual Questionnaire The following
129. onable travelling distance of your current allocated addresses If it is local find the household and complete the Coversheet Note if you can obtain any local address for a household but some household members are untraced you should go to the new local address immediately The new household may know where they are If the new address is non local then return the coversheet to Chelmsford as soon as you can so it can be passed on to an interviewer in that area 15 2 Partial Household Moves If you are able to contact at least one eligible member of the issued household either at the issued address or at a new local address complete the Coversheet Use the household O Coversheet for the first person people found Create additional Coversheets for all split off movers If the split off address is non local Send the Coversheet s for these movers to Chelmsford Interviewer area boxes There are two of these the issued interviewer area and the actual interviewer area The issued interviewer area number should not be altered in any way regardless of which interviewer finally interviews the household Any amendments due to re issues from another area or reissued refusals to a different interviewer should be entered in the actual interviewer area For the majority of cases the issued interviewer area and actual interviewer area will remain the same as the respondents will not have changed address The
130. onment 73 Disliked urban environment not elsewhere specified see 44 45 46 74 Disliked traffic include noise or danger from traffic 75 Disliked crime vandalism etc area unsafe 76 Noise other than traffic 77 Unfriendly area Disliked neighbours 78 Wanted to move to specific place 79 Disliked area not elsewhere specified frame cont over page 89 D10 Other main reasons moved Continued 96 Other include being nearer to children s school list answers on other sheet 97 No reason given written in 98 Don t know 99 Refused Not available DA67 and DA68 Place gained 1 2 degree 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 A Aberdeen University of Abertay Dundee University of Aberystwyth University of Wales Abingdon and Witney College FE Accrington and Rossendale College FE American InterContinental University London American School of Liberal Arts Amersham and Wycombe College FE Anglia Polytechnic University Anglo European College of Chiropractic Arts Institute at Bournemouth FE Askham Bryan College York FE Aston University Aylesbury College FE B Bangor University of Wales Barking College Romford FE Barnet College FE Barnfield College Luton FE Barnsley College FE Basingstoke College of Technology FE Bath College of H
131. onnaires If you are in doubt redial and try again or call the CAPI Helpline If you have any problems with the CAPI questionnaires or your machine please call the CAPI helpline immediately CAPI Conventions We have tried to make the CAPI questionnaires as consistent as possible and these are the main conventions you need to be aware of Date of Interview The interview is programmed to accept an interview date within the fieldwork period only All question wording and response categories are in black and all interviewer instructions are in red On showcard questions the numbers for each response are printed on the card and also appear on the screen beside the response categories The question number is in the centre of the footer running across the bottom of your screen If this is not appearing on your screen please call the help line Every question must be answered before you can continue Where appropriate don t know and refused codes are provided on the screen Other questions may have a not answered category which you can use if the respondent is unable to be coded to any of the responses given If don t know or refused is given in response to a verbatim question or to an other specify question enter DK or REF as a verbatim response The don t know refused and not answered codes are always exclusive i e you cannot code or enter another response category and code
132. ool based qualifications e Current occupation and industry 60 e Income from current employment employees only e Employment History since last interview e Current sources of non employment income The Household and the Individual questionnaires are on CAPI as usual The only remaining paper document is the coversheet The procedures for coding and editing will basically remain the same as for LIB W12 You will not have the detailed visual editing of the main questionnaires to carry out but you will still be checking the coversheet coding verbatim responses output from the CAPI questionnaires and resolving errors where the coversheet and CAPI questionnaires do not match e g where ID s have been entered incorrectly or person numbers swapped W12 Changes For this survey there is no Proxy Self completion Telephone or Youth questionnaire The Household and Individual questionnaires are on CAPI as usual The only remaining paper documents are the Coversheet and Movers Form For those of you who have worked on the survey before the Update and Tracking Form no longer exists The tracking details are now collected in the Coversheet 61 Questionnaire Changes for Wave 12 For this sample we are not carrying questions on children s education and aspirations for the future that we included in the LIB S W questionnaire at Wave 12 Coversheet Key Check A page 2 Tells you who is eligible for interview this year Key Check B
133. ortgages with a mortgage protection policy which is life insurance only A repayment mortgage is a straightforward loan where the borrower s repays capital and interest together If not known code Don t Know We require here the total amount of any further additional loans including second mortgages secured against the property after the initial loan even where the money has not been used for property improvement or repair Where a property has been re mortgaged i e a mortgage taken out to pay off an earlier mortgage and provide an additional amount count the difference between the mortgage paid off and the re mortgage towards this total If other code 5 and specify your answer in the pop up box A mortgage protection policy is a life insurance policy on mortgages It is not an endowment policy If the household rents give person actually responsible to landlord for rent With adult sharers establish if there is a joint tenancy in the names of all members of the household or if it is in one or two person s names with the others paying their share of the rent to the legal tenants If rent free give number of individuals responsible for the rent free occupancy by virtue of job or family position Any household whose accommodation is tied to the job of one of its members this should be coded 06 or 09 as appropriate People in tied accommodation whose employer is a Local Authority or New Town should also be coded 06 In a
134. owed for interview Information will still be collected about all household members on the Household Grid but only doing a full interview with those who are eligible 64 Booking In Instructions For Completely And Partially Co operating Households The aim of these procedures is to ensure that all expected questionnaire documents are physically present and reliably labelled and to ensure that critical information is present and correct on the Coversheet The documents present should correspond to the interview outcomes on the Coversheet If documents are not present but the interview outcome suggests they should be present this must be queried with the interviewer Household ID numbers and Person Numbers must be correct for all questionnaire documents Sex and date of birth must be present and consistent on all documents The Coversheet information must be complete The identification of previously enumerated and interviewed sample members and those new to the study must be correct on the Coversheet Enumeration Grid Please circle the appropriate codes on the VISUAL EDIT FORM on the back of the Coversheet as you check the documents Are Household Level Documents Present And Complete Verify that the Coversheet is present for each household even if non response or ineligible SERIAL NUMBER Check that all parts of the household ID number are correctly and clearly entered on new Coversheets created by interviewers Where t
135. page 2 Tells you which group the sample member is in for the different experiments we are doing Household Questionnaire Shortened but similar to last year Individual Questionnaire CAPI front pages We are asking interviewers to confirm the date of birth we have for every respondent this year This is to cut down on the number of discrepancies between different documents Demographics Shortened Includes different versions of the school level qualifications questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Health Majority of section has been cut Only two questions remain Employment Usual content Includes different version of the occupational description and pay questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview We are asking everyone for their National Insurance number at the end of the employment section Job History Usual content Includes different of the questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Values and Opinions Majority of section has been cut Only a few questions remain Household Finances Usual content but includes different versions of the finance grid questions for groups B and C using data from the previous interview Questions asking for consent to link the respondent s survey data to the Department of Work and pensions data are included at the end of the section A question asking for consent to contact the respondent s employer to
136. plit off household If an interviewer has managed to confuse them before returning the Coversheet to Chelmsford DO NOT FIX THE ERROR 74 INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRE If the Interviewer Checks on the front pages of the Individual Questionnaire are NOT consistent with information on the Coversheet Enumeration Grid and the Household Grid the CAPI data management system will generate an error If this occurs please alert the institute as soon as possible 75 ISMIE ECHP BHPS WAVE 12 4 CODING MANUAL 76 Items for coding Coversheet Individual refusal reasons Coversheet Household refusal reasons Household Grid Relationship to reference person H31 Other period H36 Other period D4 Why prefer to move D10 Other main reasons for moving 1 amp 2 DA67 Institution 1 degree DA68 Institution higher degree D71 Other time period D105 Weight in grams E5 Current job CASOC E6 Current job SIC 92 E21 Other period gross pay E23 Other period net pay E23c Other period working family tax credit E23e Other period disabled person s tax credit E28 Other period usual pay E55 Other period pay at start of job E92 Other period E117 Ideal job CASOC E133 Second job CASOC J14 Previous job CASOC spells 1 9 J22 Previous job SIC 92 spells 1 9 J25 Other period previous job spells 1 9 J28 Reason for attraction to present job F3e Othe
137. printed coversheet details containing information about those people we expect to find in the household this year Column 6 Eligible for interview Key Check A This is a code giving the interview status for each respondent Only people coded 1 YES are eligible for interview this year The CAPI program will not allow you to interview anyone else You will have to enter this code for issued sample members in split off households The codes are 1 2 and 3 and you should simply copy this code over if the CAPI programme asks for it You must enter them as they are pre printed on the Coversheet If you are unsure at any point contact Essex Key check A 1 YES eligible for interview this year 2 NO adult not eligible for interview 3 NO child under 16 Column 7 Treatment Group Key Check B This code tells you which group the respondent is in for the different versions of questions using data from their last interview 21 Key check B 1 A will get the usual questionnaire with no changes 2 B are asked one version of questions based on last year s response 3 C are asked a second version of questions based on last year s response As with key Check A you will have to enter this code for issued sample members in split off households The codes are 1 2 and 3 and you should simply copy this code over if the CAPI programme asks for it You must enter them as they are pre printed on the Coversheet If you are unsure at any poin
138. r If a grant was paid for a term record that at d as Other Do not include one off payments for specific items such as extra travelling expenses visits or equipment or individual prizes Include all payments from such bodies here with the exception of Educational Grants and Sickness or Accident Insurance Include Strike Pay Note that men and non married women can receive such payments In most cases such payments come direct but they may also come via a solicitor a court or the DSS If it is paid by the DSS check it has not been included in any Income Support already mentioned Code only if the respondent is actually receiving or has received the payment Do not code if payments should have been made e g through a court order but have not actually been made Record actual amounts received rather than what is supposed to be paid Payments received for a child should only be recorded if that child is present in the household If a respondent receives payment for the support of a child code as respondent s sole income But if they receive money which is to be passed on to the child itself exclude from respondent s income E g payment from a spouse working and living away from home regular payments to parents from children outside the household but not payments for keep from those living there and payments from parents to students etc provided they are not members of the same household In any cases of doubt the respondent s
139. r government training scheme 4 Those unable to work through long term illness disability and those attending industrial rehabilitation centres or adult day centres 11 amp 12 Father Mother Number Check for all HH members where necessary if each person s father and mother lives in the household Check that these are natural parents only The purpose of this code is to ensure that we can distinguish between natural and step parents It is quite common for instance for a mother to be natural and a father to be a step father Please take care to ensure you transcribe the correct number i e the person number of the parent to the row containing details of the child You will not of course need to ask the question where then can be no parent in the household e g single person or couple only households but always check in all potential cases of parentage If a father mother is not present in the household enter 00 13 Responsible adult At one section of the individual schedule you will be asking questions about children of the responsible adult The responsible adult is the mother or mother figure of the children in all cases with one exception If someone is a legal stepmother they may still be the responsible adult However if a couple are cohabiting and the woman is not the child s natural mother she is not the responsible adult In this case and if there is no mother present at all the father is the responsible adult Whe
140. r joint use Breakfast may be counted as a main meal Sharing living accommodation that is a living room or a sitting room Accommodation may still be counted as shared where the address does not have a living room which is separate from the kitchen that is where the main living room of the accommodation forms part of the same room as the kitchen Similarly a household can be treated as one if the living room also has to be used as a bedroom A group of people should never be counted as one household solely on the basis of a shared kitchen and or bathroom Occasionally an individual or a group of people will have both their own living accommodation that is living room bedsitter and kitchen and the use of a communal 18 living room In such cases priority should be given to having their own accommodation and they should be treated as separate households Situations arise in for example warden assisted housing for the elderly flatlet houses or separate granny flats where the parent occasionally also uses the family living room In addition to these rules which must be applied there are two general points to note 1 Members of a household need not be related by blood or marriage 2 To be included in the household an individual must sleep at the address when s he is in residence anyone who sleeps at one address but has all their meals elsewhere must therefore be included at the address where they sleep Residence Some potenti
141. r period finance grids 1 12 F6 Why better worse off than last year Flla Why saving 1 amp 2 F18 Other period F22 Other period F42 Person s relationship F45 Other period 11 Coding of occupation and industry All occupations are coded to six digits using CASOC All industry codes are four digit SIC 1992 Instructions for using CASOC coding This year we will be using the same conventions as for Wave 11 for the CASOC Ids We need to use all five digits of the serial number so we can identify each sample As the maximum key length is 12 it is necessary to lose a digit from elsewhere The question numbers require 4 characters so we will use a single character person number rather than 2 digit In the unlikely event of persons 10 11 or 12 requiring a code they should be entered as follows PNO 10 code as a 11 code as b 12 code as c 13 code as d 14 code as e 15 code as P NOTE A SEPARATE CASOC FILE FOR EACH BOX WILL BE CREATED SO THAT THEY CAN BE BATCH DELIVERED For each individual with occupational information Enter the household ID and person number for the first item coded only For each subsequent entry for that individual enter the standardised question number only i e E5 becomes E005 D36 becomes D036 etc When you start coding items for the next individual remember to enter their full ID and person number on the first entry 78 So for each individu
142. r self include commuting time not elsewhere specified 44 Job related reason for other include commuting time 45 Retirement self or spouse NB if retirement is specifically mentioned this code takes precedence over other codes FORCED MOVES 46 Evicted from rented accommodation repossessed other forced moves HOUSING RELATED REASONS 51 Wanted larger accommodation other than reference solely to garden garage 52 Wanted smaller cheaper accommodation 53 Wanted accommodation of their own to form their own household setting up homes with partner other than wanting to purchase accommodation frame cont over page 88 D10 Other main reasons moved Continued 54 To buy somewhere 55 Health reasons eg house too damp house not healthy other than needing accommodation without stairs 56 To bungalow accommodation with no stairs ground floor flat 57 To sheltered accommodation institution needed care 58 Wanted other specific type of accommodation eg detached house wanted a garden larger garden garage NB Only use this code if no reference to larger better or smaller cheaper accommodation 59 Disliked previous house flat not elsewhere specified 60 Wanted better accommodation not elsewhere specified 61 Wanted more privacy previous accommodation overcrowded 62 Wants a change not elsewhere specified AREA RELATED REASONS 71 Disliked isolation absence of facilities 72 Wanted to move to a more rural envir
143. records together constitute the equivalent of LINDRESP in the BHPS data LIA This is the main individual record This contains all the questions not included in the records below The questions covered are DO to D12 DA65 to D68 D97A to D98 D115 MO to M2 EO to E2 E129 to E139 J1 to J8 X41 X42 JIOIT J12 J29 X44 X45 J39 VO toV4 V9 FO F2 F4 F41 F46 F57 I1 110 LIA also has a variable LGROUP which holds the treatment group to which each respondent was allocated LIAPREV This record contains data for those respondents who have been interviewed at some previous wave all the ISMIE respondents The questions covered are D14 to DITA X1 D18 LFTEDUC This records contains data for those respondents who have attended full time education FTE in the past year D17 7 or D18 1 Each FTE occurrence exists as a separate record It covers questions D19 to D28 LBQUALS This record only exists for PDI respondents where the educational qualifications held are incorrect X1 2 Questions covered are X2 X6 LPTEDUC This records contains data for those respondents who have attended part time education PTE in the past year D67 1 Each PTE occurrence exists as a separate record It covers questions D69 D78 LCQUALS This record only exists for RDI respondents where there are any new qualifications reported Questions covered are X7 LBABES This records contains data for those respondents who are the mother of a
144. respective of number of clients or contracts 2 a period of agency temping irrespective of the number of agencies worked for It is extremely unlikely that you will interview someone with more than six different employment statuses in the past year the lifetime average is less than five If you should do so however continue the employment history on the supplementary grids provided J9 QX43 Count as different jobs with the same employer Code 01 where J10 J13 J28 J21 Someone has been promoted A respondent has moved departments There has been a significant change in the job content e g where the type of work done has changed or responsibilities for supervision have increased or decreased Teachers have changed schools within the same local authority NHS employees changed hospital Do not count as a different job where a respondent has only changed the number of hours worked by a small amount However if they have changed their hours in that they have moved from working full time to part time or visa versa this should be recorded as a different job Part time jobs are classified as less than 30 hours Code 02 is used for any period of paid employment other than doing a different job for the same employer in the period immediately preceding Where a respondent has had two or more separate spells of working for the same employer during the year which were separated by intervening periods of e g unemployment mate
145. rmation about the listed members who have moved to the new address has been transcribed to questions 2 to 8 in the Enumeration Grid on page 2 of the new Coversheet IMPORTANT Interviewers should transfer the Person Numbers from the original household Coversheet to the split off Coversheet In other words and in contrast to normal BHPS coding procedure individuals must maintain their person number from their original household within any split off household HOWEVER If this has not been done please DO NOT RECODE leave the person number as listed by the interviewer If person numbers are corrected ISER will not be able to reconstruct important information later INDIVIDUAL LEVEL CHECKING ON THE COVERSHEET ENUMERATION GRID Questions 3 8 Leave questions 3 6 7 and 8 blank for unlisted joiners except if they are a rejoiner i e a sample member we know about moving back in Question 9 Check that household membership has been correctly coded Any person who appears on the pre printed label must be a listed member and will have a code of 1 2 3 or 4 All unlisted members entered by the interviewer will have a code 5 6 or T 69 Rejoiners In the small number of cases where a respondent who has been enumerated at previous waves has rejoined the household they are coded 5 at qu 9 It is important these individuals are not confused with those never enumerated at a previous wave If a previously enumerated member rejoins a household t
146. rnity leave or working for someone else then use code 02 for the earlier spell or spells Where a respondent s company changed ownership but his or her conditions of work remained the same do not count as a change to different employer but treat as one continuous period of employment Offer the calendar where you think it might help If necessary explain the layout of the relevant months we are interested in from September Ist 2001 These questions seek to establish the conditions of employment in the last job Definitions and instructions for these questions are as for the similar questions in the earlier Employment section with the following additions or changes Same workplace means same geographical site Moving between departments on the same site does not count as moving workplace 47 J24 How much respondent was usually paid at the time he or she left not the actual amount received in the last pay packet or cheque since this may have included extra items such as redundancy pay repayment of pensions holiday pay etc J27 We want here the main reason the respondent left the job If more than one given ask And which of these would you say was most important to you at the time and code this J28 This should refer to the respondent s current job ie if they left for a better job that job will be their current job VALUES AND OPINIONS Vla Ifa respondent says Don t know check whether this is because th
147. rson in the survey and tailor your response to their particular circumstances If they are busy ill or harassed become involved in their problem 2 If you think someone is going to refuse and they have given an interview in the past the first thing to say is Thank you In this way you get in first Thank them for the help they have given so far Ask Did anything upset you last time to make you 10 refuse now Was it the interview the questions vouchers part of the survey mailings By being nice to them and apologetic for any possible problems they often change their attitude and become more agreeable 3 Be prepared to be flexible If the respondent wants you to make an appointment or call at a different time make it clear you are happy to fit in with their requirements Here are a number of effective approaches for counteracting refusals I ve done my share Keep on stressing that it only takes just over 30 minutes a year Without their help the survey is much less representative Everybody is different and cannot be replaced Interviews had to be done at same time The whole household does not have to be interviewed all at once I can come back as many times as need be to do all the interviews Nothing has changed in my life The only way we can hope to find out about change is by talking to people on more than one occasion And to really understand change we have to talk to everyone not only to those whose circumstances h
148. s Records Independent Proactive DI Reactive DI D18 liaold liaold liaold D19 lfteduc lfteduc Ifteduc D20 lfteduc lfteduc Ifteduc D21 lfteduc lfteduc Ifteduc D22 lfteduc lfteduc Ifteduc D23 lfteduc lfteduc Ifteduc D24 lfteduc Ifteduc D25 lfteduc Ifteduc D26 lfteduc Ifteduc D27 lfteduc Ifteduc D28 lfteduc Ifteduc Lx07 Icquals Lx07txt rdi_followup Lx01 liaold Lx02 Ibquals Lx03 Ibquals Lx04 Ibquals Lx05 Ibquals Lx06 Ibquals INDEPENDENT Standard wave 12 questions D18 D28 PROACTIVE DI Remove D24 D27 Insert X01 X06 before D18 Note that ALL respondents should be asked X01 so the routing from D17 and D17a should be to X01 14 X01 SHOWCARD D5a same as D5 but without other We are particularly interested in checking the accuracy of the information we hold about school based qualifications of the sort shown on this card According to our records from previous interviews you have lt QUALTXTI1 gt Is that correct Yes correct D18 No incorrect X02 X02 So which of these qualifications do you have For each mentioned ask X03 X03 How many subjects did you pass in X04 Did you gain any of these qualifications since lt INTDATE gt Yes X05 No D18 X05 Which qualifications have you gained since last time For each mentioned ask X06 X06 How many subjects did you pass in since last time REACTIVE DI Standard wave 12 questions D18 D78
149. s allows us to tailor our refusal conversion procedures more accurately We need to know as much detail as possible about those we couldn t 24 interview The more we know about how they react to the survey the better we can try and encourage co operation Column 18 Office use only Column 19 Some refusals may be converted If this occurs the Coversheets will be sent out to the interviewer If you receive one of these Column 19 allows you to re enter the individual outcomes for all household members whether the conversion was successful or not HOUSEHOLD GRID PAGES 6 7 The Household Grid now forms part of the coversheet as the Household Questionnaire is now on CAPI This should be completed before any interview is done at an address An interview cannot be undertaken until a full record of household membership exists in the Household Grid First you will need to determine who is the HRP The Household Reference Person HRP is defined as the person who either a Owns the accommodation b Is legally responsible for the rent c Has the accommodation as an emolument or entitlement e g rent free with job or d Has the accommodation by virtue of some relationship to the owner or lessee where this person is not a member of the household e g person living rent free in property belonging to a relative Where there are two or more people who qualify to be HRP under the rules above the eldest is the HRP The HRP does no
150. s complete We cannot process the CAPI data withouth them Return details of the following as soon as possible l Refusals at the doorstep Do not send these to your supervisor Send the Coversheet with full details of the reason for refusal to Chelmsford 2 Details of any vacant or demolished address If you think an address is still occupied hold on to your non contacts and keep going back to them 3 Any case where a whole household has moved out of your area or where you cannot find a new address Return the Coversheet with a Movers Form if necessary to Chelmsford 4 Any partial household moves outside your area or where no new address can be found together with a Movers Form if necessary Please make sure that ALL Coversheets are returned to Chelmsford even if the household is ineligible for interview has moved out of scope is a refusal or non contact of some kind 12 THE QUESTIONNAIRE COMPONENTS COVERSHEET Your sample is issued to you by means of the Coversheet which relates the names of sample members to the addresses they live at It tells you where to call and who to expect at that address The Coversheet is the key document for a number of functions crucial to the survey l Checking on how household composition may have changed since they were last contacted by identifying both those no longer resident and new sample members who have joined the households and then recording the reasons for and the dates of
151. se able to read normal size print e g a book or a newspaper with the aid of glasses and those who need glasses only for specific activities such as driving If other code 13 and specify answer in the pop up box 36 EMPLOYMENT E1 Include as working last week employment for any number of hours including Saturday jobs and casual work e g baby sitting running mail order clubs etc NB Since some informants may not consider casual work to be serious work please be prepared to probe those e g housewives with dependent children full time students to whom you feel this may apply anyone who was paid a wage or salary by an employer while attending an educational establishment a wife working for any number of hours in her husband s business as long as she was paid i e received or will receive an amount of money in remuneration or a share of the profits a wife working unpaid in her husband s business provided she works 15 hours or more per week anyone else working in a friend s or relative s business as long as he or she received or will receive an amount of money in remuneration or a share of the profits Students on sandwich courses currently with an employer or those on employer placements should be coded as employed only if they receive regular payment from the employer Student nurses Training for nurses is in transition Some nurses are still being trained under the
152. should be the firm or company that issued the contract of employment for the respondent E7 QX13 QX20 Accept respondents answers except where there is doubt try to find out how they are described for tax and National Insurance purposes For self employed tax is not normally deducted at source but paid directly to the Inland Revenue People working as child minders or odd jobbing etc are usually classed as self employed If someone is self employed and works under contract to an employer he or she may be treated as an employee for tax purposes e g in the construction industry Treat such people as self employed For all directors and managers who say that they are self employed check whether they work for a_limited company If they do code them as employees for tax and NI purposes An employee working through an agency e g secretary nurse etc may either be an employee of that agency i e the agency pays part of their NI contributions or an employee with each different employer they go to Further notes on the self employed may be found at E56 E8 QX14 QX21 A manager may manage other employees through supervisors or directly and may have a more general responsibility for policy or long term planning Foremen and supervisors have day to day control over a group of workers whom they supervise directly sometimes themselves doing some of the work they supervise 39 Job titles can be misleading e g a playground s
153. sted members are now current household members but temporarily absent you should enter 7 at Column 9 the appropriate code from 1 to 8 at Column 10 Code Column 11 as 0 and enter the date they joined the household at Column 12 and code 0 at Column 13 Column 13 Be sure to code the location of anyone who has left the household so we can find them and interview them Code the location of the new address if you collect it in this column and then create a new Note that code 1 Previous wave household takes precedence over codes 2 3 or 4 23 Once you have completed columns 1 to 13 you should check column 9 and begin to transfer first names and person numbers to the Household Grid on the Coversheet Remember to transfer names and numbers for current residents only i e Column 9 codes 1 2 5 6 or 7 Remember to transfer the person numbers as recorded on the Coversheet even if these are not in order e g If there are three household members recorded on the Enumeration Grid but PN 02 has moved the person numbers on the Household Grid will be 01 03 Once an interview is completed you then return to the Coversheet again to complete the Individual Outcomes Column 14 If you have completed the Enumeration Grid with a respondent there must be an Interview Outcome for every person listed on the Enumeration Grid This includes those not interviewed and children under 16 and those no longer present in the household Codes 1 2 and 3 appl
154. t contact Essex Column 8 Sample Status Code If you arrive at the address and no eligible member is still resident you should get address details for the member and follow them if they have moved locally You should not interview the remaining members If no eligible members are still resident you must complete the enumeration grid with any remaining members even though they are not eligible for interview at this wave Then circle code 44 Ineligible Household on the Final Household Outcome The eligible members who have moved should have new coversheets created as required Columns 9 10 11 12 and 13 _ Finding out about joiners and leavers Listed members These are all those listed in the pre printed details Resident Code 1 Where listed members are still current household members and present in the household you should enter 1 at Column 9 0 s at Columns 10 13 and then go on to the next person Absent Code 2 Where listed members are still current household members but temporarily absent you should enter 2 at Column 9 and enter O s at Columns 10 13 and go onto the next person Moved Code 3 Where listed members have moved you should enter 3 at Column 9 and enter 0 at Column 10 Then code the reason why the person moved in Column 11 If someone has moved to an institution you should give a brief description of the type of institution if someone has moved for reasons other than those explicitly given again give brief det
155. t first of all 1 Check the address 2 As usual tell the respondent your own name that you work for NOP and show your identity card 3 Tell the respondent that you are carrying out the Living in Britain survey for Essex University You can also at this point refer to interviews they have done in the past for us 4 Refer to the advance letter and check whether or not it has been received 5 Check whether any of the eligible sample members from last time are still present 6 Give a brief introduction to the survey and request an interview If respondents did not receive or do not recall receiving the letter you should give them one of the spare copies You should always have these immediately to hand when you make a first call In such cases you would normally give your short introduction to the survey before giving them the letter but you also should allow sufficient time for the respondent to read it if they wish to before continuing Although each respondent should receive an advance letter and it is expected that this will improve willingness to co operate with the survey the letter is not intended to substitute for a normal doorstep introduction of the survey by you A good response rate depends very much on the way in which you approach potential respondents and how well the purpose of our work is explained Under no circumstances must you ask all household members to be present at the same time for interview You MUST be
156. t has changed as a result of contracting out record the date the new arrangements took place Write in approx in the note function if amount clearly estimated Don t miss same as now code if the respondent s pay hasn t changed If other time period code 5 and specify answer in the pop up box If other time period code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box Write in approx in the note function if amount clearly estimated Don t miss same as now code if the respondent s pay hasn t changed If other time period code 6 and specify answer in the pop up box The term self employed covers people who are responsible in their work only to themselves and who do not receive a wage or salary from an employer Tax is not normally deducted at source but paid directly by them to the Inland Revenue However company directors and managers are employees of their companies Self employed includes people who are temporarily sick but would be working in a self employed job if they were well 42 E73 E78 E81 amp E82 E85 amp E95 E96 Self employed can be for any number of hours e g as little as one hour provided the work is regular In addition to persons such as sole or part time owners of a business the following are considered to be self employed doctors in private practice farmers landlords landladies who manage their own property and people with recurring fre
157. t have to be Person No 01 on the household grid 25 COMPLETING THE HOUSEHOLD GRID You must complete a row of the Grid for each member Begin by establishing the Household Reference Person HRP 1 Person Number and Name Transfer PERSON NO as printed on the coversheet and FIRST NAME from Page 2 of the Coversheet for all current HH members The person numbers may not be in sequence if someone has moved out 2 Relationship to Reference Person HRP Establish who is HRP and write in HRP next to this person s name The HRP does not have to be Person No 01 Then ask for the relationship of all others in the Household to the HRP and write in Where children of HRP are reported check for exact relationship to HRP and write in where the children are natural step children or adopted Please note that in split off households the first person on the list must always be a PSM transferred from the Coversheet An unlisted member must never be the first person recorded on the household grid For all split off households do not transfer the respondent s person number from the original Coversheet but simply start listing from 01 4 Date of birth Where date of birth is recorded on Coversheet ask We have NAME S date of birth as being xx Is that correct If correct re enter if not enter correct DoB Where DoB is not recorded ask for date of birth and enter If HRP cannot give you this exactly then check with the person
158. terviewer for clarity The tracking contact should be someone outside of the household BOOKING IN INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETE NON RESPONSE HOUSEHOLDS Check that the final household outcome Coversheet page 9 is correctly filled out and completed If codes 21 30 31 32 33 or 40 are circled the appropriate sections on page 10 of the Coversheet need to be completed These sections should not be completed for other outcomes CORRECT AS NECESSARY Where the household has not been enumerated and a household level outcome only is recorded e g whole household refusal non contact no trace only ineligible resident etc Interview Outcome at qu 14 page 4 of the Coversheet should be coded 13 14 or 15 as appropriate If you find an interviewer is making significant errors on the Coversheet or Household Grid or any other paper documents they should be informed as soon as possible A copy of all comments fed back to interviewers should be kept for reference EDITING PROCEDURES HOUSEHOLD and INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRES If there are mismatches between Ids PNOs sex or date of birth of the respondent s between the CAPI data and the paper documents the CAPI data management system will generate an error You will have to check and resolve these errors make the appropriate decision and edit the CAPI data accordingly However PLEASE REMEMBER THAT RESPONDENTS MUST RETAIN THEIR ORIGONAL PERSON NUMBERS if they leave their original household to join a s
159. themselves 5 Date of Birth information same This is a check on whether the date of birth pre printed on the Enumeration Grid is the same as the information you have collected Codes 1 and 2 will apply to all listed household members and rejoiners Code 3 applies only to people who are completely new to the survey i e code 6 or 7 at Household Membership Col 9 on the Coversheet Note that even if the pre printed information is copied by hand to a split off Coversheet this is still counted as pre printed information 6 Sex information same The same rules as for Date of Birth above apply 7 Age The age of new born children less than one year old should be coded 00 For those under 16 code columns 7 8 and 9 as 0 00 and 0 respectively 26 Please ask the respondent for a best guess if the date of birth of someone in the household is not known and you do not succeed in interviewing them It is very helpful if we can at least find out whether they are a child or over 16 8 Marital Status Ask as a running prompt for all household members aged 16 or over Are you is this person currently married living with a partner widowed divorced or separated or have they never been married Code children under 16 as 0 Single means never having been married Please note A current household relationship takes precedence over any other as the purpose of the grid is to understand relationships within the household legal marital status is
160. to give us your permission to link your answers with the administrative records held by these government departments YES GO TO E137 NO GO TO F55 DK Can t say GO TO F55 2 National Insurance Number E137 To help us make this link to the administrative data can you tell me your National Insurance number please ASK RESPONDENT TO CONSULT A PAYSLIP OR OTHER RECORDS SUCH AS A PENSION OR BENEFIT BOOK OR NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBER CARD IF RESPONDENT ASKS WHY DO YOU WANT THIS RESPOND This is just to endure our records are accurate IF RESPONDENT QUERIES WHY AGAIN RESPOND This will be used for research purposes when checking the data and will not be released to anyone outside the research team IF RESPONDENT IS STILL UNWILLING TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION CODE REFUSED BELOW ENTER NUMBER GO TO E138 Don t Know GO TO F55 Refused GO TO F55 E138 INTERVIEWER CODE FOR ALL CASES WHERE A NUMBER GIVEN 1 NI number taken from payslip or other document 2 NI number remembered and respondent certain correct 3 NI number remembered but respondent not certain 25 3 Employer s Details ASK IF EMPLOYEE ONLY F55 Another part of the work on checking the accuracy of the data we collect involves contacting your current employer for some details about your current job pay and conditions Would you give us your permission to contact your employer Yes GO TO F55_ Details No GO TO F55_WI11 F55_ Details WRITE
161. traditional arrangements whereby they are employed as trainees at a specific NHS hospital These nurses should be treated as employed for the purposes of this section coded 1 at E1 and in the subsequent job histories A number of nurses are being trained under the PROJECT 2000 scheme which is mainly based in colleges outside hospitals These trainees should be regarded as full time students Unless they have other employment outside their PROJECT 2000 course they should be coded 2 at E1 and E2 For student nurses always check if the nursing training course is part of PROJECT 2000 and proceed accordingly If the respondent is unsure treat as employed 37 Government Training Schemes Such schemes are not now generally run directly by Government Departments such as the Employment Department or Training Agency but are organised and delivered by local Training and Enterprise Councils TECs In most cases the TECs LECs in Scotland will contract out the management of the programmes to Managing Agents often private companies For the purposes of this section the crucial information is where the respondent is based for there training If a respondent was on such a scheme last week they should be coded as employed if they are employer based This is defined as 1 Last week they were with an employer or on a project providing work experience or practical training or 2 If they are normally employer based but were away last week be
162. ty leave allowed either by law or their contract should be included here Any other leave taken for reasons of child bearing or child rearing should be coded 7 Any leave taken for pregnancy related sickness not covered by maternity leave should be coded 3 Count women on maternity leave from a job as employed even if they say it is their intention not to return to their jobs at the end of the statutory or contractual period of leave E4 If respondent has more than one job these questions should be answered with 38 E50 reference to their main job The main job is the most remunerative If equal earnings then it is the one with the longest usual hours If a respondent is a seasonal worker who switches between jobs at different times of the year then main job is the one being done last week Where a respondent changed jobs in the last week that is in the seven days ending on the Sunday before interview we require details of the job being done at the end of the week Where he or she left a job last week and do not as yet have other employment treat as non working E4 amp E4a A permanent job is one which has no specific time limit even if a period of notice is required for dismissal E5 QX11 QX16 QX17 Please remember your general training as an interviewer that asks you always to probe for as detailed job description as you can get including title qualifications or apprenticeships responsibilities etc E6a QX12 QX18 QX19 This
163. u to work backwards over the period from the start date of the most recent change OR it may ask you to work forwards from the date of the respondent s last interview J3 Code those who left a job last week and have not yet entered other J4 employment as Neither J6 QX42 You should code here the respondent s current employment status Remember that anyone temporarily away from a job because of sickness etc should be coded as being in paid employment Those waiting to take up a job should be coded 10 Where respondents are Retired from paid work altogether code 04 or looking after family or home code 06 you should ensure that the date you get at J7 is the date when they began their current spell of doing this exclusively rather than the date they first retired from work or married or had their children If other code 10 and specify answer in the pop up box J7 Ifthe respondent is having difficulty with recall but is certain that the date is J8 before 1 9 2001 you need not press for a day You should however try for the month and year current status began 45 Where a respondent is coded 06 at J6 looking after the family or home care must be taken to obtain the starting date of the current spell of doing this exclusively rather than the date when they first began to look after a family or home J9 QX43 This section obtains the respondent s employment historym over the past 18 months For each emplo
164. upervisor supervises children not employees and so should be coded not a supervisor A stores manager may be a store keeper and not a manager or supervisor of employees E10 QX15 QX22 Ell E12 E13 E15 E16 Make sure that your respondent realises that we are interested in the total number of employees at the workplace not just the number employed within the particular section or department in which he or she works Include part time and shift workers If a respondent works from a depot or office e g a service engineer base the answer on the number of people who work from that depot People employed by employment agencies should answer these questions with reference to the place at which they are currently working or last worked rather than the agency Where someone employed by an agency worked at several different workplaces in the course of a week the answer should refer to the place where he or she worked the greatest number of hours Similarly people working for sub contractors or merchandisers within a larger workplace should answer with reference to the larger workplace for example school meals staff should answer with respect to the school rather than the kitchens and people working on a fish stall franchise within a supermarket should answer with respect to the supermarket In the case of people permanently on call make a full note of the circumstances and probe for the total hours usually worked when on
165. versity of E Ealing and West London College FE East Anglia University of East Berkshire College Slough FE East Devon College Tiverton FE East Durham and Houghall Community College FE East London University of East Riding College Beverley and Bridlington FE East Surrey College Redhill FE East Tyrone College of Further and Higher Education Dungannon FE Eastleigh College FE Edge Hill Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh Faculty of Education University of Edinburgh University of Enfield College FE Epping Forest College FE Essex University of Estate Management The College of European Business School Evesham College FE Exeter College FE Exeter University of F Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education FE Falmouth College of Arts Fareham College FE Farnborough College of Technology FE Fife College of Further and Higher Education Kirkcaldy FE Filton College Bristol FE Furness College Barrow FE G Gateshead College FE Glamorgan University of Glamorgan University of Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow School of Art Glasgow University Faculty of Education Glasgow University of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology FE Gloucestershire University of Goldsmiths College University of London Grantham College FE Greenwich Community College FE Greenwich University of 93 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186
166. we interviewed you on lt INTDATES gt when we recorded your occupation as lt OCCUP gt Yes E6 No E6 X17 Can I just check is that the same occupation that you had last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt Yes E6 No E6 Add the following immediately after E6a CX17 AUTO CHECK IF KEMP 1 X18 IF KEMP 2 E7 IF KEMP 3 X19 X18 Is that the same employer that you were working for last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATES gt when we recorded your employer as lt EMPLOYER gt 17 Yes E7 No E7 X19 Is that the same employer that you were working for last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt Yes E7 No E7 Add the following immediately after E7 CX18 AUTO CHECK IF EMPSTAT 1 or 2 AND EMPSTAT NE E7 X20 OTHERWISE E8 X20 So since last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt you ve changed from being lt EMPSTAT gt to lt EMPSTAT2 gt is that correct Yes E8 No ENTER EXPLANATION then E8 Add the following immediately after E8 CX19 AUTO CHECK IF MANAG 1 2 or 3 AND MANAG NE E8 X21 OTHERWISE E9 X21 So since last time we interviewed you on lt INTDATE gt you ve changed from being lt MANAG gt to lt E8 gt is that correct Yes E9 No ENTER EXPLANATION then E9 And add the following immediately after E10 CX20 AUTO CHECK IF WKFORCE 01 09 AND WKFORCE NE E10 X22 OTHERWISE E11 X22 So since last time we interviewed you on lt
167. work at w11 but no useable employer name at w11 E6a Text variable to be used as a text fill From E6a 1 Employee status at w11 known E7 1 or 2 2 Not in paid work at w11 E2 2 or 3 there are no missing values for E7 KJBSEMP If E7 1 an employee If E7 2 self employed 1 E8 KJBMNGRY 1 2 or 3 2 Not in paid work at w11 E2 2 or 3 3 E8 1 If E8 1 a manager If E8 2 a foreman or supervisor If E8 3 not a manager or supervisor E10 KJBSIZE 1 9 Not in paid work at w11 E2 2 or 3 3 E10 1 10 or 11 Ne E10 KJBSIZE If E10 1 1 or 2 If E10 2 between 3 and 9 If E10 3 between 10 and 24 Etc 1 Valid measure of usual current pay at w11 i e one of these criteria holds E20 valid and E21 1 5 and E22 8 or 9 E22 valid and E23 1 5 and E26 1 E26 2 E27 valid E28 1 5 and E29 1 3 2 Other inc those not in employment Text variable reflecting usual pay at w11 but including sign Example 9 500 Amount should come from the following source 29 KPERIOD KGROSS KUSUPAYG KUSUPAYN KACT KACTTX KACTM If E20 valid and E22 8 or 9 E20 If E22 valid and E26 1 E22 If E22 valid E26 2 E27 valid E27 Text variable reflecting period to which KAMT refers If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 1 week If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 2 fortnight If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 3 four weeks If E20 valid E22 8 or 9 E21 4
168. would be household 1 and the second household 2 Leave the check number blank When you start up an interview in CAPI for the split off household the programme will generate the correct check digit for you and you should write this on all paper documents for the household Copy the issued address details and the Wave 12 FID pre printed on the coversheet where the split offs have moved from into the Issued Address box on the new Coversheet Enter the new address details into the Address Status box Copy the details for the individuals who have moved from the original enumeration grid labels onto columns 2 to 8 on page 2 of the new Coversheet Do not transfer the person numbers from the original household The Person Numbers for individuals on newly created Coversheets should start at 01 and increment as necessary Take care to transfer the PID clearly and accurately as this number uniquely identifies each sample member Return the created Coversheet s to Chelmsford for all non local split offs and for anywhere the new address is not known If there are no members of the split off household eligible for interview this year code Household Outcome 44 and return to Chelmsford Do not interview 17 ENUMERATION GRID Initial Contact When you have established contact at an address your first step should be to establish if there are any listed members of the household present Listed members are those pre printed on your labels
169. would normally have been doing In paid employment includes 1 All those who did any paid work last week either as an employee or self employed even if only for a few hours in casual work 2 All people temporarily absent from their job 3 All those on Government Training Schemes e g ET or YTS with an employer and those paid by an employer while attending an educational establishment 2T 4 Wives working in a husband s business for any number of hours and who receive payment or a share of the profits are coded as working Those working unpaid for 15 hours or more are also coded working The same applies to other family members doing similar work 5 Students who were working last week code as working 6 People paid a wage or salary by an employer while attending school or college including people on employer based training schemes code as working Not working includes l All those who were looking for work last week or who would have done so but for illness or injury or holiday even if they are waiting to start a job already obtained or waiting for the result of a job application 2 Those who are retired from paid work altogether People who have retired from an earlier occupation but who now have another paid job if only for a few hours a week are working but exclude voluntary work 3 Those persons who last week were attending a school or college full time unless as part of a paid job o
170. y to eligible adults only i e those coded 1 at Column 6 Key Check A on page 2 Any refusals code 3 recorded here will be at the individual level for eligible respondents only That is those which occur after you have gained entry i e after at least one person has been interviewed Or you may code individual refusals for every eligible member of a household if they have all refused individually to you A refusal at the door which stops you getting any contact with any household members would be coded as a Refusal to Interviewer code 31 in the Final Household Outcome box on Page 8 of the Coversheet and column 14 would be blank Code 4 Other non interview should be used for eligible adults who were a non contact or not interviewed for some other reason Code 11 Ineligible adult should be used for any adult aged 16 or over who is not eligible for interview this year i e code 2 at Column 6 Key Check A on page 2 Code 11 should also be used where all eligible members have moved away from the issued address leaving only ineligible members behind In these cases complete the Enumeration Grid with the date the eligible member left etc code the Household Outcome 44 for this household and create new Coversheet s for the eligible members who have moved away INDIVIDUAL REFUSAL NON INTERVIEW INFORMATION PAGE 5 Column 17 This space allows you to specify in more detail the reason for any individual refusal you get Thi
171. yment spell you will collect details about that job Most respondents will not have changed their employment status at all during that period The large majority of those that have changed will have done so only once Remember to include separate entries for any spell of a week or longer even time spent between jobs doing nothing or on holiday Do not include ordinary holidays during jobs holiday leave entitlement used up at the end of a job or temporary sick leave What to include as jobs Our definitions of a single job for the purposes of the employment history are a period of time doing the same work with the same employer or a period of self employment freelancing or consultancy doing the same work or being employed by an agency to work for others e g as a temp Include Part time and full time jobs Time spent in paid or unpaid sick leave while working for an employer but not maternity leave which should be coded as a separate spell 05 Jobs abroad as well as in the UK Main job only if two jobs simultaneously Exclude Jobs lasting less than a week Holiday or vacation jobs work experience or sandwich jobs or part time jobs done while in full time education Second jobs done at the same time as main job Periods of maternity leave record as 05 Any work done as part of a Government Training Scheme code 09 46 Count as a single job 1 a period of self employment freelancing or consultancy ir

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