CONTENTS Vol I INTERVIEWERS' INSTRUCTIONS PART 1 ... - ESDS

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The PAF is the Post Office’s list of addresses (or ‘delivery points’, as they
call them) and postcodes for Great Britain. It is a good sampling frame in that
it is as nearly as possible a complete list of addresses and, being held on
computer tapes, it is relatively easy to use for drawing a sampls. The addresses
on your list have been selected at random from the ‘small user’ Postcode Address
File, that is the file of delivery points which receive fewer than 25 articles of
mail per day. By using only the small user file we hope to avoid sampling large
institutions and businesses. However, some small businesses or commercial
premises may be sampled and appear on your address list. (Note,.however, that
you must call at all the sampled addresses to check for residential
accommodation).
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3. ADDRESS LIST
3.1 An example of a PAF address list, reduced in size, is included for reference
on pages 4 and 5. The top two lines give general information about the guota.
working from Left to right they give the following details:
TOP LINE
Survey Number
Survey Name
Year
Quarter, Month
Interviewer
Office Use
sECOND LINE
Area No.
Posttown
sector
The survey number, survey nsme and year will be constant
throughout 1991/92, but, obviously, the quarter and month
will change.
The interviewer’s name and number will be written in by hand in
Field Branch.
This gives HQ the date on which the address list was printed.
This consists of a 3-digit
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number which should be “enteredon
This shows the posttown in which the addresses are located but
‘“bear in mind th~t this is not always the same as the
geographical location. Often small towns or villages,are
included in the posttown of the neareat large town OK ‘city.
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~This shows ,the”p&tc6de ‘sector”iri‘uhich all the,”add~”e~saii jar::.,,
. ~, located; ,itwill consist of one ‘o~~two.letteriand .tuo,orthree
. digits. It is followed bv the sector name. (The ribe has “be&ri
“aliocated by OPCS and is ;ot meaningful to the Post “Office). ‘“
, All the sampled postcodes .,. on the . address list will start .,with.
-the same letters and numbers as the sector printed hei6~”=A ‘“~
postcode is, in fact, completed by the addition of ‘twofintil~““
letters to the postcode sector. Thus, the sector.,maybe shown
as NR3 1 and the postcodes as NR3 ,,lAAetc. . .. . ,:,7. :4,;,’::,. ,,.
Region No. This is a 2-digit number to be entered in the ‘REGION’ box on
the household schedule.