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cONCEALED MULTI-HOUSEHOLD PROCEDURE
[ENGLAND, wus AND SCOTLAND]
You should fauul~arlse yourself with the procedure before visltlng any addresses
as there may not bs any Lndlcation on your address li9t (le the M.O. column may
be blank) that an address is multi-occupied.
In this case you should take the top sheet off your pad of pink CONCEALED
MULTI-HOUSEHOLD SELECTION SHEETS ( see example on page 1 3). On the front of the
sheet Insert the serial nher of the address concerned and after talklng to a
responsible adult at the address list all the households l~ving there at your
first call. The listing procedure w>ll vary according to the particular layout
of the address, but it nust bs carried out in the way described below so that
you (or another interviewer on a follow-up) can ra-identif y the household(s)
that will bs selected.
If the ad&ess is a block of numbered flats you should simply list them in
numerical order, starting with flat 1, 2, 3, etc.
If the address consists of unnumbered flats or badsitters, whether In a
block of purpose-built flats or a converted house, you should llst the
flats in a systematic way, starting with the first on the left on the
lowest floor and working In a clockwise manner on each floor.
Exclude from the llst any flats that are knmn to be empty.
If the address on your address llst 1s marked as a ‘D IVIDEO ADDRESS’ , you should
list households only at those parts as nstructed on your address llst. le
‘BOXED PART ONLY’ or ‘BOXED PART ANO ANY PARTS NOT LISTED ON AD ORESS LIST’ .
On the back of the sheet 1s a selection table tell~ng you wh~ch households to
inter v?.ew, according to the number you find at the addreas. Pang the numbers of
the selected households In the left-hand column on the f rent of the sheet.
(These numbers are not the housenold numbers that you w1ll ewsntually use on
your schedules. —
Returning Concealed Multi-household SelectIon Sheets:
Please do not wait to enter the outcome codes for all the 9elected households Ln
the right hand column on the front of the Concealed Multl-household SelectIon
Sheet, but attach the sheet to the Record(s ) of Calls and Outcome for the f~rst
completed household at that serial number and return it to the office.
Extra Households per address and quota
ENGLAND AND WALES ONLY (FOR SCOTLAND SEE PAGE 20)
At any one addrean no more than 3 households should be dealt with
For practical reasons (ie to pre =nt a quota of addreaaes containing a lot of
multi-households from becoming urnnsnageable in the field), there iS a ceilln9 Of
21 on the number of households/addreasea to be dealt with.
In counting these 21 you should Include all addresses already reported on your
Weekly Progress Return (S836H) (ie coded 1, 3-7) together with any extra
households picked up at multl-household addresaes, and all households coded 9.
You should include any already returned as empty. Howe vsr, you should not count
in the 21 any addre$ses returnable aa 2 (no sample selected at address ), s~nce
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