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B HoUSEHOLD SELECTION PROCEDURE
JscOTLAND ONLYI
You WI1l need to carry out th~s procedure -k if the number of rateable
units you have llsted on the blue sheet is too small for one to be
selected and the instructions on the blue sheet tell You to tislt the
address (see page 16) . After ta+king to a responsible adult at the address,
list all the households llv!.ng there at your first call.
‘Ihe households should be list%d” oh the ?roit of the white ‘ PRE-SAMPLED
MULTI-HOUSEHOLD SELECTION SHEET’ uning the listing procedure described on
page 11 (ace example on page 21 ).
on the back of the white sheet ia a selection table with a range of numbers
corresponding to the number of households YOU MY paVS fOund. Against each
number in the range is the number of the houaehold( a ) at which you are to
inter .d,ew.
In the example (ace serial nun@r- 05)- :hree households were found.
Referring to the aelectlon table we see ‘that household number 2 has been
chosen so you should Inter mew the household occupying the flat on the
first floor, left hand side. king the number of the household selected, In
this case numbsr 2, in the left hand column on the front of the white
sheet. (This number LS not the household number you WL1l be us~ng on your
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schedules).
If there was only one household at ser”lal qumbe; 0-5, no inter mew would be
requ~red and you would simply return an Inter +iewei Record and Record of
Calls and outcome for ser~al ,n:~er 05, c0~n9 OutcOme - ‘No s~Ple
selected at the address’ .
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If there were e~ght households at this serial number you would have to
Inter w.ew two households, numbers 1 and 4 on your llst.
Howe ver it IS rare for you to ,% lnstr~a:ted to complete no inter w.ews at an
address, or more than one int_e_r ~L.?iY. ,?n the ~~t nmj?rity of cases the
selectlon table for a pre-sampled nulti-household address will Instruct you
to Lntervlew one household only.
Special cases
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b.
If the address on your address list is mark~d an a ‘D IVIOEO ADORESS’ J YOU
should list households only at those parta aa instructed on your address
li~t. ie ‘BOXED PART ONLY’ or ‘BOXED PART AND ANY PARTS NOT LISTED ON
ADD=SS LIST’ . -!. , ..-
Selected flat is empty or in~li;ibl~: Ab’ far es ‘you can, you nhould avm d
includ~ng ampty accornmodatio; ‘o;’ your ‘~is~, but’’ ktbnome addresaes (eg a
block of flata ) it may not always be possible to tall whether a flat IS
empty or not. If you find that the flat you selected for Interview by
using the table on the Pre-szunp&d Mul\i-h~ysqQo~dh5 election Sheet 1s empty
or ineligible, you should treat it as Yoru would any other empty or
~nellgzble accommodation - xe no interview in “;e~tiiked.
The rele wnt outcome code should & ●tered on the Record of Calls and
Outcome and on the Pre-sampled Multl-household Select~on Sheet.
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