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c. Selected flat contains more than one household: Occasionally you my find
that your chosen flat contains more than one household - ie it is a
concealed n’mlti-household within a pre-sampled multi-household address. In
this case you should follow the procedure described on page 11.
Returning Scottish Selection Sheets
Please return all blue and white selection sheets attached to the record(s) of
calls and Outcome for the first completed household at the address, or as soon
as possible if no household has been selected.
Extra Households per address and quota
SCOTLAWD ONLY
At any one address no more than 3 households should be dealt with
For practical reasons (ie to pre want a quota of addresses containing a lot of
multi-households from becoming unmanageable in the field) , there is a ceiling of
21 on the number of households/addresses to be dealt with.
In counting these 21 you should include all addresses already reported on your
Weekly Progress Return (S837H) (ie coded 1, 3-7) together with any extra
households picked up at multi-household addresses, and all households coded 9.
You should include any already returned as empty. Howe w?r, You should not count
in the 21 any addre.rses returnable as 2 (no sample selected at address ) , since
o-r the whole sample they would in theory, counterbalance the extra households
selected at multi-household addresses.
So, in any one quota no more than four extra households should be chosen whether
they come from concealed or pre-sampled multi-household addresses. For example,
if two concealed multi-household addresses each produce the maximum of three
households, then that is the four extra households. At ew?ry address after that
you should select one household only, in the following manner.
i. at concealed multi-household addresses You should take the first
household that your Concealed Multi-household Selection Sheet
instructs you to inter tiew.
ii. At pre-sampled multi-household addresses you will usually have only
Interview arrangements
one household to interview, but if your Pre-sampled Multi-household
Selection Sheet instructs you to inter view two households you should
take only the first.
Where You are interviewing more than one household at an address always try to
do all the interviews in the same week in order to prevent second-hand ~rsions
of the survey being passed from one household to the next.
If you have any problems in applying these multi-household procedures please
ring Sampling for adtice (Ext 2366 ).
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