OPEN - ESDS

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There are a number Of Columnar questions that now have a filter question above
them eg Q 71 Household Schedule. The use of filter questions should reduce
the number of questions you have to ask.
If the answer to the filter question ia ‘No’ you should pass onto the next
question as siqnposted.
If the answer is ‘Yes’ then you should ask the dependent questions for ALL of
the relemnt items (eg =hicles) in the household using a seperate colw—for
each item, eg if there are three vehicles in the household then three columns
should bs used.
Before each arouD of benefit and savinas auestions on the Income Schedule
there is a fiiter-question, eg Q 51. If -the -anawer
to the filter question is
‘No’ you should pass onto the next question as signposted.
If the answer to the question is Yes then all benefits listed at that question
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must have a Yes or @ code ringed, not just the benefit they are receiving,
i.e. if one a~lies then all the othe~ mast be asked and coded.
Business expenditure. 6.5
It is true that the FES is a survey of private household expenditure. Howe ver,
informants should give all their own expenditure (business and private) in the
Household schedule AND in their diary. At the editing stage coders will edit out
the business component p rotided you indicate it is business expenditure.
This rule applies where informants are drawing on their own cash and bank accounts.
The most difficult cases arise with the srrallself-employed businessman who has one
bank account to pay both personal and business expenditure.
NB Edited out business expenditure is used by CSO for =rious calculations and is
— not wasted.
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