OPEN - ESDS

. Holidays outside UK (including Channel Islands and Eire )
Informants should be asked to record daily totals spent together with name of
county in which holiday was taken. Diaries will ba collected by you at final
call.
Holiday expenditure by credit card - see D4(i)
Holidays starting during record keeping but ending D15
—
after record keeping period finishes
Treatment of expenditure while on holiday and method
depends on whether the holiday is in the UK (England,
Ireland) or abroad.
a. Holidays in UK
of returning diaries to you
Scotland, Wales or Northern
Informants should be asked to maintain diaries as if they were at home ie
record all expenditure individually. Diaries should be posted back to you in
en~lopes provided (eee also section A7 (page 17))
b. Holidays outside ~ (including Channel Islands and Eire)
Informants should record on page 38 of diary the following information.
1. Number of days they will be outside the UK
2. The amount of tra..ellers cheques and currency they will take outside UK
3. The estimated mlue of any ordinary bank, cheques they will write outside
the UK;
4. The country in which the holiday will ba spent.
This information allows us to proportion the amount of total expenditure abroad
between that within the record keeping period and that outside the record keeping
period.
The diaries should be collected on day before holiday or be posted to you on that
day.
Holiday expenditure by credit card - see D4 (i )
Holidays due to start after record keeping period D16
All expenditure in preparation for holiday eg deposit, final payment or purchase of
travelers cheques or foreign currency should be recorded if they occur during the
14 days.
Bank charges for travallers cheques or foreign currency should be itemised
separately from the cheques or currency.
If the holiday is to be taken in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland,
write ‘IX’ beside entrv. If it is to be taken outside the UK note coUntrY in which
holiday will he spent.
NB Channel Islands and Eire are NOT
—
Holiday expenditure by cradit card -
in UK.
see D4(i)
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