OPEN - ESDS

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Turn to the yellow E-form. The HOH name, address and the household serial
number should be a carbon copy of that cm the letter.
Using a blue or black biro complete the following at top of page:
a. Area name.
b. No. of households selected at address.
c. No. of ‘E’ forms from address
d. Starting date of records.
e. Your signature.
f. Your authorization number.
9. Name of local authority covering the address of which interview took
place
Please note the following points.
A. Number of households selected at address. In this space enter the number
of households selected for inter view (maximum, therefore, of 3 per
address ), even if they are not all cooperating households.
B. Number of ‘E’ forms from household You may feel, in some exceptional
cases, that sending all postal orders to the HOH is unwise if, for
instance, there is reason to think he or she may not distribute them to
the other spenders. In this case you would write as many letters to the
household as you thought necessa~ to ensure each spender received
his/her payment. In most cases, however, you will write one letter.
Hence the “number of E-forms per household” in most cases will be “one-a.
But if there is to be more than one, your entry here (2, 3 or whatever)
will alert us to the number of letters to be sent.
Enter FULL name of the local authority comring address in which interview
took place.
Enter number of persons in household INCL children.
Finally complete list of spenders and pin the letter and copies of E forms to
the front of the household schedule AFTER CHECKING CARBON C~PIES ARE LEGIBLE.
NOTES OF ANY KIND ARE NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THE E FOPMS . The correct place for
notes is page 64 of Schedule A or on a separate piece of paper pinned to the
household schedule.
At each cooperating address you must ask for the surname(s) , initials and postal
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address, as these may not necessarily be the same as given on the address list.
Failure to complete the E form correctly, and to check all the details and despatch
it at once to HQ, will delay payment to cooperating members. This must be avuided
at all costs. Remember that, if there is any doubt about the completeness of the
data, you should ensure that informants are aware that the final decision about
payment must be mde at HQ.
In some cases informants will not wish to give their names. Explain that we cannot
send out blank postal orders so we will be unable to send them S5. 00. If they do
not wish to be paid the 25.00 for taking part in the surwy this is acceptable and
we can still use the inter view data.
It is not possible for postal orders to be made out by OPCS to charities.
Government auditors would question any department that appeared to be sending
public money to a charity. It is possible to send the postal orders to the
informants to pass to the charity but the postal orders must be made out to the
informants: it is not possible to send out blank postal orders.
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