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PSE questionnaires with overall results
In 2012, the PSE UK research team undertook two major surveys, one on attitudes to necessities and services and one on living standards. Together, the surveys provide a detailed picture of deprivation, social exclusion and inequality in the UK. The final 2012 living standards questionnaires, annotated with the top level results for each question, can now be download below.
This annotated questionnaire provides details on a wide range of topics such as fuel poverty and debt. For example, 6% of households have fallen behind with some or many of their bills and a further 12% have a constant struggle to keep up. 18% of households have borrowed from their family in order to pay for their day to day needs. 29% of households report that they cut the number of hours the heating was on to reduce fuel costs
The PSE UK 2012 questionnaires are updated and improved versions of the PSE 1999 and the PSE Northern Ireland 2002/3, questionnaires, which in turn were updates and improvements of the Breadline Britain 1990 and 1983 questionnaires. Details of the 2012 Attitudes to necessities and Living Standards questionnaires can be found in the left hand menu. You can download the annotated questionnaires for 1999, 1990 and 1983 below.
In Reports, you'll find the PSE UK 2012 final reports and Results analysis provides a more detailed analysis of the necessities of life survey. Explore the data offers an opportunity to investigate the data by sub-groups and across years.
Questionnaires
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PSE NI 2012 Living standards questionnaire with top-level results
This annotated questionnaire gives the top level results for all the questions for Northern Ireland only. It provides an overview of the state of Northern Ireland today and the difficulties people face in trying to make ends meet: for example 43% of households could not afford to pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of £500.
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PSE UK 2012: Living standards questionnaire with top-level results
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PSE UK living standards questionnaire (2012) with top level results_HHld & Ind marked_2013.pdf753.58 KB This annotated questionnaire gives top level results for all the questions. The questionnaire covers a very wide range of questions on living standards, housing, services, finance, employment, education, crime and social networks. The top level results provide an overview of the state of the UK today and the struggles many have to make ends meet: for example, 6% of households have fallen behind with some or many of their bills and a further 12% have a constant struggle to keep up.
The answers on the questionnaire to questions asked of the main household respondent are highlighted in green and those asked of all indiviudals in the household are highlighted in yellow.For questions where respondents can give multiple answers to the question, the percentages of both responses and of cases are given. The % response is the number of answers in each category divided by the number of responses - thus the % responses for all answer categories will sum to 100%. By contrast the % cases will sum to more than 100% as each respondent (case) can provide more than one answer.So if you are interested in the percentage of households (if it is a household question) or individuals (if it is an individual question) who live in these circumstances/make this choice etc then you need to use the percentage of cases figure. Take, for example, this question on the top of page 14 on fuel poverty "Did your household cut back on fuel use at home in any of these ways last winter, because you could not afford the costs?". From the % of cases, we know that 29% of households report that they cut the number of hours the heating was on to reduce fuel costs. From the percentage of responses, we know that of the ways in which households cut back, or not, on fuel, 19% cut the number of hours that the heating is on.Categories: Questionnaire -
PSE UK 2012: Attitudes to necessities and services questionnaire
Attachment Size PSE UK Attitudes to Necessities and services -Omnibus questionnaire 2012.pdf247.6 KB In this questionnaire, respondents are asked to say which of a range of items and activities they feel are necessities and which might be desirable but are not necessary. Items and activities for adults and, separately, those for children are covered. Items and activities covered include housing, household goods, food, clothing, personal goods, insurance and savings, pocket money and social and leisure activities. The results, broken down by social groups, can be found under Explore the Data. An overview of the findings on attitudes to necessities are in What do we think we need? of what constutues minimum standards, the degree of agreement and changes over time. The attached is just the questionnaire; an annotated version of this questionnaire with top level results will be posted shortly.
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PSE NI 2012: Attitudes to necessities and services questionnaire
Attachment Size NIOmnibusNecs2012(Sort)_annotated.pdf402.45 KB This annotated questionnaire gives top level results on a range of items and activities people in Northern Ireland feel are necessities and those thought desirable but not necessary. Items and activities for adults and, separately those for children are covered.
A programming error resulted in higher than expected amounts of missing data which appears to consist mainly of unrecorded Don't Know responses. Rigorous testing found no additional biases and the missing data and don't knows are excluded from the analysis, as is the normal practice with these kind of analyses. See Statistical Briefing Note 2.
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PSE 1999 questionnaire with top-level results
Attachment Size PSE Britain 1999 questionnaire with top level results.pdf165.53 KB The PSE 1999 survey provided a comprehensive set of question on deprivation and social exclusion, including a necessities module as to which items and activities respondents had, did not have but did not want and did not have because they could not afford it. The questionnaire developed a wide range of measures aimed at examining levels of participation and exclusion.
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