Dependent interviewing on new longitudinal surveys in ONS

Roeland BeertenDesigning Sources Division

Designing Sources Division

• Design of new ONS surveys– European Survey of Income and Living Conditions

(EU-SILC)– Wealth and Assets Survey

• Integration of existing ONS surveys– Continuous Population Survey

(includes Labour Force Survey)– Business surveys

• Develop, promote and implement common standards across ONS data sources

New Surveys: EU-SILC

• Eurostat regulation; EU25 + candidate countries• ONS: integrated with General Household Survey• Longitudinal rotating panel• Following households (not addresses)• 12 month intervals - for 4 years• CAPI• Longitudinal questions on income, poverty,

housing• Cross-sectional questions on various topics

(e.g. detailed poverty, social capital)

New Surveys: Wealth & Assets Survey

• Funded by ONS, Department for Work and Pensions, Inland Revenue and others

• Longitudinal panel• Following households (not addresses)• 2 year interval for follow-up• CAPI• Cross-sectional aim: fixing total assets of British

households (also properties, pensions, debts)• Longitudinal aim: insight in asset-related

processes (eg. saving, borrowing)

Dependent interviewing

• To be used on both surveys (respondent burden)• Planning stage• Mix of proactive and reactive• Dependent on type of information

– e.g. household roster, employment status, occ&ind, income

• Blaise standards– Develop and implement ONS standards and procedures– Blaise Development, Standards and Support Team

International context

• EU-SILC: 25 countries

• No Eurostat guidance

• Practice differs between countries

• Consequence for comparability of data

• International harmonisation?

Some issues

• Technical aspects / infrastructure

• ONS modernisation

• Interviewer training

• Standards for different modes (CAPI, CATI, PAPI)

• Measurement error issues

• Confidentiality issues / Proxy information