Dependent interviewing on new longitudinal surveys in ONS Roeland Beerten Designing 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