§ Mr. Albuasked the Minister of Labour what part of the Social Survey played in the preparation and carrying out of the inquiry on household expenditure; and whether it is intended to use the Survey in the continuing small-scale inquiry.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe Social Survey of the Central Office of Information took part in consultations about the organisation of the household expenditure inquiry, and as mentioned in the recently published "Report of an Enquiry into Household Expenditure in 1953–54" (para. 21) undertook the interviewing in some areas. About one-third of the interviewing of households and coding of household budgets was undertaken by the Social Survey, which is also carrying out all the field work and coding of the continuing 81W small-scale inquiry. In both these inquiries advantage was taken of the experience derived from a number of experimental surveys carried out by the Social Survey of 1951–52.
I am very grateful for all its help.