HC Deb 09 January 1996 vol 269 c86W
Ms Corston

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the research his Department has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the reasons for non-response in respect of the annual reports of the family expenditure surveys from 1965 to 1994–95. [6797]

Mrs. Angela Knight

The following reports were both commissioned and evaluated by the Central Statistical Office.

  1. 1. Kempsey, W. F. F. (1975) "Family Expenditure Survey. A study of differential response based on a comparison of the 1971 sample with the Census" Statistical News, no. 31, pp. 3–8.
  2. 2. Redpath, R. (1986) "Family Expenditure Survey; a second study of differential response, comparing Census characteristics of FES respondents and non-respondents" Statistical News, no. 72, pp. 13–16.
  3. 3. Foster, K. (1995) "A comparison of the Census characteristics of respondents and non-respondents to the 1991 Family Expenditure survey" to be published January 1996, OPCS Survey Methodology Bulletin, no. 38.

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