Survey conducted three days prior to the 1972 presidential elections focuses on voter attitudes toward certain key issues.Questions include intention to vote, reason for preference for George McGovern or Richard Nixon, possible Vietnam peace settlement, and cost of living.

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The Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which closed in 2001, was a continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households. They provided information on household and personal incomes, certain payments that recurred regularly (e.g. rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances, season tickets and hire purchase payments), and maintained a detailed expenditure record for 14 consecutive days.

The original purpose of the FES was to provide information on spending patterns for the United Kingdom Retail Price Index (RPI). The survey was a cost-efficient way of collecting a variety of related data that the government departments required to correlate with income and expenditure at the household, tax unit and person levels. The annual FES began in 1957 (with an earlier large scale survey conducted in 1953/54) and was one of the first Department of Employment (DE) systems to be computerised in the early 1960s. The UKDA holds FES data from 1961-2001. The Northern Ireland Family Expenditure Survey (NIFES), which ran from 1967-1998, was identical to the UK FES and therefore used the same questionnaires and documentation. However, starting in 1988, a voluntary question on religious denomination was asked of those aged 16 and over in Northern Ireland. The UKDA holds NIFES data from 1968-1998, under GN 33240.

Significant FES developments over time include:

• 1968: the survey was extended to include a sample drawn from the Northern Ireland FES and a new computer system was introduced which was used until 1985
• 1986: DE and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) converted the FES into a new database system using the SIR package
• 1989: the Central Statistical Office (CSO) took over responsibility for the survey
• 1994: in April, computerised personal interviewing was introduced using lap-top computers, the database system changed to INGRES and the survey changed from a calendar year to financial year basis
• 1996: in April, OPCS and CSO were amalgamated into the Office for National Statistics (ONS), who assumed responsibility for the FES
• 1998: from April onwards information from expenditure diaries kept by children aged 7 to 15 was included in data, and grossing factors were made available on the database

From 2001, the both the FES and the National Food Survey (NFS) (held at the UKDA under GN 33071) were completely replaced by a new survey, the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS). Prior to the advent of the EFS, there had previously been considerable overlap between the FES and NFS, with both surveys asking respondents to keep a diary of expenditure. Thus, the 2000-2001 FES was the final one in the series. The design of the new EFS was based on the previous FES; further background to its development may be found in the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 Family Spending reports. From 2008, the EFS became the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF) (see under GN 33334).


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Household Schedule:
This schedule was taken at the main interview. Information for most of the questions was obtained from the head of household or housewife, but certain questions of a more individual character were put to every spender aged 15 or over (or 16 or over from 1973 onwards). Until the introduction of the community charge, information on rateable value and rate poundage was obtained from the appropriate local authority, as was information on whether the address was within a smokeless zone. Information was collected about the household, the sex and age of each member, and also details about the type and size of the household accommodation. The main part of the questionnaire related to expenditure both of a household and individual nature, but the questions were mainly confined to expenses of a recurring nature, e.g.:

• Household: housing costs, payment to Gas and Electricity Boards or companies, telephone charges, licences and television rental
• Individual: motor vehicles, season tickets for transport, life and accident insurances, payments through a bank, instalments, refund of expenses by employer, expenditure claimed by self-employed persons as business expenses for tax purposes, welfare foods, education grants and fees

Income Schedule:
Data were collected for each household spender. The schedule was concerned with income, national insurance contributions and income tax. Income of a child not classed as a spender was obtained from one or other of his parents and entered on the parent's questionnaire. Information collected included: employment status and recent absences from work, earnings of an employee, self-employed earnings, National Insurance contributions, pensions and other regular allowances, occasional benefits - social security benefits and other...

This study contains two data files providing measures of protest violence and economic indicators for Argentina in the period 1955-1972. Part 1, Monthly Protest Data, contains variables on the number of strikes in different parts of Argentina and in the country as a whole, type of strike, strike participants such as unions, workers' organizations, the middle class, and national union organizations, demonstrations by students, Peronists, the Radical party, leftists, centrists, rightists, blue and white collar workers, and other actors, guerilla actions by the People's Revolutionary Army, the Peronista organizations, and other organizations, and the duration, nature of violence, and total dead or seriously wounded in the protest events. Part 2, Economic Data, consists of economic indicators, such as government revenues and expenditures, wages and salaries, cost of wholesale Argentine products and imported products, inflation rates, exchange rates, balance of payments, and cost of living.

The psychological and social situation of old people in the Federal Republic.

Topics: Actual and desired employment; rough information on time budget; preferred activities and interests; housing situation and desired residential area; form of housing; residential furnishings and possession of durable consumer goods; desired and actual contacts with other persons, organized according to composition and frequency; judgement on existing facilities for old people and desires for such facilities; interest in meal service or household help; condition of health; attitude to health precautions and measures practiced; attitude to natural remedies; isolation and being alone; criteria for success in life; athletic and political interest; party preference; flexible age limit; forms of income and judgement on one´s own financial situation; cost of living; selection criteria in purchase of shoes.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; occupation; employment; income; size of household; city size; possession of durable economic goods.

Interviewer rating: health situation; housing situation; weekday of interview.

State minimum wage applies only after a certain level of gross annual sales or receipts is reached by the employer. State minimum wage can be changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula.

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Consumer Price Index CPI in Malaysia increased to 132.10 points in February from 131.40 points in January of 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Malaysia Consumer Price Index (CPI) - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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To compare the present situation of migrants from Islington in new towns with their previous situation and to examine the procedures by which they obtained a home and a job in the new town. To discover whether they had to commute between London and and the town before or after the move.
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Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Present and previous residence: type, tenure, length, amenities, satisfaction (home, area).
Present and previous situation: geographical distance of respondent's and spouse's relatives, frequency of contact, occupation, cost of living. Spouse living in Islington before marriage, age at time of moving, marital status at time of moving, commuting by respondent or spouse before or after move, visits to Islington.
Sources of information: house, job, new town. Previous visits to area. Reasons for moving: friends, relatives, better opportunities, perceived advantages/disadvantages.
Respondents asked how much they agreed/disagreed with statements about new towns.
Evaluation of decision to move.
Club membership, car ownership, future plans.
Background Variables
For all household members: age. Sex, marital status, place of birth, employment status, relation to respondent. (See Appendix 3 in publication for questionnaire). For head of household: socio-economic group of occupation in Islington and at present, income.