Understanding Society User Support

Dear Christina,

We will look into this. Could you please provide exact variable names and waves you are looking at?

For Wave 1, there are no cases with a_fuelhave* = -8 (inapplicable). And there are only 90 households who say they have central healting but no fuel (a_heatch==1 & a_fuelhave96==1).

Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team

I have checked the routing on all these questions (as specified in the questionnaire) and these are ok.
cou if fuelduel==-8 & (fuelhave1==1 & fuelhave2==1)
cou if xpduely==-8 & (fuelhave1==1 & fuelhave2==1 & fuelduel==1)
cou if xpelecy==-8 & (fuelhave1==1 & fuelduel~=1)
cou if xpgasy==-8 & (fuelhave2==1 & fuelduel~=1)
cou if xpoily==-8 & (fuelhave3==1)
cou if xpsfly==-8 & (fuelhave4==1)
cou if (xpduely==-8 & xpelecy==-8 & xpgasy==-8 & xpoily==-8 & xpsfly==-8) & fuelhave96==0

If they don't choose at least one of the fuels in the fuelhave question they will not be asked the follow-up question on expenditure on these fuels. Of the 423 who had -8 on all the fuel amount questions, 111 said they didn't have any fuel and the remaining were missing on the fuelhave question for various reasons:
fre fuelhave96 if (xpduely==-8 & xpelecy==-8 & xpgasy==-8 & xpoily==-8 & xpsfly==-8)

As the fuelhave and heatch questions were asked separately, that is, without being dependant on the response to the other question, it is possible that some household respondents answered in an inconsistent manner. For Wave b, there are 101 households who said they had central heating but didn't use any fuel (heatch==1 & fuelhave96==1). You can investigate why this happenned. For example, a majority of these cases (84 out of 101) were renting (hsownd = 4 or 5) so it is possible that their fuel is included in their rent, and 3 more hsownd = 97 (other). Only 14 of these 101 cases owned their house.