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Looks credible, along with follow-up communication asking to visit this week. They even enclosed a £5 shopping voucher, which is I suppose marginally better than a kick up the derriere. (Depends on who is doing the kicking though obviously).
Apparently "Your address has been selected for an important study carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)".
Anyone else else been through this? If the letter is to be believed, 500,000 households every year are asked to participate.
Cheers etc
Apparently "Your address has been selected for an important study carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)".
Anyone else else been through this? If the letter is to be believed, 500,000 households every year are asked to participate.
Cheers etc
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What questions are they asking?
If in doubt, visit the website or contact them.
If in doubt, visit the website or contact them.
If you're interested in taking part then yes, contact them for confirmation or, putting it another way, I agree with Nick
I'd be interested to know the content if you go ahead
I'd be interested to know the content if you go ahead
Participated a few years back. They come back every year until you tell them to ….tell them you've had enough.
Since they are collecting stats about the population, they ask a lot of basic questions which some might consider intrusive (age range, number in household, how many bedrooms, owner occupier or rented, income range, employment and marital status etc) and some which are opinion based (state of health, are you in pain if so rate it, ease of access to GP, how happy do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10, and so on). They say the stats are fed into the system anonymously and you don't have to answer any questions you feel uncomfortable with. It takes about 15 minutes per person.
Since they are collecting stats about the population, they ask a lot of basic questions which some might consider intrusive (age range, number in household, how many bedrooms, owner occupier or rented, income range, employment and marital status etc) and some which are opinion based (state of health, are you in pain if so rate it, ease of access to GP, how happy do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10, and so on). They say the stats are fed into the system anonymously and you don't have to answer any questions you feel uncomfortable with. It takes about 15 minutes per person.
I had one a few months ago. They asked questions as above, also what I paid for house insurance, car insurance, council tax, water, etc.
It is legit.
The only thing you should be worried about is that they gave me a voucher for a tenner, in cash (I had to take it to the Post Office).
It is legit.
The only thing you should be worried about is that they gave me a voucher for a tenner, in cash (I had to take it to the Post Office).
I keep getting letters from the Office of national stats under their sub company, the DWP or something like that. Asking me how many kids I've got that I know about, and what I do for a living. Obsessed I tells ya these statiticians.
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