#British political party quiz serial number

The analysis groups requiring further definition are set out below. Analysis variablesĪ number of standard analyses have been used in the tables that appear in this report. Interviewers were supplied with letters describing the purpose of the survey and the coverage of the questionnaire, which they posted to sampled addresses before making any calls. As in previous rounds, we judged that it was not necessary to apply additional weights to correct for non-response to the self-completion questionnaire. Version A of the self-completion questionnaire was returned by 86 per cent of respondents to the face-to-face interview, version B of the questionnaire was returned by 90 per cent and version C by 89 per cent. If necessary, up to three postal reminders were sent to obtain the self-completion supplement.Ī total of 382 respondents (12 per cent of those interviewed) did not return their self-completion questionnaire. Otherwise, the respondent was asked to post it to NatCen Social Research. Details are shown in Table A.4.Īs in earlier rounds of the series, the respondent was asked to fill in a self-completion questionnaire which, whenever possible, was collected by the interviewer. Interviewers achieved an overall response rate of between 53.2 and 53.5 per cent. The mean interview length was 61 minutes for version A of the questionnaire, 63 minutes for version B and 62 minutes for version C. Interviewing was mainly carried out between June and September 2012, with a small number of interviews taking place in October and November.įieldwork was conducted by interviewers drawn from NatCen Social Research's regular panel and conducted using face-to-face computer-assisted interviewing Interviewers attended a one-day briefing conference to familiarise them with the selection procedures and questionnaires, with the exception of very experienced interviewers who completed a self-briefing containing updates to the questionnaire and procedures. There were 2,259 issued addresses for versions A and B, and 2,258 for version C. Thus, each interviewer was allocated 10 cases from each of versions A, B and C.

#British political party quiz serial number

If one serial number was version A, the next was version B and the third version C. As mentioned earlier, a different version of the questionnaire was used with each of the three sample portions. Each address in each sector (sampling point) was allocated to one of the portions of the sample: A, B or C.