ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Expenditure and Food Survey, 2007 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:6118</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Office for National Statistics<br>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsors</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Office for National Statistics<br>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> July 2009 (2nd Edition) </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Office for National Statistics and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, <i> Expenditure and Food Survey, 2007</i> [computer file]. <i>2nd Edition.</i> Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], July 2009. SN: 6118, http://dx.doi.org/ </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 6118 . Expenditure and Food Survey, 2007<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Office for National Statistics</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Office for National Statistics</h5> <h5>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</h5> <H3>Sponsors:</H3><H5> Office for National Statistics<br>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<br> </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5><i>Background</i>:<br> A household expenditure survey has been conducted each year in the United Kingdom since 1957. From 1957 to March 2001, the <i>Family Expenditure Survey</i> (FES) and <i>National Food Survey</i> (NFS) provided information on household expenditure patterns and food consumption. In April 2001 these surveys were combined to form the <i>Expenditure and Food Survey</i> (EFS), which completely replaced both series. From January 2008, the EFS became known as the <i>Living Costs and Food</i> (LCF) module of the <i>Integrated Household Survey</i> (IHS). As a consequence of this change, the EFS questionnaire was altered to accommodate the insertion of a core set of questions, common to all of the separate modules which together comprise the IHS. Some of these core questions are simply questions which were previously asked in the same or a similar format on all of the IHS component surveys (including the EFS). For further information on the LCF questionnaire, see Volume A of the LCF 2008 User Guide, held with SN 6385. Further information about the LCF/EFS, including links to published reports based on the survey, may be found on the ONS <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/surveys/a-z-of-surveys/living-costs-and-food-survey/index.html" title="Living Costs and Food Survey">Living Costs and Food Survey</a> web page.<br> <br> <i>History</i>:<br> The EFS was the result of more than two years' development work to bring together the FES and NFS; both survey series were well-established and important sources of information for government and the wider community, and had charted changes and patterns in spending and food consumption since the 1950s. Whilst the NFS and FES series are now finished, users should note that previous data from both series are still available from the UK Data Archive, under GNs 33071 (NFS) and 33057 (FES). As noted above, the EFS is now known as the <i>Living Costs and Food Survey</i>.<br> <br> <i>Purpose of the LCF (formerly EFS)</i><br> The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has overall project management and financial responsibility for the LCF/EFS, while the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) sponsors the food data. As with the FES and NFS, the LCF continues to be primarily used to provide information for the <i>Retail Prices Index</i>, <i>National Accounts</i> estimates of household expenditure, analysis of the effect of taxes and benefits, and trends in nutrition. The results are multi-purpose, however, providing an invaluable supply of economic and social data. The merger of the two surveys also brings benefits for users, as a single survey on food expenditure removes the difficulties of reconciling data from two sources.<br> <br> <i>Design and methodology</i><br> The design of the LCF/EFS is based on the FES, although the use of new processing software by the data creators has resulted in a dataset which differs from the previous FES structure. The most significant change in terms of reporting expenditure, however, is the introduction of the <i>European Standard Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose</i> (COICOP), in place of the codes used in the FES and NFS, which were unique to the two surveys. An additional level of hierarchy has been developed for the EFS to improve the mapping to the previous FES and NFS codes. The LCF/EFS was conducted on a financial year basis from 2001, but was moved from a financial to a calendar year basis from January 2006 in anticipation of the introduction of the IHS. Therefore, whilst SNs 4697, 5003, 5210, 5375 and 5688 cover 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 respectively, SN 5986 covers January-December 2006 and SN 6118 covers January-December 2007. The documentation for SN 5986 provides further details of the change in methodology.<br> <br> <i>Suppressed variables</i><br> Users should note that certain variables in the data are suppressed for reasons of confidentiality. These include geographical variables with detail below government office region and urban/rural area indicators.<br> <br> <i>Northern Ireland sample</i><br> Users of the LCF/EFS should note that, due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.<br> <br> <i>Food database:</i><br> Further information about the LCF/EFS food databases can be found on the DEFRA <a href="http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/foodfarm/food/familyfood/" title="Family Food - Methodology">Family Food</a> web pages.<br> <br>From 2007, the non-response classes and weights have been updated using 2001 Census-linked data. See documentation for further information.<br> <br> For the second edition (June/July 2009), the DEFRA food database was added to the dataset, and the Incanon variable available in the dvhh file was replaced with a corrected version. Users are advised to download a new copy of the dvhh file. <br> <br></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5><i>Household questionnaire:</i><br> The first part of the LCF/EFS questionnaire collects information about households; the majority of the questions are asked at a household-level, with the household reference person typically responding on behalf of the household as a whole. The household questionnaire includes questions on a range of subjects including family relationships, ethnicity, employment details and the ownership of household durables. It is also the source of all expenditure information not recorded in the LCF/EFS diary; principally that which concerns regular payments typically made by all households and large, infrequently purchased items such as vehicles, package holidays and home improvements.<br> <br> <i>Individual questionnaire:</i><br> The income questionnaire follows on immediately from the household questionnaire and collects the key person-level variables used on the survey. The principal components of the LCF income questionnaire are the sections covering income from employment, benefits and assets. These together form an overview of the total income received by each household, as well as each household member individually.<br> <br> <i>LCF/EFS Diary:</i><br> In addition to the two questionnaires, each individual aged 16 years and over in the household is asked to keep diary records of daily expenditure for two weeks. The raw diary data is held in a separate file, but is not made publicly available for confidentiality reasons. Therefore, users should be aware that the LCF/EFS dataset available from the Archive includes only derived variables from the expenditure diary.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> January 2007 - December 2007 <br>The survey was moved from a financial to a calendar year basis from January 2006 in anticipation of the introduction of the CPS. <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> United Kingdom <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Government Office Regions <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Families/households; a household comprises one person or a group of people who have the accommodation as their only or main residence and (for a group) share the living accommodation (i.e. a living or sitting room), or share meals together or have common housekeeping. <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Alpha/numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2007. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study<br> From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS. <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Multi-stage stratified random sample<br> Due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK. <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 5,545 households in Great Britain, and 596 in Northern Ireland. <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Diaries; Only derived variables from the diary are included in the dataset, as the raw diary data are not released to the public for confidentiality reasons. <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> Weighting used. See documentation for details. </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Government, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 26 February 2009<br></h5> <h3>Date of Latest Release: </h3><h5>16 July 2009 ( 2nd Edition )</h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5>Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>16 January 2012</h5> </body></html>