At IP15, this asking for others’ contact details was done for parents living apart. When a respondent identifies as having children they do not live with, follow-up questions are asked about those children, including who they live with. Where non-resident children are living with their other parent, respondents are asked for contact details of that other parent. As respondents may have multiple non-resident children with multiple partners, the questions loop all non-resident children with different parents, so respondents might be asked for multiple contact details. As with asking for LATs’ contact details, respondents were told information collected would potentially be used to invite these other parents to answer a survey, with no information about the respondent being given other than to say they gave the contact details.
This content was not experimental, in that there was no manipulation of the way these questions were asked, but was intended as a pilot exercise to test the feasibility of asking contact details for parents living apart in this manner.
The questions were in the questionnaire module nonreschild.
