Skip to content

Innovation Panel Variable

smetconslink3

Consent to link smart meter data, fewer bullet points

Datafile

Question asked in the latest wave:

household_ip17.smetconslink3

Question label:

Consent to link smart meter data, fewer bullet points

Question text:

We would like to add information on whether your home has a “smart meter”, and how much energy you use, to the answers you have given in this study. If you agree:

- We will send your  name and address to researchers at University College London (UCL) and they will check whether a smart meter has been fitted at your address and registered on the national smart meter system. We will also send UCL the date you moved into your home, to ensure they do not collect data from before you lived there. {if HLIVED = 2}
- If there is a smart meter at your address, UCL will securely access the following data remotely from your smart meter(s):
- Half-hourly electricity and gas (if available) consumption readings (and any historic readings dating back to the time you moved into your home up to a maximum of 12 months). {if HLIVED = 2} up to 12 months). {if HLIVED = 1}
- Information about your energy tariff.
- Information about what devices are connected to your smart meter(s), such as an in-home display.
- Information on whether your home has a smart meter and any smart meter data UCL is able to access will be passed back to Understanding Society and connected to the answers you have given in this study.

Please read this leaflet on “Smart Meter Data Linkage” for further information.

Do you give permission for us to pass your name and address and the date you moved in {if HLIVED = 2} to UCL to get information about whether your home has a smart meter and if so to get information from it?

Question universe:

if [GRIDVARIABLES.MODETYPE = 1|3] // Mode is face-to-face or web
And if [ff_smetinfow17 = 3] // Experimental allocation for smart meter information format is Information provided in shortened bullet point format

Question interviewer instructions:

PLEASE HAND LEAFLET SMART METER DATA LINKAGE TO RESPONDENT AND ALLOW RESPONDENT TIME TO READ IT AND ASK QUESTIONS.

Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-896368.49%
refusal-260.43%
don't know-110.07%
Yes125317.99%
No218313.02%
Total1406100.0%

What else is Understanding Society doing?

Email newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter