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Innovation Panel Variable

smetcons

Consent to check for smart meter

Datafile

Question asked in the latest wave:

household_ip17.smetcons

Question label:

Consent to check for smart meter

Question text:

Thank you for telling us that you do not want us to access your smart meter data.

It would still be helpful for researchers to know which households have a smart meter, even if we cannot access the data from the meters.

Do you give permission for us to pass your address to UCL, with the sole purpose of checking whether your address has a smart meter installed?  No information from the meter will be collected.

Question universe:

if [GRIDVARIABLES.MODETYPE = 1|3] // Mode is face-to-face or web
And if [(ff_smetinfow17 = 1 & (SMETCONSLINK1 = 2|DK|REF)) | (ff_smetinfow17 = 2 & (SMETCONSLINK2 = 2|DK|REF)) | (ff_smetinfow17 = 3 & (SMETCONSLINK3 = 2|DK|REF))] // Did not consent to smart mater data linkage

Further details:
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Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-881357.82%
refusal-250.36%
Yes122516.0%
No236325.82%
Total1406100.0%

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