Wave 17 included an overarching project to investigate people’s indoor residential environment and their energy use. This included collection of questionnaire responses about people’s homes and associated factors related to their energy use (see 10.16 Indoor residential environment and energy use: background information), as well as data collection via placing sensors in consenting respondents’ homes and collecting information from their smart meters, if they have them and consent to it.
See also:
- 9.49 Indoor residential environment: consent for in-home sensor
- 10.16 Indoor residential environment and energy use: background information
As part of this, we ran experiments related to the questions seeking consent to collect smart meter data.
Follow-up questions were asked after the consent questions, to investigate variation based on the versions of the consent question asked. For the smart meter consent, the follow-ups were knowledge-check questions, intended to measure whether respondents had taken on board accurate knowledge when they were providing (or declining) consent.
Allocations
The variables controlling allocation to treatments, randomised at the household level:
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(1/3 allocated to each condition, allocation stratified by sampleorig, ff_gridmodew17, ff_incentw17, ff_esensinfow17)
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Modules affected
These consent questions (and associated follow-ups) were carried within the household questionnaire.
