Income : Unemployment benefits: Job Seeker's Allowance
Datafile
Variable note:
The intended showcard was 553C, but before 30 May some interviewers may have used 553E due to a script error
Question asked in the latest wave:
benefits_ip6.benunemp
Question label:
Income : Unemployment benefits
Question text:
JBSTAT = 3 & BTYPE not equal to 1Can I just check, areBType = 1Are you currently receiving any of these types of payments hhsize greater than 1 & (livesp = 1 or livewith = 1),either just yourself or jointly?
Question universe:
if BType = 1 | DEMOGRAPHICS.Jbstat = 3 (Receives any unemployment benefit or is currently unemployed)
Question interviewer instructions:
CODE ALL THAT APPLY F9 FOR HELP
Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 1928 | 89.72% |
| proxy | -7 | 125 | 5.82% |
| don't know | -1 | 2 | 0.09% |
| Not mentioned | 0 | 56 | 2.61% |
| Mentioned | 1 | 38 | 1.77% |
| Total | 2149 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing | -9 | 1 | 0.05% |
| inapplicable | -8 | 1886 | 88.05% |
| proxy | -7 | 147 | 6.86% |
| Not mentioned | 0 | 70 | 3.27% |
| Mentioned | 1 | 38 | 1.77% |
| Total | 2142 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 2061 | 86.42% |
| proxy | -7 | 206 | 8.64% |
| not mentioned | 0 | 60 | 2.52% |
| mentioned | 1 | 58 | 2.43% |
| Total | 2385 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 1539 | 87.64% |
| proxy | -7 | 135 | 7.69% |
| refusal | -2 | 1 | 0.06% |
| don't know | -1 | 4 | 0.23% |
| not mentioned | 0 | 49 | 2.79% |
| mentioned | 1 | 28 | 1.59% |
| Total | 1756 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 1654 | 88.45% |
| proxy | -7 | 82 | 4.39% |
| not mentioned | 0 | 93 | 4.97% |
| mentioned | 1 | 41 | 2.19% |
| Total | 1870 | 100.0% |



