remittance no.3: Method of payment
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Index terms
Question asked in the latest wave:
remittances_w13.remhow
Question label:
Method of payment
Question text:
How did you make the payment?
Question universe:
if GRIDVARIABLES.EMBoost = 1 | GRIDVARIABLES.GPCompare = 1 | GRIDVARIABLES.LDA = 1 | GRIDVARIABLES.IEMB = 1 | GRIDVARIABLES.FBORN = 1 | INITIALCONDITIONS.UKborn = 5 (Part of the EM Boost, GP Comparison or LDA sample or IEMB sample or foreign-born continuing respondents and their co-resident sample members, or any foreign-born identified this wave.)
and if Remit = 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 (Has sent or given money to people outside the UK in the last 12 months)
Further details:
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| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 27739 | 99.07% |
| proxy | -7 | 104 | 0.37% |
| refusal | -2 | 5 | 0.02% |
| don't know | -1 | 9 | 0.03% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 22 | 0.08% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 37 | 0.13% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 29 | 0.1% |
| Post | 4 | 4 | 0.01% |
| Credit card | 5 | 12 | 0.04% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 8 | 0.03% |
| Directly gave money to a friend or relative to take to a person in another country | 7 | 29 | 0.1% |
| Total | 27998 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 33332 | 97.12% |
| proxy | -7 | 804 | 2.34% |
| refusal | -2 | 5 | 0.01% |
| don't know | -1 | 6 | 0.02% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 27 | 0.08% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 36 | 0.1% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 44 | 0.13% |
| Post | 4 | 6 | 0.02% |
| Credit card | 5 | 10 | 0.03% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 7 | 0.02% |
| Directly gave money to a friend or relative to take to a person in another country | 7 | 42 | 0.12% |
| Total | 34319 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 39100 | 92.72% |
| proxy | -7 | 2832 | 6.72% |
| refusal | -2 | 3 | 0.01% |
| don't know | -1 | 11 | 0.03% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 25 | 0.06% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 51 | 0.12% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 61 | 0.14% |
| Post | 4 | 7 | 0.02% |
| Credit card | 5 | 17 | 0.04% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 5 | 0.01% |
| Directly gave money to a friend/relative to take to someone in another country | 7 | 58 | 0.14% |
| Total | 42170 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 42960 | 91.26% |
| proxy | -7 | 3935 | 8.36% |
| refusal | -2 | 2 | 0.0% |
| don't know | -1 | 8 | 0.02% |
| bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 34 | 0.07% |
| bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 36 | 0.08% |
| remittance agency, e.g. western union or moneygram | 3 | 36 | 0.08% |
| post | 4 | 3 | 0.01% |
| credit card | 5 | 5 | 0.01% |
| mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 3 | 0.01% |
| directly gave money to a friend/relative to take to someone in another country | 7 | 52 | 0.11% |
| Total | 47074 | 100.0% |
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