remittance no.4: Method of payment
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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 | 27860 | 99.51% |
| proxy | -7 | 104 | 0.37% |
| refusal | -2 | 3 | 0.01% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 11 | 0.04% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 10 | 0.04% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 5 | 0.02% |
| Post | 4 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Credit card | 5 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Directly gave money to a friend or relative to take to a person in another country | 7 | 2 | 0.01% |
| Total | 27998 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 33446 | 97.46% |
| proxy | -7 | 804 | 2.34% |
| refusal | -2 | 5 | 0.01% |
| don't know | -1 | 2 | 0.01% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 30 | 0.09% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 5 | 0.01% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 17 | 0.05% |
| Post | 4 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Credit card | 5 | 3 | 0.01% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Directly gave money to a friend or relative to take to a person in another country | 7 | 5 | 0.01% |
| Total | 34319 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 39261 | 93.1% |
| proxy | -7 | 2832 | 6.72% |
| refusal | -2 | 2 | 0.0% |
| Bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 35 | 0.08% |
| Bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 18 | 0.04% |
| Remittance agency, e.g. Western Union or MoneyGram | 3 | 16 | 0.04% |
| Credit card | 5 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Mobile phone call or text to transfer money | 6 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Directly gave money to a friend/relative to take to someone in another country | 7 | 4 | 0.01% |
| Total | 42170 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 43091 | 91.54% |
| proxy | -7 | 3935 | 8.36% |
| bank transfer to my account in another country | 1 | 26 | 0.06% |
| bank transfer to someone else's account in another country | 2 | 5 | 0.01% |
| remittance agency, e.g. western union or moneygram | 3 | 7 | 0.01% |
| post | 4 | 4 | 0.01% |
| directly gave money to a friend/relative to take to someone in another country | 7 | 6 | 0.01% |
| Total | 47074 | 100.0% |
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