Expenditure and Food Survey, 2005-2006: Teaching Dataset

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The <i>Expenditure and Food Survey, 2005-2006: Teaching Dataset</i> includes all 6,785 households from the main <i>Expenditure and Food Survey, 2005-2006</i> (EFS) dataset (available from the UKDA under SN 5688) and a subset of 176 variables. All the variables included within the dataset are household level (or household reference person level) variables and there is a mix of discrete and continuous variables. Most of the variables are taken directly from the <i>EFS, 2005-2006</i>, however a small number of variables have been derived for the purposes of this teaching dataset. The SPSS syntax for the derivation of all derived variables is available for reference.<br>
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(Note that the main <i>Expenditure and Food Survey</i> has now become the <i>Living Costs and Food Survey</i>, but titles of older studies in the series remain the same.)<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The dataset contains a number of socio-demographic variables plus a large number of expenditure variables. <br>
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Variables p601t – p612t are ‘top-level’ variables for a particular area of expenditure. For example, p601t is total household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages; p604t is total household expenditure on housing, water, fuel and electricity. Three of the expenditure categories are further broken down into detailed expenditure on particular items, these are:<ul><li>p601t – food and non-alcoholic beverage</li><li> p603t – clothing and footwear</li><li> p607t – transport costs</li></ul>