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Data accumulated from Consumers' Association surveys are designed to be used by the consumer. The surveys are, therefore, very specific in nature and the subjects covered diverse. The Data Archive holds 19 such surveys.
Readers are asked to note that, with the exception of the surveys on the Telephone Service - 69004, 69016, respondents surveyed are self selected from subscribers to the Association's magazine <i>Which?</i> and so the surveys cannot singly be used in descriptive accounts of the British public.
Surveys 69005-69012 cover various aspects of the housing experiences of <i>Which?</i> readers who moved house in 1967 and 1968. It is here particularly important to remember that the choice strategies and the resources of <i>Which?</i> readers are unlikely to be typical.
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A comprehensive study of furniture removals. Topics covered in detail include: packing and loading from old home; actual move; arrival at new home; details of arrangements made with removers (including documents signed, estimate given etc.) and satisfaction with removal service provided (including a statement of eventual cost, record of breakages etc. and any inconvenience caused by lateness etc.).
Background Variables
Parts of the country moved from, and to, description of contents being removed (e.g. from a detached house, from a flat), number of rooms full of furniture being removed and any particular difficulties facing the remover (e.g. removing from a flat situated on the fifth floor of a block with no lift).