Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 243 (Consumers’ views on switching service providers)

Creator

Papacostas, Antonis (Europäische Kommission, Brüssel DG Communication, Public Opinion Analysis Sector)

Study number / PID

ZA4980, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.4980 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

Service provider change.
Topics: use of the following products and services: current bank account, savings or investments, mortgage credit, long-term credit, car insurance, home insurance, mobile telephone services, fixed telephone services, electricity supply services, fixed line gas supply services, LPG; difficulty to compare offers from different providers with regard to the aforementioned products and services; switch of service provider in the last two years with regard to the aforementioned products and services; assessment of the new provider in terms of price; reasons for not switching to a new provider; most important reasons to change provider of the aforementioned products and services; development of prices for the aforementioned products and services in the last twelve months. Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; internet connection at home. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; interviewer ID; language of the interview; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; type of phone line; region; weighting factor.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

26/06/2008 - 01/07/2008

Country

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Ireland, Italy

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Telephone interviews were conducted in each country with the exception of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary Poland, Romania and Slovakia where both telephone and face-to-face (F2F) interviews were conducted (70% WebCATI and 30% F2F interviews).

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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