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Re: Benefit drop address

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Paul Bivand <[log in to unmask]>

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Paul Bivand <[log in to unmask]>

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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:19:43 +0000

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Perhaps the more important statistical point to this discussion is that people with knowledge of census and survey fieldwork are well aware of these issues. The problem is that the process of moving from interviewing people (or collecting forms) through to published statistics can lose a lot of the nuances that fieldworkers are well aware of.

We had this discussion about the census, then ONS found that the address registers were not as good as they thought. Subsequently we have had this discussion of what
Are known in the trade as 'benefit drop addresses' however infelicitous the term may be. Both issues are known to fieldworkers and fieldwork co-ordinators. They should not come as a surprise to statistics producers or subsequently users.


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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Rathfelder
> Sent: 12 November 2007 17:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Benefit drop address
>
> Certainly in Manchester people with relevant experience were
> employed to count people sleeping rough.
>
> Martin Rathfelder
> Director
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> Ursula Huws wrote:
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>        how many of those missing 300,000 were sleeping rough,
> I wonder. is
>       this something that was guesstimated?
>       best wishes, Ursula Huws
>
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>               -----Original Message-----
>               From: email list for Radical Statistics
>               [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Paul Bivand
>               Sent: 12 November 2007 10:00
>               To: [log in to unmask]
>               Subject: Re: Benefit drop address
>
>               After the last Census the ONS did a lot of work
> (given the
>               extreme level of anger from various local authorities).
>
>               A result of these investigations is that the mid-year
>               population estimates were nothing like 1
> million down - all
>               the documentation is either on the ONS website
> or statistics
>               commission.
>
>               From memory, they 'found' most of them - leaving around
>               300-350,000 unaccounted for. That would figure
> reasonably
>               well with the 1 million lone parents claiming
> some form of
>               benefit (about 725,000 claiming Income Support
> which is the
>               main figure usually quoted - the rest claim Incapacity
>               Benefit or Carer's Allowance, with a few claiming JSA.
>
>
>
>                       -----Original Message-----
>                       From: email list for Radical Statistics
>                       [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of John Whittington
>                       Sent: 12 November 2007 09:26
>                       To: [log in to unmask]
>                       Subject: Re: Benefit drop address
>
>                       At 18:26 11/11/2007 +0000, R.Thomas wrote:
>
>
>
>                             ....But 1.9 million are not.   A
> regular boy-friend can
>                       make any of these 1.9 single mums feel
> vulnerable to a charge
>                       of cohabitation.   So it can be
> expected that single mums
>                       will explain their vulnerability to any
> regular boy friend
>                       (or more than one regular boyfriend!?).
>   So any regular
>                       boyfriend is is likely to have another
> address to protect the
>                       single mum's financial position.
>
>
>                       Indeed so, and I thought/presumed
> (seemingly incorrectly)
>                       that this is what we were talking about
> (which would render
>                       the phrase 'benefit drop address'
> inappropriate for that
>                       'other address' in many of the cases).
>
>
>
>                             How often regular boy friends are
> at their separate
>                       address and what response the Census
> enumerator gets at that
>                       address are matters for speculation.
> It is difficult to
>                       imagine how an estimate might be made
> of how often the
>                       situation might lead to men being
> missed from the Census.
>                       But it seems likely that there is more
> than just the
>                       possibility that these single mums are
> the major factor
>                       involved in the missing million men.
>
>
>                       As you say, that will almost certainly
> be a factor -
>                       although, as I said before, I would
> have thought that many of
>                       these boyfriends would want to be
> included in the Cenus at
>                       the 'other address', perceived as a way
> of reinforcing their
>                       attempts at protecting' the single
> mother's position.
>
>
>
>                             Is there any other kind of
> situation that would be
>                       associated with a difference between
> the number of men and
>                       women missed in the Census?
>
>
>                       Well, if one assumes that one of the
> major reasons for
>                       deliberately 'hiding' from the Census
> is probably related to
>                       unlawful activities or 'status', I
> would hazard a guess
>                       (although I may be wrong) that men
> would probably appreciably
>                       outnumber women in those categories.
>
>                       Kindest Regards,
>
>
>
>                       John
>
>
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