Appendix 1. Questionnaires

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APPENDIX 1. QUESTIONNAIRES

Wartime Social Survey New Series No. 23

CREDIT BUYING
Housewives

Interviewer ......................... Date .................

Class: C D

Town:

Glasgow	1
Stirling	2
Manchester	3
Liverpool	4
Newcastle	5
Leeds	6
Rugby	7
Leicester	8
Birmingham	9
Cardiff	10
Rhondda	11
Oxford	12
Aylesbury	13
Winchester	14
Tunbridge Wells	15
Exeter	16
Bristol	17
Norwich	18
Peterborough	19
London	20

Urban................ 1 Rural............. 2

Husbands Occupation

No Husband	1
Services	2
Agriculture	3
Mining	4
Heavy Industry	5
Light Industry	6
Building Roads	7
Transport, Public Services	8
Clerical	9
Distributive	10
Unoccupied	11
Others	12

Age
20 - 30	1
31 - 50	2
Over 50	3

No. in Family

Under 14

15 - 20

Over 20

Total

1. Are you getting any goods on easy payments?

Yes	1
No	2

Providence Cheques	1
Shop club: Which?	2
Clubholders club (Street club, Factory Club)	3
Purchase scheme	4
Straight Credit	5
Others

2. Have you ever been a member of a club, or did you buy goods on credit.

Yes	1
No	2

2. Using at the same time 1 2 or more of the above systems.

3. For what articles are you paying:

Wireless	1
Vacuum cleaner	2
Washing machine	3
Stove	4
Geyser	5
Other electrical apparatus	6
Hard furniture	7
Soft furniture	8
Household linen	9
Clothes Adults	10
Children	11
Layette	12
Shoes Adults	13
Children	14
Perambulator	15
Bicycle	16
Children’s toys	17
Jewellery	18
Car	19
Books	20
Others

Have you been paying during the last three years?

	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16
	17
Jewellery	18
Car	19
Books	20
Others

4. How much should you pay weekly?

Up to 1/-d.	1
Up to 2/-d.	2
Up to 3/-d.	3
Up to 5/-d.	4
More than 5/-d.	5

5. If it became impossible to buy on a credit system would this cause any hardship?

Yes	1
No	2
Difficult but could manage	3

6. If it would cause any hardship: What are the reasons?

Could not afford to buy at all	1
Less money now than before the war	2
Habit, have always done it, handy	3
Prices dearer, can’t pay so much at once	4
Because of coupons have to buy dearer quality, can’t pay so much at once	5
Is the easiest way to save	6
Others

7. If you could not buy on credit would this mean that you would have to give up buying some articles

Yes	1
No	2
Don’t know	3

7a. If yes which?

8. If used to be a member of a club or getting things on credit, why did you stop?

Increase of interest - 1/6d. in the £	1
Could not get the goods wanted	2
Better wages can afford to buy cash	3
Club ceased to exist	4
Don’t give soldiers’ wives credit	5
Finished paying for article	6
Others

9. Is there any article you would have wished to buy on easy payments but couldn’t

Yes	1
No.	2

9a. If yes, which?

General Remarks

SHOPKEEPER

1. Have you any Credit System?

Yes	1
No	2

2. If yes which?

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3. What proportion of your turnover does your credit trade amount to?

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4. How does your credit trade now compare with your credit trade before the war?

Increased	1
Decreased	2
Same	3

5. If increased what is the chief reason for this?

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6. If decreased what is the chief reason for this?

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7. Is there any group of people to whom you don't give credit?

Yes	1
No	2

8. If yes which?

.......................

9. Do you think you will have to make changes in your credit system in connection with utility goods?

Yes	1
No	2

10. If changes will be made, what change?

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