Wave 17 included an overarching project to investigate people’s indoor residential environment and their energy use. This included collection of questionnaire responses about people’s homes and associated factors related to their energy use (see 10.16 Indoor residential environment and energy use: background information), as well as data collection via placing sensors in consenting respondents’ homes and collecting information from their smart meters, if they have them and consent to it.
See also:
- 9.50 Domestic energy use: consent for smart meter data linkage
- 10.16 Indoor residential environment and energy use: background information
As part of this, we ran experiments related to the questions seeking consent to place sensors in people’s home.
Follow-up questions were asked after the consent questions, to investigate variation based on the versions of the consent question asked. For the sensor consent, the follow-up questions were debrief questions, varying by whether the respondents provided or declined consent, seeking to measure their reasons for the decision they made.
Allocations
The variable controlling allocation to treatments, randomised at the household level:
ff_esensinfow17
(1/2 allocated to each condition, allocation stratified by sampleorig, ff_gridmodew17, ff_incentw17)
- Full information in question text
- Key information in question text, rest in help text
ff_esensdurw17
(1/3 allocated to condition 1, 1/6 allocated to each of the other conditions, allocation stratified by sampleorig, ff_gridmodew17, ff_incentw17, ff_esensinfow17, ff_smetinfow17)
- Up to 6 months [1/3]
- Up to 12 months [1/6]
- Up to a year [1/6]
- Up to 24 months [1/6]
- Up to 2 years [1/6]
ff_esensfbw17
(1/2 allocated to each condition, allocation stratified by sampleorig, ff_esensinfow17, ff_esensdurw17, ff_smetinfow17)
- Feedback from sensor promised
- Feedback from sensor not mentioned
Modules affected
The consent questions (and associated follow-ups) were carried within the household questionnaire.
