A woman called to my house during the week saying she was from the central statistics office - the same people that do the census. She had proper id and all. She said our house was slected to take part in a survey and asked if she could ask us some questions.
The questions were to do with where you work, what is your salary bracket, are you happy with your work, do you own your house, what is your job title ......questions along those lines. She also asked for our names and dates of birth, nationality etc.....
I found the questions really intrusive and almost stopped answering at one point but she assured me that all details were confidential, but i dont understand why they wanted our names.
On her sheet was 10 other houses from our estate that she was calling on. She also said she would be back in 3 months with the next module of questions which will be about Health, our health and how often we are sick etc.....then there will be another module a few months later.
I am not going to answer the door because she will have more information about me in one place that most of my family know about me.
Has anyone else been through this? Are I obliged to answer these questions?
The questions were to do with where you work, what is your salary bracket, are you happy with your work, do you own your house, what is your job title ......questions along those lines. She also asked for our names and dates of birth, nationality etc.....
I found the questions really intrusive and almost stopped answering at one point but she assured me that all details were confidential, but i dont understand why they wanted our names.
On her sheet was 10 other houses from our estate that she was calling on. She also said she would be back in 3 months with the next module of questions which will be about Health, our health and how often we are sick etc.....then there will be another module a few months later.
I am not going to answer the door because she will have more information about me in one place that most of my family know about me.
Has anyone else been through this? Are I obliged to answer these questions?