Guidance

English Housing Survey: Multimode summary report

This report summarises the findings from 3 multimode development experiments to help understand the implications of moving to mixed mode data collection for the English Housing Survey.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Published: 31 July 2026

Applies to England

Documents

English Housing Survey: Multimode summary report

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Details

This report discusses the findings from 3 multimode development experiments including:

• the methodological approach
• response rates
• sample profile
• data quality including item non-response and dropout rates
• interviewer feedback

This gives valuable insight to understand the implications of potentially moving to a mixed mode data collection approach for the English Housing Survey, compared to the traditional face-to-face methods.

Published 31 July 2026