Who is the Financial Respondent?
The financial respondent is identified by the questions CM002 and CM003 at the start of the Demographics module (DN). The financial respondent answers the modules FT (financial transfers) and AS (assets). In a one-person household, the respondent is always the financial respondent. In multi-person households, the number of financial respondents may vary: respondents living without a partner in multi-person households are always financial respondents. Eligible couples, i.e. spouses and partners, may decide in CM002 to answer questions about their finances separately (this can be retrieved from “finsep”). It is also possible that only one spouse answers the questions. In this case he or she is identified as the financial respondent for the couple CM003. This is indicated by the dummy variable “dumfinr”in the coverscreen (cv_r).
