Impact of the Cost of Living crisis on higher education students.

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Category	All Feb (%)	Feb LCL (%)	Feb UCL (%)	All Nov (%)	Nov LCL (%)	Nov UCL (%)
Shopping around more	29	27	31	27	24	29
Spending less on food shopping and essentials	65	63	67	62	59	65
Spending less on non-essentials	75	73	77	72	70	75
Cutting back on non-essential journeys in my vehicle	32	30	34	32	30	35
Using less fuel such as gas or electricity in my home	40	38	43	38	35	40
Making energy efficiency improvements to my home	21	19	23	21	18	23
Using my savings	53	51	56	52	49	54
Using credit more than usual, for example, credit cards, buy now pay later, loans or overdrafts to purchase essentials	23	21	25	21	19	24
Using support from charities	5	4	6	2	2	3
Using support from food banks	5	4	6	4	2	5
Not getting or renewing a TV licence	28	26	30	26	23	28
Buying more secondhand clothing, electronic and households goods (including computers, other electronic equipment)	33	31	35	34	31	36
Increased paid working hours	30	28	32	27	24	29
Sold personal possessions	22	20	23	21	19	23
Gambled or invested to make money (e.g.in a betting shop/online or investing in the stock market or cryptocurrency)	6	5	7	7	5	8
Doing other things	15	13	17	13	11	15
None of these	2	1	3	4	2	5
Prefer not to say	1	1	2	1	0	1
Using less fuel such as gas or electricity in my home or making energy efficient improvements to my home [note 2]	48	45	50	46	43	49
Using savings or credit more than usual [note 2]	64	62	66	60	57	63
Using support from charities or food banks [note 2]	7	6	8	5	4	6