Consumer trust in accurate energy supplier bills in the UK 2014

This statistic shows how consumers rate energy suppliers in terms of providing accurate bills the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014. 59 percent of consumers trusted their supplier to provide accurate bills, while 11 percent did not. According to the report, those responding with "trust" to the survey question gave a score of 7 to 10, with "neither trust nor distrust" a score of 4 to 6 and with "distrust" a score of 0 to 3. The mean score among respondents amounted to 6.64, which shows the overall trust in bills from energy suppliers in the UK to provide value for money is between the "neither trust nor distrust" and "trust" range for consumers.

Do you trust your energy supplier to provide you with an accurate bill?*

Characteristic	Share of consumers
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Release date

May 2014

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

February 21 to March 3 2014

Number of respondents

1,427 respondents

Age group

15 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI)

Supplementary notes

* The original survey question was worded as follows: "On a scale of 0-10 where 0 means you don't trust them at all and 10 means you trust them completely, how much, if at all, do you trust [named energy supplier] to...?(%)"
Base included all those responsible for paying energy bills who had mains electricity, knew their electricity supplier or, in the case of absense of an electricity supplier or if they did not know who their electricity supplier was, those who had mains gas and knew who their gas supplier was.

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