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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #415 (Closed): Question on household incomehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4152015-09-11T12:50:05ZIrene Sanchezirene.sanchez@york.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am a PhD student at the Centre for Health Economics at University of York.</p>
<p>I am currently using BHPS dataset and I encounter an issue with the variable wFIHHMN: household income, month before the interview.</p>
<p>It seems that this variable has some observations (634) with income zero and others with very low income per month, i.e. less than £10. I have read the BHPS documentation regarding the no imputation of the data on those households where no individual interviews were completed and I thought those zeros might correspond to those cases. However, BHPS usually assigns negative values (i.e. -9, -2, etc.) to those cases instead of zeros.</p>
<p>Therefore, I was wondering whether is there any explanation on why there are entire households with income zero?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Irene.</p>