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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #842 (Closed): Marital status variable - mlstathttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8422017-08-25T14:19:49ZCharlotte Edneyc.edney@lancaster.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using the individual response data with all waves pooled together. I'm trying to get an idea of individuals marital status using the mlstat variable. I wanted to check, is this question only asked in the first wave the respondent appears in, and then not in any following waves?</p>
<p>Is there any variable which reports marital status in every single wave?</p>
<p>Best,<br />Charlotte</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #821 (Closed): Surveying methods of tracking separat...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8212017-07-25T09:55:39ZCharlotte Edneyc.edney@lancaster.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've been using Understanding Society data to look at parental separation and have been trying to match children with their parents before and after separation. Using the fpid and mpid I have merged the father and mother information (income, age, education etc.) with the child and have assumed that if separation occurs the parent leaving the household gets a new household identifier. Thus if his/her hid is different from the child's hid I assumed that the parents have separated and one of them has left the household. Looking at the results of the data it appears there are <strong>0</strong> individuals tracked in the <strong>same</strong> year they leave the household, but may (in some cases) appear in later waves. This seems a little strange to me and not what I was expecting. My question is how do you track these individuals? Is it systematically every year or more haphazardly (as the data seems to suggest)? Are they often not captured in the data?</p>
<p>And finally are all members of the new household of the separated parent (i.e. new partners and their children) surveryed as well?</p>