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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1334 (Resolved): Verifying correct construct of mot...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13342020-04-20T17:10:29ZFrancesco Bolzonella
<p>Dear User Support Staff,</p>
<p>I am a master's student using the harmonized BHPS-UKHL dataset, merged according to the resources provided on the website.</p>
<p><strong>PROBLEM</strong><br />My main concern is that I am not sure whether the main sample of my research is constructed correctly: motherhood.<br />I have seen Gundi's answer in answer <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: New births in understanding society (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/584">#584</a> on how to create motherhood. However, motherhood does not seem given in BHPS. Therefore, I have constructed it in the following manner:</p>
<p><strong>PROCEDURE</strong><br />From the variable “agechy" (=age of the youngest child in HH), I kept only children with age 0 (keep if agechy==0), therefore indicating that they are newborn in the household. <br />Afterward, mothers are basically those female respondents that have indicated having a child with age 0 in the HH. <br />Is that the simple correct construct?</p>
<p><strong>DOUBT</strong><br />My doubt stems from some incongruences in the descriptive statistics. In fact, it might be that my procedure might be overestimating the sample because I might be indicating all females in the household with a child age 0 as a mother.</p>
<p><strong>CONTEXT.</strong><br />My research is focused on analyzing the effect of maternity leave on the propensity of mothers to transition towards self-employment, a growing phenomenon also known as ‘Mompreneurship’. Consequently, I need to define mothers, and from here who among them have become self-employed with maternity leave.</p>
<p>Please find attached the simplified version of my do-file.</p>
<p>Looking forward to your answer, <br />Thank you very much!</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Francesco</p>