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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #97 (Closed): Means-tested income - dervied variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/972012-11-28T12:01:29ZAlex Hurrell
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I need to create a variable in BHPS which gives total household income from means-tested benefits. Ideally I need this to correspond as closely as possible to the HHIRBEN variable in the Family Resources Survey (FRS) dataset (which is derived from INIRBEN).</p>
<p>I can find various variables that give total benefit income (e.g. RFIHHMB, RFIHHYB, etc), but no variables that relate to just means-tested benefits.</p>
<p>According to the FRS (2009/10) HHIRBEN variable definition the following are considered as means-tested benefits:<br />1. Housing benefit <br />2. Council tax benefit <br />3. Income Support<br />4. Pension Credit<br />5. DWP third party payments - IS/PC<br />6. Social Fund Loan: Repayment from IS/PC<br />7. Income Based Jobseekers Allowance,<br />8. Income Based DWP third party payments – JSA<br />9. Income Based Social Fund Loan: Repayment from JSA<br />10. Income Related Employment and Support Allowance<br />11. Maternity Grant<br />12. Funeral Grant or Community Care Grant<br />13. Return to Work Credit<br />14. Work-related activity premium<br />15. Child Maintenance Bonus/Premium<br />16. Lone Parent Benefit run-on/Job Grant<br />17. Extended HB only or separately and Extended CTB only or separately<br />18. Extended HB/CTB paid together</p>
<p>So my specific question is, can I use the wINCOME record type to derive total household income from means-tested benefits received in previous month by:<br />a) identifying the rows corresponding to any one of the 18 means-tested benefits in the list above (plus any that existed previously to 2009/10),<br />b) then summing the value of these benefits for the specific month prior to the month of interview?</p>
<p>Steps (a) and (b) would need to be repeated for all waves.</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for your help,<br />Alex</p>