Support #1038
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Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
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Dear support team, I am interested in net worth which I derive from the variables savings, investments, debts (bhps waves 5, 10, 15) and housing net of mortgages. These variables contain a lot of missings or values are reported only in bracket values. A couple of researchers have already calculated imputations for the missing values of these variables. Is there any chance these imputation values can be provided to the research community? Thank you very much for your help. Best, Nora
Updated by Stephanie Auty over 6 years ago
- Category changed from Data analysis to Income
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee changed from Alita Nandi to Stephanie Auty
- Target version set to BHPS
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Updated by Stephanie Auty over 6 years ago
- Assignee changed from Stephanie Auty to Nora Müller
- % Done changed from 10 to 30
Dear Nora,
It would be helpful to have some more information if possible to try to find what you are looking for. Are you aware of who the researchers are who did this work, or any other details about it?
One suggestion from a member of our team was to check the Data Archive, as the researchers may have deposited the imputed variables. Have you tried that already?
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Updated by Stephanie Auty about 6 years ago
From: Müller, Nora
To: usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #1038] Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
Dear Stephanie,
Thanks for your reply!
The wealth imputations for the wave 5, 10 and 15 of the BHPS have been done by Eleni Karagiannaki.
Here is the paper:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/roiw.12217
And here is the online Appendix where she describes her imputation
procedure:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1111%2Froiw
.12217&file=roiw12217-sup-0001-si.pdf
I have asked her via E-Mail for if she would provide the imputation values and/or imputation syntax to me, but I never received an answer.
In the paper, she states that her calculations are based on a paper of James Banks, ZoÎ Smith and Matt Wakefield who calculated imputations for the wave
5 of the BHPS:
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/2946/1/2946.pdf
As to the data archive: I did not check that yet. How can I find and access the data archive?
Thanks and best,
Nora
Updated by Stephanie Auty about 6 years ago
Von: Auty, Stephanie [mailto:usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk]
An: Müller, Nora
Betreff: RE: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #1038] Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
Dear Nora,
Would you prefer that this response was not available to other forum users?
If you don't mind, it could be helpful to others with the same questions if you could post your reply as a response on the forum issue, linked here:
https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1038
We have checked the Data Archive (where you would have downloaded the Understanding Society data) and these variables do not seem to be available.
We don't have this data but my colleague has had contact with the researcher you mention and will write to ask if they are willing to share them.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Updated by Stephanie Auty about 6 years ago
- Assignee changed from Nora Müller to Stephanie Auty
- % Done changed from 30 to 40
From: Müller, Nora
To: Auty, Stephanie
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #1038] Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
Thanks a lot, Stephanie. I am very much looking forward to your next response. Hopefully with good news =)
And I don't mind if my question and your response are available to other users!
Thanks again and best,
Nora
Updated by Alita Nandi over 5 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved