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Marital change

Added by Lydia Palumbo over 5 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Urgent
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Category:
Data documentation
Start date:
10/17/2018
% Done:

100%


Description

Dear User Support Forum,

sorry for the second raised issue in one day, but I am revising my work so far.
I am currently checking how marital status change in BHPS and UKHLS is captured.
I am interested in the transition from the status of single (either never married
or previously married) to marriage or cohabitation (living with a partner w/o being married).

From what I understand, the pre-computed indicator in both the surveys, only gets
the change in the legal marital status and, thus, the only transition that can be
identified is the following:

Single-->Marriage

If I want to control for the presence of cohabitation spells between the waves in t
and t+1, I can rely only on UKHLS because BHPS does not have a variable controlling
for that. Is it right?

Therefore, if I want to compute marital change from single to marriage or cohabitation
with an harmonized variable across the two waves, I can only compute the change in the
de-facto marital status from one wave to the other. Is it correct?

Thank you and best regards,
Lydia

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