Understanding Society User Support

Louise,

Thank you for your question. Indeed, the variables in indall are only available for respondents in the current wave. We use these variables from wave t to predict nonresponse in wave t+1. Also, some of the variables listed are available in some waves but not the others. We use these variables where they are available.

Hope this helps,
Olena

Olena,

Thanks a lot for your reply. It is very clear to me.

Louise

Hi Olena,

In the user guide p58 table 28, it says w_indall includes non-respondents as well. It seems that it is not consistent with what you say "the variables in indall are only available for respondents in the current wave". Did I miss anything?

Louise

Louise,

There are a number of levels of nonresponse in our data:
1) household nonresponse at wave 1 (where some households never participate in our panel)
2) conditional on that individual nonresponse (i.e. even if household participates not everyone provides an interview). This nonresponse happens for youth questionnaire, and separately for adult questionnaire (we differentiate between proxy + individual response, individual response, and self-completion response)
3) and then conditional on wave 1 response there is response in wave 2 and so on.

So, w_indall includes information that is provided by one person in the household about the whole household. This includes people who don't respond themselves (and therefore not present in indresp.dta) as for these people the household information is shared. If we predict response in indresp.dta conditional on response to the household questionnaire (indall.dta) we use the predictors from the household questionnaire, for example.

Hope this helps,
Olena

Olena,

Thanks for your reply.

Louise