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And for these unmatched cases we found gor_dv and country were missing, as is expected since their postcodes were missing which resulted in missing LAs.

Alita Nandi wrote:

And for these unmatched cases we found gor_dv and country were missing, as is expected since their postcodes were missing which resulted in missing LAs.

Hi Alita,

Thanks very much for looking into this. Apologies, as I confused two issues in my mind and therefore also in the question.

The first is individuals from w_indresp who do not match onto w_oslaua. I get 57, 10, 22, 27, 9, 16, 16, 20. So, 10 more than your team. For these 10, gor_dv is NOT missing. As it's only 10, though, I am not too worried about them.

The second issue is that when I then merge indresp_oslaua panel with the unemployment data using interview year and oslaua, I find that there are 46,234 unmatched observations from indresp_oslaua, and that 55% are in Northern Ireland. Upon reflection, because local authority is not missing, I now think this might have something to do with boundary changes, which might be beyond the scope of the UKHLS team. Unless there are any obvious pitfalls that jump out at you?

Thanks again.

Kind regards,
Clara

Thanks Gundi, yes I will look into getting a better match with the look-up files.

Thank you all for your help.

Best wishes,
Clara