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Hello Ilona,

In Wave 6, only IEMB sample members not born in the UK were asked this question. In Wave 7, those who were born outside the UK but not part of the IEMB sample were asked this question. There should be no overlap, but in a handful of cases this may happen if the fed forward information used to identify the eligible persons was not correct.

I compared f_mreason6 g_mreason6 and could only find 3 persons who answered the question in both waves and only 1 who responded yes to both waves. Could you please check your syntax again? This is the Stata syntax I used:

use pidp f_mreason6 using f_indresp, clear
merge 1:1 pidp using g_indresp, keepusing(g_mreason6)
ta f_mreason6 g_mreason6

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Understanding Society User Support Team

Hi Alita,

Thanks for this and sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for clarifying the samples that this question was asked of in waves 6 and 7. That's really helpful!

Re the merged data, I checked the syntax and ran yours as well. I think the only difference in mine was that I wasn't using 'keepusing(g_reason6)' but the rest seems to be the same.

Running your commands, I can see where you get the 1 and 3 from and that makes sense, and overall it does look like there were 292 respondents which had a positive answer to this question in either of the waves based on the individuals that were matched from the two datasets in the merge. But presumably the 'tab' command wouldn't include the individual cases which appear only in one wave? When I tabulated the merge variable with the mreason6 variables it still shows that there were 25 individuals who responded positively in wave 7 only and 56 in wave 6 only, along with the 292 whose record was matched in both waves (giving a total of 373 respondents in total).

Sorry I hope this makes sense. If not, can I send you my tabulated results somehow to verify?

Thanks for your help!
Ilona

Alita Nandi wrote in #note-3:

Hello Ilona,

In Wave 6, only IEMB sample members not born in the UK were asked this question. In Wave 7, those who were born outside the UK but not part of the IEMB sample were asked this question. There should be no overlap, but in a handful of cases this may happen if the fed forward information used to identify the eligible persons was not correct.

I compared f_mreason6 g_mreason6 and could only find 3 persons who answered the question in both waves and only 1 who responded yes to both waves. Could you please check your syntax again? This is the Stata syntax I used:

use pidp f_mreason6 using f_indresp, clear
merge 1:1 pidp using g_indresp, keepusing(g_mreason6)
ta f_mreason6 g_mreason6

Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team