Support #1479
openmismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
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Description
Hi there,
I was merging household-level variables onto individual files (indresp) and found mismatches, so to make sure I had not made any mistake, I tried again with _indall (as I understand all individuals there do have a household). I'm not sure is
As an example, for wave 2 I found 14 individuals with no information at the household level. Some of them were OMS and had been full-interviewed (ivfio=1). See syntax below.
// open indall and merge household level data for all individuals
use pidp b_hidp b_pno b_sampst b_ivfio using "$ukhls/ukhls_w2/b_indall", clear
sort b_hidp
// merge household level variables onto individual level file
merge m:1 b_hidp using "$ukhls/ukhls_w2/b_hhresp"
tab b_sampst if _merge==1
tab b_ivfio if _merge==1
I checked the hhresp file and looked for some of those b_hidp numbers and did not find them there.
I am doing this for all samples and the number of those individuals with merge=1 exceeds 2,000 for wave 10.
What am I doing wrong? or why some individuals have no hh information? Particularly when they are OMS & ivfio=1.
I might have misunderstood the file contents.
Thank you
Pilar