Support #1481: Missing values vs negative income - Understanding Society User Support

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Missing values vs negative income

Added by Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz almost 4 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Start date:

01/12/2021

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Hi, when looking at income variables (e.g. fimnlabgrs_dv) and I see negative integer values, how do I know whether these represent negative incomes or missing values?

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Updated by Alita Nandi almost 4 years ago

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The negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are set aside for missing values. Other negative values are actual negative values.

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Updated by Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz almost 4 years ago

So suppose income were actually -7. Would you enter income as -7.00 to differentiate it from the missing values?

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Updated by Alita Nandi almost 4 years ago

Assignee changed from Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz to Alita Nandi

I don't think we have encountered this issue yet as it is very unlikely to have income amount exactly -7 or -9. But if you are interested I can find out from the income team if in such cases they would change the income to something like -7.01

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