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

Support #1481

Missing values vs negative income

Added by Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz over 3 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Resolved

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Normal

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Start date:

01/12/2021

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100%

Description

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?

#1

Updated by Alita Nandi over 3 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.

Hope this helps.
Understanding Society User Support

#2

Updated by Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz over 3 years ago

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

#3

Updated by Alita Nandi about 3 years ago

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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

#4

Updated by Alita Nandi about 3 years ago

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#5

Updated by Alita Nandi about 3 years ago

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#6

Updated by Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz about 3 years ago

That would be helpful, thank you.

#7

Updated by Alita Nandi about 3 years ago

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#8

Updated by Piotr Marzec about 3 years ago

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#9

Updated by Piotr Marzec about 3 years ago

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#10

Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 3 years ago

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The income team has confirmed that negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are reserved for genuine missing values.

#11

Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team over 2 years ago

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