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Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
Added by Albert Ward over 2 years ago.
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Hi,
I'm looking for a simple way to identify whether a participant has moved address in a consistent way for BHPS and UKHLS waves (I'm using the harmonised survey).
I'm a little bit confused as to the best way to approach this. From what I can see, and from looking at other support tickets, I could use the BHPS variables plnew or movest, but I can't see an equivalent for UKHKLS. From what I understand, origadd wouldn't be appropriate, because it's household-level, and addrmov_dv only measures postcode change, so wouldn't record any intra-postcode movement. I can also see adcts, but this isn't a computed variable based on address at current and previous wave.
Other tickets:
[[https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/688]]]
Would you be able to advise on this?
Many thanks,
Albert
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Hi Albert,
I'd say that adcts offers a fairly reasonable degree of comparability to the BHPS plnew, though the universe was different: the universe of adcts is much more complex and limited (if ff_ivlolw = 1 | ff_everint = 1 (Interviewed at prior wave or has been interviewed previously) and if (HHGrid.OrigAdd = 1 & HHGrid.NewPer = 4) | (HHGrid.OrigAdd = 2 & HHGrid.NewPer = 2) (HH interviewed at current address previously and respondent is a continuing respondent or HH interviewed at different address previously and respondent is a rejoiner)) than the one of plnew which was asked of all respondents at each wave except of proxies, so you would need to filter out those extra people yourself.
I checked if there was a UKHLS equivalent to the BHPS movest, but couldn't find it. I will check what happened with the plan of creating such a variable mentioned earlier (https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/688)
Best wishes,
Piotr,
UKHLS User Support Team
Thanks for your answer,
Is addrmov_dv a flag for address change, or postcode change? I was just wondering whether it would capture movement within postcodes (not that there would be many of these I guess).
Thanks,
Hi Albert,
This is postcode change, not the exact address change.
Best wishes,
Piotr,
UKHLS User Support
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for your help!
Best,
Albert
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