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missing data on parental education

Added by Yaojun Li about 1 year ago. Updated 4 months ago.

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Resolved
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Category:
Survey design
Start date:
01/19/2023
% Done:

100%


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Dear Sir/Madam,

Sorry to trouble you again.

I wish to ask a question on parental education in the USoc. I understand that the BHPS data were 'rolled-in' at W2 of the USoc and parental education was asked at W13 of the BHPS. Information of parental education was also collected at w1 of the USoc. So, in the USoc, parental education was a combination of the BHPS W13 and USoc W1 data. Looking at the xwdat at Wave 12 of the Usoc, I could see that both paedqf and maedqf contain both BHPS and USoc sources information.

. ta xwdat_dv paedqf

Study enumerated in: |                           Father's educational qualifications
UKHLS, BHPS or both | missing don't kno he did no he left s he left s he gained he gained other | Total
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
in UKHLS xwavedat onl | 68,481 0 1,381 15,084 8,756 8,596 4,584 239 | 107,121
in BHPS xwavedat only | 21,326 664 44 2,496 804 1,202 332 2 | 26,870
in both | 5,976 781 93 4,659 1,765 2,390 716 22 | 16,402
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
Total | 95,783 1,445 1,518 22,239 11,325 12,188 5,632 263 | 150,393

. ta xwdat_dv maedqf

Study enumerated in: |                           Mother's educational qualifications
UKHLS, BHPS or both | missing don't kno she did n she left she left she gaine she gaine other | Total
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
in UKHLS xwavedat onl | 66,753 0 2,323 17,359 11,305 6,151 3,075 155 | 107,121
in BHPS xwavedat only | 21,326 503 45 2,855 1,156 758 226 1 | 26,870
in both | 5,917 529 108 5,179 2,554 1,563 536 16 | 16,402
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
Total | 93,996 1,032 2,476 25,393 15,015 8,472 3,837 172 | 150,393

My question is: why is there so much missing on parental education? 92902/150393 = 61.8%

. ta paedqf maedqf

Father's educational |                           Mother's educational qualifications
qualifications | 9. missi -1. don't 1. she di 2. she le 3. she le 4. she ga 5. she ga 97. other | Total
---------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9. missing | 92,902 0 148 1,275 819 481 147 11 | 95,783
-1. don't know | 0 711 5 384 194 134 17 0 | 1,445
1. he did not go to s | 12 6 1,182 189 95 25 6 3 | 1,518
2. he left school wit | 327 126 465 17,291 2,723 1,069 227 11 | 22,239
3. he left school wit | 271 69 408 2,429 6,260 1,384 500 4 | 11,325
4. he gained post sch | 387 112 150 3,271 3,656 3,879 702 31 | 12,188
5. he gained a univer | 79 8 102 494 1,221 1,477 2,229 22 | 5,632
97. other | 18 0 16 60 47 23 9 90 | 263
---------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total | 93,996 1,032 2,476 25,393 15,015 8,472 3,837 172 | 150,393

I would be most grateful for your explanation and guidance.

Best wishes and many thanks in advance.

Yaojun


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#1

Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 1 year ago

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Hello,

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team

#2

Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 1 year ago

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Hello,

In W1 UKHLS these questions were asked only during sample months JA1 to JU1 (January to June 2009) and collected of remaining sample members at Wave 2. (see the questions universe in the variable search on the website or the pdf of the questionnaire). Thus, the respondents who dropped out from the study between waves 1 and 2 were then never asked this question. More generally, the high level of missigness on these variables (and other similar ones) in xwavedat results from the fact that xwavedat includes all respondents ever interviewed OR enumerated - this means that if a question was part of the individual adult questionnaire (indresp file) it by definition wasn't asked of people who were enumerated at some point but never interviewed. If you want to check who exactly missed out these questions you could create a flag variable based on the universe for each wave (there could be some other sources of missigness than the questions being asked only of the specific sample months members).

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Piotr,
UKHLS User Support Team

#3

Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 4 months ago

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