Understanding Society User Support

Hi Alita,

I understand you use dependent interviewing. It makes sense not to ask these questions to people who are in the same job from one wave to the next. My issue is that, from what I can see in the data, the questions are also not asked to people who have changed job since the previous wave. So for these people I can't use information from previous waves to calculate their job tenure

Thanks,
Laurence

If they were continuously employed and changed jobs then the end date of each job is recorded in jbendd/m/y4 & then in a series of Nxtjbend/m/y4 (loops until reaches current job)

Ah I see, I didn't know about those variables but that's very helpful - thanks! When you say the nxtjbend questions loop, as far as I can see in the data there is only one set of nxtjbend variables. Does this contain the end date of the final job they had that ended or am I missing something? Also what happens if they were not continuously employed?

Basically I guess I would like to know the end of the last spell they had before they started working with their current employer. Sorry I can see this is probably doable but I can't quite work out how to do it.