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My path forward is probably to impute the LSOA derived values to maintain it being nationally representative but I was just wondering if I had missed anything and to highlight the issue.

Hi Piotr,

Thanks for your quick reply. Information below:

1) the scale of the problem - for how many households this information is missing and in which waves?
- 134 households don't have an LSOA. This permeates to 306 cases (across waves).
- Missing cases from each wave:
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
15 73 25 35 41 27 26 25 39
- Also FYI I tried to merge the non-wave specific hidp and I it is still 306 cases (so this is an issue with the same households through multiple waves)
2) what kind of missingness you're observing, are these empty blank fields or negative values?
- This comes after merging the special license LSOA files. The hidp from the main US dataset isnt found in the special license LSOA file (so it returns NA)
3) a few hidps for which LSOA is missing for at least some waves would be very helpful.
- Here are thehidps that are in the main US dataset, but not in the special license LSOA file and are across multiple waves. Not sure if this impacts identifiability if their is some systematic missingness by location here so may be worth deleting before this gets published online:

Hi Richard,

Thank you for providing the information. Regarding 3), as hidp is a wave specific variable, I'd need to know in which waves these hidps are missing.

Thanks,
Piotr
UKHLS User Support

Thank you. I'll investigate this further.

Best wishes,
Piotr

Hi Piotr,

Thanks very much for clearing that up and solving it so quickly, it makes sense.

This could be something to consider when US creates the weighting files or perhaps an additional weight to be generated for those using a special/secure license. Also is it possible to delete the attached file and references to specific HHID's?

All the best,

Richard