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Household members in COVID-19 collection
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Good morning,
I am trying to reconstruct the household members' relationships in the COVID-19 study. While the COVID-19 study documentation does not mention this explicitly and only focuses on how to identify couples, in principle I could use egoalt files from previous main waves of the study (e.g., wave 11, so k_egoalt file) and identify household members trough pidp and apidp variables. Is there any issue in proceeding this way?
Thank you in advance.
Best,
Laura
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 9 months ago
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Dear Laura,
For waves 1-2 of the Covid-19 survey linking this from the mainstage data (for different people the nearest mainstage interview might be in different waves) is one possible strategy, and the method you're proposing sounds good. For wave 3-9 of the Covid-19 Survey you can consider using the Household relationships module (see the questionnaires https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/covid-19/questionnaires/), you can also link this back to wave 1-2 for some people.
I hope it helps.
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
UKHLS User Support
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 7 months ago
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Updated by Laura L 7 days ago
Good afternoon,
Sorry for the follow-up question, but new doubts have emerged while reconstructing families.
I am using the COVID-19 collection, wave 6 (November 2020). I found that linking family members using the information on cohabitants provided by respondents within the COVID-19 study can lead to imperfect matching, as it is not based on identifiers but rather on respondents' reported information about the age and sex of their cohabitants. Given this limitation, I was planning to use Calendar Data 2020, as it ensures that the data are collected as close as possible to the November 2020 COVID-19 wave.
To this end, since Calendar Data contains repeated values for some respondents, I selected the most recent record (in terms of wave) for each respondent and used it to link family members in the COVID-19 data via the egoalt file of Calendar Data 2020.
Do you think this procedure is viable? Or do you believe that filtering out repeated respondents in Calendar Data 2020 could introduce issues, even if it is only used for linking purposes?
Thank you in advance for your support and clarification.
Best wishes,
Laura
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 24 hours ago
Hi Laura,
Have you tried identifying which mainstage wave is closest in time by comparing the interview dates, the interview COVID date, and the mainstage interview dates?
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
UKHLS User Support