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Household composition BHPS
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Dear Sir, Madam
Using the BHPS I would like to find out the exact composition of a household. More specifically, I would like to know how many children and adults (incl. their age, sex, education level, etc.) live in the household. If I am not mistaken, the xhhrel datafile helps you to do this in Understanding Society. Is there a similar file in the BHPS or a technique to find out the household composition in the BHPS dataset?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Oscar Frison
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 10 months ago
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Hello,
Such a variable is not avaiable but you can construct this variable using the "w_indall" files (w = a b c... m) which includes basic socio-demographic information about everyone in the household, adults and children. The variables you need are:
Sex: w_sex_dv
Age: w_age_dv
Marital status: w_marstat_dv
Employment status: w_employ
Please note that w_marstat_dv is set to 0 for age_dv<16, and there are also some cases with missing information on these variables (identified by values -1 -2 -8 -9).
Education information is only available about adults (16+ year olds) who have responded to the adult questionnaire.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 10 months ago
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