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Sexuality variables
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Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
I'm planning to investigate the cross-sectional association between sexuality and mental health outcomes at wave 7 up until age 29. I am aware that sexuality was only assessed for household members aged 16-21 in wave 5 and 7.
Is the general advice to use sexuality at wave 3 for the purpose of this question or can I create a combined variable using wave 3, 5, and 7?
Thank you!
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 22 days ago
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Hi Merle,
Can you please specify which variables (names) you are using?
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
UKHLS User Support
Updated by Merle Schlief 22 days ago
Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
Hi Merle,
Can you please specify which variables (names) you are using?
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
UKHLS User Support
Of course, apologies. I'm referring to the sexuor variable (c_sexuor, e_sexuor, g_sexuor).
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 17 days ago
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Hi Merle,
When you combine these variables, you will get this information for a few thousand more people—those who were not interviewed, not eligible, or did not provide a valid answer in wave 3 but did so in waves 5 and/or 7. However, some respondents will have answered this question more than once, sometimes providing different answers. Therefore, you will need to decide which response to use in your analysis. This depends on your specific research question, the definitions used, etc., so in principle, this is a research choice, and we leave such decisions to users.
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec,
UKHLS User Support
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 17 days ago
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