Understanding Society User Support

Dear colleagues,

For research I'm doing with UKHLS, I'm interested in matching partners' information on gender egalitarian values (scopfamb & scopfamf) and education (qfhigh_dv) to ego's information. For instance, I want to get information about the male partner's gender egalitarian values and level of education, but also about the female gender egalitarian values and level of education, if the ego is male. For this purpose, I'm using the wonderful guidelines provided by your team here: https://moodlex.essex.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=76

The guidelines are very useful, but I've got doubts regarding the convenience of using 'indresp' or 'indall' as the source of information where to draw information about the partner for every wave. If I'm not wrong, in 'indresp', partner information is only available if the respondent reported having a co-resident partner and that partner is enumerated in the household. 'indall' includes everyone listed on the household grid, even if they were not eligible or didn't respond to the individual interview.

I am aware that some of the information I'm interested is not available in all the waves (scopfamb & scopfamf). For that reason I wouldn't like to lose even more information because I'm not able to identify the partner because I'm not using the proper data files to retrieve their information from.

Thanks a lot for your attention

And kind regards

Luis Ortiz
Universitat Pompeu Fabra