Support #2232
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Respondents own property before they were born
50%
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Hello. I have a question about variable hsyrbuy in wave 14 of the UKHLS. Some homeowners own the house before they were born, I want to learn about the possible reasons. Was it caused by respondents giving wrong answer to variable hsyrbuy?
Stata code to see the problem:
use "n_hhresp.dta",clear
gen owner=. /*identify homeowner's pno*/
forvalues i = 0/16 {
replace owner = `i' if n_hsowr1`i'==1
}
replace owner=. if owner==0 /*homeowner is not hh member*/
gen n_pno=owner
keep owner n_hidp n_pno n_hrpno n_hsownd n_addrchck n_ff_hsownd n_hsyrbuy n_intdatey
merge 1:m n_hidp n_pno using "xwaveid.dta", keepusing(pidp birthy)
drop if _merge==2
drop _merge
drop if n_hsyrbuy<0
drop if birthy<0
gen diff=n_hsyrbuy-birthy
order n_hidp n_pno pidp birthy n_hsyrbuy diff
The graph shows the respondents whose year of birth are before year own the property:
Thanks.
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