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inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
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Hi,
I am writing to inquire about a specific variable in the Understanding Society UKHLS COVID-19 survey.
According to Table A.1 in the paper written by Albuquerque and Green (2023) (attached), a variable named "spend" should exist. It is described as measuring the change in household spending over the last four weeks compared to the same period the previous year, excluding housing costs. The response categories include various levels of "increase/decrease", "stayed the same," "don’t know," and "prefer not to answer."
However, after reviewing the dataset and the questionnaire documentation, I have been unable to locate this specific variable.
Could you please confirm:
Whether this variable exists in the dataset?
If so, under what name it is stored and whether it is available under the standard End User License?
Thank you for your time and assistance.
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