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Afternoon,

I would like to produce some analysis looking at the use of food banks / food insecurity / material deprivation using the (to be published) W15 data and previous waves.

I would like to be able to compare quarterly rates for those measures (where available) from 2020 to 2025. The microdata contains the correct variables (date of interview and household id) to allow me to merge these files.

To correctly do this would I merge the datasets from those time periods (Wave 11 - Wave 15) and then recode the _quarter variable to clearly outline what calendar year and quarter households were interviewed in.

Then for analysis apply the hhdenub weight? I wanted to mainly check that there werent any sampling or weighting considerations that would prevent me from doing this analysis using these steps ? This seems to be the advice for creating the calendar year datasets.

Best,

Tom