Support #2336
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DWP linking
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Description
Dear Understanding Society Team,
I wish to clarify the responses I received in Support #2218.
I understand that for the BHPS, in Wave 18, and for Understanding Society in Wave 1 and later, respondents were asked for consent to link to DWP data on the types and level of benefits they received. When I go to the benefits module, will the reported responses reflect a subjective mental math accounting or is this data directly linked to administrative records? If it is the former, which variables should I search for in the harmonized BHPS or in the stand alone BHPS for objective measures of disability direct from the DWP? I have perused the appendix of the harmonization user guide.
Best wishes
David
P.S. If a response was indicated as "proxy," does that mean that the question was not asked?
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