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Dear Till,

Thank you for letting us know. You are right that the 6 cases mentioned should have 0 cross-sectional self-completion weight. The issue occurred most likely later at the data release stage (and after the weights were created) when updated information suggested that some self-completion interviews were not valid. The number of non-zero weights is very small and this should not influence your analysis - just use the provided weights in the normal way.

Thank you again for pointing the issue to us,
Olena

Dear Olena and Alita,

Thank you for the updates. I will omit these cases for now.

It also appears that there are 2477 responses who have agreed to complete the self completion module (c_scac >= 1 and c_scac <= 3) but have zero cross-sectional weight c_indscub_xw.

Till

Till,

Thank you. With regard to people who completed self-completion questionnaire but have 0 weights: this issue reflects that UKHLS is a longitudinal and not a cross-sectional study. The weights reflect how people were selected and how they responded over the years. Most of the cross-sectional weights are based on non-zero psnenub_xw weight. Zeroes in self-completion weight reflect zeroes in the enumeration weight.

Best,
Olena