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Comparison to LFS

Added by Sung Park almost 12 years ago. Updated almost 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Urgent
Assignee:
Redmine Admin
Category:
Data inconsistency
Start date:
05/10/2012
% Done:

100%


Description

Hello: I am looking at the report "APPENDIX: UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY DESIGN OVERVIEW" which I believe is Chapter 15 of the Early Findings Report (http://research.understandingsociety.org.uk/findings/early-findings). I was attempting to replicate the Understanding Society column results from Table 8 ("Comparison of Great Britain Labour Force Survey sample and Understanding Society general population sample on key characteristics".

I used the following code to replicate the marital status distribution using the dataset indresp.dta, using the design weight for individuals as described in the report:
svyset a_psu_dv [pweight=a_psnenus_xd], strata(a_strata_dv)
svy, subpop(if(a_month >0 & a_month<13 & a_emboost==0 & a_xtra5min_dv==0 & a_gpcomp==0 & a_country==1 & a_pmarstat>0 & a_pmarstat<7)):tab a_pmarstat

However, I am getting slightly different percentages than what is shown in the table. Is there something wrong with my criteria/code?

Also, in order to replicate the sex and age distributions, do I need to combine the indresp.dta file with the youth file and use the same weights and criteria above?

Many thanks for your help.

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