Understanding Society User Support

Dear Fiona,

Many thanks for your enquiry.

We can confirm that the problem exists as you have identified, including in the latest version of the data set. We note that both the opid’s start with a 9, indicating a wave 9 entrant, but the pid associated with the opno on indall starts with a 6 or 7 (see below) indicating they joined the panel earlier. What has probably happened is that someone was identified as a new entrant, but at a later stage was identified as a rejoiner and their previous pid was reassigned on the indall file, but the egoalt file was not corrected at the same time. We will see if we can correct this in a subsequent release of BHPS.

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                ihid   ipno   iopno        pid      iopid 
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1.            9291369      1       2   15542149   93495684 
2.            9291369      1       3   15542149   93495706 
3.            9291369      1       4   15542149   15542106 
4.            9291369      2       1   72685158   15542149 
5.            9291369      2       3   72685158   93495706 
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6.            9291369      2       4   72685158   15542106 
7.            9291369      3       1   93495706   15542149 
8.            9291369      3       2   93495706   93495684 
9.            9291369      3       4   93495706   15542106 
10.          9291369      4       1   15542106   15542149 
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11.          9291369      4       2   15542106   93495684 
12.          9291369      4       3   15542106   93495706 
13.          9300333      1       2   13826883   93603606 
14.          9300333      2       1   68817886   13826883 
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We hope this helps,
Best wishes, Victoria.

No problem, glad this has helped.

Victoria.