Understanding Society User Support

Dear Ben,

Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.

Best wishes, Victoria.

On behalf of the Understanding Society Data User Support Team

Dear Ben,

I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you, while we have been looking into this.

Re: Missing values in the country variable being slightly different for the various waves in the wave 5 release and wave 6 release.
This is possible as we take the opportunity to make corrections in previous waves when we release a new wave of data. In addition, it is not clear from your comments at what point the numbers you are using were generated – this is significant as you mention LSOA. The mechanism used for generating LSOA01 and LSOA11 (and all of the special licence type geography fields) has changed from wave 5 deposit to wave 6 deposit and this may have had an impact. Could you please provide a bit more information about the LSOA numbers?

Re: 799 records in the wave 6 indresp file that do not have a matched record in the hhresp file:
The figure you quote is correct. This appears to be an issue with the fieldwork protocol, which we are discussing with the fieldwork agency to prevent in future. These are individuals that completed a questionnaire for the survey but for which no household level questionnaire was completed. It was decided, given the numbers involved, to include these individual’s responses in INDRESP. Depending on your specific analysis requirements these individual’s records can be kept or dropped as appropriate. Please note that if you are interested in household level variables derived from the household grid, for example household size, number of children in the household etc, that you can derive them yourself by using INDALL

We hope this helps, best wishes, Victoria

On behalf of the Understanding Society Data User Support Team