Support #803
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Tracking parental death
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Hi there,
I'm looking to create a variable of parental death. However, I am having trouble of finding cases where individuals are both parents (using wave 4) to children in wave 6. I currently am using mnpno, fnpno, finloc, mpid and ivfio. However, it seems to be that no parents have deceased?
Any thoughts or guidance to where I could be going wrong, or whether there is no way of coding parental death would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Emily
Updated by Alita Nandi over 7 years ago
- Assignee changed from Alita Nandi to Emily Lowthian
- % Done changed from 0 to 90
Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAMP file of the wave after they have died and can be identified by W_IVFIO=99. They will not appear in any future wave files. [Note W_INDSAMP file has multiple observations per person in cases where a person moves. In those cases W_FINLOC=0 is the household where they were expected to be found and then W_FINLOC=1 is where they were found. But in case of deceased persons there will be only one row of observation per person.]
Updated by Emily Lowthian over 7 years ago
Alita Nandi wrote:
Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAMP file of the wave after they have died and can be identified by W_IVFIO=99. They will not appear in any future wave files. [Note W_INDSAMP file has multiple observations per person in cases where a person moves. In those cases W_FINLOC=0 is the household where they were expected to be found and then W_FINLOC=1 is where they were found. But in case of deceased persons there will be only one row of observation per person.]
- Ok thats great, thank you!
Updated by Victoria Nolan over 7 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 90 to 100
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 1 year ago
- Category changed from Data analysis to Data management