Changes to the data made between Release 3.0 (Jan 2005) and Release 4.0 (Jan 2006)

Changes to Wave 3 files made between Releases 3.0 (Jan 2005) and 4.0 (Jan 2006)

Cleaning

• HF Fieldwork total contacts with household chhcalls overwritten had been supplied as first digit instead of two-digit number.
• SCQ C6 cfirisk. If marked both 4 & 5 on financial risk taking, set to 4 'I am not willing to take any financial risks.
• DV Family number chhfamno. Corrected for multi-family households chhrhid 23341and 54483, due to relationship grid cleans.
• 50 changes made to SCQ: Random selection of two adjacent boxes affected legitimate data clean when one of the adjacent boxes was found to be a cross-out. Affects: cgh3g: 1, cgh7: 2, cgh9b: 1, cgh9d: 3, cgh9f: 1, cgh9g: 2, cgh9i: 1, cgh10: 1, clspact: 2, clsdrkf: 1, clslaat: 2, clslahg: 2, clslats: 1, clslaha: 1, clslabt: 2, clsselc: 3, clssefh: 1, clssepa: 4, clsrelsp: 2, clsrelpc: 1, clssocal: 1, clssupnh: 2, clssupac: 1, clsrlpir: 2, cfiprosp: 1, cfisavep: 1, cfirisk: 1, cjompi: 1, cjomns: 1, cpatrap: 1, cpawktdw: 1, cpawkwc: 1, cscage: 2.
• Rent assistance had been removed as a pension and benefit payment. Now restored for 21 cases to Other pension and benefits.
• Pensions and benefits. 170 corrections to the "weeks per year" variables a pension was received last financial year; where the reported weeks was 26 (usually the number of payments per year had been given) or 2 (the number of weeks per payment had been given). In addition, 13 changes to received/annual amount/fortnight amount. (Week variable changes: cbnfapw 56, cbnfcraw 1, cbnfcrpw 7, cbnfdspw 19, cbnfdvaw 6, cbnfmapw 1, cbnfmaw 5, cbnfnwsw 10, cbnfospw 8, cbnfothw 1, cbnfpntw 20, cbnfprtw 4, cbnfspw 1, cbnfsrvw 6, cbnfstyw 7, cbnfwarw 2, cbnfwfpw 2, cbnfythw 14).
• Current marital status (CPQ:H2/NPQ:H1). 54 cases changed on the basis of the cross-wave marriages data available up to w4. Subsequent variables in section H were altered to preserve the skip-order of the data. Affects derived marital status.
• Date of birth. Missing data was 'Not asked' now '-1'. (chgdob1-chgdob14).
• HQ Q13d non-employment related child care for school aged children. Corrected 95 cases with school age children who had no recorded response at Q13d multi, set to 'none'.
• Calendar: "no activity" rows set to not asked for all time periods (-1). Columns in activity rows after the last response of all rows set to "not applicable" (-2).

Corrections in calculations

• Corrected calculations for New Person derived variables combined into history variables. Affects: cehtjb 'History: Time in paid work - years'. (547 valid responses [including zeros] were set to -1 Not asked).
  cehtuj 'History: Time unemployed and looking for work - years' (547 valid responses [including zeros] were set to -1).
  cehto 'History: Time not working and not looking for work - years' (547 valid responses[including zeros] were set to -1).
  crtage 'History: Age retired/intends to retire' (83 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmrplvt 'History: Years living together before present or most recent marriage' (97 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmr1lvt 'History: Years living together before first marriage' (9 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmr2lvt 'History: Years living together before second marriage' (2 valid responses were set to -1).
  corcdur 'History: Current defacto duration - years' (191 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmrcdur 'History: Current marriage duration - years' (191 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmrwdur 'History: Current widow duration - years' (9 valid responses were set to -1).
  cmrsdur 'History: Current separated or divorced from date of separation - years' (34 valid responses were set to -1).
• cbnfatot Australian public transfers. Unimputed cbnfaup 'Australian pensions and benefits' had been added to ftb and ccb, so 42 cases were missing. cbnfatot now rounded (and renamed, see below).
• Maternity allowance estimate now added to Australian pensions and benefits if newborn children.
• crcyng 'DV: Age youngest resident own child (excl. foster/step/grand)'.
  ctcyng 'DV: Age youngest own child (excl. foster/step/grand)'.
  Wave 3 variables incorrectly included foster-children, stepchildren and grandchildren. 56 cases affected. (For all other waves the equivalent DVs had been cleaned).
• Pensions and benefits. Correction to the program which sets total Australian financial year pensions and benefits (cbnfaup) to missing. 8 cases which were missing were given a value. Alters imputed version, the imputation flag and total FY Australian pensions and benefits(cbnfaupi, cnfaupf, cbnfatot) and in consequence total FY income, taxes, disposable income.
• Missing string variable in non-responding households set from 'Refusal' to '-9'.
• cedhigh DV: Highest level of education. Now calculated per ABS classification for certificates level 1 & 2.
• corcdur. History: Current defacto duration. If a Continuing Person, still defacto with same partner, and no wave 1 data, but valid duration had been calculated for wave 2, wave 3 duration estimated.

New variables

• chhwtes 'DV: Enumerated person sample weight'.
• chsyrcad 'History: Years at current address'.
• cbnhhftb 'DV: Household Family Tax Benefit (FTB-A and FTB-B) ($) financial year'.
• cbnhhccb 'DV: Household Child Care Benefit ($) financial year ' and chifmat 'DV: Household Maternity Allowance ($) financial year'.
• cbnfmat 'DV: Maternity Allowance ($) financial year' Estimate if mother has newborn children and family eligible for FTB-A.
• Sample strata and cluster variables from wave 1 brought forward in master file.

Renamed variables

• G12 crcstep renamed to crcstepg . The question on responsibility for resident step and foster children had been altered to include grandchildren.
• ccnage (whether preschool, school age children or both are present) renamed to ccnagen as the value order changed from previous wave.
• cbnfatot renamed to cbnfapti (Australian public transfers) for consistency with names used in rest of income model.
• cordrlt renamed to cordfrlt as H13 asks about most recent defacto. (At wave 4 questions revert to asking about length of first defacto).

Deleted variables

• chhinc dropped as a duplicate of chhiu.
• SCQ B16 life events. 21 multi response indicator variables dropped as all empty.

Documentation corrections

• All documentation (marked-up questionnaires, frequencies, coding frameworks) updated.
• chsbid1-chsbid12 relabeled to clarify that these are househld members who pay board.
• Childcare - Out of hours care mislabeled Out of total hours care.

Master file

• Corrected interview pattern assignment for wave 3 not-issued households from out of scope to not interviewed.

Changes to Wave 2 files made between Releases 3.0 (Jan 2005) and 4.0 (Jan 2006)

Cleaning

• SCQ financial risk taking bfirisk. If marked both 4 & 5 set to 4 'I am not willing to take any financial risks.
• W2: 7 changes made to SCQ. Random selection of adjacent boxes affected legitimate data clean when one of the adjacent boxes was an undetected cross-out. Affects: blsdrkf: 4 cases, blsdrka: 1, blsland: 1, blshrchd: 1.
• bhhresp Household response status Corrected 4 household response status as they were fully responding: (bhhrhid: 10501,21821,46041,86621). Affects w2 income at household level and imputed household income variables.
• Rent assistance had been dropped as a pension and benefit payment. Now restored to Other pension and benefit (15 cases).
• Pensions and benefits. 242 corrections to the "weeks per year" variables a pension was received last financial year; where the reported weeks was 26 (usually the number of payments per year had been given) or 2 (the number of weeks per payment had been given). In addition, 10 changes to received, annual amount, and fortnight amount variables.
  (Week variable changes: bbnfapw 72, bbnfcraw 3, bbnfcrpw 6, bbnfdspw 26, bbnfdvaw 8, bbnfmaw 3, bbnfmobw 1, bbnfnwsw 20, bbnfospw 11, bbnfothw 1, bbnfpntw 34, bbnfprtw 6, bbnfsckw 2, bbnfsrvw 7, bbnfstyw 13, bbnfwarw 4, bbnfwfpw 1, bbnfythw 24).
• Current marital status (CPQ:H2/NPQ:H1). Changes to 15 wave 2 cases that were supposed to be cleaned for release 3, but the incorrect (wave 3) person ids had been used.
  Additional 63 cases corrected on the basis of the marriages data available up to w4. Subsequent variables in Section H altered to preserve the skip-order of the questionnaire. Will affect derived marital status.
• Date of birth. Missing data was 'Not asked' now '-1'. (bhgdob1-bhgdob14).
• Missing string variable in non-responding households set from 'Refusal' to '-9'.
• Calendar: "no activity" rows set to not asked for all time periods (-1). Columns in activity rows after the last response of all rows set to "not applicable" (-2).

Corrections in calculations

• bbnfatot Australian public transfers. Unimputed bbnfaup 'Australian pensions and benefits' had been added to ftb and ccb, so 38 cases were missing. bbnfatot now rounded (and renamed, see below).
• Maternity allowance estimate now added to Australian pensions and benefits if newborn children.
• Pensions and benefits. Corrections to the program which sets total Australian financial year pensions and benefits (bbnfaup) and foreign financial year pensions (bbnffp) to missing. bbnfaup: 29 cases for which a value was given became missing, 5 cases which were missing were given a value. bbnffp: 3 cases for which a value was given became missing. Alters imputed version of these variables and their flags (bbnfaupi, bbnffpi, bnfaupf, bbnffpf, bbnfatot) and in consequence total FY income, taxes, disposable income.
• bedhigh DV: Highest level of education. Now calculated per ABS classification for certificates 1 & 2.
• bmrcdur "History: Current marriage duration - years". Corrected three cases missing year of marriage, duration of marriage had been calculated as negative.
• bmrcwid "History: Current widow duration - years". Corrected 70 cases missing year widowed, duration widowed had been calculated as negative.

New variables

• bhhwtes 'DV: Enumerated person sample weight'.
• bhsyrcad 'History: Years at current address'.
• bbnhhftb 'DV: Household Family Tax Benefit (FTB-A and FTB-B) ($) financial year'.
• bbnhhccb 'DV: Household Child Care Benefit ($) financial year '.
• bbnfmat 'DV: Maternity Allowance ($) financial year' and bhifmat 'DV: Household Maternity Allowance ($) financial year'. Estimate if mother has newborn children and family eligible for FTB-A.
• bhwjccdt ' DV: Household wealth: Joint credit card debt ($)' and bhwoccdt ' DV: Household wealth: Own credit card debt ($)' provided on household file in addition to bhwccdt 'DV: Household wealth: Total credit card debt ($)'.

Renamed variables

• Australian public transfers. bbnfatot renamed to bbnfapti for consistency with names used in rest of income model.

Deleted variables

• bhhinc dropped as a duplicate of bhhiu.
• SCQ life events B16. 21 multi response indicator variables dropped as all empty.

Documentation corrections

• All documentation updated.
• bcpu_bs (Pre-school childcare, uses brother/sister) now provided in coding frameworks.
• bhsbid1-bhsbid12 relabeled to clarify that these are household members who pay board.
• Childcare - Out of hours care mislabeled Out of total hours care.

Self completion questionnaire

• Additional SCQ added to wave 2 person datasets. bhhscqid = 25105.

Changes to Wave 1 files made between Releases 3.0 (Jan 2005) and 4.0 (Jan 2006)

Cleaning

• SCQ financial risk taking afirisk. If marked both 4 & 5 set to 4 'I am not willing to take any financial risks.
• Childless in family type, has children in H15 resident children grid: ahhrpid 397401; child out-of-scope on HF; child moved to non-resident grid (H3).
• One interviewed child whose relationship in household was 8 '<15' set to 9 'dependent student'.
• Rent assistance had been dropped as a pension and benefit payment. Now restored to Other pension and benefit (20 cases).
• Pensions and benefits. 578 corrections to the "weeks per year" variables a pension was received in last financial year; where the reported weeks was 26 (usually the number of payments per year had been given) or 2 (the number of weeks per payment had been given). This impacted in wave 1 more than other waves as it was subsequently corrected by more explicit interviewer training. In addition, 24 changes to received/annual amount/fortnight amount.
  (Week variable changes: abnfapw 149, abnfcraw 10, abnfcrpw 13, abnfdspw 76, abnfdvaw 10, abnfmapw 1, abnfmaw 9, abnfmobw 1, abnfneiw 1, abnfnwsw 44, abnfospw 5, abnfothw 1, abnfpntw 82, abnfprtw 27, abnfsckw 8, abnfspw 3, abnfsrvw 30, abnfstyw 19, abnfwarw 6, abnfwdww 6, abnfwfpw 7, abnfythw 46)
  May affect imputed version of these variables and their flags (abnfaupi, anfaupf, abnfatot) and in consequence total FY income, taxes, disposable income.
• Unconfidentialised data: Date of birth. Missing data was blank, now '-1/-1/ -1' to conform to later waves. (ahgdob1-ahgdob12).
• Missing string variable in non-responding households set from 'Refusal' to '-9'.
• Calendar: "no activity" rows set to not asked (-1). Columns in activity rows after the last response of all rows set to "not applicable" (-2).

Corrections in calculations

• abnfatot Australian public transfers. Unimputed abnfaup 'Australian pensions and benefits' had been added to ftb and ccb, so 48 cases were missing. Added abnfaupi instead and abnfatot rounded. abnfatot renamed to abnfapti for consistency with rest of income model variable names.
• Pensions and benefits. Corrections to the program which sets total Australian financial year pensions and benefits (abnfaup) to missing. abnfaup: 14 cases for which a value was given became missing, 16 cases which were missing were given a value. May affect imputed version of these variables and their flags (abnfaupi, anfaupf, abnfatot) and in consequence total
• FY income, taxes, disposable income.
  aedhigh DV: Highest level of education. Now calculated per ABS classification for certificates 1 & 2.
• Father and mother industry if working when aged 14. Incorrectly set to -20, not -4 when refused. Affects: afmfocc afmfi88 afmfi82 (45 cases); afmmocc afmmi88 afmmi82 (80 cases).
• Unconfidentialised wave 1 household file. For conformity with later waves non-responding households grid data set to -9.

New variables

• ahhwtes 'DV: Enumerated person sample weight'.
• ahsyrcad 'History: Years at current address'.
• abnhhftb 'DV: Household Family Tax Benefit (FTB-A and FTB-B) ($) financial year'.
• abnhhccb 'DV: Household Child Care Benefit ($) financial year'.
• acccinhh HQ check variable, any child < 15 in hh, restored for consistency with later waves.
• ajbhruc DV: Combined hrs per week usually worked in all jobs (For wave 1 this is identical to question E1 ajbhru). DV included for consistency with later waves.
  abnfmat 'DV: Maternity Allowance ($) financial year' and ahifmat 'DV: Household Maternity Allowance ($) financial year'. Estimated amount if mother has newborn children (aged 0) and the family is eligible for FTB-A.
• Additional household file variables for conformity with later waves (dummy person 13 and person 14 variables):
  ahgage13, ahgage14, ahgsex13, ahgsex14, ahgfpt13, ahgfpt14, ahgtih13, ahgtih14, ahgeng13, ahgeng14, ahgeab13, ahgeab14, ahglth13, ahglth14, ahgms13, ahgms14, ahges13, ahges14, ahgivw13, ahgivw14, ahgscq13, ahgscq14, arg12_11, arg13_01, arg13_02, arg13_03, arg13_04, arg13_05, arg13_06, arg13_07, arg13_08, arg13_09, arg13_10, arg13_11, arg13_12, arg14_01, arg14_02, arg14_03, arg14_04, arg14_05, arg14_06, arg14_07, arg14_08, arg14_09, arg14_10, arg14_11, arg14_12, arg14_13, ahhwte13, ahhwte14.
• Additional enumerated file variables for conformity with later waves: arg13, arg14.
• Additional unconfidentialised Household File variables for conformity with later waves: ahgri13, ahgri14, ahgsi13, ahgsi14, ahgrf13, ahgrf14, ahgsf13, ahgsf14.

Renamed variables

• aicage renamed to aicage1 as categories change from wave 2 onwards.
• abnfatot renamed to abnfapti (Australian public transfers) for consistency with rest of income model variable names.
• amhreasb renamed to amhreaob (K14 Main reason for moving in last 12 months: To start own business); amhreasp renamed to amhreafm (K14 Main reason for moving in last 12 months: To follow a spouse or parent/whole family moved); For consistency with later waves.

Deleted variables

• ahhinc dropped as duplicate of ahhiu.

Documentation corrections

• All documentation updated.
• Value labels updated for consistency with later waves.
• acpu_bs Pre-school childcare, uses brother/sister, now included in coding frameworks.
• ahsbid1 ahsbid12 relabeled to clarify that these are household members who pay board.
• Childcare Out of hours care mislabelled Out of total hours care.