Changes to the Data Made Between Release 7.0 (February 2009) and Release 8.0 (February 2010)

For all changes to the data that were made between Release 7.0 and Release 8.0:

Changes to Master File Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

  • In-confidence master file, imputed dates of birth and imputation flag. Some imputed dates of birth were not being transferred from previous waves correctly.

Changes to Wave 7 Files Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Cleaning

  • One child xwaveid corrected in Eperson and Combined files.
  • Two (late) SCQs added.
  • Gender swapped for a couple in one household (longitudinal inconsistency).

Corrections in calculations

  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • Wave and date last interviewed: 273 continuing persons had not been assigned a wave and date last interviewed. Program corrected.
  • Two wave 7 sample weights corrected. ghhwtes 'DV: Enumerated person sample weight', and ghhwths 'DV: Household sample weight'.
  • Distance moved corrected for a number of individuals.
  • _dhhdd to _dhsib. A post-editing fix set a few cases as don't rather than not applicable. Corrected.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Documentation corrections

  • The page containing F33 and F34 (has any credit cards and how often pays off balances) was missing in the marked-up questionnaires at Release 7.
  • Marked-up questionnaires: General Release Household Questionnaire: Removed child ID boxes from the top of the child care grids.

Changes to Wave 6 Files Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Cleaning

  • One child xwaveid corrected in Eperson and Combined files.
  • Thirty-two corrections to HQ R9 Which household members are legal owners of home, as the persons identified are leavers or deceased.

Corrections in calculations

  • Corrected household level imputation flags for joint credit card debt (hwjccdf) and own credit card debt (_hwoccdf). They had been introduced after the change to the more detailed wealth imputation model at Release 6, but were empty .
  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • Distance moved corrected for 24 individuals who split into a new household in a different CD accompanying someone else from the original household who had been assigned a distance moved.
  • The new SCQ question on number of club memberships has been made consistent with the existing question on has any club memberships.
  • _dhhdd to _dhsib. A post-editing fix set a few cases as don't know rather than not applicable. Corrected.

New variables


  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Documentation corrections

  • Marked-up questionnaires: General Release Household Questionnaire: Removed child ID boxes from the top of the child care grids.

Changes to Wave 5 Files Between Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Corrections in calculations

  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • ASGC assignment rewritten for waves 2-5. ASGC had been processed as a batch when we moved to geocoding addresses to latitude/longitude (allowing accurate calculation of distance moved) and 2001 collection district (CD) for waves 2 to 5 in 2006. A few cases were not updating ASGC correctly if a CD was changed at a later wave when a more accurate address match had been made.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Documentation corrections

  • Marked-up questionnaires: General Release Person Questionnaires: Removed month of death variables from G3 deceased child grid. General Release Household Questionnaire: Removed child ID boxes from the top of the child care grids.

Changes to Wave 4 Files Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Corrections in calculations

  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • ASGC assignment rewritten for waves 2-5. ASGC had been processed as a batch when we moved to geocoding addresses to latitude/longitude (allowing accurate calculation of distance moved) and 2001 collection district (CD) for waves 2 to 5 in 2006. A few cases were not updating ASGC correctly if a CD was changed at a later wave when a more accurate address match had been made.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Documentation corrections

  • Marked-up questionnaires: General Release Household Questionnaire: Removed child ID boxes from the top of the child care grids.

Changes to Wave 3 Files Between Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Corrections in calculations

  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • Twenty-one SCQ life events screening variables corrected to match period in which event occurred.
  • ASGC assignment rewritten for waves 2-5. ASGC had been processed as a batch when we moved to geocoding addresses to latitude/longitude (allowing accurate calculation of distance moved) and 2001 collection district (CD) for waves 2 to 5 in 2006. A few cases were not updating ASGC correctly if a CD was changed at a later wave when a more accurate address match had been made.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Documentation corrections

  • Marked-up questionnaires: General Release Household Questionnaire: Removed child ID boxes from the top of the child care grids.

Changes to Wave 2 Files Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Cleaning

  • 493 additional SCQs matched. These SCQs had been scanned by our fieldwork company in 2002, but not data processed. They were identified by an audit of the supplied SCQs at all waves, after investigation of a low SCQ response rate in 2008 showed that a batch of wave 7 SCQs had been scanned but not supplied.
  • Removal of one blank SCQ during matching of additional 493 SCQs.
  • History variables for previous marriage: 48 cases had information on marital status, and when separated, divorced or widowed, transferred to previous marriage from NPQ present marriage when a new marriage occurred between waves 1 and 2.
  • Twenty-eight corrections to HQ R8 Which household members are legal owners of home, as the persons identified are leavers or deceased.

Corrections in calculations

  • Corrected household level imputation flags for joint credit card debt (_hwjccdf) and own credit card debt (_hwoccdf). They had been introduced after the change to the more detailed wealth imputation model at Release 6, but were empty.
  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.
  • ASGC assignment rewritten for waves 2-5. ASGC had been processed as a batch when we moved to geocoding addresses to latitude/longitude (allowing accurate calculation of distance moved) and 2001 collection district (CD) for waves 2 to 5 in 2006. A few cases were not updating ASGC correctly if a CD was changed at a later wave when a more accurate address match had been made.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Changes to Wave 1 Files Between Releases 7.0 (February 2009) and 8.0 (February 2010)

Corrections in calculations

  • Taxes and imputed current weekly wages for main and other jobs are now topcoded in all files.

New variables

  • _hgyob Year of birth.
  • _ordfnum Number of defacto relationships lasting more than three months.
  • afmfo6s DV: AUSEI06 occupational status scale, Father's occupation; and afmmo6s Mother's occupation (they became history variables at later waves).
  • Number of dependent children aged 0-4, 5-9, 10-14 and 15-24 (_hhd0_4, _hhd5_9, _hhd1014, _hhd1524). The partner's dependent children are counted for the respondent (if partnered).
  • Pensions and benefits in the financial year.
  • Imputed household expenditure variables.

Deleted variables

  • _ordfn History: Number of defactos.
  • _bncaup, _bncaupi, _bncaupf, _bnfaup, _bnfaupi, _bnfaupf, _hicaupi, _hicaupf, _hifaupi, _hifaupf.

Renamed variables

  • ahgivw 'HF interview status' renamed to ahgi for Responding persons, for consistency with later waves. No change to Eperson file ahgivw.

Documentation corrections

  • SCQ questions F4a-F4m had been mislabelled E4a-E4m for Releases 3-7.