Current Data Issues: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research: The University of Melbourne

Current Data Issues

This page is updated as necessary with any known issues with the HILDA data.

Release 10.0 Data Issues to be Corrected in the Next Release

1. The wave 4 to wave 10 general release marked up questionnaires PDFs supplied on the DVD were fully text searchable (in previous releases only variable names and labels were searched). This feature has now been be introduced for all waves, for the in-confidence files, and the issue with some SCQs not being searched has been corrected.

For general release users replacement files are in Searchable general release marked up questionnaires and showcards 100c.zip (22.5 Mb)

For in-confidence users replacement files are in Searchable in-confidence marked up questionnaires and showcards 100u.zip (22 Mb)

Please email hilda-inquiries if you find any mistakes in the replacement PDFs.

2. YRLEFT “Year left the study” is incorrectly calculated in the release 100 master file and master file frequencies.
The responses of ‘2011’ are all incorrect, and there should be 623 leavers in 2010.

SPSS program to correctly calculate yrleft:
get file='E:\J\written datasets\j100\SPSS j100c\Master j100c.sav'.
compute yrleft=$sysmis.
do repeat x=10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1/y=2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001.
if missing(yrleft) and substr(enumptn,x,1) ~= '-' yrleft=y+1.
end repeat.
if missing(yrleft) or substr(enumptn,10,1) ne '-' yrleft=-2.
freq vars=yrleft.

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Date created:
27 September 2011
Last modified:
01 February 2012 08:11:45

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics
in Australia (HILDA) Survey