Appendix
A. Examples of Sub-Household and Respondent Person Number and Other Person
Number Assignments
In the first year of data collection, all households, consisting of either a
single respondent or of two married or partnered respondents, were assigned a
SUBHH of 0.
In subsequent waves, a SUBHH of 0 indicates that the original household has not
split due to divorce or separation of spouses or partners, although one member
of a couple may have died or a single respondent may have become married or
partnered.
A value of 1 or 2 indicates a household in which the original couple split,
divorced or separated. One of the original couple is assigned a SUBHH of 1; the
other is assigned a SUBHH of 2.
A value of 5 or 6 indicates a previously split household split a second time.
One of the couple from a SUBHH 1 or 2 retains a SUBHH of 1 or 2; the other is
assigned a SUBHH 5 or 6.
A value of 7 indicates respondents from split household reunited1.
It is important to understand these assignments when you merge records from
different waves of the study.
A1. Married Couple Stays Married
Two respondents in a sample household are married at the time of the first
cross-section. Each respondent is assigned a HHID of 012345 and a SUBHH of 0.
One respondent has a PN of 010, the other a PN of 020.
At the time of the second cross-section the two respondents are still married,
and each retains their HHID of 012345 and their SUBHH of 0 and his and her PN of
010 and 020, respectively.
Time 1
Household records
HHID=012345 ASUBHH=0
Respondent records
HHID=012345 PN=010 ASUBHH=0
HHID=012345 PN=020 ASUBHH=0
Time 2
Household records
HHID=012345 CSUBHH=0
Respondent records
HHID=012345 PN=010 CSUBHH=0
HHID=012345 PN=020 CSUBHH=0
1In addition, a SUBHH of 3 or 4 indicates the “household” of a deceased
respondent who is considered to be in a household of his or her own. These
values do not occur in these files because all records in these files are from
living respondents.
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