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1. mmcomz1 Other comments why walking mmcomun Reason non completion of test not completed walk unable to walk safely successlully 1st mention mmcomz2 Other comments why walking i mmcomsp Reason non completion of test not completed walk lack of space successfully 2nd mention mmcomz3 Other comments why walking mmcomrf Reason non completion of test not completed walk respondent refused successfully 3rd mention scorgn Number of committee Number of committee meetings if any meetings attends in a year respondent has attended in a year scacta How often respondent goes How often the respondent to the cinema goes to the cinema scactb How often respondent eats How often the respondent out of the house eats out of the house scactc How often the respondent How often respondent goes goes to an art gallery or to an art gallery or museum museum scactd How often respondent goes How often the respondent to the theatre a concert or goes to the theatre a the opera concert or the opera scmoreb Whether respondent would Whether would like to eat out A like to eat out of the house of the house more often more often scmorec Whether would like to go to Whether respondent would art galleries or museums like to go to art galleries or more often museums more often scmored Whether would like to go to Whether respondent would the theatre concerts or the like to go to the theatre etc opera more often more often sclifea In most ways t
2. am pay wpthpyr pay slip bracket result brack t result wothp wpthp MinV11 Oth pd take h last thpol A a 0 aa y Oth pd take home pay APE pay slip bracket min value bracket ip value WDINB wpthp MaxV11 Oth pd take h last th pc onome partas Oth pd take home pay pe pay slip bracket max value bracket max value wpthp wpthp EntPt11 Oth pd take h last th i pc Dm pay i Oth pd take home pay bios pay slip bracket entry point brackebentry point wis wpthp RESLT11 Oth pd take ho last th EE MA a Oth pd take home pay pp el pay slip bracket result brabket result Wpihp wpthp WpUP Usual take home pay Usual take home pay period period WpUPa Usual take home pay Usual take home pay amount amount MinV12 Wkl take h i y a se pay Wkly usual take home pay main job bracket min bracket min value wpupa value wpupa MaxV12 Wkl take ho eg od alas oes Wkly usual take home pay PAPE main job bracket max bracket max value wpupa value wpupa EntPt12 Wkly usual take home pay Wkly usual take home pay wpupawe User Guide 44 main job bracket entry point wpupa bracket entry point wpupa RESLT12 WYN vet take home pay Wily ista take home pay wpupawr main job bracket result bracket result wpupa wpupa MinV13 Fnightly usual take home pay Fnightly usual take home wpupafl main job b
3. hediab1 These variables should be read in conjunction with feed forward variables and those giving age or year of diagnosis A new report does not necessarily imply recent incidence of the disease There is one variable for each condition helng In Wave 3 the variable applies to those who report chronic lung disease at hediab and also to those who say they still have lung disease at hedids or hediam In Wave 2 it also applied to those who confirmed diagnosis of lung disease regardless of the answer at hedids heama In Wave 3 the variable applies to those who report asthma at hediab and also to those who say they still have asthma at hedids or hediam In Wave 2 it also applied to those who confirmed diagnosis of asthma regardless of the answer at hedids heartl 3 There is one variable for each condition heagg From Wave 3 leukaemia and lymphoma asked separately hecanaa In Wave 2 a similar variable was hecana but from Wave 3 cases of leukaemia and lymphoma expected to occur more commonly under hediab code 10 and hediab hepsy1 8 There is one variable for each condition hej Please check the reference period of this question before using hejiaa1 5 In Wave 3 there is one variable for each joint hejibrh In Wave 2 reasons for replacement of right hip left hip right knee left knee are asked separately In Wave 2 reasons were asked for hip replacements only and d
4. Reasons for doing ermovne Reasons for doing voluntary voluntary work Because work 3rd mention am needed ErMoti14 Reasons for doing ermovmo Reasons for doing voluntary I voluntary work To earn work 4th mention money ErMoti15 Reasons for doing ermovnj Reasons for doing voluntary voluntary work Because work 5th mention Y r enjoy it ErMoti16 Reasons for doing voluntary Reasons for doing ermovsk User Guide 58 work 6th mention voluntary work To use my skills ErMoti17 Reasons for doing voluntary Reasons for doing ermovfi work 7th mention voluntary work To keep fit ErMoti18 Reasons for doing ermovob Reasons for doing voluntary Work St mention voluntary work Because I feel obliged to do it PScedA Much of the time during the Whether felt depressed past week have you felt much of the time during depressed past week PScedB Much of the time during th re BO ne OD Whether felt everything past week have you felt that I they did during past week everything you did was an was an effort effort PScedC Wheth dent felt thei i 0 9 vij Whether felt their sleep was sleep was restless during the restless during past week past week PScedD Whether respondent was Whether was happy much happy much of the time of the time during past during the past week week P E Wheth fel Seed tau born AU Whether felt lonely much of ne e D
5. if idaunig 151546 CfWhatM4 1 if idaunig 151546 CfWhatM8 1 If idaunig 104248 Hechmd 2 If idaunig 106238 Hechmd 2 If idaunig 117795 heacea 2 if idauniq 117795 hewee 8 If idaunig 107420 heacea 2 if idauniq 107420 8 If idaunig 119685 heacea 1 if idauniq 119685 hewee 1 if idaunig 120062 heacea 1 if idaunig 112080 heacea 2 if idaunig 112080 hewee 8 if idaunig 150868 heacea 2 if idaunig 150868 hewee 8 if idaunig 103740 heacea 1 if idaunig 104334 heacea 1 if idaunig 104530 heacea 1 if idaunig 105836 heacea 2 if idaunig 107291 heacea 2 if idaunig 107665 heacea 2 if idaunig 107810 heacea 1 if idaunig 108694 heacea 1 if idaunig 111700 heacea 1 if idaunig 112362 heacea 2 if idaunig 112603 heacea 1 if idaunig 116826 heacea 1 if idaunig 118280 heacea 1 if idaunig 118412 heacea 1 User Guide if idauniq 119980 heacea 1 if idaunig 120613 heacea 1 if idaunig 120962 heacea 1 if idaunig 121293 heacea 1 if idaunig 151496 heacea 1 if idaunig 104291 hecat 2 if idaunig 119427 hecat 2 if idaunig 118511 hecat 2 if idaunig 111391 Heopc4 2 if idaunig 111391 Heopn4 4 if idaunig 111391 Heops4 1 if idaunig 104985 Heopcl 2 if idaunig 104985 Heopnl lt 4 if idaunig 104985 Heopsl 1 if idaunig 104493 Heops4 1 if idaunig 117654 Heopc4 2 if idaunig 117654 Heopn4 4 if idaunig 117654
6. 4 8 1 EE EE ua 4 9 Household Demographic Variables 2 22 200 4 10 Coding and selde OE u N 3 33 715 9 4 11 1 150 4 12 Identifying Respondents Who Had a Proxy or Institution Interview aa 18 Weighting 5 1 Longitudinal weight 5 2 Cross Sectional weight ee LLE LIS AA 1 3511 20 Gontaetuuel i leuu uuu lt 21 BPP cst 22 7 1 Other ELSA Files Deposited at UK Data Archive a 22 7 2 Additional Variables Deposited at Phase 2 1 aaa 22 7 3 Notes About Particular Variable i s sasa sista t s kt s ta r pastuqa quya r ed k s 26 7 4 Variables With a Different Name or Label to Wave 2 7 5 Changes Made to the Data as a Result of Interviewer Notes iia aaa 62 1 1 Overview of the Survey Background and Aims The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ELSA is a study of people aged 50 and over and their partners living in private households in England The sample was drawn from households that had
7. The modules on household demographics and housing were done as part of the proxy interview only when no one else in the household was eligible for interview In cases where no one else in the same financial unit was eligible for interview the proxy interview included the Income and Assets module If two proxy interviews were needed for a couple the Income and Assets module would only appear in one of the interviews asking about both their finances For couples comprising of one person who was interviewed by person and another who needed a proxy interview the former would automatically be asked the Income and Assets module on behalf of the couple The question about whether they keep finances together or separate would not be asked Institution Interviews The Phase 2 deposit includes data from interviews that were carried out with respondents in institutions please see Appendix A of the Wave 3 Project Instructions for a definition of an institution address Institution interviews could be carried out in person or by proxy Routing has been developed within the interview specifically for people who have moved into institutions People who had such interviews can be identified by variable W3INDOUT The content of these interviews is broadly the same as the main interview People in institutions were asked different questions in the Housing and consumption module and were not asked some questions in other User Guide 7 2 9 modules name
8. i e respondent did not give this answer 1 Mentioned i e respondent did give this answer The new dichotomous variables have been given different names in order to distinguish them from their multi coded eguivalents at previous waves The variable names now have a common stem for each guestion EXRELE in the example above and then two or three letters to indicate the answer option Where answer options are the same between guestions the same two or three letters have been used each time for consistency Please see Appendix 7 3 for a table that shows the variable name and label changes that have occurred between Wave 2 and Wave 3 Interview Outcome Individual and household level interview outcomes are given in W3INDOUT and W3HHOUT respectively The individual outcome is a two digit code while the household outcome has three digits There are three additional outcome codes for the self completion questionnaires OUTSCWS for the core self completion and OUTSHW3 and OUTSWWS for the health and work vignette self completions respectively For the latter two outcomes if a respondent has a value of 1 it means they were not part of the sub sample selected to receive that guestionnaire Survey Module Identifiers Some modules in the interview were answered by all interviewed individuals whereas others were not Each of the modules that could be answered by one individual on behalf of others has a variable that identifies the person who answ
9. partner 2nd mention EN partner Pansign Credit iabep3 EE iG sat Benefits received in the last iabeptc year partner 8rd mention noe pane monde Credit iabepn1 Benefits receiving now Benefits receiving now iabepnis partner 1st mention partner Income Support iabepn2 Benefits receiving now Benefits receiving now iabepnpc partner 2nd mention partner Pension Credit iabepn3 Benefits receiving now Benefits receiving now iabepnwc partner 3rd mention partner Working Tax Credit iasi10 Which savings and Savings amp investments iasisc investments respondent or respondent or spouse spouse has 10th mention share clubs iasi11 Which savings and Savings amp investments iasiuit investments respondent or spouse has 11th mention respondent or spouse unit or investment trusts User Guide 51 iaprop1 Which if any of these assets Assets held respondent or iapropho do you or your spouse spouse Houses flats have 1st mention holiday homes iaprop2 Which if any of these assets Assets held respondent or iapropfa do you or your spouse spouse farm or business have 2nd mention property iaprop3 Which if any of these assets iapropol prop y Assets held respondent or prap do you or your spouse Spouse sother land have 3rd mention P l iaprop4 Which if any of these assets Assets held respondentor iapropow do you o
10. within the household at the time of the HSE Young partners from the original sample were still cohabiting with the core member at the time of the Wave 1 interview and were born after 29 February 1952 Young partners from the refreshment sample were still cohabiting with the core member at the time of the Wave 3 interview and were born after 29 February 1956 Older partners refreshment sample only were the cohabiting spouses or partners of core members who were living within the household at the time of the HSE and were still cohabiting with the core member at the time of the Wave 3 interview They were born before 1 March 1952 New partners were the cohabiting spouses or partners of core members at the time of the ELSA interview at Wave 1 2 or 3 who had joined the household since the original HSE interview Core partners young partners and new partners who had been identified in Waves 1 or 2 were eligible for a full Wave 3 interview even if they were no longer living with a core member at the time of the second interview That is to say we attempted to interview all partners who had been living with a core member at the time of an ELSA interview and had been separated or divorced from User Guide 10 3 4 them or had been widowed so that we could understand their circumstances after this event had occurred The only circumstances in which partners who had separated from the core member was not approached was if they had di
11. Archive http www data archive ac uk doc 5050 mrdoc pdf ELSA data and documentation currently available from UKDA pdf In addition to the materials mentioned in this table the following reports are also available Living in the 21st century older people in England THE 2006 ENGLISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING Wave 3 Retirement health and relationships of the older population in England THE 2004 ENGLISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING Wave 2 Health wealth and lifestyles of the older population in England THE 2002 ENGLISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING Wave 1 These reports can be downloaded from http www ifs org uk elsa publications php Additional Variables Deposited at Phase 2 This table shows variables that were deposited at Phase 2 that were not deposited at Phase 1 along with their variable labels for clarification Additionally the first two variables in this table are new to Phase Version 2 In Phase 2 Version 2 we have also re named all the variables to be in lower case Some feedforward variables for the Health module were also added for Phase 2 these are at the bottom of the table and have a c prefix Variable name Variable label hseyr HSE source survey year P respondent is able to do prospective memory test sampsta Type of sample member Final status at Wave 3 w3hhout Cleaned household outcome code Wave 3 longitudinal weight Ll 3 cross sectional weight cpid Person nu
12. CfDatD 2 if idaunig 107298 CfAni 9 if idaunig 107681 CfAni 9 if idaunig 108011 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 108488 CfLetEn 85 if idaunig 110916 CfLisD 9 if idaunig 111234 CfAniSt 9 if idaunig 112557 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 112748 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 113086 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 116820 CfAni 9 if idaunig 116852 CfAni 9 if idaunig 117327 CfLisD 9 if idaunig 117491 CfLetEn 13 if idaunig 117872 CfAni 9 if idaunig 118087 CfAni 9 if idaunig 118087 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 118501 CfAni 9 if idaunig 118610 CfAni 9 if idaunig 118815 CfAni 9 if idaunig 118815 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 119232 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 119588 CfLet 9 if idaunig 119917 CfAni 9 if idaunig 119952 CfImp 1 if idaunig 120058 CfAni 9 User Guide 63 if idaunig 120283 CfAni 29 if idaunig 120741 CfImp l if idaunig 150124 CfMem 9 if idaunig 150177 CfMem 9 if idaunig 150244 CfAni 9 if idaunig 150282 CfLetEn 13 if idaunig 150643 CfLetEn 85 if idaunig 151533 CfAniSt 9 if idaunig 151546 CfImp 1 if idaunig 152474 CfImp 1 if idaunig 104633 CfWhatI1 1 if idaunig 106272 CfWhat12 1 if idaunig 119952 CfWhatI2 1 if idaunig 120741 CfWhatI2 1 if idaunig 151546 CfWhatI4 1 if idaunig 152474 CfWhatI7 1 if idaunig 104633 CfWhatMl 1 if idaunig 106272 CfWhat25 1 if idaunig 119952 CfWhatM2 1 if idaunig 120741 CfWhatM2 1 if idaunig 151546 CfWhatI8 1 if idaunig 152474 CfWhatM7 1
13. Parkinson s disease 1 diagnosis fed forward hedids6 Whether still had Parkinson s Whether still has hedbspd disease at wave 2 Parkinson s Disease hedibw7 Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed hedbwps wave 1 referred to psychiatric condition fed psychiatric problems forward hediad7 Whether confirms hedbdps ow Whether confirms psychiatric ee ar p psychiatric condition problems recorded in wave 1 2 diagnosis hediam7 Reason disputed psychiatric Reason disputed hedbmps problems diagnosis from psychiatric condition wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hedibw8 Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed hedbwad wave 1 referred to Alzheimer s Disease fed Alzheimer s disease forward hediad8 Whether confirms Whether confirms hedbdad Alzheimer s disease Alzheimer s Disease recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam8 Reason disputed Alzheimers Reason disputed hedbmad disease diagnosis from wave Alzheimer s Disease 1 diagnosis fed forward hedibw9 Which chronic condition from PET hedbwde Chronic diagnosed wave 1 referred to dementia fed forward dementia hediad9 Whether confirms dementia Whether confirms dementia hedbdde recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam9 Reason disputed dementia Reason disputed dementia hedbmde diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward i i i h hedids9 Whether still had dementia at damenta edbsde wave 2 hediab1 Diagnosed chronic condition hediblu Ch
14. Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBFre transport more often 5th not use public transport it mention is infrequent SPTraB6 Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBHea transport more often 6th not use public transport mention their health prevents them SPTraB7 Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBNee transport more often 7th not use public transport mention they do not need to WpAct1 Activities during the last Activities during last month wpactpw month 1st mention paid work WpAct2 Activities during the last Activities during last month wpactse month 2nd mention self employment WpAct3 Activities during the last Activities during last month wpactvw month 3rd mention voluntary work User Guide 37 WpAct4 Activities during the last Activities during last month wpactca month 4th mention cared for someone WpAct5 Activities during the last Activities during last month wpactlo month 5th mention looked after home or family WpAct6 Activities during last month wpacted Activities during the last attended a formal month 6th mention educational or training course WpVW How often does voluntary How often do you do any work voluntary work Wpstj Is the job you had last time Is the job you had last time you were interviewed your you were interviewed still main recent job your main job WpLJobM I What was your
15. Rose angina site of pain 1st Rose angina pain in heanius mention sternum upper or middle User Guide 35 heani2 Rose angina site of pain Rose angina paininlower heanils 2nd mention sternum heani3 Rose angina site of pain 8rd Rose angina pain in left heanslc mention anterior chest heani4 Rose angina site of pain 4th Rose angina pain in left heansla mention arm heani5 Rose angina site of pain 5th Rose angina pain in right heansrc mention anterior chest heani6 Rose angina site of pain 6th Rose angina pain in right heansra mention arm heanim1 R ina pain i h eanim RE pain cist ose angina pain i eanmus sternum upper or middle mention merged variable merged heanim2 Rose angina site of pain ae heanmls I Rose angina pain in lower 2nd mention merged sternum merged variable heanim3 Rose angina site of pain 3rd Rose angina pain in left heanmlc mention merged variable anterior chest merged heanim4 Rose angina site of pain 4th Rose angina pain in left heanmla mention merged variable arm merged heanim5 Rose angina site of pain 5th Rose angina pain in right heanmrc mention merged variable anterior chest merged heanim6 Rose angina site of pain 6th Rose angina pain in right heanmra mention merged variable arm merged hecdf1 Claudication site of pain 1st Claudication pain in calf hecdfca ment
16. WpLkChM2 W Id lik j Ich pLkC Ways wauld iievcuirent job ays would like current job wplchmme to change less to change 2nd mention demanding stressful merged var merged var WpLkChM3 Ways would like current job Ways would like current job wplchmhr to change 3rd mention to change fewer hours job merged var sharing merged var WpLkChM4 Ways would like current job Ways would like current job wplchmfl to change 4th mention to change more flexible merged var hours merged var WpLkChM W Id lik j Ichmh pLkChM5 Ways wotidilixe eierdop ays would li SEEN job wplchmho to change working from to change 5th mention home sometimes merged merged var var WpLkChM6 Ways would like current job wplchmad Ways would like current job to change 6th mention merged var to change spec equipt workplace adapt merged var User Guide 42 WpNoLk1 Reasons for staying in wpnlksu Reasons for staying in current job could not get current job 1st mention another job that would suit me WpNoLk2 Reasons for staying in wpnlkdi Reasons for staying in current job difficult time current job 2nd mention consuming to look for another WpNoLk3 EE Peasons for staying in wpnikpa I current job pay in current current job 3rd mention job WpNoLk4 Reasons for staying in wpnlkrt Reasons for staying in current job retiring soon current job 4th mention no
17. as they were not eligible for interview in their own right The ELSA Technical Reports provide more details about eligibility and sampling Also note that 107830 was initially thought to be new partner and were assigned an IDAUNIQ of 121362 at Phase 1 There are 103 more refreshment sample core members FINSTAT C3CM in the Phase 2 data than in the Phase 1 This is due to the inaccuracy since discovered with the sampling algorithm please see Section 3 2 above for details One case has a changed value of FINSTAT in Version 2 of the Phase 2 data This is because their date of birth was given as being in 1953 in their HSE interview meaning they were originally given a FINSTAT of C3CM but it has been noted that in their Wave 3 interview they gave their date of birth as being in 1959 meaning they have now been given a FINSTAT of C3YP Data for ELSA respondents collected during HSE referred to as Wave 0 data and ELSA Waves 1 amp 2 can be used for longitudinal analysis All of this data is available from the Data Archive The ELSA Wave 3 core dataset contains data in the following order Key variables not in the questionnaire e g serial number outcome codes e Variables in the questionnaire in the order they appear in the CAPI interview A small number of additional variables that are associated with particular questionnaire variables are located alongside these variables in the data Other variables not in t
18. beginning with the longitudinal weight In both cases weights are calculated for core members living in private households only including proxy partial and telephone interviews as this is the sample of interest Key groups having zero weights are e Core members living in institutions e Partners of core members i e core new younger and older partners All other non sample individuals that were interviewed i e core new younger and older partners have weights of zero When running weighted analyses researchers should remember to exclude non sample members in the unweighted base if quoted The data for partners can be used as characteristics of the core members i e supplementary information Where possible we recommend that analysis be conducted on weighted data since this should help to reduce bias from non random non response That is non response weighting aims to correct for systematic differences in response rates across sub groups Groups with the lowest response rates receive the higher non response weights The equal probability design of the HSE samples and the fact that the ELSA sample included all eligible adults from the HSE eliminates any need for weights to account for unequal chances of selection However non response at HSE refusals to be re interviewed post HSE and non response at ELSA Waves 1 2 and 3 all have the potential to make the ELSA respondent sample unrepresentative of those groups less likely to in
19. bracket result wpbima WpbusV About how much is your p Value of own share of the d share of the business business worth WpMoJ Do you earn money from ee Earns money from work i fe ie work apart from main apart from main job any work job work done from time to done from time to time time WpHmsj How many hrs a mnth p J Hours a month usually y usually worked in these worked in these jobs exc I jobs exc meal breaks inc meal breaks inc overtime overtime WpEsj Net income from other jobs Net income from these last month other jobs in the last month MinV21 Net income from other jobs Net income from these wpesjl last month bracket min other jobs in the last month value wpesj bracket min value wpesj MaxV21 Net income from other jobs Net income from these wpesju last month bracket max other jobs in the last month value wpesj bracket max value wpesj EntPt21 Net income from other jobs Net income from these wpesje last month bracket entry point wpesj other jobs in the last month bracket entry point wpesj User Guide 47 RESLT21 Net income from other jobs Net income from these wpesjr last month bracket result other jobs in the last month wpesj bracket result wpesj MinV22 Mnthly average net income Monthly average net wpesjml from other jobs bracket min income from other jobs value wpesjm bracket
20. details Refreshment Sample For Wave 3 a cohort of people born between 1 March 1953 and 29 February 1956 were added to the sample in order to refresh it and make it representative of the youngest people These people were selected from HSE 2001 2004 Households from these HSE survey years were selected for the study if at least one HSE interview was conducted with an eligible respondent in the household and they agreed to be re contacted Note that the original sample and the refreshment sample overlap as a number of young partners in the original sample from HSE 2001 moved into their 50 s in Wave 3 and so were potential refreshment sample core members i e born after 29 February 1952 If responding at Wave 3 these cases changed status from C1YP to C3CM It is important for users to note that the algorithm used to select Cohort 3 excluded potential eligible sample members born between 1 March 1952 and 28 February 1953 This has resulted in a gap of one year s birth between the original and refreshment samples If we define age as age at 01 03 2006 just prior to the beginning of Wave 3 fieldwork then those aged between 53 0 and 53 99 years were omitted Overall 103 of the potential eligible sample members born between 1 March 1952 and 28 February 1953 the missing year of birth were in fact successfully interviewed in Wave 3 Originally such individuals were classified as younger partners if in the original sample or old
21. expects to receive a p HD I scheme that former pension from a scheme like ora i spouse civil partner contrib this to WpManPP E ted min i PER 1 kat k y De Max min expected income from all private pensions h from private pensions at period if womcrtpp gd state pension age period idea WpMpah Maximum expected from all Maximum expected income private pensions amount if from private pensions at wpmcrtpp gd idea state pension age amount WpMFO Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more User Guide 48 than wp1g per wpmampp from all private pensions than wp1q per wpmanpp from all private pensions WpMSQ Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more than wp2g per wpmampp than wp2g per wpmanpp from all private pensions from all private pensions WpMTO Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more than wp3g per wpmampp than wp3g per wpmanpp from all private pensions from all private pensions WpMANSP Expected max min income Maximum minimum from all state pensions expected income from state period if wpmcrtsp gd pensions at state pension idea age period Wpsn No ranges interval wpmsal No ranges interval wpmsh wpmsah split for guestions wpmsah split for guestions wpmsfg wpmssg wpmstg wpmsfg wpmssg wpmstg WpMSFO a8 Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more than wp1sq per than
22. hedawan i Diagnosed angina fed condition from wave 1 forward referred to angina hediac2 Whether confirms angina Whether confirms angina hedacan recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hedian2 Reason disputed angina Reason disputed angina hedanan diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hedias2 Whether still has angi t hed ee AE Whether still has angina GA wave 2 hediaw3 Which cardiovascular hedawmi Diagnosed heart attack fed condition from wave 1 referred to heart attack hediac3 Whether confirms heart Whether confirms heart hedacmi attack recorded in wave 1 attack diagnosis hedian3 Reason disputed heart hedanmi Reason disputed heart attack p i attack diagnosis fed diagnosis from wave 1 forward hediaw4 Which cardiovascular hedawhf condition from wave 1 Diagnosed congestive referred to congestive hrt heart failure fed forward failure hediac4 Whether confirms congestive Whether confirms hedachf heart failure recorded in congestive heart failure wave 1 diagnosis hedian4 Reason disputed congestive Reason disputed hedanhf heart failure diagnosis from congestive heart failure wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hedias4 Whether still has congestive Whether still has hedashf heart failure at wave 2 congestive heart failure hediaw5 Which cardiovascular hedawhm Diagnosed heart murmur condition from wave 1 fed forward referred to a heart murmur hediac5 Whether confirms heart Whether confirms heart hedachm murmur recorded in w
23. if idaunig 105653 fqquaz66 1 if idaunig 105669 fgguaz66 l if idaunig 107271 fqquaz66 1 if idaunig 108453 fgguaz66 l if idaunig 120240 fqquaz66 1 if idaunig 117808 fgguaz66 1 if idaunig 120078 fqquaz66 1 if idaunig 150608 fqquaz66 1 if Idaunig 106292 SPCARA 2 if idaunig 119572 ExAInh 9 if idaunig 104041 ExCpin 9 if idaunig 108189 ExCpin 9 if idaunig 105511 ExHVa 997 if idaunig 111064 ExHVa 997 if idaunig 104530 ExLo80 9 if idaunig 117738 ExPW 9 if idaunig 104041 excin 9 if idaunig 104041 excain 9 if idaunig 105420 PScedG 1 if idaunig 108815 PScedG 1 if idaunig 111416 PScedG 1 if idaunig 108274 PScedH 2 if idaunig 111950 PScedH 1 if idaunig 118231 PScedH 1 if idaunig 121011 PScedH 1 if idaunig 103784 PsMid 997 if idaunig 103842 PsMid 997 if idaunig 105305 PsMid 997 if idaunig 105779 PsMid 997 if idaunig 107205 PsMid 997 if idaunig 112426 PsMid 997 if idaunig 117878 PsMid 997 if idaunig 117958 PsMid 997 if idaunig 119319 PsMid 997 if idaunig 120648 PsMid 997 if idaunig 121169 PsMid 997 if idaunig 121197 PsMid 997 if idaunig 150429 PsMid 997 if idaunig 151194 PsMid 997 if idaunig 103842 PsOld 997 if idaunig 103869 PsOld 997 if idaunig 104185 PsOld 997 User Guide H idauniq 105277 PsO idauniq 107205 PsO H H bP idauniq 107657 PsO1 idauniq 107853 PsOl idauniq 108192 PsOl idaunig 112448 PsO Ju idaunig 117245 PsO1 idaunig 1182
24. in the self completion questionnaire Final questions FQ This module was asked privately of all respondents It checked information given by respondents at the previous wave such as demographic information qualifications and the details of their stable address contact i e someone who could be contacted if the respondent had moved at the next wave to find out their new address In addition respondents were asked to nominate someone who could do a proxy interview for them at the next wave if they were unable to be interviewed in person see Proxies section below If respondents had given their consent at Wave 2 to link their survey data to health and economic data from administrative sources they were given a verbal reminder of this consent Respondents who had not consented to this at Wave 2 were asked if they would consent at this wave Walking speed or Measurement MM This module could be conducted at any point in the interview after the HE module The test of walking speed was completed by respondents aged 60 and over when it was judged safe to do so Respondents were asked to walk a distance of 8 feet 244 cm at their usual walking pace This walk was performed twice by respondents and the interviewer recorded the time taken using a stopwatch see protocol in interviewer instructions Core Self completion SC When respondents completed a full interview in a session alone the self completion questionnaire
25. included in hoincmot Payments included in mortgage repayment mortgage repayment 4th other extra payments mention merged var merged var horinc1 Equity release schemes horinhi Equity release schemes taken out home taken out income mortgage annuity plan horincm1 Equity release schemes horinmhi Equity release schemes taken out home taken out merged var income mortgage annuity plan hormov29 Reasons for moving 86 Reasons for moving 1st irrelevant reponse merged mention merged var var hormova1 How is accomodation more How is accomodation more hormosm suitable 1st mention suitable smaller hormova2 How is accomodation more How is accomodation more hormola suitable 2nd mention suitable larger hormova3 How is accomodation more How is accomodation more hormofp User Guide 54 suitable 3rd mention suitable fewer maintenance problems hormova4 I How is accomodation more hormosh How is accomodation more I i suitable more suitable suitable 4th mention given health problems hoadpt10 Adaptations in property hoadpal P Adaptions in property 10th p PORRI p i alerting devices e g button mention alarms hoprob10 Probl i hopror liks Problems in accommodation 0 0 js accommodation rot and 1Oth mention decay hoprom10 Problems in hopromro Problems accom
26. is possible that the respondent had interpreted the clinician s diagnosis wrongly All those who used code 2 at question hedian no longer also said that did not have the condition last time interviewed hediax not archived if they said they did then the interviewer recoded hediac to code 1 hedias Those who have previously reported the following conditions and not since denied every having the diagnoses are not asked if they still have the condition heart attack stroke diabetes or high blood sugar In Wave 2 this guestion was asked of those with diabetes or high blood sugar hediaw9 In Wave 2 hediaw9 referred to other but because high cholesterol was introduced in wave 2 hediaw10 now refers to other and hediaw9 to high cholesterol hediaa1 These variables should be read in conjunction with feed forward variables and those giving age or year of diagnosis A new report does not necessarily imply recent incidence of the disease hedizm1 These variables combine the original coding in hedia1 96 with the back coding of other answers from the hedia95 and the text variable hedix There is one variable for each condition hemda In Wave 3 applies to those who reported high blood pressure at hediaa in wave 3 or those who reported they still had high blood pressure at hedias or hedian In Wave 2 it applied to those who reported high blood pressure at Wave 2 hediaa heyra In Wave 3 applies
27. last interview heagery Year told had stroke in last2 Year told had stroke since User Guide 32 years last interview henmst Number of strokes since last Number of strokes since visit last interview hedibw Which chronic condition from nei hedbwlu Chronic diagnosed lung wave 1 referred to chronic I disease fed forward lung disease hediad Whether confirms chronic hedbdlu Whether confirms lung lung disease recorded in I I disease diagnosis wave 1 hediam Reason disputed chronic Reason disputed lung hedbmlu lung disease diagnosis from disease diagnosis fed wave 1 forward hedids Whether still had chronic Whether still has lung hedblu lung disease at wave 2 disease hedibw2 Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed asthma hedbwas wave 1 referred to asthma fed forward hediad2 Whether confirms asthma Whether confirms asthma hedbdas recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam2 Reason disputed asthma Reason disputed asthma hedbmas diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hedids2 Whether still had asth t hedb saas TE ARS Whether still has asthma AD wave 2 hedibwa Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed arthritis hedbwar wave 1 referred to arthritis fed forward hediad3 Whether confirms arthritis Whether confirms arthritis hedbdar recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam3 Reason disputed arthritis Reason disputed arthriti
28. main Main reason for leaving i I reason for leaving your previous job I previous job WpChg1 W k could h hph pChg aye ON nie Ways work could have SPP changed to allow you to I changed less physically continue working 1st demanding mention WpChg2 W k could h h pChg ays work could have Ways work coid have wpchme changed to allow you to changed less mentally continue working 2nd I demanding stressful mention WpChg3 W rk could ha hh PETS GR id Ways work could have PP changed to allow you to changed fewer hours job continue working 3rd I l sharing mention WpChg4 W k could h hfl Pt AFU ON Ways work could have WE changed to allow you to changed more flexible continue working 4th 0 mention WpChgM1 Ways work could have Ways work could have wpchmph changed 1st mention changed merged var less merged variable phys demanding WpChgM2 Ways work could have Ways work could have wpchmme changed 2nd mention changed merged var less merged variable mental demanding WpChgM3 Ways work could have Ways work could have wpchmhr changed 3rd mention changed merged var merged variable fewer hours job share WpChgM4 Ways work could have Ways work could have wpchnll changed 4th mention changed merged var merged variable more flexible hours WpChgB1 In what ways did you ask to In what ways did you askto wpchbph change your job 1st change your job less mention physically demanding
29. most recent period i l I for which accounts for which accounts prepared prepared for Inland for Inland Revenue mth Revenue mnth WpraE Y End of t t period j End of most recent period for n 2 MS for which accounts which accounts prepared for prepared for Inland Inland Revenue year Revenue year WpraEM End of most recent period p End of most recent period for P for which accounts which accounts prepared for prepared for Inland Inland Revenue month Revenue month MinV17 Self employed profit loss Self employment profit wpprofl last month bracket min loss last month bracket value wpprof min value wpprof MaxV17 Self employed profit loss Self employment profit wpprofu last month bracket max loss last month bracket value wpprof max value wpprof EntPt17 Self employed profit loss Self employment profit wpprofe last month bracket entry loss last month bracket point wpprof entry point wpprof RESLT17 Self employed profit loss Self employment profit wpprofr last month bracket result loss last month bracket wpprof result wpprof WpBl Av inc from business after Avg income from business paying for after paying for materials eguipment goods materials eguipment goods used period period WpBl A kly income fro Pe Average weekly income from HON I business over last 12 business in last 12 months months MinV18 Average weekly income from Average weekly income wpbiwal busine
30. or hurry hecdd1 This guestion is not part of the standard claudication seguence but was included because of problems with knowing whether those who report never cannot walk do experience pain that might indicate claudication The reference is to walking at an ordinary pace on the level if heacdd coded 3 otherwise to walking uphill or hurrying hehph1 In Wave 3 separate guestions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the difficulties are covered by these guestions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them hehpw1 In Wave 3 separate guestions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the difficulties are covered by these guestions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them hehpd1 In Wave 3 separate guestions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the difficulties are covered by these guestions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them hehpp1 In Wave 3 separate guestions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the
31. order to capture all responses to a particular question verbatim The responses to these open questions were coded into separate variables after the interview was conducted The coded responses to open questions are in the core dataset but as mentioned above the original text responses have been removed to reduce the potential to identify individuals Other questions in the CAPI questionnaire had code frames that included an other option e g DIKLIV In these other specify questions interviewers could use this option if the respondent s answer did not fit any of the codes or if they were not confident of coding into the prescribed codes In these cases the interviewer recorded the full other answer at a follow up question e g other responses relating to DIKLIV were recorded in DIKLO not archived If these other specify questions were single coded i e when only 1 option could be chosen e g DIKLIV then the text answers were coded and incorporated into the original coded variable i e DIKLIV For all previously multi coded variables now dichotomous that were coded there are two sets of variables The first are the original variables that contain the answers recorded by the interviewer e g SPTRBUNA to SPTRB95 named SPTRAB1 to SPTRAB7 in previous waves The second set of variables contain the original coding plus the codes assigned to other answers e g SPTRMUNA to SPTRM86 named SPTRMO
32. past week ErCABNu3 Number of grandchildr E ku ts asas o Number of grandchildren ore respondent looked after in looked after in past week past week ErCABNu4 Number of parents E P I Number of parents looked respondent looked after in after in past week past week ErCABNu5 Number of parents in law Ercanpl Number of parents in law respondent looked after in looked after in past week past week ErCABNu6 Number of other relatives Ercanor I Number of other relatives respondent looked after in looked after in past week past week ErCABNu7 Number of Ercanfr Number of friends neighbours i friends neighbours looked respondent looked after in after in past week past week ErCABNu8 Number of other people Ercanot pee Number of other people respondent looked after in looked after in past week past week ErTotNum Total number of people Ercantt Total number of people respondent looked after in looked after in past week past week ErCALive Whether he she lives with the Whether lives with the person s he she cares for person s he she cared for ErCAC Hours spent by the 5 Hours spent looking after respondent in the last week I other people last week looking after someone ErMoti11 Reasons for doing ermovus Reasons for doing voluntary Re mentini voluntary work To contribute something useful ErMoti12 Reasons for doing ermovac Reasons for doing voluntary voluntary work For work 2nd mention personal achievement ErMoti13
33. this 2nd hovw218 1st person NA Company Employer hovow38 Who owns this 10th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw219 2nd person ED Oe company incl motability scheme hovow41 Who owns this 11th carvan Who owns this 3rd hovw303 User Guide 56 1st person car van Person 3 hovow42 Who owns this 11th car van Who owns this 8rd hovw304 2nd person car van Person 4 hovow45 Who owns this 12th car van Who owns this 8rd hovw307 1st person car van Person 7 hovow46 Who owns this 12th car van Who owns this 8rd hovw308 2nd person car van Person 8 hovow49 Who owns this 13th car van Who owns this 3rd hovw311 1st person car van Person 11 hovow50 Who owns this 13th car van Who owns this 3rd hovw312 2nd person car van Person 12 hovow53 Who owns this 14th car van Who owns this 3rd hovw315 1st person car van Person 15 hovow54 Who owns this 14th car van Who owns this 3rd hovw316 2nd person car van Person 16 hovow57 Who owns this 15th car van Who owns this 8rd hovw319 1st person A SE company incl motability scheme hovow58 Who owns this 15th car van Who owns this 4th hovw401 2nd person car van Person 1 hovow61 Who owns this 16th car van Who owns this 4th hovw404 1st person car van Person 4 hovow62 Who owns this 16th car van Who owns this 4th hovw405 2nd per
34. what did k to bch P J Ways in which asked S ies N se NOMIS change your job less employer to change job 2nd mention mentaly demanding stressful WpBChg3 Ways in which asked In what ways did you ask to wpbchhr employer to change job 3rd change your job fewer mention hours job sharing WpBChg4 Ways in which asked In what ways did you ask to wpbchfl employer to change job 4th change your job more mention flexible hours WpLkCh1 W Id lik t job Ichph p Ways would like current job EE EO RE 1 SD to change less physically to change 1st mention demanding WpLkCh2 W Id lik j Ich pLkC Waye would IKE bondrtios ays would like current job wplchme to change 2nd meinion to change less mentally demanding stressful WpLkCh W Id lik j Ichh pees Ways would like current job OU iKO curent oR SRT to change fewer hours job to change 3rd mention I sharing WpLkCh4 W Id lik j Ichfl PEE Ways would like current job NDR n job wee I to change more flexible to change 4th mention hours WpLkCh5 W ld like current job Ichh p Ways would like current job GAAR coe SG Ope to change working from to change 5th mention home sometimes WpLkCh6 Ways would like current job wplchad Ways would like current job to change special to change 6th mention eguipment workplace adaptation WpLkChM1 Ways would like current job Ways would like current job wplchmph to change 1st mention to change less physically merged var demanding merged var
35. 03874 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 120315 if idaunig 110967 if idaunig 110967 if idaunig 110967 if idaunig 106367 if idaunig 106367 if idaunig 106367 if idaunig 106367 if idaunig 106367 if idaunig 111753 if idaunig 111753 if idaunig 111753 if idaunig 111753 if idaunig 118374 if idaunig 118374 if idaunig 118374 if idaunig 119582 if idaunig 119582 if idaunig 106118 if idaunig 108580 if idaunig 117075 if idaunig 118343 if idaunig 120534 if idaunig 121380 if idaunig 151563 if idaunig 151155 if idaunig 150067 hediam 4 hediabl 1 helng 8 ediad2 2 ediam2 4 edids2 1 Heamb 1 edids3 8 Hediad3 2 eart1 1 Heart2 1 eart3 1 ediam3 4 edids3 1 Hediam3 4 edids3 1 Hediam4 4 ediab3 1 Iearte 8 eagfr 8 eagfry 8 eartl l Heart2 0 eart3 0 ediam4 4 ediad4 2 Hediam4 4 edids4 1 Hediab5 1 ecanb 8 Heaggr 8 eaggry 8 Hecanaa 95 ediad5 2 Hecanb 1 ediam5 4 edids5 1 Hediad6 2 ediam6 4 edids6 1 ediad7 1 iediam7 1 hehrtmd 1 hehrtmd 1 hehrtmd 1 hehrtmd 1 hehrtmd 1 FgConC 1 FOCons 1 FOCons 1 FOCons 1 User Guide 66 if idauniq 150380 FOCons 1 if idaunig 150080 FOCons 1 if idaunig 151043 FOCons 1 if idaunig 150396 FOCons 1 if idaunig 150594 FOCons 1 if idaunig 105657 fgguaz65 1 if idaunig 104956 fqaqua 2
36. 1 to SPTRM07 in previous waves Note that the letter m added to these variable names after the stem SPTR means that they contain merged original and coded answers This naming convention was followed consistently so the final merged variables can be identified by name The merged variables should be used instead of the original variables Please note that the variables referred to above have now been re named in accordance with the convention specified in Section 4 2 EDITING As with the coding most of the editing for the ELSA Wave 1 questionnaire was carried out by the interviewers in the field However there were some additional checks that related to inconsistencies in the data that were carried out after the interview Missing Values For most questions there are the following missing values 1 Not applicable 8 Don t know 9 Refusal For some questions a response of don t know or refusal was not permitted This is indicated in the questionnaire User Guide 17 4 12 For various reasons some respondents did not complete the questionnaire Where possible for these partial interviews the questions that were not asked were coded as 1 not applicable The only module where the missing values differ is the Self Completion module SC Here the missing values are 1 Not applicable 9 Not answered Identifying Respondents Who Had a Proxy or Institution Interview Two flag variables ha
37. 56 PsO Eis idauniq 118759 PsOl idauniq 119741 PsOl idaunig 120404 PsOl H OH H HH H P H P H P Pr P Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr HBH Pr Pr P Pe scorgn 98 scorgn 9 scfrdm 98 scfrdm 9 scrtage 998 scrtage 9 scvega 88 scvegb 88 scvegc 88 scvegd 88 scfruia 88 scfruia 99 scfruib 88 scfruib 99 scfruic 88 scfruic 99 scfruid 88 scfruid 99 scfruie 88 scfruie 99 scfruif 88 scfruif 99 scfruig 88 scfruig 99 scfruih 88 scfruih 99 scfruii 88 scfruii 99 Scchdm 8 Scladdc 8 Sc scvega 9 scvegb 9 scvegc 9 scvegd 9 scfruia 9 scfruia 9 scfruib 9 scfruib 9 scfruic 9 scfruic 9 scfruid 9 scfruid 9 scfruie 9 scfruie 9 scfruif 9 scfruif 9 scfruig 9 scfruig 9 scfruih 9 scfruih 9 scfruii 9 scfruii 9 Scchdm 9 1d 997 1d 997 Ld 997 ld 997 1d 997 1d 997 1d 997 1d 997 1d 997 1d 997 Ld 997 laddc 9 User Guide 68
38. 7 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 107277 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 111251 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 112869 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 118526 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 119361 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 120097 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 120572 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 120606 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 121262 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 108188 mmrecr 85 if idaunig 108287 mmrecr 85 if idaunig 111822 mmrecr 85 if idaunig 120558 mmrecr 85 if idaunig 108409 MMComz4 0 if idaunig 106041 MMComz4 0 if idaunig 107298 MMComz4 0 if idaunig 105462 MMComz4 0 if idaunig 108354 MMComz4 0 User Guide H H bP H idauniq 1 idauniq 1 idauniq idauniq H H H H H idauniq 1 idauniq idauniq 1 idauniq 1 PH H H H idaunig idaunig idaunigs idaunig idaunig idaunigs idaunig H idauniq 1 f idauniq 1 recode cfani 99 9 106746 MMComz4 0 L07516 MMComz4 0 118099 MMComz4 0 L12573 MMComz4 0 L11407 MMComz4 0 110913 MMComz4 0 108409 MMComz1 1 106041 MMComz85 1 107298 MMComz85 1 105462 MMComz3 1 108354 MMComz3 1 106746 MMComz3 1 107516 MMComz5 1 L18099 MMComz3 1 112573 MMComz5 1 111407 MMComz5 1 110913 MMComz85 1 fMemS 9 if idaunig 103764 C if idaunig 104275 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 104544 CfAni 9 if idaunig 104633 CfImp 1 if idaunig 105124 CfLisEn 9 if idaunig 105862 CfAni 9 if idaunig 106272 CfImp 1 if idaunig 106468
39. 9 1st person Person 9 hovow10 Who owns this 3rd car van Who owns this 1st car van 110 2nd person Person 10 hovow13 Who owns this 4th car van Who owns this 1st car van 113 1st person Person 13 hovow14 Who owns this 4th car van Who owns this 1st car van 114 2nd person Person 14 hovow17 Who owns this 5th car van Who owns this 1st car van 117 1st person Not a household member hovow18 Who owns this 5th car van Who owns this 1st car van 118 2nd person Company Employer hovow21 Who owns this 6th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw202 1st person car van Person 2 hovow22 Who owns this 6th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw203 2nd person car van Person 3 hovow25 Who owns this 7th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw206 1st person car van Person 6 hovow26 Who owns this 7th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw207 2nd person car van Person 7 hovow29 Who owns this 8th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw210 1st person car van Person 10 hovow30 Who owns this 8th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw211 2nd person car van Person 11 hovow33 Who owns this 9th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw214 1st person car van Person 14 hovow34 Who owns this 9th car van Who owns this 2nd hovw215 2nd person car van Person 15 hovow37 Who owns this 10th car van Who owns
40. 99 years old for confidentiality reasons There were a small number of respondents whose age was not given and had a value of 9 or was not known at the questions DHAGER and DIAGR We have preserved the original answers as given in the Wave 3 interview but have filled in these respondents ages from data given in previous interviews in INDAGER There is still one respondent however who has a value of 8 Don t know in INDAGER This person is a new partner found at Wave 3 and so we do not have any previous information about them to refer to For age analysis INDOBYR and INDAGER are the suggested variables to use Gender DISEX was the sex given in the respondent s individual questionnaire session DHSEX was given in the household demographics module INDSEX is derived from these two variables If the variable from the individual session was answered DISEX then this value was used otherwise the value from the household grid DHSEX was used in the derivation Financial Variables ELSA contains very detailed information on all aspects of finances Summary variables have been derived and are available from the Data Archive as Wave 3 Financial Derived Variables v2 There is a Pension Grid included with the Phase 2 deposit which contains information at a pension level As a result of this additional dataset the corresponding variables have been removed from the main deposit these variables are WPPENT to WPMORP7 inclu
41. ELSA Data Manager for more details see the Contact Details section of this User Guide Household Demographic Variables In the household grid there are a number of indicators that are computed within the interview program itself clarification of how some of these are calculated is below HHTOT this simply counts all people still living in the household i e it doesn t count people in institutions There are a small number of cases for whom HHTOT 0 All of these are cases where the respondent was found to have moved into an institution at Wave 3 Please see Section 2 4 for details of the institution interview and how respondents in institutions are treated in the financial derived variables CHINHH this is set to 1 Yes for each person with relationship of parent through to step parent to any other household member CHOUTHH this is set to 1 Yes for each person coded as either Parent A at DnPA or Parent B at DhPB in the latter part of the module User Guide 16 4 10 4 11 Coding and Editing Additional coding and editing tasks were performed after the interviews were conducted The ELSA Wave 3 Code Book and Edit Instructions document deposited with this User Guide provides details of the tasks that were conducted Coding The coding of responses was mostly dealt with by the CAPI questionnaire through the use of fully closed questions There were however a number of questions where a code frame was not used in
42. Fnightly take home pay asi Fnightit ke home pay wpthpfe pay slip bracket entry point bracket eniry point Gwothp wpthp User Guide 43 RESLT8 Fnightly take h last thpf ve 1 DOTIO pay les Fnightly take home pay ME pay slip bracket result bracket resultAwpthp wpthp MinV9 Mnthly take h last thpml x Y EE pay as Mnthly take home pay VIP pay slip bracket min value brackebmin value ui wpthp MaxV Mnthly take h h axV9 nt ya e home pay last Mnihiy take home pay wpthpmu pay slip bracket max value bracket max value wpthp wpthp EntP Mnthly take h h ntPt9 nt yla e home pay Mael Mnthly take home pay wpthpme pay slip bracket entry point bracket enir point wothp wpthp RESLT Mnthly take h h SLT9 nt y ta e home pay last Minthiy take home pay wpthpmr pay slip bracket result braekettestlt wpthp wpthp MinV1 A take h hpyl inV10 ange take home pay last tome Bage wpthpy pay slip bracket min value bracketinin vahe upi wpthp MaxV1 A take h h axV10 nnua take home pay last Annua home pay wpthpyu pay slip bracket max value brackebtax valie wpthp EntPt1 A take h h ntPt10 nnua take home pay das Annalee home pay wpthpye pay slip bracket entry point od wpthp RESLT1 A take h h SLT10 naga take home pay last
43. Heops4 1 if idaunig 107229 Hedian5 4 if idaunig 107229 Hediax5 1 if idaunig 112440 Hediac6 1 if idaunig 112440 Hedian6 1 if idaunig 112440 Hediax6 1 if idaunig 112440 Hedias6 2 if idaunig 107705 Hediac8 2 if idaunig 107705 Henmst 1 if idaunig 107705 Hedian8 4 if idaunig 107705 Hepbs 1 if idaunig 105909 Hediac8 2 if idaunig 105909 Henmst 1 if idaunig 105909 Hedian8 4 if idaunig 105909 Hepbs 1 if idaunig 105919 Hedian8 4 if idaunig 111905 Hediac8 2 if idaunig 111905 Henmst 1 if idaunig 111905 Hedian8 4 if idaunig 111905 Hepbs 1 if idaunig 111225 Hediac8 2 if idaunig 111225 Henmst 1 if idaunig 111225 Hedian8 4 if idaunig 111225 Hepbs 1 if idaunig 111225 Hehibpbl 1 if idaunig 120184 Hediac9 1 if idaunig 120184 Hedias9 8 if idaunig 105046 Hedias 2 if idaunig 105046 hemdab 1 if idaunig 107111 Hediac2 2 if idaunig 107111 Hedias2 1 if idaunig 117996 Hediac3 2 if idaunig 117996 Hedian3 4 if idaunig 117996 Henmmi 1 if idaunig 117996 Hehrtmd 1 User Guide if idaunig 105003 if idaunig 105003 If idaunig 105003 if idaunig 106912 if idaunig 106912 if idaunig 106912 if idaunig 106912 if idaunig 107660 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 117106 if idaunig 120064 if idaunig 120064 if idaunig 107349 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 103874 if idaunig 1
44. LT15 Annual usual take home pay Annual usual take home wpupayr main job bracket result pay bracket result wpupa wpupa MinV16 Oth pd usual take home pay Oth pd usual take home wpupaol main job bracket min pay bracket min value value wpupa wpupa MaxV16 Oth pd usual take home pay Oth pd usual take home wpupaou main job bracket max pay bracket max value value wpupa wpupa EntPt16 Oth pd usual take home pay Oth pd usual take home wpupaoe main job bracket entry point wpupa pay bracket entry point wpupa User Guide 45 RESLT16 Oth pd usual take home pay Oth pd usual take home wpupaor main job bracket result pay bracket result wpupa wpupa WpPayA Interviewer How accourate Interviewer How accurate do you think the answers do you think the answers given by respondent were given by respondent were WPCRA What is the compulsor 9 Compulsory retirement age p 1 retirement age WPCRetL Would you like to work Would like to work beyond paka beyond the compulsory the compulsory retirement age 1 retirement age if employer g let you WpralR Start of most recent period P Start of most recent period p I for which accounts for which accounts prepared prepared for Inland for Inland Revenue yr Revenue year WpralM Start of most recent period pa Start of
45. UK Data Archive Study Number 5050 English Lon gitudinal Study of A geing NatCen National Centre for Social Research English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ELSA Wave 3 Core Dataset Phase 2 Deposit User Guide Version 2 Authors Susan Nunn Kate Cox Natasha Wood and Shaun Scholes Overview of the Survey 1 1 Background and Aims aai EE EO OE 117 9 3 60 1 2 The Phase Approach to Archiving ELSA Wave 3 esse 2 CRS IC TT EE 2 Survey ee AE EE N 3 2 1 Development and Piloting 3 1 7 7 05 9 3 3 333 3 7 7 7 71 17 7 7 7 77 7 5 0 3 EE EE EE RY HF 7 2 4 2 7 77 7 2 5 Use of Responses from Previous Interviews in the CAPI Feed Forward ese ee ee ee ee ke ee ee ee ke ee 8 Sample Design and Fi ldwWOrK eise eks EE EE ie Ke BAR GER masas Ra See Re 9 3 1 Original Sample u ER AE OE ER 111 111 AE EE 9 ee oe de Oo EA RE FFY FE geu FEN CDY dda I EE Fi 9 3 3 Sample sc EE ER OR EE OR Aten ee nthe EE 10 34 FioldWOrK RE EE EE EE EE adi 11 Dataset In ora le LIAR ee ae Ile Ui ee 3 1 111 4 2 Multi Coded and Dichotomous Variables 4 3 MIMS VIS Ws CU IC ONG FR zs as ee este 5 5 A 3 11
46. WpChgB2 In what ways did you ask to In what ways did you askto wpchbme change your job 2nd mention change your job less mentally User Guide 38 demanding stressful WpChgB3 In what ways did you ask to In what ways did you ask to wpchbhr change your job 3rd change your job fewer mention hours job sharing WpS Do you directly supervise or ili Do you directly supervise any y oe cther people are you directly responsible for any other people 0 1 Description of work as a wpcjag Description of work as a self self employee paid a employee 1st mention salary or wage by an agency 0 2 Description of work as a wpcjdi Description of work as a self self employee sole employee 2nd mention Director of own limited company WpCJb3 Description of work as a wpcjbu Description of work as a self self employee running employee 3rd mention business professional practice WpCJb4 Description of work as a wpcjpa P Description of work as a self P Pap empl v ath mantion self employee partner in Pee business prof practice WpWhyWk1 Reasons for starting work Reason for starting work wpwywmo 1st mention needed the money WpWhyWk2 Reasons for starting work Reason for starting work wpwywoh 2nd mention own health improved WpWhyWk R for startin rk h PILS Reasons for starting work SN 0 tas h
47. alth HE This module was administered to all respondents It covered many different dimensions self reported general health long standing illness or disability eyesight and hearing specific diagnoses and symptoms pain difficulties with activities of daily living ADLs and instrumental activities of daily living IADLs and health behaviours Respondents aged 60 and over were asked about falls and fractures New questions were added about dental health to find out how dental state deteriorates Social Participation SP This module was administered to all respondents It was slightly longer than the Wave 2 SP module and included new questions on use of services e g transport provided by hospitals day centres or meals on wheels Work and Pensions WP This module was administered to all respondents The aim of this module was to update or obtain information on the respondent s current work activities if any and update or obtain information about any new or current pensions that they may have Income and Assets IA At the start of the interview couples were asked whether they kept their finances together or separate DHIASEP If kept together they were considered to be a single financial unit that required only one respondent for the IA module the financial respondent The couple decided who the respondent would be although the interviewer was instructed to suggest to the couple that the per
48. alth or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdpnaa receiving now partner 4th receiving now partner mention Attendance Allowance iaber1 Benefits received in the last Benefits received in the last iaberis year respondent 1st year respondent Income mention Support iaber2 Benefits received in the last Benefits received in the last iaberpc year respondent 2nd year respondent Pension mention Credit iaber3 Benefits received in the last Benefits received in the last iabertc year respondent 3rd year respondent Working mention Tax Credit iaber4 Benefits received in the last Benefits received in the last iaberja year respondent 4th year respondent Job mention Seeker s Allowance iaben1 Benefits receiving now Benefits receiving now iabenis respondent 1st mention respondent Income Support iaben2 Benefits receiving now Benefits receiving now iabenpc respondent 2nd mention respondent Pension Credit iaben3 A Benefits receiving now iabentc Benefits receiving now respondent 8rd mention Tr Credit iaben4 vei Benefits receiving now iabenja Benefits receiving now mention respondent Job Seeker s Allowance iat37 Benefit block type iabep1 tec v diniisl i Benefits received in the last iabepis year partner 1st mention yaan parneringome Support iabep2 EE ET the last Benefits received in the last iabeppc year
49. ance bracket result wpmhi User Guide 49 iahdr1 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdrib received in the last year rec in the last year respondent 1st mention Incapacity Benefit iahdr2 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdrsd received in the last year rec in the last year Severe respondent 2nd mention Disablement Allowance iahdr3 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdrsp received in the last year rec in the last year respondent 3rd mention Statutory Sick Pay iahdr4 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdraa received in the last year rec in the last year respondent 4th mention Attendance Allowance iahdr5 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdrdl received in the last year rec in the last year respondent 5th mention Disability Living Allowance iahdn1 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdnib receiving now respondent receiving now Incapacity 1st mention Benefit iahdn2 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdnsd receiving now respondent receiving now Severe 2nd mention Disablement Allowance iahdn3 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdnsp receiving now respondent receiving now Statutory 3rd mention Sick Pay iahdn4 Health or disability benefits Health or disability be
50. articipated henmst In Wave 3 applies to those who reported stroke at hediaa and to those who had previously reported stroke and did not know deny ever having it The reference period is the last 2 years In Wave 2 it only applied to those who reported at hediaa and had been a participant at Wave 1 In Wave 2 respondents were asked about number of strokes since the wave 1 interview hehrtmd This is similar to question hehrtb in Wave 2 but the eligibility very slightly different includes those who had codes 2 or 3 at hedian hediam1 9 Code 4 is new in Wave 3 to differentiate those who may have previously been mis recorded as having the disease because of respondent or interviewer error and those who had previously believed they had the disease but now say that this was a mis diagnosis Although code 4 suggests that there was a change of mind by clinicians it is possible that the respondent had interpreted the clinician s diagnosis wrongly All those who used code 2 at question hediam no longer also said that did not have the condition last time interviewed hediamx not archived if they said they did then the interviewer recoded hediad to code 1 hedids Those who have previously reported the following conditions and not since denied every having the diagnoses are not asked if they still have the condition psychiatric conditions Alzheimer s Disease In Wave 2 this guestion was asked for these conditions
51. ave 1 murmur diagnosis hedian5 Reason disputed heart Reason disputed heart hedanhm murmur diagnosis from wave murmur diagnosis fed 1 forward hedias5 Whether still has heart Whether still has heart hedashm murmur at wave 2 murmur hediaw6 Which cardiovascular hedawar condition from wave 1 Diagnosed abnormal heart referred to abnormal heart rhythm fed forward rhythm hediac6 Whether confirms abnormal I hedacar Whether confirms abnormal heart rhythm recorded in heart rhythm diagnosis wave 1 hedian6 Reason disputed abnormal Reason disputed abnormal hedanar heart rhythm diagnosis from wave 1 heart rhythm diagnosis fed forward User Guide 31 hedias6 Whether still has abnormal Whether still has abnormal hedasar heart rhythm at wave 2 heart rhythm hediaw7 Which cardiovascular hedawdi PHA a Diagnosed diabetes or high condition from wave 1 blood sugar fed forward referred to diabetes hediac7 Whether confirms diabetes hedacdi Whether confirms diabetes or high blood sugar recorded in wave 1 i diagnosis hedian7 Reason disputed diabetes hedandi soan Reason disputed diabetes I P diagnosis from wave 1 GS g diagnosis fed forward hediaw8 Which cardiovascular hedawst ac Diagnosed stroke fed condition from wave 1 forward referred to a stroke hediac8 Whether confirms stroke Whether confirms stroke hedacst recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hedian8 Reas
52. ch to Archiving ELSA Wave 3 The data that this User Guide refers to is ELSA Wave 3 Phase 2 Version 2 It has become necessary to deposit a new version of this data as whilst updating our information for the ELSA Index File we discovered a small number of duplicate cases from HSE 2001 HSE 2001 was the only overlapping year between the samples for Wave 1 and Wave 3 The duplication arose where a household had been selected for ELSA twice once for Wave 1 Core Sample and again for Wave 3 Refreshment Sample In total 37 households were affected by this issue Each of these households was considered in turn with decisions made about which set of identifiers should be kept Broadly speaking if a household had been issued for Wave 1 then these identifiers and where applicable data given on behalf of the household were kept in favour of the Wave 3 identifiers and data This explains why there are now 12 cases in the file which in this version have an IDAUNIQ beginning with a 7 Normally this would indicate that they were ineligible for interview but it in fact means that they were in a household with someone who had already been sampled at Wave 1 They were assigned these identifiers by virtue of being present in those households but not being eligible for interview in their own right until Wave 3 The latest version of the ELSA Index File contains variables called PREV IDA and PREV_HHW3 which give the identifiers that these cases we
53. d to become the refreshment pilot sample from HSE 2000 The pilots tested the fieldwork procedure and interview content Details of Survey Content As with previous waves the Wave 3 main survey comprised a personal face to face interview and a self completion questionnaire Overall the intention in Wave 3 was to collect data about the same topics as in Wave 2 There were however some additions to the content of the interview to respond to new areas of enquiry Some questions from Wave 2 were omitted as it was decided that they did not need to be asked at every wave Furthermore several elements of the questionnaire were amended to take account of responses given at the previous wave The ELSA program allowed flexibility in administering the interview Respondents could be interviewed individually or in houses with more than one eligible respondent interviewed at the same time in a single session using concurrent interviewing techniques In a concurrent session see Survey Module Identifiers section below the same block of questions was asked alternately of each person Concurrent interviews tended to be quicker than two separate individual interview sessions and were generally more convenient for respondents ELSA Wave 3 has adopted the use of dependent interviewing in many of its modules as at previous waves The technique is also called feeding forward data It is a technique that feeds responses individuals made at earlier interv
54. ded in last rent 3 rent payment warden or payment 4th mention porter hoinca5 Services included in last hoinas Services included in last rent ayment 5th mention rent payment security pay service guard hoinam1 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoinamme payment 1st mention rent payment meals merged var merged var hoinam2 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoinamgd payment 2nd mention rent payment gardening merged var merged var hoinam3 Services included in lastrent Services included in last hoinamcl payment 3rd mention rent payment cleaning merged var merged var hoinam4 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoinamwp payment 4th mention rent payment warden or merged var porter merged var hoinam5 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoinamsg payment 5th mention rent payment security merged var service guard merged var hohb1 Services included with hohbme Services included with accommodation 1st accommodation meals mention hohb2 Services included with hohbga Services included with g accommodation 2nd i accommodation a garden mention hohb3 Services included with hohbcl I Services included with accommodation 3rd accommodation cleaning mention hohbm1 Services included with Services included with hohbmme accommodation 1st accommodation meals mention merged var
55. difficulties are covered by these guestions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them User Guide 29 7 4 hehpt1 In Wave 3 separate questions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the difficulties are covered by these questions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them hehpm1 In Wave 3 separate questions about help are asked depending on the difficulties reported In Waves 1 and 2 this distinction was not made Note that not all the difficulties are covered by these questions so those who only had the difficulties that were not covered were not asked who helped them Variables With a Different Name or Label to Wave 2 The table below shows all variables that have either a different variable name or different variable label to Wave 2 This table includes but is not exclusive to the sets of variables that were previously deposited as multi codes but are now deposited as dichotomous The first column of the table shows the variable name as it appears in the CAPI interview program The next two columns show the variable labels that were archived at Wave 2 and Wave 3 and the last column shows the name of the variable as it is archived here if different from that in the first column Variable name Wave 2 archived var
56. e erie ime the time during past week during the past week gP PScedF Whether respondent enjoyed Whether enjoyed life much life much of the time during of the time during past the past week week PScedG Wheth dent felt sad i y ND ss oF Whether felt sad much of much of the time during the the time during past week past week PScedH Whether respondent could Whether could not get not get going much of the going much of the time time during the past week during past week f H lification FQQUAD vate Further gualifications Ss a I Degree degree level obtained since last interview y gualification incl higher 1st mention degree f 2 Furth lificati FGGUAT J ne Rot 0 Qualification Teaching ee is obtained since last ER qualification interview2nd mention fqqual3 Further qualifications Qualification Nursing FQQUANur obtained since last SRN SCM SEN RGN interview3rd mention RM RHV Midwife fgauazm1 fot se Qualification FQQUMDe aq Further qualifications g Degree degree level obtained since last interview N K I Het mention merged van qualification incl higher 9 degree merged fqquazm2 Further qualifications 7 FQQUMTea y I I Qualification Teaching obtained since last interview Ne an marsu 2nd mention merged var q 9 mmsaf Whether interviewer feels it is Whether interviewer feels it User Guide 59 safe to continue is safe to do walking test
57. e carried out between May 2006 and August 2007 This data can be analysed cross sectionally or longitudinally in conjunction with data from ELSA Waves 1 and 2 and HSE Wave 0 data all of which are available from the UK Data Archive The ELSA Wave 3 interview covered a wide range of topics It was similar to the questionnaire used in Wave 2 although every module was reviewed to ensure that it would provide data that measured change over time This was achieved by repeating some measures exactly by asking directly about change and by adapting questions to allow people to update or amend past responses The Wave 3 interview was also expanded to answer a variety of additional research questions The new items included dental health help with daily activities the respondent may receive access and use of both public and private transport and questions on the state pensions forecasts that have been sent out by the government User Guide 1 1 2 1 3 The aim of ELSA is to study a sample of people aged 50 and over As the study progresses all of our respondents get older and our sample effectively ages therefore the youngest people need to be replaced as they are no longer represented In order that our sample continues to be representative new people from HSE Health Survey for England 2001 2004 were sampled The people selected for this additional sample were people aged 50 to 53 and their older younger partners The Phase Approa
58. e from work bracket Income from work bracket wpwlyye entry point wpwlyy entry point wpwlyy RESLT Income from work bracket Income from work bracket wpwlyyr result wpwlyy result wpwlyy WpllsY Yaar sighted last eb When did your last job start Year WpllsM Month started last job When did your last job start Month WplljY vesi 0 1 When did your last job end Year WplljM When did your last job Month last job ended end Month WpYStpM Main reason for stopping What was your main working reason for stopping work WpNChg1 Way in which work could Ways work could have wpnchph have been changed to allow changed less physically you to continue 1st mention demanding WpNChg2 Way in which work could Waveworkcedld have wpnchme have been changed to allow 2 changed less mentally demanding stressful mention WpNChg3 Way in which work could Ways work could have wpnchhr have been changed to allow changed fewer hours job you to continue 3rd mention sharing WpNChgM1 Way in which work could Ways work could have wpnchmph have been changed to allow changed less physically you to continue 1st mention demanding merged var WpNChgM2 Way in which work could Ways work could have wpnchmme have been changed to allow changed less mentally you to continue 2nd demanding stressful mention merged var WpNChgM3 Way in which work could Ways work could have wpnchmhr have been chang
59. e two respondents then switched places The questionnaire modules are listed below in the order programmed in the CAPI interview Most of the names of the variables including derived variables in each of the modules start with the User Guide 3 same two letter module prefix Shown in the brackets below However there are a small number of variable names that do not follow this convention Household Demographics DH One person answered the household demographics module on behalf of the household It was used to collect basic demographic information about everyone living in the household The composition of the household given at Wave 2 or HSE for the refreshment sample was proactively fed forward and the interviewer checked if all the people were still present in the household and if their details were correct The ELSA program determined the eligibility for the ELSA interview for each person in the household see Sample Design section Note that information provided by the respondent to these questions is copied onto the data for other members of the household Individual Demographics DI This module is at the start of the ELSA individual interview Each respondent was asked details about their legal marital status living children including adopted foster and stepchildren number of grandchildren and great grandchildren number of siblings and their own circumstances in childhood if not answered previously He
60. e used in the routing and question wording i e textfills For example if a respondent reported that they had an eye condition e g cataract at Wave 2 they were asked particular questions at Wave 3 to find out if they still had this condition HEOPC HEOPN HEOPX HEOPS User Guide 8 3 1 3 2 Sample Design and Fieldwork Original Sample The ELSA sample has been designed to represent people aged 50 and over living in private households in England Three years of the Health Survey for England HSE were originally selected as the sampling frame 1998 1999 and 2001 These years were chosen because they were recent and could provide a sufficiently large sample size ELSA used the core samples for these years all of which were nationally representative The HSE 1999 sample design also included a boost sample that represented ethnic minorities Because of funding constraints it was not possible to follow up the boost sample and it was discarded Together these three HSE years contained 23 132 responding households Households were removed from the HSE sampling frame for ELSA Wave 1 if it was known that there was no adult of 50 years or older in the household who had agreed to be re contacted at some time in the future Individuals in the remaining households provided the basis for the ELSA Wave 1 sample 11 578 households containing 18 813 eligible individuals The Wave 1 Technical Report available from the Data Archive provides more
61. ealth of friend relative 3rd mention improved WpWhyWk4 R for starti k Pr Reasons for starting work ca a Bik ER for enjoyment company at 4th mention work WpWhyWk R for starti rk Reasons for starting work es mg WN AG was able to find a suitable 5th mention job WpWhyW18 Reason for starting work wpwywmoh PE Reasons for starting work g PAD merged var own health 3rd mention merged var improved WpWhyW1 R for starti ork h DIS Reasons for starting work saat 00 DE id 4th mention merged var ego 9 friend relative improved WpWhyW20 Reason for starting work wpwywmen Reasons for starting work merged var for 5th mention merged var enjoyment company at work WpHwrk Hours worked per week in Hours worked per week inc Current job inc doing the doing the books VAT etc books VAT etc self employed WpWlym Weeks in employment or Weeks in employment or self employment in last 12 self employment in last 12 User Guide 39 months inc paid leave months inc partial weeks WpWlyy How much did income from How much did gross work amount to in the last income from work amount year to in the last year MinV Income from work bracket Income from work bracket wpwlyyl min value wpwlyy min value wpwlyy MaxV Income from work bracket Income from work bracket wpwlyyu max value wpwlyy max value wpwlyy EntPt Incom
62. ed had explicitly asked not to be re contacted at the end of their first ELSA interview had left Britain or had moved into an institution Ex partners of core members will only be followed up once after leaving the core member s household This deposit of the Wave 3 data contains from the original sample 7535 core members 91 core partners 312 younger partners 74 new partners found at previous Waves and 26 new partners found at this Wave For the refreshment sample this deposit contains 1275 core members 142 older partners 295 younger partners and 21 new partners found at this Wave At Wave 3 two further types of interview were conducted with specific sub populations An end of life interview also referred to as Exit interview was sought with a relative friend or carer of any core members who had died since responding to the first ELSA interview The data from this interview will be deposited separately sometime in 2010 An institution interview was sought with core members who had moved from a private household after the first ELSA interview into a residential care home or similar institution or with a proxy who could respond on their behalf See Section 2 4 for more details about the institution interview Fieldwork Fieldwork for Wave 3 of ELSA began in May 2006 and spanned 15 months finishing in August 2007 Each eligible individual within a household was sent an advance letter inviting them to take part Inte
63. ed to allow changed fewer hours job you to continue 3rd mention sharing merged var WpNChgB1 Ways in which ddkod to In what Ways ald you ask to wpnchbph change job 1st mention CHAWS VOo Ess physically demanding WpNChgB2 In what ways did you ask to wpnchbme Ways in which asked to change your job less change job 2nd mention mentally demanding stressful WpNIC Currently pay National Do you currently pay User Guide 40 Insurance conts inc any that are paid on your behalf National Insurance conts inc any paid on your behalf WpNlmw Ever paid NI conts at Ever paid NI conts at reduced rate for married reduced rate for married women known as the half women known as the half stamp stamp WpLimWk Health problem limits the Health problem limits the kind amount of work in your kind amount of work you current job can do in your current job WpChgD1 Way employer changed work Ways work has changed wpchdph to make it easier to work 1st I ss phyeically deinanding mention WpChgD2 Way employer changed work Ways work has changed wpchdme to make it easier to work less mentally 2nd mention demanding stressful WpChgD3 Way employer changed work Nave ware has changed wpchdhr to make it easier to work 3rd fewer hours job sharing mention WpChgDM1 Way employer changed work Ways work has changed wpchdmph to make it easier to work 1st less physicall
64. er partners if in the refreshment sample These have now been reclassified as core members belonging to the refreshment sample Note however that they have been assigned zero cross sectional weights see Section 5 1 Potential eligible sample members mistakenly not issued at Wave 3 will be followed up for interview at Wave 4 User Guide 9 Sample Types Within households there were five different types of individual who were eligible to be invited to take part in the study core sample members core partners younger partners older partners and new partners The variables SAMPSTA and FINSTAT give an indication of the sample type and final status respectively of each respondent Each type of respondent is described in Box 1 The Wave 1 interview took place in 2002 2003 and provided the baseline for the study Eligible sample members who responded at this stage were renamed core members to distinguish them as the core element of the continuing ELSA sample They were eligible for the main interview in Wave 2 unless they had since died had explicitly asked not to be re contacted at the end of an ELSA interview or had moved out of Britain Therefore unlike Wave 1 respondents were eligible if they had moved to Wales or Scotland This same rule applied again for Wave 3 Several other categories of individuals were also eligible for an interview at Wave 3 These were the partners of core members core partners new partners yo
65. ered the module e Household Demographics DHRESP e Income and Assets IAPID e Housing HOPID Where modules were answered by one person on behalf of others information was copied directly to the other member s of the household or financial unit User Guide 14 4 5 4 6 4 7 Age DHDOBYR and DHAGER provide the date of birth and age of respondents recorded in the household grid Note that respondents may not have provided this information themselves as anyone in the household can complete the household grid All respondents aged 90 or over have been given the following values for these variables for confidentiality reasons DHDOBYR 7 and DHAGER 99 DIAGR is the age given in the individual interview Again all respondents aged 90 or over have been given a value of 99 for this variable for confidentiality reasons DIAGR 99 INDOBYR is derived from the date of birth variables from the household grid DHDOB not archived and individual interview DIDBN not archived If the variable from the individual session was answered DIDBNY then this value was used otherwise the value from the household grid DHDOB was used in the derivation INDOBYR provides the year of date of birth only the day and month of birth have been dropped from the dataset to retain confidentiality INDAGER is computed from date of birth INDOB not archived and date of interview INTDAT not archived All respondents over age 90 have been classified as
66. evious waves Therefore there was a variable for the respondent s first response to the question second response and so on Each variable had the following answer options Buy your first choices of food items Have family and friends round for a drink or meal Have an outfit to wear for social or family occasions Keep your home in a reasonable state of decoration Much better off Pay for fares or other transport costs to get to and from places you want to go Buy presents for friends or family once a year Take the sorts of holidays you want Treat yourself from time to time OMAN O Q User Guide 13 4 3 4 4 96 None of these As of Wave 3 the data will be outputted as dichotomous variables so there is a variable for each response category for that guestion which shows whether or not the respondent gave that response The variables in the data are now EXRELEFO Things interviewee is not able to do because of having too little money Buy your first choices of food items EXRELEME Things interviewee is not able to do because of having too little money Have family and friends round for a drink or meal EXRELEOU Things interviewee is not able to do because of having too little money Have an outfit to wear for social or family occasions EXREL96 Things interviewee is not able to do because of having too little money None of these These guestions now have much simpler answer options of 0 Not mentioned
67. ged var was first job found wpwyjmlo Reason for taking this job merged var local nearer to home wpwyjmbc Reason for taking this job merged var better conditions and benefits wpwyjmto Reason for taking this job merged var company taken over departmental reorganisation wpwyjmch Reason for taking this job merged var bored wanted a change wpwyjmmo Reason for taking this job merged var needed money earn extra on retirement wpwyjmhh Reason for taking this job merged var was offered the job head hunted wpwyjmph Reason for taking this job merged var less physically demanding stressful wpwyjmhf Reason for taking this job merged var to help out friend relative institution wpwyjm85 Reason for taking this job merged var other answer not codeable 1 18 User Guide 24 Reason for taking this job merged var irrelevant response Whether respondent is able to do prospective memory test Letter cancellation task row reached 1 26 Letter cancellation task column reached 1 30 Letter cancellation task number correctly marked 0 65 Letter cancellation task number missed 0 65 Letter cancellation task Computed 30 NROW 1 NCLM Whether answer to MMAID was recoded post interview from text answer Outcome of core self completion chefla Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether fallen down in the last two I 00 chefrac Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether ever fract
68. he cross sectional weighting for the refreshment sample was complicated by the initial omission of persons born between 1 March 1952 and 28 February 1953 As mentioned in Section 4 103 individuals originally classified as younger or older partners have been reclassified as core members These individuals however have been given a zero cross sectional weight as they do not represent a random sample of persons in HSE 2001 2004 born during this year A non zero weight will be assigned to these cases at Wave 4 as we intend to go back to the cases mistakenly excluded from the sampling For each group the cross sectional weighting aimed to correct for sub group differences in the propensity to respond The final step in the calculation of the cross sectional weight involved computing a scaling factor to ensure that the combined sample of the original and refreshment samples were represented in the same proportions in which they appear in the population taken from the 2006 household population estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics User Guide 20 6 Contact details ELSA Data Manager Susan Nunn E mail susan nunn natcen ac uk Telephone 020 7250 1866 User Guide 21 7 1 7 2 Appendices Other ELSA Files Deposited at UK Data Archive There is now a separate document which has been deposited containing a table showing the ELSA data and documentation currently or prospectively available from the UK Data
69. he questionnaire including administrative variables other derived variables and variables fed forward from Wave 2 The main group of respondents for analysis is the core members Data on partners i e core younger older and new partners can be used as characteristics of the core members i e to provide supplementary information but these partners should not be analysed as individuals in their own right The ineligible partners are unrepresentative and any analysis using them would need to be unweighted User Guide 12 4 1 4 2 Serial Numbering Constant Serial Numbers All the ELSA data files deposited in the archive contain a unique individual analytical serial number IDAUNIQ to enable users to link the different files Each respondent will have a unique value for IDAUNIQ which will remain constant Wave specific household serial number The five digit household serial number IDAHHW3 was randomly generated for the archived dataset and does not relate to the serial number used during interviewing The dataset for each wave of ELSA including Wave 0 i e HSE contains a different set of household serial numbers IDAHHWO IDAHHW1 etc It is necessary to have a different household serial number for each wave as respondents can change households between waves An Index File is available from the Data Archive which enables data users to link the household serial numbers in order to compare data for each respondent and hou
70. heaviest day on day last week when drank the most User Guide 61 7 5 scabslc Number of large cans or bottles of strong beer drunk on heaviest day Large cans bottles of strong beer drunk on day last week when drank the most scabssc Number of small cans or Cans bottles of strong beer bottles of strong beer drunk drunk on day last week on heaviest day when drank the most scaspir Glasses of spirit liguor A Number of glasses of spirits ae drunk on heaviest da RM 0 y when drank the most scasher Glasses of sherry martini Number of glasses of sherry dain nho ga drunk on day last week y when drank the most scawin I Glasses of wine drunk on Number of glasses of wine day last week when drank drunk on heaviest day the most scapopg Number of small cans or Bottles cans of alcopops bottle of alcopops drunk on heaviest day drunk on day last week when drank the most Changes Made to the Data as a Result of Interviewer Notes This section specifies the changes that were made to individual responses as a result of notes made by the interviewer lt is written in the form of SPSS syntax Please note that variable names are as cited in the questionnaire and not as they have been re named prior to archiving so some but not all will differ if idauniq 117580 mmwlka 8 if idaunig 105070 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 105528 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 105656 mmrecr 1 if idaunig 10682
71. heir life is In most ways his her life is close to ideal close to his her ideal sclifeb The conditions of their life The conditions of his her are excellent life are excellent sclifec The respondent is satisfied Is satisfied with his her life with their life sclifed So far the respondent has So far he she has got the got the important things they important things wants in want in life life sclifee If the respondent could live If could live his her life their life again they would again would change change almost nothing almost nothing scdca Respondent feels they have At home feels has control control over what happens in over what happens in most most situations at home situations scdcc Respondent feels what Feels what happens in life happens in life is set by is often determined by User Guide 60 factors beyond their control factors beyond his her control scdcd Respondent feels they have In general has different different demands which are demands that thinks are hard to combine hard to combine scdce Respondent feels they have In general has enough enough time to do everything time to do everything scdcg Respondent thinks they work Considering the things has very fast considering what to do at home has to work they have to do at home very fast sclddr Self perceived social status Self perceived subjective of respondent on ladder social status
72. hese do you or ialoanod Current loans respondent your spouse currently owe I or spouse overdraft money 3rd mention ialoan4 On which of these do you or Current loans respondent ialoanmo your spouse currently owe or spouse cataloue mail money 4th mention order purchase agreements hoincl1 Charges included in last hoinclwa Charges included in last rent q ayment 1st mention pO eter pay charges hoincl2 Charges included in last rent Charges included in last hoinclse payment 2nd mention rent payment sewerage User Guide 52 charges hoincl3 Charges included in last hoinclla Charges included in last rent rent payment land or payment 3rd mention l business premises hoincl4 I Charges included in last hoinclga Charges included in last rent U g rent payment separate payment 4th mention garage hoincl5 I Charges included in last hoinclhe Charges included in last rent I ayment 5th mention Py lighting or hot water hoinca1 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoiname payment 1st mention rent payment meals hoinca2 Services included in lastrent Services included in last hoinagd payment 2nd mention rent payment gardening hoinca3 Services included in last rent Services included in last hoinacl payment 3rd mention rent payment cleaning hoinca4 Services included in last hoinaw Services inclu
73. iable Wave 3 archived variable Wave 3 archived in interview label label variable name heopn1 Reason disputed glaucoma Reason disputed glaucoma heopngl diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward heopn2 Reason disputed diabetic Reason disputed diabetic heopndi eye disease diagnosis from eye disease diagnosis fed wave 1 forward h R disputed lar heo d ju Reason disputed glaucoma Gu eu AA 2 _ x eee degeneration diagnosis fed diagnosis from wave 1 forward heopn4 Reason disputed cataract Reason disputed cataract heopnca diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward h 1 Di iti heoptgl eopt iagnosed eye condition eoptg newly reported at W2 1st d newly reported mention h 2 Di iti heoptdi eopt iagnosed eye condition evsididbetic EE disdace eoptdi newly reported at W2 2nd diagnosis newly reported mention hediaw E N cardiovascular Diagnosed high bleed hedawbp condition from wave 1 referred to high BP P hediac Whether confirms high blood Whether confirms high hedacbp pressure recorded in wave 1 blood pressure diagnosis hedian Reason disputed high blood Reason disputed high hedanbp pressure diagnosis from blood pressure diagnosis wave 1 fed forward hedias Whether still has high blood Whether still has high blood hedasbp User Guide 30 pressure at wave 2 pressure hediaw2 Which cardiovascular
74. id not distinguish if it for right or left hip User Guide 28 hepawh1 hebck The questions on pain were reorganised in Wave 3 In Wave 3 the questions hebck hehip hekne hefet are only asked if the respondent has already indicated pain in that part of the body or all over In Waves 1 and 2 they were asked of all who reported pain at hepain Hence the question now applies to a subset of those to whom it previously applied hepac This set of questions not asked of all those who might have been eligible owing to error in question Heart routing heknea This set of questions not asked of all those who might have been eligible owing to error in question Heart routing heand1 This question is not part of the standard Rose angina sequence but was included because of problems with knowing whether those who report never cannot walking do experience chest pain that might indicate angina The reference is to walking at an ordinary pace on level ground if the answer to heanc is code 4 otherwise to walking uphill herpd In Wave 3 excluded those who had answered question heanb and said could not work herpe1 This guestion is not part of the standard MRC respiratory sequence but was included because of problems with knowing whether those who report never cannot walk do experience being short of breath The reference is to walking with people of own age on level ground if herpe coded 3 otherwise to uphill
75. ids used Aids used cane or walking heaidca disability 1st mention stick heaid2 Walking aids used Aids used zimmer frame or heaidzi disability 2nd mention walker heaid3 Walking aids used Aids used manual heaidmw disability 8rd mention wheelchair heaid4 Walking aids used Aids used electric heaidew disability 4th mention wheelchair heaid5 Walking aids used Aids used bugoy or heaidbu disability 5th mention scooter heskd Whether confirms smoking Whether confirms smoking recorded in wave 1 recorded at last interivew heske Reason disputed reported Reason disputed reported smoking from wave 1 smoking at last interview SPCar Whether respondent has of car or van when needed use ore ie either as driver passenger 6 passenger SPTraB1 Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBUna transport more often 1st not use public transport mention none is available SPTraB2 Reason respondent does SPTrBDes Reasons for not using public not use public transport transport more often 2nd mention does not go where they want to SPTraB3 Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBExp transport more often 3rd not use public transport it mention is too expensive SPTraB4 Reasons for not using public Reason respondent does SPTrBUnr transport more often 4th not use public transport it mention is unreliable SPTraB5
76. iews to either aid recall and or improve consistency of responses across interviews ELSA uses proactive dependent interviewing i e earlier responses are provided to the individual before they respond to a question rather than reactive dependent interviewing when the earlier response is used after the individual has responded as a form of validation Dependent interviewing was used to check some information collected during previous waves or HSE to determine changes in status and to control routing within the questionnaire There were various modules each covering a different area of interest The content and major routing of each module is described below Although interviews tended to follow the same module order some flexibility was given to the interviewer For example the timed walk could be administered at any time after the Health module and it was possible for interviewers to skip the Income and Assets or Housing modules if it was more convenient to do them at another time Five of the modules Cognitive Function Expectations Effort and Reward Psychosocial Health and Final Questions form the private modules block Wherever possible these modules were administered with no other household members present If two respondents were being interviewed concurrently whilst the first respondent was being asked the private block the second responding individual was asked to fill in the self completion in a separate room if possible Th
77. ion muscle hecdf2 Claudication site of pain Claudication pain in thigh hecdfth 2nd mention or buttocks hecdf3 Claudication site of pain 3rd Claudication pain hecdfot mention elsewhere headla1 ADL activity h bpi gadag da AIS prio om Mobility difficulty picking up with due to health physical i 5p coin from table problem 10th mention headlb1 IADL activity h headlph eadlb10 activity has prob emi IADL difficulty making eadlp with due to health physical telephone calls problem 10th mention headlb11 IADL activity h headl eadlb activity has prob an IADL difficulty taking eadlme with due to health physical Bee et problem 11th mention headlb12 IADL activity h headlh on I GI MAS DIOD IADL difficulty doing work ie with due to health physical around house and garden problem 12th mention headlb1 IADL difficult i headl nals IADL activity has problem Ere i T with due to health physical Y g paying bills keeping track problem 13th mention expenses heh Functioning wheth ksi ADL 8 IADL whether ever ER K ED has help with mobility ADL has help with these activities IADL hehpsm96 NB EMPTY at present Said no treatment to help hehsm96 User Guide 36 with physical functioning difficulties hehpc ADL amp IADL usefulness of Physical functioning help usefulness of help heaid1 Walking a
78. itially respond to the study and or to stay in the panel Longitudinal weight The longitudinal weight W3LWGT has been calculated in Wave 3 for the set of 7 168 core members who have responded to all three waves of ELSA and remain living in private households The sequential nature of the weighting means that we attempt to try to reduce any bias arising between each wave of ELSA 2 If non core sample members are to be analysed they should be analysed unweighted 3 That is to say longitudinal weights are based on a sequence of attrition models for each wave which is multiplied by the weight created at the previous wave In this case the weight derived in Wave 3 builds on the Wave 2 weight which in turn built on the weight created in Wave 1 Generally the weights from the last wave of any longitudinal sequence should be used User Guide 19 5 2 As with other longitudinal studies e g The British Household Panel Study or the Families and Children s Study the longitudinal weight is only defined for the subset of cases who have taken part at all waves up to and including the present wave At each wave the fully responding core members are re weighted to take account of the previous wave s respondents lost through refusal at the current wave or through some other form of sample attrition Core members from the original sample who returned to the study at Wave 3 after missing Wave 2 do not therefore have a positive longitudi
79. ly EXHVA and IAFUEL People in institutions who were interviewed by proxy were also not asked questions that non institution proxy informants were not asked see above The household identifiers for those who have moved out of a household and into an institution have been kept the same as for the household they have left rather than being assigned a new one This is only visible in the data where for example one respondent remains in the original household but another has moved into an institution This decision was taken as some modules ask about the household as a whole and it would be confusing especially in the Household Demographics module if a respondent was being referred to who was now in a different household Additionally these modules may be asked of the respondent in the institution or the respondent still remaining in the previous household depending on the circumstances The conceptual issues surrounding the allocation of these individuals income and wealth especially where they have a partner who remains in their previous household are complex and the imputation of financial variables for these individuals has not been attempted Their values are set to 10 for all Financial Derived Variables which are available in a separate dataset from the Data Archive Use of Responses from Previous Interviews in the CAPI Feed Forward In the ELSA Wave 3 program answers given at previous interviews i e Waves 2 or 1 or HSE wer
80. mber of partner User Guide 22 chinhh Whether respondent has a child in the household EE respondent has a grandchild in the household pt the mother of the respondent is in the household ii the father of the respondent is in the household Number of people in household computed No one other than respondent and interviewer in the room ii ii spouse or partner of respondent was also in the room Whether other household member adult was also in the room whoso4 Whether other household member child was also in the room 6 told had psychiatric problems since last interview wc answer to HESTOP was recoded post interview from text answer a answer to WPTAW was recoded post interview from text answer e answer to WPDES was recoded post interview from text answer User Guide 23 wpwyjmpa Reason for taking this job merged var pay was enough wpwyjmho Reason for taking this job merged var hours suited me wpwyjmti Reason for taking this job merged var could arrive leave at times that suited Reason for taking this job merged var to progress my career Reason for taking this job merged var content of job suited me wpwyjmbu Reason for taking this job merged var started own business became self employed wpwyjmfb Reason for taking this job merged var started work in family business Reason for taking this job merged var was only job could get wpwyjmfi Reason for taking this job mer
81. merged var hohbm2 Services included with Services included with hohbmga User Guide 53 accommodation 2nd mention merged var accommodation garden merged var hohbm3 Services included with Services included with hohbmcl accommodation 3rd accommodation cleaning mention merged var merged var hoinc1 Payments included in Payments included in hoincpp mortgage repayment 1st mortgage repayment mention mortgage protection policy hoinc2 Payments included in Payments included in hoincbi mortgage repayment 2nd mortgage repayment mention buildings insurance hoinc3 Payments included in hoincpi Payments included in Y p mortgage repayment mortgage repayment 8rd contents possessions mention insurance hoinc4 Payments included in Payments included in hoincot mortgage repayment 4th mortgage repayment mention other extra payments hoincm1 Payments incl in mortgage hoincm Payments included in y do PP repayment mortgage mortgage repayment 1st I I protection policy merged mention merged var var hoincm2 I Payments included in hoincmbi Payments included in mortgage repayment mortgage repayment 2nd on buildings insurance mention merged var merged var hoincm3 Payments incl in mortgage hoincmpi Payments included in y gag P repayment mortgage repayment 8rd i contents possessions mention merged var insurance merged hoincm4 l Payments
82. min value wpesjm MaxV22 Monthly average net wpesjmu 5 Mnthly average net income I Y 9 i Ps income from other jobs from other jobs bracket max bracket max value value wpesjm wpesjm EntPt22 Monthly average net wpesjme Mnthly average net income s I PS income from other jobs from other jobs bracket oes n bracket entry point yp Pee wpesjm RESLT22 Mnthly average net income Monthly average net wpesjmr from other jobs bracket income from other jobs result wpesjm bracket result wpesjm WpVBus About how much is your p Value of own share of the y share of this business business worth WpBPS In main job does your Does your current employer employer offer a pension offer pension scheme scheme which you could which you are entitled to join join WpAnyP In your main job does your Does your employer offer a employer offer a pension pension scheme to any scheme to any employees employees WpPsm1 Why not a member of wppsot Reasons why not a member employer scheme of the scheme 1st mention preferred or had other arrangement WpPsm2 Why not a member of wppsex YS Reasons why not a member y PP employer scheme of the scheme 2nd mention expected to move job WpEc If you joined would your p Would your employer add to YNO ae employer make your contributions to the oe l contributions to this pension scheme i pension scheme WpExW Expect to get pension from p Whether
83. modation R accommodation rot and 10th mention merged var decay merged var hohave10 Durables owned 10th Durables owned online hohavat mention digital satellite cable TV hohave11 Durables owned 11th Durables owned phone hohavph mention landline hohave12 Durables owned 12th Durables owned DVD hohavdv mention player hohavb10 Durables bought in last 2 hohavbdt Has bought any durables 9 10th mention years CODIO digital satellite cable TV hohavb1 1 Has bought any durables Durables bought in last 2 hohavbph 11th mention years phone landline hohavb12 Has bought any durables Durables bought in last 2 hohavbdv 12th mention years DVD player hooheat Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheagf of heating 1st mention of heating gas fire hoohea2 Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheaef of heating 3rd mention of heating electric fire hoohea3 Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheaph of heating 2nd mention of heating paraffin heaters hoohem1 Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheamgf of heating 1st mention of heating gas fire merged variable merged var hoohem2 Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheamef of heating 3rd mention of heating electric fire merged variable merged var hoohem3 Do you use any other forms Do you use any other forms hoheamph of heating 2nd mention of heati
84. nal weight The 314 core members who fulfil this criterion do however have a positive cross sectional weight which is discussed in the next section Cross sectional weight Longitudinal surveys are often not as useful as cross sectional surveys at providing cross sectional estimates For example compared with estimates from a cross sectional survey cross sectional estimates from a longitudinal survey from Wave 2 onwards may be more likely to suffer from coverage error because the sample was selected longer ago and may not include recent additions to the population of interest such as immigrants Also a longitudinal survey may experience lower response rates than a cross sectional survey Nevertheless in order to support cross sectional analysis of the Wave 3 data a cross sectional weight was derived that allows for the inclusion of new entrants refreshment sample core members who by definition do not have a longitudinal weight A number of core members from the original sample also returned to the study at Wave 3 after missing Wave 2 wave non respondents All core members responding at Wave 3 can be described as the combined sample The cross sectional weight W3XWGT defined for the combined sample at Wave 3 was calculated separately for the following groups e The original sample fully responding cases and those who returned to the study at Wave 3 after missing Wave 2 e The refreshment sample chosen from HSE 2001 2004 T
85. nce tae interview heaghry Year told bad Ee Year told nae psychiatric problems in last 2 years popes Since interview hepsy1 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsyha 1st mention hallucinations hepsy2 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsyan 2nd mention anxiety hepsy3 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsyde 3rd mention depression hepsy4 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsyem 4th mention emotional problems hepsy5 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsysc 5th mention schizophrenia hepsy6 Type of psychiatric problem Psychiatric problem has hepsyps 6th mention psychosis heagir Month told had Alzheimer s Month told had Alzheimer s Disease in last 2 years Disease since last interview heagiry Year told had Alzheimer s Year told had Alzheimer s Disease in last 2 years Disease since last interview heagjr Month told had dementia in Month told had dementia last 2 years since last interview heagjry Year told had dementia in Year told had dementia last 2 years since last interview hebck Back pain rating walking on Back pain rating walking on flat surface flat surface hehip Hip pain rating walking on Hip pain rating walking on flat surface flat surface hekne Knee pain rating walking on Knee pain rating walking on flat surface flat surface hefet Foot pain rating walking on Foot pain rating walking on flat surface flat surface heani1
86. nefits iahdnaa receiving now respondent receiving now Attendance 4th mention Allowance iahdn5 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdndl receiving now respondent receiving now Disability 5th mention Living Allowance iahdp1 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdpib received in the last year received in the last year partner 1st mention partner Incapacity Benefit iahdp2 Health disability benefits Hlth disability benefits rec iahdpsd received in the last year in last year partner Severe partner 2nd mention Disablement Allowance iahdp3 Health disability benefits Health disability benefits iahdpsp received in the last year received in the last year partner 3rd mention partner Statutory Sick Pay PRO Health disability benefits P i si papas received in the last year received tie lash year partner Attendance partner 4th mention Allowance iahdpn1 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdpnib receiving now partner 1st receiving now partner mention Incapacity Benefit iahdpn2 teal ordicability beneits Hith pr 0 benefits iahdpnsd receiving now partner 2nd 47 Peer Severe Disablement mention Allowance User Guide 50 iahdpn3 Health or disability benefits Health or disability benefits iahdpnsp receiving now partner 3rd receiving now partner mention Statutory Sick Pay iahdpn4 He
87. ng paraffin heaters merged variable merged var hofuel1 Fuels used in household for Fuels used in household for hofuelga heating or other purpose 1st heating or other purpose mention mains gas hofuel2 Fuels used in household for Fuels used in household for hofuelel heating or other purpose heating or other purpose 2nd mention electricity hofuel3 Fuels used in household for Fuels used in household for hofuelco heating or other purpose 3rd heating or other purpose User Guide 55 mention coal smokeless fuel hofuel4 Fuels used in household for Fuels used in household for hofuelpa heating or other purpose 4th heating or other purpose mention paraffin bottled gas hofuel5 Fuels used in household for Fuels used in household for hofueloi heating or other purpose 5th heating or other purpose mention oil hovow1 Who owns this 1st car van Who owns this 1st car van 101 1st person Person 1 hovow2 Who owns this 1st car van Who owns this 1st car van hovw102 2nd person Person 2 hovow5 Who owns this 2nd car van Who owns this 1st car van 105 1st person Person 5 hovow6 Who owns this 2nd car van Who owns this 1st car van hovw106 2nd person Person 6 0 9 Who owns this 3rd car van Who owns this 1st car van 10
88. on disputed stroke Reason disputed stroke hedanst diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hediaw9 Which cardiovascular hedawch condition from wave 1 Diagnosed high cholesterol referred to other heart fed forward problem hediac9 Whether confirms other heart Whether confirms high hedacch problem recorded in wave 1 cholesterol diagnosis hedian9 Reason disputed other heart Reason disputed high hedanch problem diagnosis from wave cholesterol diagnosis fed 1 forward hedias9 Whether still has other heart Whether still has high hedasch problem at wave 2 cholesterol heagar Month told had angina in last Month told had angina 2 years since last interview heagary Year told had angina in last 2 Year told had angina since years last interview henmmi Number of heart attacks had Number of heart attacks since last visit had since last interview h Month told had congestive oe Month told had congestive J heart failure since last heart failure in last 2 years I interview heagcr Year told had congestive oy Year told had congestive I heart failure since last heart failure in last 2 years interview heagdr Month told had diabetes or Month told had diabetes or high blood sugar in last 2 high blood sugar since last years interview heagdry Year told had diabetes or Year told had diabetes or high blood sugar in last 2 high blood sugar since last years interview heager Month told had stroke in last Month told had stroke since 2 years
89. ondents except proxies see Proxies section and measured different aspects of the respondent s cognitive function including memory speed and mental flexibility Expectations EX This module was asked privately of all respondents excluding proxies It measured people s expectations in a number of dimensions the level of certainty respondents felt about the future financial decision making within households and the time frame they thought about when making financial decisions In Wave 3 respondents were asked about the extent to which they expect to move out of their current home at some time in the future and those aged 60 or over were asked about the chances that they would move into a nursing home in the next five years Respondents were asked two open questions about the most positive and negative things about growing older although this data has not been archived as the answers are text variables see the Dropped Variables section below Effort and Reward ER User Guide 5 This module which was asked privately of all respondents excluding proxies assesses respondents motivations for doing voluntary work and caring for others and the relationship between effort and reward Psychosocial health PS This module was asked privately of all respondents excluding proxies This module assesses symptoms of depression based on the CES D depression scale There are some additional psychosocial questions
90. previously responded to the Health Survey for England HSE between 1998 and 2004 ELSA is the result of collaboration between University College London the Institute of Fiscal Studies IFS and the National Centre for Social Research NatCen Other academic collaborators based at the Universities of Cambridge Exeter and East Anglia provided expert advice on specific modules Funding for the first four waves of ELSA has been provided by the US National Institute on Aging and a consortium of British Government departments which are listed below e Office for National Statistics e Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs e Department of Health e Department for Transport e Department for Work and Pensions e HM Treasury e HMRC formerly Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise e Communities and Local Government formerly Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Many of the measures adopted in ELSA are comparable with measures used in the US Health Retirement Study HRS and the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe SHARE Every two years we hope to interview the same group of people to measure change in their health economic and social circumstances ELSA can complete the picture of what it means to grow older in the new century and help us understand what accounts for the variety of patterns that are seen This User Guide relates to data deposited for the interviews from the third Wave of ELSA which wer
91. r your spouse spouse money owed by have 4th mention others iaprop5 Which if any of these assets iaproptr prop y Assets held respondent or DEP do you or your spouse 1 have 5th mention P I iaprop6 Which if any of these assets Assets held respondentor iapropin do you or your spouse spouse a convenant or have 6th mention inheritance iapk1 Lump sums received by Lump sums received by iapkli respondent or spouse in the respondent or spouse in last year 1st mention the last year life insurance iapk2 Lump sums received b iapk p Lump sums received by P di BER respondent or spouse in respondent or spouse in the I the last year pension last year 2nd mention payout iapk3 Lump sums received b iapkpa p Lump sums received by P amp PURE I respondent or spouse in respondent or spouse in the last yr personal accident last year 3rd mention plan iapk4 Lump sums received b iapkoi p Lump sums received by p d Er respondent or spouse in respondent or spouse in the last yr other insurance last year 4th mention payout ialoan1 On which of these do you or Current loans respondent ialoanhp your spouse currently owe or spouse hire purchase money 1st mention agreements ialoan2 On which of these do you or ialoanpl youre Current loans respondent p your spouse currently owe or spouse personal loans money 2nd mention ialoan3 On which of t
92. racket min pay bracket min value value wpupa wpupa MaxV13 Fnightly usual take home pay Fnightly usual take home wpupafu main job bracket max pay bracket max value value wpupa wpupa EntPt13 Fnightly usual take home pay Fnightly usual take home wpupafe main job bracket entry pay bracket entry point point wpupa wpupa RESLT13 Fnightly usual take home pay Fnightly usual take home wpupafr main job bracket result pay bracket result wpupa wpupa MinV14 Mnthly usual take home pay Mnthly usual take home wpupaml main job bracket min pay bracket min value value wpupa wpupa MaxV14 Mnthly usual take home pay Mnthly usual take home wpupamu main job bracket max pay bracket max value value wpupa wpupa EntPt14 Mnthly usual take home pay Mnthly usual take home wpupame main job bracket entry pay bracket entry point point wpupa wpupa RESLT14 Mnthly usual take home pay Mnthly usual take home wpupamr main job bracket result pay bracket result wpupa wpupa MinV15 Annual usual take home pay Annual usual take home wpupayl main job bracket min pay bracket min value value wpupa wpupa MaxV15 Annual usual take home pay Annual usual take home wpupayu main job bracket max pay bracket max value value wpupa wpupa EntPt15 Annual usual take home pay Annual usual take home wpupaye main job bracket entry pay bracket entry point point wpupa wpupa RES
93. re previously known under Phase 2 was intended as a replacement for the Phase 1 data that was archived at the end of 2007 We are asking that users delete any copies of the Phase 1 data that they may still hold and replace it with Phase 2 data Whereas Phase 1 data was preliminary in nature Phase 2 data had more data cleaning carried out and more derived summary variables added A number of cases that were omitted from the Phase 1 deposit due to a problem with their data were reinstated Phase 2 data also includes institution interviews see Section 2 4 for more details and re coding of particular values as a result of notes made by the interviewer during the interview Details of this re coding are included as Appendix 7 5 We hope to deposit an updated version of the questionnaire documentation in the first half of 2010 In the meantime please use the version which is currently archived bearing in mind that it may contain errors and is subject to change Ethical Clearance Ethical approval for ELSA Wave 3 was granted from the Multicentre Research and Ethics Committee MREC User Guide 2 2 1 2 2 Survey Content Development and Piloting Two pilots of the computer assisted personal interview CAPI instrument the self completion questionnaire and associated documents were conducted in September 2005 and January 2006 All pilot respondents were drawn from households that participated in the ELSA Wave 1 pilots or were selecte
94. ronic lung disease newly reported at W2 1st diagnosis newly reported mention hediab2 Diagnosed chronic condition I hedibas Chronic asthma diagnosis newly reported at W2 2nd newly reported mention hediab3 Di d chroni diti an hedib j ES ee T Chronic arthritis diagnosis newly reported at W2 3rd i newly reported mention hediab4 Diagnosed chronic condition I hedibos Chronic osteoporosis newly reported at W2 4th l diagnosis newly reported mention heart1 Type of arthritis 1st mention Whether has osteoarthritis heartoa User Guide 34 heart2 Type of arthritis 2nd Whether has rheumatoid heartra mention arthritis heagfr Month told had arthritis in last Month told had arthritis 2 years since last interview heagfry Year told had arthritis in last Year told had arthritis since 2 years last interview heaggr Month told had cancer in last Month told had cancer 2 years since last interview heaggry Year told had cancer in last 2 Year told had cancer since years last interview heprkr Month told had Parkinson s Month told had Parkinson s Disease in last 2 years Disease since last interview heprkry Year told had Parkinson s Year told had Parkinson s Disease in last 2 years Disease since last interview heaghr Month told had psychiatric Month told had psychiatric problems in last 2 years popes mi
95. rviewers then visited or telephoned the households to explain the study and to interview willing individuals straight away or to make appointments to call at a convenient time A number of different approaches were used to encourage participation among the sample see the ELSA Wave 2 and 3 Technical Reports for details User Guide 11 Dataset Information The core dataset has been archived for ELSA Wave 3 This lists cases at an individual level There are 9771 cases in the Phase 2 deposit This differs from the number of cases deposited at Phase 1 and although we have asked that all copies of the Phase 1 data are deleted we still think it is useful to illustrate the differences in the number of cases between the two datasets There are five cases that were in the Phase 1 data but are not in Phase 2 Two of these cases asked that their data be deleted while the remainder had their outcome codes changed as a result of data cleaning and reconciliation and no longer fell under the criteria for archiving There are 58 cases that were not in the Phase 1 data but are in Phase 2 47 of these cases had an institution interview and the remaining 11 cases had problems with their data which have now been resolved There are three cases that have a value in SAMPSTA which may need clarification 101166 101375 and 107830 These are partners who had left the household but subsequently moved back in but they were not issued as part of the Wave 3 sample
96. s hedbmar diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward i Wheth ill h hriti h hedids3 ether still had arthritis at Whather lt tili has Id edbsar wave 2 hedibw4 Which chronic condition from r hedbwos Chronic diagnosed wave 1 referred to osteoporosis fed forward osteoporosis hediad4 Whether confirms hedbdos i Whether confirms osteoporosis recorded in ME osteoporosis diagnosis wave 1 hediam4 Reason disputed Reason disputed hedbmos osteoporosis diagnosis from osteoporosis diagnosis fed wave 1 forward hedids4 Whether still had Chronic Whether still has hedbsos osteoporosis at wave 2 osteoporosis hedibw5 Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed cancer hedbwca wave 1 referred to cancer fed forward hediad5 Whether confirms cancer Whether confirms cancer hedbdca recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam5 Reason disputed cancer Reason disputed cancer hedbmca diagnosis from wave 1 diagnosis fed forward hedids5 Whether still had t hedbsca ees Whether still has cancer wave 2 hedibw6 Which chronic condition from Chronic diagnosed hedbwpd User Guide 33 wave 1 referred to Parkinson s disease Parkinson s Disease fed forward hediad6 Whether confirms Whether confirms hedbdpd Parkinson s disease Parkinson s Disease recorded in wave 1 diagnosis hediam6 Reason disputed Parkinson s Reason disputed hedbmpd disease diagnosis from wave
97. scladdc Whether position of Whether position on ladder respondent on social ladder self perceived social has changed in last two status changed in last 2 years yrs scdri01 Whether respondent drunk Whether drunk normal beer normal beer on the heaviest on day last week when they day drank the most scdri02 Whether respondent drunk Whether drunk strong beer strong beer on the heaviest on day last week when they day drank the most scdri03 Whether drunk Whether respondent drunk spirits liquers on day last spirits on the heaviest day week when they drank the most scdri04 Whether drunk Whether respondent drunk sherry martini on day last sherry on the heaviest day week when they drank the most scdri05 Whether drunk wi d Whether respondent drunk I ee last week when they drank wine on the heaviest day the most scdri06 Whether drunk al Whether respondent drunk EW DU DYDD alcopops on the heaviest da PRP y drank the most scabnp I Pints of normal beer drunk Number of pints of normal on day last week when beer drunk on heaviest day drank the most scabnlc Large cans bottles of Number of large cans or normal beer drunk on day bottles of normal beer drunk last week when drank the on heaviest day most scabnsc Small cans bottles of Number of small cans or normal beer drunk on day bottles of normal beer drunk last week when drank the on heaviest day most scabsp Pints of strong beer drunk Number of pints of strong beer drunk on
98. sehold at different waves Wave specific individual serial number There is no wave specific individual serial number for Wave 3 please use IDAUNIQ instead Person number Each person within the household was given a number starting from 1 at the time of the HSE interview PERID The numbering was continued for new people that entered the household after the HSE interview This number is used for several variables For example it is used to indicate which one of the other people in the household is the respondent s partner see variable CPID or to identify the person in the household that responded to particular questions such as the Income and Assets module see variable IAPID Multi Coded and Dichotomous Variables A major change in the way that ELSA data is archived has occurred with regards to multi coded variables A variable is defined as multi coded if more than one response could be given e g favourite activities are reading and going to the cinema For Wave 3 and beyond such variables will be archived as dichotomous variables with each answer option being coded as mentioned or not mentioned Please note that although the way the data is presented is different no change was made to the way the questions were asked during the interview For example data from the series of questions EXRELEO1 EXRELE10 Whether having too little money stops them from doing things was outputted as multi coded variables at pr
99. self report health variables hegenh also used in the Health Survey for England and hehelf also used in the Health and Retirement Survey USA In Wave 2 hehelf was used alone and in wave 3 hegenh Wave 4 will revert to hehelf heopn1 4 Code 4 is new in Wave 3 to differentiate those who may have previously been mis recorded as having the disease because of respondent or interviewer error and those who had previously believed they had the disease but now say that this was a mis diagnosis Although code 4 suggests that there was a change of mind by clinicians it is possible that the respondent had interpreted the clinician s diagnosis wrongly Anyone who is coded 2 at guestion heopn no longer is also coded 2 at heopx not archived Anyone who said they had the condition at the last interview was recoded to 1 at guestion heopc hediaw The diagnoses fed back to respondents are the ones originally coded or recorded by the interviewer They ignore any recoding of other answers done by coders and included in the previous User Guide 26 hedian1 10 interview s hedizm variables Code 4 is new in Wave 3 to differentiate those who may have previously been mis recorded as having the disease because of respondent or interviewer error and those who had previously believed they had the disease but now say that this was a mis diagnosis Although code 4 suggests that there was a change of mind by clinicians it
100. sive Additionally there is a Mortgage Grid included with the Phase 2 deposit This contains variables relating to mortgages held by the household which were not archived at Phase 1 Each observation is identified by the household identifier IDAHHW3 and a mortgage identifier within that household MID User Guide 15 4 8 4 9 Dropped Variables The following types of variables have been deleted in order to reduce the potential to identify individuals and for other reasons specified below 1 Those containing text 2 Those which contained a personal identifier e g name address 3 Those considered to be disclosive such as e Detailed ethnicity Specific country of birth Full interview date Full date of birth e Council tax payments Different councils charge different amounts and therefore the amount may reveal the area the respondent lives in e Water and sewerage charges These vary in different areas and therefore the amount may reveal the area the respondent lives in 4 Timing variables which give the time at specific points in the interview used for administration purposes 5 Variables that only contain missing values excluded because not useful Such variables have only been kept if they are integral to the structure of the data There are no geographical variables in the archived dataset Wave 3 geographical variables can be requested via the NatCen Data Release Panel Please contact the
101. son car van Person 5 CfWho1 Other person in room 1st No other person presentin cfwhonon mention room CfWho2 Other person in room 2nd Whether spouse or partner cfwhopar mention was present in room CfWho3 Whether other household cfwhoad Other person in room 3rd i mention member was present in room adult CfWho4 Whether other household cfwhochi Other person in room 4th mention member wae present in room child ErCAA Whether respondent looked Whether looked after after anyone in the past week anyone in the past week ErCAB1 Relationship to the person s aher here ErCABsp looked after last week 1st I spouse partner mention ErCAB2 Relationship to the person s ErCABch looked after last week 2nd Looked after her his child mention ErCAB3 Relationship to the person s ei ErCABgc looked after last week 3rd I l grandchild mention ErCAB4 Relationship to the person s ErCABpa looked after last week 4th Looked after her his parent mention ErCAB5 Relationship to the person s Looked after her his parent ErCABpl looked after last week 5th in law User Guide mention ErCABNu1 Number of spouses partners Number of Ercansp respondent looked after in spouses partners looked past week a ter in past week ErCABNu2 Number of child E h LO sa ek K MH Number of children looked anc respondent looked after in after in past week
102. son who answered the IA module at Wave 2 did so again at Wave 3 If their finances were kept separately each person needed to answer the IA module separately and were treated as two separate financial units The type of financial unit the respondent was in is stored in a variable called FUTYPE The variable that identifies who answered the questions in IA on behalf of the financial unit is called IAPID Note that the interviewer can choose to answer IA at a later time This flexibility for respondents and User Guide 4 interviewers inevitably means that a small number of people did not answer IA at all IAPID takes the value 1 when no one in the financial unit answered IA The information provided by the financial respondent is copied across to the other member of the financial unit where this is appropriate One important implication of this is that where a guestion refers to a person s partner or spouse e g IASPP How much does your husband wife partner receive from the state pension for individuals whose partners answered IA on their behalf the data recorded in this variable will actually be referring to them rather than their partner Details of the income that respondents received from a variety of sources over the last 12 months were collected including wages state benefits state pensions private pensions and other annuity income In addition this module covered the amount of financial and non financial asse
103. ss bracket min value wpbiwa from business in last year bracket min value wpbiwa User Guide 46 MaxV18 Average weekly income wpbiwau Average weekly income from from business in last year business bracket max value wpbiwa bracket max value p wpbiwa EntPt1 A kly income wpbiwae aoe Average weekly income from 0 0 eee X from business in last year business bracket entry point bracket entry point wpbiwa wpbiwa RESLT18 Average weekly income from Average weekly income wpbiwar business bracket result from business in last year wpbiwa bracket result wpbiwa Average monthly income Avg monthly income from from business in last 12 business over last 12 months months MinV19 Average monthly income Average monthly income wpbimal from business bracket min from business in last year value wpbima bracket min value wpbima MaxV19 Average monthly income wpbimau Average monthly income 9 I Y P from business in last year from business bracket max Sallie ama bracket max value p wpbima EntPt19 Average monthly income wpbimae Average monthly income from business in last year from business bracket entry i bracket entry point p R wpbima RESLT19 Average monthly income Average monthly income wpbimar from business bracket from business in last year result wpbima
104. t worth looking for another WpNoLk5 EE EE Paas ons for staying in wpnikpe current job pension current job 5th mention I scheme in current job Wpotp Gross earned income inc Gross earned income inc bonuses tips commissions bonuses tips period commissions period WpAotp Gross earned income inc Gross earned income inc bonuses tips commissions bonuses tips amount commissions amount WpPeri Thinking about the last time Take home pay last time you were paid what period after tax NI pensions did this cover union dues etc period Wpthp Take home pay last time Take home pay last time after deductions for tax NI after tax NI pensions pensions union dues etc union dues etc amount MinV7 WR take home pay last pay Wkly take home pay wpthpwl reli Ie bracket min value wpthp wpthp MaxV7 Ry take home pay last pay Wkly take home pay wpthpwu ORUG bracket max value wpthp wpthp EntPt7 take home pay UM pay With take home pays wpthpwe bracket entry point wpthp wpthp RESLT7 Wkly take home pay last pay Wkly take home pay wpthpwr slip bracket result wpthp bracket result wpthp MinV8 Engi take home pay last Friaiitit k homs pay wpthpfl pay slip bracket min value bracket in vale wpthi wpthp MaxV8 Fmighuy take home pay last O OD wpthpfu pay slip bracket max value bracket mak valus Wpis wpthp EntPt8
105. to those who reported angina at hediaa and to those who had previously reported angina and did not know deny ever having it In Wave 2 it only applied to those who reported at hediaa henmmi In Wave 3 applies to those who reported heart attack at hediaa and to those who had previously reported heart attack and did not know deny ever having it The reference period is the last two years In Wave 2 it only applied to those who reported at hediaa and had been a participant at Wave 1 They were asked about number of heart attacks since their Wave 1 interview In Wave 2 there was a separate variable heyrb asked of those who reported heart attack at Wave 2 hediaa but not at Wave 1 hediaa They were asked whether had had a heart attack in the last two years heacd Need to use feed forward variable cheacd to identify all those who have ever reported diabetes In Wave 3 the variable applies to those who newly reported a diagnosis of diabetes or high blood sugar and to those who had reported diabetes or high blood sugar previously but had code 2 at Wave 2 heacd or who did not answer this guestion at Wave 2 In Wave 2 this guestion simply applied to those who had reported diagnosis of diabetes or high blood sugar either at Wave 1 or at Wave 2 User Guide 27 heslfcr If respondent had previously taken part the auestion refers to time since last interview for respondents new to the survey the guestion refer to ever having p
106. ts held any income from these assets regular transfers from non household members and one off payments in the last year Housing HO Only one eligible ELSA respondent in the household answered the housing module Respondents decided themselves who the housing respondent should be but again the interviewer was instructed to suggest that the person who answered the HO module at Wave 2 answered this module again at Wave 3 Information provided by the HO respondent is copied across to other members of the household The variable HOPID identifies who answered HO on behalf of the household This module collected or checked information about respondents current housing situation such as mortgages value of property rent etc housing related expenses and ownership of cars There are also guestions on durable purchases including amount spent in the last 2 years money spent in the last four weeks on clothes and fuel expenditure Additionally one of the cases from a duplicate household see Section 1 2 has a value of 3 at HOELI This indicates that this case was eligible to answer the HO module in their Wave 3 interview but once this household was merged with its Wave 1 counterpart someone from the former household was eligible instead Cognitive Function CF This module was the start of the private modules block i e those which were administered with no other household members present The CF module was asked of all resp
107. ung partners or older partners as described in Box 1 Box 1 Summary of the eligibility criteria for the Wave 3 ELSA interview Core members from the original sample were individuals who had been living within the household at the time of the HSE interview in 1998 1999 or 2001 were born on or before 29 February 1952 and were subsequently interviewed as part of Wave 1 at a private residential address in England They were not eligible after Wave 1 if they had since died asked not to be revisited or moved out of Britain Core members from the refreshment sample were individuals born between 1 March 1952 and 29 February 1956 who were living within households that took part in HSE 2001 2004 where the age eligible member of the household agreed to be re interviewed Unfortunately the algorithm used to select the Wave 3 refreshment sample excluded potential eligible sample members born between 1 March 1952 and 28 February 1953 see Section 3 2 above for more details Core partners original sample only were individuals who like core members had been living within the household at the time of the HSE interview in 1998 1999 or 2001 and were born on or before 29 February 1952 However they were not interviewed as part of Wave 1 so missing the baseline survey Consequently they were only approached by virtue of their being the partner of a core member Young partners were the cohabiting spouses or partners of core members who were living
108. ured hip reported at cheji Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether ever had any joint canes NN chesmk Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether reported ever smoked awa s 0 Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether smokes cigarettes at all Mi EG cheacd Wave 3 Health Feedforward variable Whether ever been told has diabetes by AT ADD User Guide 25 7 3 Notes About Particular Variables Variable name in interview Note sptraa Please note that some of the questions that ask about the frequency with which respondents do certain tasks now have different answer options These changes have been made to make the questions and answers more specific For example at Wave 2 the question SPTRAA How often do you use public transport was as follows A lot Quite often Sometimes Rarely Never OQ N But at Wave 3 the answer options are now Every day or nearly every day Two or three times a week Once a week Two or three times a month Once a month or less Never O GG N fgmaua fgagua Respondents who had reported their gualifications at their last ELSA interview should have been asked Fgmgua whether they have obtained any new gualifications since their last interview at Wave 3 However due to an error with the feed forward data these respondents were in fact asked Fqaqua whether they have any aualifications hegenh In Wave 1 there were two
109. us hypothetical people who experience different circumstances on the same 5 point scale used in the first section Respondents were asked to assume that the hypothetical people used in section 2 have the same age and background that they have Proxies If an eligible respondent was physically or cognitively impaired or in hospital or temporary care for the whole of the fieldwork period then a proxy interview was permissible Interviewers were asked to identify a proxy informant i e a person who could answer the interview on behalf of the eligible respondent The proxy informant was a responsible adult aged 16 years or over who knew enough about the respondent s circumstances to be able to provide information about them Where possible a close family member such as a partner son or daughter fulfilled this role People who were interviewed by proxy can be identified by variable W3INDOUT The CAPI program guided the interviewer through the proxy interview automatically However only a subset of questions was asked during a proxy interview The proxy interview contained the following modules the asterisked modules were not asked for all respondents see below HD Household grid ID Individual demographics HE Health WP Work and Pensions IA Income and Assets HO Housing FQ Final questions and consents All proxy informants completed ID HE WP and FQ Some specific questions for proxies were included in the Health module HE
110. ve been created to aid with identifying those respondents who had a proxy or institution interview The individual outcome code W3INDOUT can be used to identify the majority of these respondents but it is recommended that the flag variables ASKPX and ASKINST are used as the latter highlights three respondents who were in institutions but did not follow the institution route in the interview There is one case who is classified as having had an institutional interview in Version 2 of this data but was not classified as such before Their individual outcome code and value of ASKINST have been amended accordingly This is partly due to the fact that this respondent was interviewed as if they were in a different household to their partner but as has already been mentioned in Section 2 4 we do not consider respondents who have moved into institutions to be in different households in terms of IDAHHW3 The relevant data for this case has been corrected for Version 2 User Guide 18 5 1 Weighting ELSA Wave 3 data can be analysed either as a cross section or longitudinally e Cross sectional analysis uses data collected at a particular wave e Longitudinal analysis involves data collected from more than one wave for the purposes of analysing change Cross sectional and longitudinal weights support these two different estimation objectives This section briefly describes the cross sectional and longitudinal weights constructed at Wave 3 in turn
111. was usually left at the end to be returned by the respondent by post However when two respondents completed the interview in a concurrent session one respondent completed the self completion questionnaire while the other carried out the private modules of the personal interview i e CF EX ER PS and FQ The self completion questionnaire contained measures of well being and quality of life and questions about the respondent s social circumstances for example their social participation social networks and relationships New questions were added at Wave 3 on fruit and vegetable consumption social capital and loneliness Health and work Self completions In addition to the self completion there were also two further vignette self completions one on health and one on work These self completions were given to a sub sample of Wave 3 ELSA respondents and were experimental one third of respondents were asked to complete the health questionnaire and another third were asked to fill in the work questionnaire the final third only completed the core self completion The Health and Work self completions were both made up of two sections The first asked respondents to rate various aspects of their own situation on a 5 point scale These questions focus on mobility pain cognition sleep and depression User Guide 6 2 3 2 4 In the second section of the two questionnaires respondents were asked to rate the situation of vario
112. wp1sq per wpmamsp wpmansp from all state from all state pensions pensions WpMSSQ m Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more than wp2sg per than wp2sg per wpmamsp I wpmansp from all state from all state pensions pensions WpMSTQ ie Chances of receiving more Chances of receiving more than wp3sq per than wp3sq per wpmamsp wpmansp from all state from all state pensions pensions WpRAge You said earlier that you You said earlier that you were semi retired at what were semi retired at what age did you retire age did you retire WpERet B offered early retir t pERe een ore early retiremen Did vou ial sil incentives since age 50 retirement which chose not to take j WpERP Wh first retired what I p CES a When you first retired did part of your pension were i you retire on a full pension you entitled to WpMRR What o i p k Main reason for retiring S a reason for retiring 12 A i hf hil Me Income from work bracket DO 1 0 0 MD health insurance bracket ld min value wpmhi MaxV12 A t paid th fo hi ane Income from work bracket 0 be THY mv wh health insurance bracket PA max value wpmhi EntPt12 A t paid onth fo hi DN HEB Income from work bracket ir DE Ps He FPR en point i health insurance bracket YP pee entry point wpmhi RESLT128 Amount paid per month for wpmhir Income from work bracket ESET health insur
113. y demanding mention merged var merged var WpChgDM2 ER chanded work Ways work has changed wpchdmme to make it easier to work ae I demanding stressful 2nd mention merged var merged var WpChgDM3 Way employer changed work Ways work has changed wpchdmhr to make it easier to work 3rd fewer hours job sharing mention merged var merged var WpChgL1 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlph change because of health to change less physically 1st mention demanding WpChgL2 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlme change because of health to change less mentally 2nd mention demanding stressful WpChgL3 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlhr change because of health to change fewer hours job 8rd mention sharing WpChgL4 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlfl change because of health to change more flexible 4th mention hours WpChgL5 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlho change because of health to change working from 5th mention home sometimes WpChgL13 Ways would like work to Ways you would like work wpchlm96 change because of health to change none of these 3rd mention merged var merged var WpBChg1 Ways in which asked In what ways did you askto wpbchph employer to change job 1st mention change your job less physically demanding User Guide 41 WpBChg2 In

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