Download ELSA Wave 3 Core User Guide - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

1 Overview of the Survey ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Background and Aims ....................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 The ‘Phase’ Approach to Archiving ELSA Wave 3 ............................................................................................ 2
1.3 Ethical Clearance .............................................................................................................................................. 2
2 Survey Content ................................................................................................................... 3
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
Development and Piloting.................................................................................................................................. 3
Details of Survey Content.................................................................................................................................. 3
Proxies............................................................................................................................................................... 7
Institution Interviews .......................................................................................................................................... 7
Use of Responses from Previous Interviews in the CAPI (Feed Forward)........................................................ 8
3 Sample Design and Fieldwork........................................................................................... 9
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Original Sample ................................................................................................................................................. 9
Refreshment Sample......................................................................................................................................... 9
Sample Types.................................................................................................................................................. 10
Fieldwork ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
4 Dataset Information .......................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Serial Numbering............................................................................................................................................. 13
4.2 Multi-Coded and Dichotomous Variables ........................................................................................................ 13
4.3 Interview Outcome........................................................................................................................................... 14
4.4 Survey Module Identifiers ................................................................................................................................ 14
4.5 Age .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
4.6 Gender............................................................................................................................................................. 15
4.7 Financial Variables .......................................................................................................................................... 15
4.8 Dropped Variables........................................................................................................................................... 16
4.9 Household Demographic Variables ................................................................................................................. 16
4.10
Coding and Editing.................................................................................................................................... 17
4.11
Missing Values .......................................................................................................................................... 17
4.12
Identifying Respondents Who Had a Proxy or Institution Interview .......................................................... 18
5 Weighting........................................................................................................................... 19
5.1 Longitudinal weight.......................................................................................................................................... 19
5.2 Cross-sectional weight .................................................................................................................................... 20
6 Contact details .................................................................................................................. 21
7 Appendices........................................................................................................................ 22
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
Other ELSA Files Deposited at UK Data Archive ............................................................................................ 22
Additional Variables Deposited at Phase 2 ..................................................................................................... 22
Notes About Particular Variables..................................................................................................................... 26
Variables With a Different Name or Label to Wave 2 ...................................................................................... 30
Changes Made to the Data as a Result of Interviewer Notes.......................................................................... 62