Readme File for UK 1987

README FILE FOR UK 1987

(World 5.5 – Release 3; World 5.8 & World 6.0 Release -1)

11 June 2012

CONTENTS:

Technical description of the survey

Information on the original files

Time-use variables

Variable-specific information

The original data file contains household-level row cases where person-level information is not easily mapped to the diaries. The original file also contains a number of data entry errors which have been addressed in this version. This version contains 2305 good quality diaries which were excluded from the earlier MTUS versions of this dataset on the basis of the data entry errors in the original records. Users may get different results using this version of this survey compared with versions of this same dataset used in previous publications. All corrections and steps for tracing sources of errors are detailed in the conversion syntax, which is an SPSS programme file, but essentially flat text. Users who do not have spss can change the extension name from .sps to .doc or .txt to open the file.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SURVEY

INFORMATION ON THE ORIGINAL FILES

The original files of this survey were never archived properly, and resided on several private computers. The SCELI survey from which this diary sample was drawn was lodged with the UK Data Archive (survey number 2798). This conversion is built from three files:

HCSVARS.SAV – an SPSS file full of errors in which each row case is a household, and information about individual members from the household lies in a number of columns. Different levels of information are available – much more was asked of main participants, less of partners or spouses of main participants, and less still of other household members.

KDIARYT.SAV – an SPSS file full of errors in which each row case is an episode in a diary.

KACQE.SAVE – an SPSS file full of errors in which each row case represents a main respondent that contains additional background information on the main respondents, some of which is mapped from the SCELI survey on which this sample is based.

TIME-USE VARIABLES

Activity Variable Documentation for UK, 1987