Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Household Internet Use Survey 2002 codes

Question

In the HIUS2002 file, the variable QUARTILE has values ranging 1 - 9 BUT in the codebook there are only definitions for 1-4. Would anyone have a clear definition for 5-9 that I could pass on to our researcher?

Answers

1. I have just ran a frequency on the variable QUARTILE using "hius2002.sps" over this dataset "HIUS2002_Microdata.txt"

Here is my result:

Income Quartiles




















































Frequency



Percent



Valid Percent



Cumulative Percent



Valid



Quartile 1



8332



26.3



26.3



26.3



Quartile 2



8218



26.0



26.0



52.3



Quartile 3



7883



24.9



24.9



77.2



Quartile 4



7217



22.8



22.8



100.0



Total



31650



100.0



100.0




2. That's interesting - I get only values 1-4, with the following frequencies:

Income Quartiles
Percent N Value Label
26.3 8,332 1 Quartile 1
26.0 8,218 2 Quartile 2
24.9 7,883 3 Quartile 3
22.8 7,217 4 Quartile 4

Are you sure your researcher is using the right syntax file with the right data?

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