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?