Definition of coded value in HH82; Deck 20; v7

[Jia De Gedeon Lim]

Hey everyone,

Would anyone know what v7==99 stands for in Deck 20 of the HH82 round?

The codebook is In Dropbox/capital_alloc_ras/ARIS-REDS documentation/1982, It's entitled "redsecon82 OCRed.pdf" and the page in question is Page 36, Column 17-18, v7 == "Date when loan was taken". My query concerns what v7== "99 All Loans" means.

Thanks!
Gedeon

[Ajay Shenoy]

I think I mentioned this in lab at some point.  It's worth reiterating to everyone because it's very important.

In all the decks from 1982 where the unit of observation is finer than the household, every household has an "all _____" observation.  That captures information about all the [whatever] rather than any one specifically.  So in this case it would be information about all the loans the household has taken (e.g. total borrowing).  In the crop database it would be information about all the crops the household grew (e.g. how many tractors do you own...)  When you're computing household-level or higher statistics from these decks you must deal with the All [whatever] observations carefully (usually either drop them or drop everything else and use only them).

Also, keep an eye open - I vaguely recall that in at least one deck they screwed up and mislabeled some crop as "all crops".

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[Jia De Gedeon Lim]

Hey, Ajay,

Thanks again for the advice. Following on this point, i realized that certain "all ____" observation codes are "9" and not "99". This is the case for certain variables like irrigation assets and farm assets from Decks 8 and 10 in HH82. Just something to look out for as well.

Thanks,
Gedeon