We know that an overcrowding indicator exists in the EU-SILC like data, but only until 2020, so we want to generate it ourselves. There we need information on age and gender of all hh members.
We found that ppathl contains data on the gender of all persons in the households. Does this also include information on those hh members that did not participate in the survey? i.e., is this information complete?
Any help is much appreciated in either English or German.
the ppathl contains all information about individuals who wish to participate in the study. Individuals living in the same household who explicitly do not wish to participate are not included in the ppathl. If they have participated in the past, they will be listed in the ppathl.
If I understand correctly, this implies that ppathl does not necessarily contains gender information for all household members. Rather, we will have missing information for some household members when they did not want to participate in the survey.
Still, to generate the EU overcrowding indicator we need complete gender information, at least for children aged 12 to 17 in the household. This is to consider that the EU overcrowding definition assumes that children aged 12 to 17 can share a room when they have the same gender, otherwise they should have a room alone (if different gender). Any other information needed from the EU definition can, we are able to locate in the SOEP data. It is this specific info on gender of all children aged 12 to 17 that we are still looking for. Maybe you can support with this more specific request, sorrier for not being more clear about this earlier.
you can find all the information we have about the gender of people, including children, in ppathl. In ppathl you’ll find all the information about people we know, including their children.
To identify the children you can use the variable stell_h in pbrutto or our Pointer in kidlong.