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    STUDY NO:		4349	
	
    STUDY TITLE:	Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social 
                        Exclusion, 1999	

    Details of Dataset received:

    Data and documentation received from Ms Naomi Finch, Social Policy
    Research Unit, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, January
    2001.

    Summary of value added outputs:

    Detailed checks of the data against the documentation have been made
    and cases checked etc.
    
    A substantial number of missing variable labels have been added by 
    the UK Data Archive.

    All documentation files and the hard copy technical report have been 
    converted to one single file - a4349uab.pdf.

    Notes, useful tips and hints:

    Please note that approximately 1000 variable and some value labels 
    are truncated within this dataset as these have been read in from CAPI 
    based software. The complete labelling can be found within the 
    documentation. 

    User comments and post-order corrections:

    January 2002 - New Edition

    A further version of the Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion,
    1999 was received from Ms Naomi Finch, Social Policy Research Unit, 
    University of York, on 29 November 2001.  The single SPSS dataset has 
    been re-named pse2.por.  The Depositor details below the changes made to the 
    data: 

    'Some of the data had to be updated because there were some minor errors 
    which related to other individuals in the PSE households but not the 
    respondents.  Unfortunately, these small errors gave an overall error of
    about 5%.  Some of the more major corrections in the new code are:

    1) Recalculating the ages which resulted in changes to the age of 100
    people.

    2) The inclusion of another 63 people in PSE households who were omitted
    due to coding errors.

    3) The inclusion of a 0.3 weighting in the PSE equivalisation for
    disability and limiting long term illness (as we originally agreed to
    do).  This change makes the pensioners results much more sensible.

    4) Recalculating all the income variables to take account of the
    changes in age and household composition.

    5) Recalculating the poverty thresholds to take account of the new
    income variables.

    The variables which have been updated are mainly at the end of the new
    dataset, after the variable hserial2.  Some of these are simply corrected 
    variables with the same name as the old version. These are, however, in a 
    different order from the old version:

    pseagen 
    oecdeq 
    mccleq 
    pseequiv 
    chnginc 
    hchange 
    hreason 
    newinc (this variable was newinc2 in the previous edition of the data)
    ghsinc 
    diff 
    pseinc 
    oecdinc 
    mccinc 
    poverty 
    poorgrp

    The following are also updated variables with the same names as the old
    variables but they were orginally situated near the beginning of the
    document (they are now at the end): 

    twomeals 
    meatfish 
    heating 
    dressgwn 
    twoshoes 
    newcloth 
    tv 
    roast 
    carpet 
    phone
    fridge 
    bedding 
    dryhome 
    car 
    diction 
    presents 
    coat 
    washmash 
    dishwas 
    savings 
    videomac 
	
    and so on until: 

    playgp 
    holiday 
    schtrip 
    frendtea
    
    chnfu (this variable was chnfu01 in the previous edition of the data)

    The following are new variables: 

    aspace 
    adark 
    aheat 
    aleak 
    adamp 
    arot 
    amould 
    asit 
    aother 
    anone
    nocard4'