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2004 Panel Wave 05 General Income and Health Insurance User Note
Two corrections were made to the Wave 5 core file that was re-released on 2/29/08.
- An error in the edit program for imputing amounts in the General Income section was corrected. The edit program was imputing erroneous amount values for respondents that did not record an amount for the current wave, and did not have amounts from the previous wave. This allowed imputation of high values in programs that usually do not have such amounts. This error was corrected starting in Wave 5 so that these cases were imputed from the current wave hot deck. Data users should be aware that these extreme outliers are possible for waves 2-4.
- An error in the health insurance edit was corrected to fix the source of health insurance coverage (EHIEMPLY). The correction assigns the source of coverage to children under 15 years old based on the coverage of the child’s parents or guardian.
Page Last Revised - October 8, 2021
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