Living Standards Measurement Survey, Wave 2, 2003

W1_ind_all
Individual level file for all household members including children under 15 years. Includes household roster module and individual level questionnaire Modules.
Wave 1 N= 7973 household members including children aged under 15. This file contains one record per interviewed individual in the sample and does not include individuals who were not interviewed (including refusals, out of scope, untraced or deceased).

W2_hh_all is the wave 2 household level sample file.
it contains household questionnaire data including data for consumer durables owned by household and modules where one person only responded including subjective questions, and the agriculture modules. All repeating loops flattened so is one record per household. For example, at Wave 2, modules M2, M2c, M8a, M8b, M9, M10a, M10b, and M12 are on this household level file as only one person in the household responded to these modules on behalf of the whole household.
At wave 2 this file includes interviewed and non-interviewed households. For analysis, interviewed households only should be selected.
Wave 2 N= 2155 households (1780 interviewed/375 not interviewed).
The majority of the non-interviewed households were due to split-off moves out of the country (N=348). A further 23 households had moved out of scope within Albania e.g. had moved into an institution of some kind or prison or were non-contacts or refusals. Only 4 households had moved and could not be traced. 83 households had moved and were traced to their new address.

W2_hh_basic: Content as per WX_hh_all but without the agriculture modules
Wave 2 N= 2155 households (1780 interviewed/375 not interviewed).

W2_hh_farm : Household level file with agricultural modules only (flattened)
Wave 2 N= 2155 households (1780 interviewed/375 not interviewed).

W2_ind_all: Individual level file for all household members including children under 15 years. Includes household roster module and individual level questionnaire Modules.
Wave 2 N= 8110 household members including children under 15.
There are 5431 members aged 15 or over with individual questionnaire data.
This file contains one record per interviewed individual in the sample and does not include individuals who were not interviewed (including refusals, out of scope, untraced or deceased).
Note that at Wave 2 the individual questionnaire did not collect data on children under 15 years. The questionnaire was for all present household members aged 15 or over.
The Wave 2 individual file contains weights for cross-sectional analysis and longitudinal analysis. The weighting variable "wt_nr" deals with non-response at Wave 2 and is used for cross-sectional analysis. Then there is the weighting variable "wt_w2" which combines the design weight and the non-response weight to produce an overall weight. This is the weight used for Wave 1 to Wave 2 longitudinal analysis and is defined for those people who participated at both waves of the survey.
The Wave 2 individual file includes variable called "outcome". This takes the following values; 1 "interviewed" 2 "other non-response" 3 "absent from household" 4 "child under 15" 5 "moved away" 6 "deceased".

Household roster file for all individuals enumerated at Wave 2. This file includes some sample members who appear twice i.e. in their issued household and in the household they were finally located in, even if this household was not interviewed. The derived variable BFINLOC allows you to select cases at their final location (bfinloc eq 1). The reasons for people leaving the household and the date they left are on their issued household record not their final location record.

W1_hh_all is a household level sample file.
it contains household questionnaire data including data for consumer durables owned by household and modules where one person only responded including subjective questions, and the agriculture modules. All repeating loops flattened so it is one record per household.
Note that at wave 1 all households were interviewed. Wave 1 N= 1782 interviewed households (917 urban/863 rural/2 uncoded)

W1_hh_basic
Content as per WX_hh_all but without the agriculture modules
Wave 1 N= 1782 interviewed households (917 urban/863 rural/2 uncoded)

W1_hh_farm
Household level file with agricultural modules only (flattened)
Wave 1 N= 1782 interviewed households (917 urban/863 rural/2 uncoded)