In case anyone is interested, the ESDS Government confirmed with me that
the variable named AREA is the psu in the Health Survey of England 2002.
They also sent me a small Stata data file that contains the strata, a
variable called CLUSTER. This file can be -merge-'ed with the large
main data file, to make the whole shebang amenable to proper survey
analysis, with psu() and strata().
--Chris
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and Wilson Family Practice Residency, Johnson City, NY
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Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
> The latest from ESDS Government on this question:
>
> "It does look like we were rather hasty in saying that the PSUs weren't
> in the data, having had a look at the data it does look like you may
> have found them! I will seek confirmation from the survey organisation
> who designed the survey to be certain, and so that we can post this
> information for future users. They may also have some advice on dealing
> with the (aparent) lack of full stratification information as well (as
> although we have health authorities in the data I don't believe we have
> the % of households that are non-manual). "
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