AGEKID2 in Finland 2009 sample

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Hi all,

I just wanted to flag a potential issue I found with “AGEKID2” in the Finland 2009 sample. In some households, AGEKID2 appears to be taking the age of the younger adult (who is clearly a spouse/partner), rather than the age of the youngest child. For example, in HLDID = “10675”, the household contains only two adults (ages 54 and 59) and no children, but AGEKID2 is coded as 54 (for both individuals). I’m seeing many similar cases where AGEKID2 is non-missing and corresponds to the younger adult in a two-adult household.

Thanks for looking into this!!

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Another potential issue I’ve found with agekid2 comes up in the France 1999 and Finland 2009 samples. In these data, there are cases where adults are assigned an agekid2 value of –7, even though there are other household members under age 18 present in the household.

This seems incompatible with the IPUMS documentation for agekid2 which states: “If no household member is under 18 and no household member is the child of another household member, this variable takes the value –7.”

For example:

  • France 1999: household ID “2106055270”

  • Finland 2009: household ID “30908”