**** Accessing the data (The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing) **** Interested users can register and dowload all waves of ELSA data from the UK Data Service (UKDS) by visiting the website https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/ If you are in the UK and your organisation is part of the UK Access Management Federation (UKAMF) and on the list of federation members (https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/AccountableIdPs), you can access UKDS via your institution’s account. You can find out if your institution is a member at the following link https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/myaccount/login If you are not in the UK, or your organisation is not on the list of federation members, you can request a username by filling in the form at https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/myaccount/credentials Once you agree to the UKDS terms and conditions you will be able to access the data. **** Explanation of the '.do file' ("Demographic Research.do") **** **** Please note that this file was created using StataMP 15 and may not be compatible with earlier versions **** * This is the do-files for generating the main results described in the paper "Looking after grandchildren: gender differences in ‘when’, ‘what’, and ‘why’. Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing" * This paper uses data from Wave8. The questionnaire can be accessed on the ELSA website (www.elsa-project.ac.uk) at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/drupal/site_iehc/sites/iehc/files/elsa_questionnaire_w8.pdf A meta description of all variables used in this paper (detailing for each variable the labels, values, and relevant question asked) can be found in the Data Dictionaries available at https://www.elsa-project.ac.uk/study-documentation **** SAMPLE SELECTION ------------------------------------------------------------ Lines 10-23 select the sample used in the analyses **** VARIABLES of interest ------------------------------------------------------- Lines 31-82 create - Grandchild's characteristics (Age of youngest grandchild, number of grand and great-grandchildren, and Distance in time to the nearest grandchild) - Grandparent's characteristics (Employment, partnership, self-rated health, level of education, wealth quintile) Lines 85-121 create - Grandparenting variables (periodicity of care, activities, and reasons for care) **** COUPLEs --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lines 124-145 create the couple dataset used to select couples where both grandmother and grandfather care **** ANALYSIS --------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Descriptives - Table 1 (% provision of grandchild care by gender and household structure, and sample characteristics of grandparents looking after grandchildren by gender) is obtained with lines 148-169 - Table 2 (Periodicity of care by gender, for the whole sample of carers and among ‘concordant’ grandchild caring couples) is obtained with lines 174-179 - Table 3 (Activities grandparents undertake with/for their grandchildren and their frequency, by gender – All grandchild carers and ‘concordant’ grandchild caring couples) is obtained with lines 184-189 - Table 4 (Reasons for grandchild care, by gender - All grandchild carers and ‘concordant’ grandchild caring couples) is obtained with lines 194-199 **** Multivariate Analysis - Table 5 (Adjusted ORs indicating the effect of being a grandmother on reporting different extents of grandchild care, activities, and reasons for such care - All grandchild carers and concordant grandchild caring couples) is obtained with lines 213-232 ********************************************************************************************* *********************************************************************************************