Front of the building where the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE is based
Image: for Economic Performance at the LSE is based
One last time to check that the turkey rcs data minimum wage variables and the controls are correct – thanks George Osborne for making it that little bit more complicated and creating a new minimum wage rate for 21-24 year olds.
Like going through your homework with your teacher
Soon enough Jonathan arrives and we head off to his office to run through the code that I’ve spent the last few weeks working on. It almost feels like going through your homework with your teacher.
As Jonathan clicks to run the code an error pops up and panic begins to set in. Oh no, it’s fine. It’s only because the USB is assigned to a different drive on his computer. File paths changed, we go again with more success. That’s more like it!
A few files (and a couple of amendments) later and the raw data has been cleaned, prepared, and is now ready for the analysis, but first we need to check that the variables look consistent over time. I don’t think there was anything I overlooked, was there? Jonathan spends rather a long time staring intently at the expenditure variables before declaring “looks good, we’re ready to go”.
Success! I won’t see the outcome of the analysis just yet, however – it will have to run overnight because the dataset is so large.