How are the amounts of money collected and made comparable (euro conversion)?
All answers about amounts of money are converted into Euro values. For non-Euro countries a frozen exchange rate is chosen. For Euro countries the Euro value is either the given value or the converted pre-Euro value because respondents in Euro countries were given the option to report in either Euro or the pre-Euro currency. The format of the variable name is mentioned above except for the separation identifier ‘_’; this is now replaced by ‘e’. Possible digits that follow reflect loop numbers. When the respondent gives a “don‟t know” (DK) or “refusal” (RF) as an answer to a question indicating a financial amount, the following values are included in the dataset: -9999998: Refusal -9999999: Don’t know Exchange rates are documented in the SHARE_Release_Guide_2.3.1.
