Understanding Society User Support

08/13/2015

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #360: Non-response models for Wave 2

Hello,
Some months ago, I asked about which weight share method was used to construct cross sectional weights at ... Dharmi Kapadia

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #399: w_hiqual_dv coding

Hi Stefanie,
sorry, I did not see your earlier emails (it is best to log into the forum again to post follow-up qu... Gundi Knies

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #399: w_hiqual_dv coding

From: Stefanie Williamson <lqxsw5@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Understanding... Gundi Knies

08/12/2015

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #398: Identifying drop outs and re joiners

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05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #398: Identifying drop outs and re joiners

Gretta Mohan wrote:
> It feels like a basic question but I cannot identify respondents of the BHPS and Understanding... Gundi Knies

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #398: Identifying drop outs and re joiners

I have the variable(s) ivfio from xwaveid merged into my master dataset (indresp) in both long and wide formats.

... Gretta Mohan

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #400 (Closed): Identifying when IP sample members die

We have yet to release cross-wave files for IP. XWAVEID can be constructed by merging A_INDALL, A_HHSAMP, and [W]_IN... Redmine Admin

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #400: Identifying when IP sample members die

Knies, Gundi
Sent: Wed 12/08/2015 13:19
To: Lynn, Peter J
ivfio=99 is the code. It should be on _indsamp_ip.
... Peter Lynn

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #400 (Closed): Identifying when IP sample members die

How does one identify which IP sample members are known to have died, and at which wave they died? Specifically, case... Peter Lynn

08/11/2015

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393: Weights for unbalanced panel

You could account for psu-level clustering by running multilevel (hierarchical) analysis, with psu as the higher leve... Peter Lynn

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #392 (Closed): secondary vs. post-secondary distinctions in vocational quals

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04:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396 (Closed): Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

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04:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #398: Identifying drop outs and re joiners

You may find the file, XWAVEID, useful. It holds the interview outcomes (ivfio/ivfho) for all sample members and all ... Redmine Admin

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #394: Data in Excel?

The TAB format can be imported into Excel. See also: http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/faq/formats#AvailableFormats
On... Redmine Admin

08/10/2015

06:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396: Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

Thanks a lot! That is very clear now and will be very helpful.
Regards,
Lea Lea Samek

06:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396: Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

Hi Lea,
In wave 1 you should be able to know when a person was diagnosed via the age first told they had that cond... Cara Booker

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #399: w_hiqual_dv coding

Stefanie,
I noted that I made mistakes telling wQFACHI and wQFEDHI apart when describing the BHPS input into _hiqual... Gundi Knies

08/06/2015

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #399 (In Progress): w_hiqual_dv coding

Dear Stephanie
the way $_HIQUAL_DV works is that we start off with the school qualifications recorded in qfhigh (or ... Gundi Knies

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #399 (Closed): w_hiqual_dv coding

Could you tell me which specific qualifications are coded in to the 'other higher' category of w_hiqual_dv?
An add... Stefanie Jane

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #398 (Closed): Identifying drop outs and re joiners

It feels like a basic question but I cannot identify respondents of the BHPS and Understanding Society who drop out y... Gretta Mohan

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #387 (Closed): Weights when nurse visit is baseline

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02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #390 (Closed): how to deal with inapplicable values

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02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #391 (Closed): job tenure variable in Understanding Society

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02:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #395 (In Progress): Match income variables from BHPS to UndSoc

Dear Andreas,
we do not collect or attempt to estimate annual income in Understanding Society, so with data we provi... Gundi Knies

08/03/2015

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396: Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

Hi Cara,
thank you for your help. Just to clarify and I hope I make sense here:
1. So there is no way in telli... Lea Samek

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396: Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

Hi Lea,
To follow up on what Gundi wrote, here is some additional information regarding these questions.
1. You... Cara Booker

08/02/2015

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #397: question about Total personal income annually

Hi Greg,
the question was part of the proxy interview and there are not that many in Understanding Society.
You ca... Gundi Knies

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #397 (Closed): question about Total personal income annually

Hi, I'm trying to look at issues related to income. There is a variable c_prfitba which is the "total personal income... Greg Hines

07/29/2015

09:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #396 (Closed): Health Condition Variables - heart attack and stroke

I am currently interested in whether a respondent had any of the provided health conditions in one or more of the 4 w... Lea Samek

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393: Weights for unbalanced panel

Peter Lynn wrote:
> So, it looks as though you are effectively pooling across waves. Your model structure should dea... Gareth Hagger-Johnson

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #393 (In Progress): Weights for unbalanced panel

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01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #395 (Closed): Match income variables from BHPS to UndSoc

Hello,
I'm working with the BHPS and UndSoc and would like to create consistent income measures for the same under... Andreas Wiedemann

10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #391 (Resolved): job tenure variable in Understanding Society

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10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #390 (Resolved): how to deal with inapplicable values

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10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #387 (Resolved): Weights when nurse visit is baseline

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10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #387: Weights when nurse visit is baseline

Dear Peter,
Thanks, that is helpful - I'll have a go at using d_indnsub_lw.
Best wishes,
Amanda Amanda Hughes

07/28/2015

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393: Weights for unbalanced panel

So, it looks as though you are effectively pooling across waves. Your model structure should deal with the clustering... Peter Lynn

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393: Weights for unbalanced panel

Peter Lynn wrote:
> Could you clarify what kind of analysis you intend to undertake? Are you thinking of some kind o... Gareth Hagger-Johnson

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393: Weights for unbalanced panel

Could you clarify what kind of analysis you intend to undertake? Are you thinking of some kind of longitudinal model ... Peter Lynn

12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #393 (Closed): Weights for unbalanced panel

I want to use all available data from BHPS and US, rather than restricting my analysis to those who took part in ever... Gareth Hagger-Johnson

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #387: Weights when nurse visit is baseline

Amanda,
First, apologies for the slow reply. The weighting team has been on annual leave and then away at a confer... Peter Lynn

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #392 (Feedback): secondary vs. post-secondary distinctions in vocational quals

Hi Lori (and Jon),
to my knowledge it is not possible to derive ISCED from the Understanding Society data (for the r... Gundi Knies

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #394 (Closed): Data in Excel?

Dear Sir or Madam,
I am not able to access the data using STATA or SPSS, since I don't have access to these progra... Julia Halej

07/27/2015

09:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #392 (Closed): secondary vs. post-secondary distinctions in vocational quals

On behalf of Lori D. Bougher <lbougher@Princeton.EDU>:
We are looking at the relationship between political inte... Jonathan Burton

07/23/2015

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #391: job tenure variable in Understanding Society

Dear Jun
we do not presently provide an indicator for the length of employment spells. It is possible to derive this... Gundi Knies

07/22/2015

06:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #390: how to deal with inapplicable values

Dear Jun,
we differentiate between a number of different sources of missingness. The full listing is reported in Tab... Gundi Knies

07/21/2015

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #385 (Closed): EMB sample

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10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #389 (Closed): Secure data question

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10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #388 (Closed): Weights Northern Ireland UK

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07/20/2015

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #391 (Closed): job tenure variable in Understanding Society

Dear support team
I'm using both Understanding Society dataset and the BHPS dataset to estimate a wage equation. ... Jun Liu

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #390 (Closed): how to deal with inapplicable values

Dear support team
a lot of the variables in the Understanding Society dataset has a high percentage of inapplicable... Jun Liu

07/16/2015

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #386 (Closed): Using BHPS / Understanding Society for CNEF

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