Understanding Society User Support

03/03/2016

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #514 (Closed): BHPS wave O proxy and or phone data

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03/02/2016

08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #515: Matching pid across waves

Hello Christopher,
I have just replicated what you have done and I found 10,514 individuals in both waves J and O.... Alita Nandi

02/24/2016

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Hello Orla,
The variable b_sceverdrnk is available in b_indresp. Are you looking at the latest version of this fil... Alita Nandi

02/23/2016

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #507: 'inapplicable' on newborn.dta

Hi Laia,
This question was asked of female respondents where the newborn child lives with the parent. Most of the ... Alita Nandi

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #508: BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

Although issue 509 is about understanding society (ukhls) - the file structures for the two surveys are almost identi... Alita Nandi

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #508: BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

I am not sure why you cannot find pid but here are two possible reasons:
(1) In the BHPS all variables are lower c... Alita Nandi

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #509: Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves

The reason for this difference is that in the second method you are only selecting individual adult respondents from ... Alita Nandi

02/16/2016

06:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Hi Till,
You are correct. There are a handful of cases for whom SCAC shos that they "refused self-completion" or "... Alita Nandi

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #500: ever had/fathered children

Hi Charlie,
This question is only asked of those who report NO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN in the household. Given that ch... Alita Nandi

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #495: ethnicity

Hi Angela,
Thanks for highlighting this issue.
We are in the process of updating the cateogry labels in the onl... Alita Nandi

08:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #504: Svy Commands on Stata

Hello Alex,
Yes use:
svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata) singleunit(scaled)
svy: reg y x1 x2
... Alita Nandi

02/10/2016

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #492: Identifying HRP in UndSoc - comparable with BHPS HRP

Thank you Gabriella for offering the code.
I will write to you directly about this.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

02/05/2016

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #487: Understanding Society variable: change jobs

Dear Mariska,
There was a scripting error for this routing flag. These cases were assigned a value of -9. This iss... Alita Nandi