Understanding Society User Support

11/08/2018

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Stephanie Auty

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (Resolved): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Stephanie Auty

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (Resolved): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Stephanie Auty

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1068 (Resolved): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets

Stephanie Auty

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1067 (Resolved): Strengths and Difficulties variable

Stephanie Auty

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1066 (Resolved): Weights for Waves 3 and 6

Stephanie Auty

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1064 (Resolved): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society

Stephanie Auty

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1063 (Resolved): Employment variables

Stephanie Auty

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062 (Resolved): Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Stephanie Auty

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1043 (Resolved): Seaming effects

Stephanie Auty

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Stephanie Auty

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1089: Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?

Follow-up question from Jing (by email):
You mentioned both May and June samples would not be random. I understand... Peter Lynn

11/07/2018

09:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1089: Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?

Not really. The chance to be assigned to a particular monthly sample can be considered random, but within each monthl... Peter Lynn

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1089 (In Progress): Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1089 (Resolved): Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?

I'm conducting a study about the impact of the Brexit Referendum on life satisfaction using a difference-in-differenc... Jing Shen

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1084 (Feedback): Financial situation

Dear Lydia,
There are not any equivalent variables to b`w'_fisitc and b`w'_fisity in UKHLS. However, you could loo... Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088 (Feedback): More information on variable "plbornc"

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088: More information on variable "plbornc"

Dear Olayiwola Oladiran,
The variable plbornc_all contains a further breakdown of the 'other' category and is avai... Stephanie Auty

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088 (In Progress): More information on variable "plbornc"

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088: More information on variable "plbornc"

Hello,
Please is there a further breakdown of the countries of origin of immigrants (plbornc)? I am conducting a s... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088 (Resolved): More information on variable "plbornc"

Hello,
Please is there a further breakdown of the countries of origin of immigrants (plbornc)? I am conducting a s... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1086 (Feedback): Biomarker serum creatinine

Dear Per-Ola Sundin,
A reply from our biomarker team:
Yes, the method we used (Roche Creatinine plus) is standard... Stephanie Auty

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1086 (In Progress): Biomarker serum creatinine

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

08:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1086 (Resolved): Biomarker serum creatinine

Could you please inform me whether the analysis of serum creatinine is standardized according to IDMS?
Yours since... Per-Ola Sundin

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1085 (Feedback): Inapplicable and missing data

Dear Giorgio,
Which data files are you working with? I have checked w_sex in w_indresp and this does not seem to h... Stephanie Auty

01:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1085 (In Progress): Inapplicable and missing data

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1083 (Feedback): Subjective Well-Being Data

Dear Micah,
Understanding Society is a longitudinal household survey which collects information on life satisfacti... Stephanie Auty

11/06/2018

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1085 (Resolved): Inapplicable and missing data

Dear all,
I am working with an appended dataset of the 7 waves, and I noticed something weird.
Some 'basic' var... Giorgio Piccitto

11/05/2018

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (Feedback): House details in youth or adult datasets

Stephanie Auty

11/02/2018

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1084 (In Progress): Financial situation

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1084 (Resolved): Financial situation

Dear User Support,
are you aware of a variable that is similar to b`w'_fisitc and b`w'_fisity of BHPS in USoc?
... Lydia Palumbo

11/01/2018

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change

Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your answer.
I am aware of the consolidated histories. I am just wond... Lydia Palumbo

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change

Dear Lydia,
Just to add that the data for the historical marriage and cohabitation data in Wave 1 (for GPS & EMBS)... Stephanie Auty

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change

Dear Lydia,
I see what you are asking for now. We do have that information available as follows:
For BHPS, ther... Stephanie Auty

04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082: House details in youth or adult datasets

Dear Dora,
We have some information which may help. In w_hhsamp we have an observational question, w_unkgard, whic... Stephanie Auty

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1083 (In Progress): Subjective Well-Being Data

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

10/31/2018

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081: Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Dear Stephanie,
This is really helpful. Thanks a lot!
Best wishes,
Dora Theodora Kokosi

10/30/2018

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1083 (Resolved): Subjective Well-Being Data

My name is Micah Kaats. I am a researcher from Utrecht University working on a project with Dr. Martijn Hendriks and ... Micah Kaats

10/28/2018

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (Feedback): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Dear Dora,
The w_youth files contain the mother's ID in the variables w_mnpid (for natural mothers) and w_mnspid (... Stephanie Auty

10/26/2018

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (In Progress): House details in youth or adult datasets

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (Resolved): House details in youth or adult datasets

Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is any info about whether respondents have access to a private garden and/o... Theodora Kokosi

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (In Progress): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (Resolved): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Dear all,
I would like to merge data from the "indresp" file into the youth file. Which would be the best way to d... Theodora Kokosi

10/24/2018

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079: How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Thanks a lot. I will have a look. Best wishes. Nico Nico Ochmann

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (Feedback): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Dear Nico,
You can use a similar strategy to the one you discussed with Alita in #692. If the child still lives in... Stephanie Auty

10/23/2018

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080: Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Great, that answers my question. Thank you.
Regards,
Lewis Lewis Anderson

10/22/2018

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change

Thank you for your answer.
So, this means that, in *both the surveys*, I am allowed to know only the changes betw... Lydia Palumbo

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (Feedback): Marital change

Dear Lydia,
Although a harmonised marital status variable has not yet been created, you can use the variables bw_m... Stephanie Auty

05:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077: Variable on country of birth

Thank you for your answer. I am using ukborn. What do you mean by those who have never given a full interview? I cros... Lydia Palumbo

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (Feedback): Variable on country of birth

Dear Lydia,
You don't say which data file or variable you are using. Is it plbornc in xwavedat? This question is o... Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080 (Feedback): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Lewis,
With "svyset psu ..." you have indeed already specified PSUs to be the clusters. This will give you unbiase... Peter Lynn

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080: Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (In Progress): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

10/21/2018

06:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your clarifications.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Dear Support Team,
This can be seen as a follow-up to #758, which presents a similar problem.
I am trying to ex... Lewis Anderson

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (Resolved): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Dear Alita,
I would like to have some labor market outcome information of children whose parents participated in ... Nico Ochmann

10/18/2018

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (Feedback): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Stephanie Auty

10/17/2018

09:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (In Progress): Marital change

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

06:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital change

Dear User Support Forum,
sorry for the second raised issue in one day, but I am revising my work so far.
I am cu... Lydia Palumbo

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

My suggestion to you would be to use W_XXXXXub_lw weight from the last wave that you have observation for any one per... Olena Kaminska

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Are you thinking to represent people or events?
We want to represent people Liat Raz-Yurovich

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Are you thinking to represent people or events? Olena Kaminska

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (In Progress): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (Resolved): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Hello,
We have a question regarding the appropriate weights to apply when analyzing combined files from BHPS and Und... Liat Raz-Yurovich

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (In Progress): Variable on country of birth

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (Resolved): Variable on country of birth

Dear Help Forum,
I am including in my model the status of foreigner as a control and I noticed that there are man... Lydia Palumbo

10/15/2018

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Ante,
Yes, your understanding is correct. And the sampling error refers to the point that there is a small chance ... Olena Kaminska