Understanding Society User Support

04/17/2019

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1183 (Feedback): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census

Hello Jing Shen,
The Census question and the Understanding Society questions are slightly different.

In the 2... Alita Nandi

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1185: Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?

Also, sex_dv is only available for the 8 UKHLS waves and it does not have the same problem, that is, there is a valid... Alita Nandi

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1185 (Feedback): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?

Hi Nicole,
Without looking at your code I cannot comment but I can say that when I appended 25 waves I too find si... Alita Nandi

04/12/2019

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1183 (In Progress): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census

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

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1184: informal care receipt in wave 7

>> In that case do the data team correct RELATIONSHIP_DV based on a respondents answers to other questions in the sur... Alita Nandi

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1184 (In Progress): informal care receipt in wave 7

Hello Sean,
I have looked into this and identified these discrepancies that you have mentioned.
The relationsh... Alita Nandi

04/08/2019

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1182 (In Progress): Pooling data for analysis by calendar year

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

04/01/2019

07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1174 (Feedback): Creating reliable fertility history variables - UKHLS waves 1-8

The variable ch1bm_dv ch1by_dv in xwavedat show the month and year of birth of first child (note: ch1bm_dv variable ... Alita Nandi

07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1177 (Feedback): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother

Each row in this file is uniquely identified by A_HIDP A_PNO A_CHILDNO. The variables A_HIDP A_PNO identify the paren... Alita Nandi

03/31/2019

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1177 (In Progress): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother

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

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1174 (In Progress): Creating reliable fertility history variables - UKHLS waves 1-8

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

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1175 (In Progress): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?

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

03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1176 (Feedback): Merging a set of variables to wave 1

INSTEAD OF
use filename, clear
USE
use var1 var2 using filename, clear
This only extracts var1 var2 iste... Alita Nandi

03/27/2019

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1172 (Resolved): seeming errors in fnspid and mnspid variables

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10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1172 (In Progress): seeming errors in fnspid and mnspid variables

USE
egen long fpidp=max(fnspid), by (pidp)
INSTEAD OF
egen fpidp=max(fnspid), by (pidp)
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1171: How to match information of any two household members across waves

Following on from our discussion now here is the syntax file. Alita Nandi

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1171: How to match information of any two household members across waves

Stephanie now handles this forum and I am responding as she is away :)
When matching for each wave separately (as ... Alita Nandi

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1173: Clustering

If you use a pooled cross-sectional set up then there will be more than one observation for some individuals and so t... Alita Nandi

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1173 (Feedback): Clustering

Hello,
Please provide some more information about your analysis.
We can say that the data is clustered and stra... Alita Nandi

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1124 (Resolved): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

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11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038 (Resolved): Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

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10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1168 (In Progress): Selecting correct weighting

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03/25/2019

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1171 (In Progress): How to match information of any two household members across waves

Hi Nico,
Yes, you can replicate this matching excercise for each wave. You could do this excercise for each wave a... Alita Nandi