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From 06/10/2019 to 07/09/2019
07/08/2019
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04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Sarah,
I see the problem. The way you specified weights in SPSS they are assumed to be frequency weights. Our weig...
07/05/2019
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09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Hi Olena
Thank you. I've attached three pages in a word document. The first page has the syntax and the second and...
07/04/2019
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05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Dear Charlotte,
Can you tell me which wave you are looking at? I have checked Wave 7 and am not finding the result... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210: Question about health conditions data
- Thanks for the clarification Stephanie
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- Dear Jack,
You are correct in what you have said. We have realised this problem and have redesigned these question... -
- I would simply like to generate a dummy variable to indicate if the individual has a certain health condition at each...
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- Dear Kirsty,
We ask about this topic in the child maintenance module from the point of view of how often a child i... -
- Sarah,
I am puzzled myself. But if you have a syntax that you can share I will be happy to look.
Thanks,
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- Hi Olena
This is most strange and I've re-done the test again and appears the N does go up for weighted data in the ... -
- Sarah,
I just want to clarify my previous comment. It relates to your earlier results of Fisher exact test.
I on... -
- Sarah,
Unfortunately I don't think I know the reason for the difference between weighted and unweighted analysis t...
07/03/2019
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09:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1209 (Resolved): Shared parenting arrangements
- Hello. From looking at the data you currently collect I can't see that it would be possible to assess how many childr...
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- Hi Olena
Yes I have used all the same variables when I did the analysis weighted/unweighted.
however, I have done... -
- Sarah,
The weighting deals only with unit nonresponse. Don't knows and refusals can be treated as valid answers or... -
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your message. No I've used the exact same variables as I am using the same dataset but just ap... -
- Sarah,
I see. No, your subgroup definition is fine and yes, our data will represent this subgroup. I misunderstood...
07/02/2019
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- Dear Olena
Have I missed something? I am only looking at a very specific sub sample of the dataset (e.g. specific ... -
- Try to exclude the variable reflecting samples of interests. The weight takes into account samples correctly on your ...
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- The definition of the variable is the same. However, the variable i'm using is ethnicity and as there are so many, I'...
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- Sarah,
This doesn't sound right: I expect the total with weights to be smaller than in unweighted analysis. I also... -
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Fishers exact test performed.
Sample size before weighting n=962 p=.027
Sample size after weighting n=1015... -
- Sarah,
What was the sample size in your analysis before and after weighting, and what was the p-value?
Thank y... -
- Thank you Olena.
To follow on from this, I've conducted some analysis using the weight and results I would expect ... -
11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208 (Feedback): Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Hi,
I'm using a child-centric dataset to try and get an indicator of whether the child has a step-father in the ho... -
- Marcus,
The cross-sectional weights are correct. For the longitudinal analysis starting at wave 2 you will need to...
06/28/2019
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07:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206: Data linkage to NHS data
- Yes you are right we do have consent to do this linkage but the linkage to English health records is not currently in...
06/27/2019
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- Many thanks for your enquiry.
We have assigned your query regarding weights to our Survey Statistician who will g... -
04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207 (Resolved): Weighting and state benefits
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I am currently undertaking cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses using both BHPS and US data looking at li... -
- Dear Gill,
Thank you for pointing this to us. Yes, please use g_indscub_xw weight and disregard the User Guide co... -
- Yes, to both questions.
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- Hi
I think this has gone on to a different topic, to confirm that if I use the n_indpxui_xw weight in SPSS, this ma... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
06/26/2019
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206 (Resolved): Data linkage to NHS data
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I am interested in looking at some health related outcomes and possibly mental health related outcomes as part... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
06/25/2019
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06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205 (Resolved): self-completion weight wave 7
- Dear USoc Team
In issue #736 Peter Lynn helpfully explains that the decision not to provide indscub_xw from w5 was...
06/24/2019
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- Hello,
Don't worry about zero values of weights - as long as you use weights and adjust for clustering and stratif... -
- But please note the Jenkins et al net income files only produced net household labour income and not individual level...
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- bW_fimnlabgrs_dv is gross labour income.
bw_fimnlabgrs_dv in the harmonised files is the same as bw_fimnl in the s...
06/23/2019
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03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
- Thank you very much, Alita.
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- The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p...
06/20/2019
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- Sarah,
I suggest that you use proportions, and not frequencies, that SPSS gives you. If you need to get population... -
- I am using SPSS. Does this change anything that you have responded above in terms of error message and weighting vari...
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- Sarah,
I was referring to the syntax in Stata, for example svy command and pw=n_indpxui_xw within this command. Is... -
- Hi Olena
I am using n_indpxui_xw using the h_indresp database (individuals and proxies) looking at England geograph...
06/19/2019
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- Sarah,
Which syntax are you using? Our weights are not frequency weights so please do not use fweights command. Ou...
06/18/2019
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11:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204 (Resolved): UKHLS zero weight in panel data
- Hello. I'd like some advice about weighting variable. I'm using UKHLS waves 1 through 7, individual data.
When I ran... -
- Hi Olena
when I apply the weight, shouldn't expect the counts to shift and the frequencies to be higher? They do n... -
- Sarah,
Yes, definitely.
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- Hi Olena
I'm applying this weight to analysis conducted on data that respondents are resident in England only. Is ... -
- Dear Sarah,
Yes, this message is correct but you don't need to worry about it. Understanding Society has a much mo... -
02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203 (Resolved): Net Income Variable in BHPS
- Hi,
I was wondering whether the derived labour income variable bW_fimnlabgrs_dv in the BHPS data (not UKHLS) measure...
06/17/2019
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- Dear Jingjing Wang,
Do you mean that more people dropped out of the Survey between Waves 1 and 4 than between Wave... -
01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
- Why lost to follow between wave1 & wave4 is much higher than between wave4 & wave7?
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- Dear Jingjing Wang,
We have detailed information about the hcond questions in our FAQ here: https://www.understand... -
- Question in related to participants' response for chronic conditions: Although the same questions were asked in wave ...
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- Dear Chloe,
The results are the same using pweight.
Could you let me know the results of my previous suggestion... -
07:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1200: Wave 4 Famsup variable
- Hi Stephanie,
I think it may be because you specify the weight using aweight and I specify it in my code as pweigh...
06/16/2019
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- Hi
When I use this weight I get an error message >Warning # 3211
>On at least one case, the value of the weight var...
06/14/2019
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- Dear Chloe,
No, I am still not getting the same results as you. I have attached my log file so you can compare.
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- Hi Stephanie,
I am using the weight d_indscub_xw for my analysis and interested mainly interested in column percen...
06/13/2019
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- Dear Chloe,
I am not getting the same results as you. I have checked waves 3-5 and find around 50% say supported m... -
- I have been running single year of age for 16-21 year olds by the famsup variable (feel supported by family) for Wave...
06/12/2019
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- Dear Sook Kim,
We have plans to link our data to the HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) database, which wil... -
- Hello. I'm wondering if you provide higher education data (areas of degree subjects such as humanities, science, etc)...
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- Thank you Olena
Best wishes
Sarah -
- Sarah,
Yes, I can confirm that n_indpxui_xw is the correct weight to use in your analysis. Thank you for pointing ... -
- Hi
The US provides instructions on pages 65 to 71. Section 3.3 to choose the correct Variable to Weight the data.
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10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1197 (Feedback): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
- Dear Fabiana,
thank you for making us aware that the reference to the inapplicable value [-8] in the variable descri...
06/11/2019
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04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1197 (Resolved): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
- Hi there
I have a query tangentially related to a previous issue (REF 1063) [[https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support...
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