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From 06/30/2019 to 07/29/2019
07/29/2019
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03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi Celine,
there is a typo in the variable note -- the attraction subscale in Buckner's instrument only has 3 compon... -
10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1217: BHPS and UKHLS weights
- Dear Nurfatima,
You shouldn't use design weights on their own - they are provided for advanced users who want to c... -
09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220: Loneliness
- Dear Alita,
On the UCLA measure the response options are 'hardly ever', 'some of the time' and 'often', but the do... -
09:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Thanks for this helpful reply Alita. I've got a couple of follow-up questions, if that's ok.
Firstly, I'm finding ...
07/26/2019
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03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220 (In Progress): Loneliness
- Dear Sofi,
Response from our Questionnaire Team: We didn’t choose the response options. These come from a recognis... -
- Is there any documentation on why the response options for loneliness questions are 'hardly ever or never' as opposed...
07/25/2019
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- You were interested in the partnership history files that we were preparing. We have recently deposited the "Understa...
07/24/2019
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- A colleague has suggested that to identify promotions within the same job (when not being recorded as a job change) c...
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- Hi Ioulia,
There are 3 sets of variables that record reason for job end in UKHLS, based on the route taken - jbend... -
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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- Hi Chris,
Please see our response to #1218, a similar query to yours. That is not a complete answer for this query... -
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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- Note #1215 is a similar query. It may be useful to sign up for our JISC mail for data users to discuss analysis issue...
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- Specifically for between wave job changes look at the bw_johist files and the variable bw_jhstat variable.
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- In UKHLS, you can identify people who have experienced a job change between two waves by using this condition (w_empc...
07/23/2019
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- Hi,
I want to know how many people have left their job between each pair of survey waves, and would like to do this ... -
07:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1217 (Resolved): BHPS and UKHLS weights
- Hello!
For our project we are working with wave 18 of BHPS and wave 1 of UKHLS. In these datasets we are using cro...
07/22/2019
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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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- 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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- Dear Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We generally provide support and advice on data (& weights...
07/21/2019
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06:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216 (Resolved): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi,
I'm working on neighbourhood social cohesion as a variable and looking at both Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion...
07/20/2019
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11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1212: UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
- Glad I could help pointing this out and thanks for detailed response!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Ma... -
- Dear Gundi,
thanks so much! That resolves it!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> this appears t...
07/19/2019
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- Dear Martin,
according to the question text and notes in the UKHLS questionnaire, the variable _mlstat should be rou... -
- Dear Martin,
this appears to be a labeling issue due to this question having been asked only in Northern Ireland (i.... -
03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to use wJHSTAT to find out whether a participant worked at the same firm through all... -
- Hi Ioulia,
Yes you are correct, the variable satisfaction with housing was not included in UKHLS.
Best wishes,
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07/18/2019
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04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response. Your explanation definitely sounds plausible.
I've just had a look into my... -
- Hello Charlotte,
You are right about this discrepancy.
In Wave 3, there were 969 who said they were living with ... -
04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
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thank you. I'm coming up with an error message that says my weight is being ignored and a warning message on th... -
- Sarah,
Cluster variable is called psu.
Best wishes,
Olena -
- Hi Olena
What is the cluster variable I should use? I have used the strata variable
Best wishes
Sarah -
04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."
- Hello,
I have a question on the variables the satisfaction variables sclfsat1 (health), sclfsat2 (income), sclfsat... -
- The religious denomination variable contains values in wave k (see also website: https://www.understandingsociety.ac....
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- Dear Madam or Sir,
thank you for putting together such a great harmonized version of both data sets, I think this ...
07/17/2019
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- Dear Alita,
Thank you so much for the response.
It is massively helpful.
Thank you for being so responsive a... -
- Hi Ioulia,
Stephanie is away right now, so your email was not picked up. Sorry about that. If you want to attend t... -
- Hello,
I am working on a project, using Understanding Society and I have two questions:
a)I had to locate those...
07/16/2019
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- Hi Stephanie,
Sorry for the delay and thanks for your response.
I was looking at a longitudinal file of all waves...
07/15/2019
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- Sarah,
No, cross-tabulation will be wrong without weighting.
But if you are not presenting confidence intervals ... -
- Thank you Olena for this information
Can I confirm that if I do not do hypothesis testing and only cross tabulatio...
07/08/2019
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- 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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- 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 ... -
- 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...
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