Understanding Society User Support

07/09/2020

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376 (In Progress): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)

Hello,
Thank you for your query. I have passed on your query to our income team and we will get back to you soon.
... Alita Nandi

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights

ok. I am now assigning this to our Survey Statistican, Olena.
Alita Nandi

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Let's say your long file is, long.dta. Then you do this:
use long, clear
merge m:1 pidp using i_indresp, keepus(i... Alita Nandi

07/08/2020

06:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights

Hello,
(1) Take a look at item 12 in the weighting FAQ which discusses pooling waves for cross-sectional analysis.... Alita Nandi

06:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Hi Abigail,
You need to take i_indin91_lw (as Wave 9 is the last wave you are including) and then attach that to a... Alita Nandi

07/03/2020

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

Yes, this happens sometimes, but only a few such cases. In the 9 UKHLS waves there are 13 such cases. In BHPS the cut... Alita Nandi

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

First check that that indall_longfile and indresp_longfile don't have repeated observations. Type
isid pidp wave
... Alita Nandi

06:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

You said you ran the code "xtset pid wave" and got an error message. Did you use "pid" instead of "pidp" or this just... Alita Nandi

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372: Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

For the 9 wave of UKHLS data:
The variable w_birthy was checked for consistency across the waves. After resolving ... Alita Nandi

01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1373 (Feedback): Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]

Hello,
Respondents to this survey, who reported at least one child below the age of 18 (hhcompa>0 or hhcomdb>0 or ... Alita Nandi

06/30/2020

04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

I am responding to issue #17 above:
There are a few ways to do this. What you have suggested (first append all you... Alita Nandi

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (In Progress): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

Hello Abigail,
I am sorry I deleted the issue 1371 that you had posted by mistake. As it is not possible for us to... Alita Nandi

04:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372: Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

Hi Abigail,
Have you read the variable note and the input variables mentioned on the variable page? https://www.un... Alita Nandi

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372 (In Progress): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

Hello Abgail,
I am passing on your query about age_dv to the data team and will get back to you wth their response... Alita Nandi

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372 (Resolved): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

Hello Alita,
I am wondering why the age_dv variable is not consistent with birthy when the latter is read side by ... Alita Nandi

06/27/2020

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

This issue is now continuing via email. So, this post is set to resolved. Alita Nandi

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368: Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data

Hi Natalie,
These are the households without valid postcodes.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

06/26/2020

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?

Thanks Gundi.
Hi Daniela,
I had simultaneously asked our data team to provide a response to your query. Below i... Alita Nandi

01:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369 (Feedback): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?

Hello,
Matching of Understanding Society data with external datasets which are at different levels of geography is... Alita Nandi

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

I am assigning this to our Survey Statistician, Dr. Kaminska, to answer your question on appropriate weights for this... Alita Nandi

09:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

You're welcocme Abigail!
From your description it seems that you are planning to use the BHPS sample over 26 waves... Alita Nandi

01:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

Hi Abigail,
Following up on what Gundi has said, I took a look at the syntax file on our website and added Wave 9 ... Alita Nandi

01:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368 (Feedback): Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data

To follow up on what Gundi has said,
All households in c_hhsamp who have a valid postcode for their addresses are ... Alita Nandi

06/24/2020

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366: Valid occupation code versus job hours

No problem. I have looked at the data again. Over the 18+9 waves of data:
jbhas=1|jboff=1 for 370979 cases
jbocc9... Alita Nandi

06/23/2020

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

basrate is a direct question asked of those who said that they are paid an hourly rate. So, this will be missing for ... Alita Nandi

03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367 (Feedback): Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

Hello,
w_fimnlabgrs_dv is the gross monthly income from all labour market earnings = usual gross monthly wage from... Alita Nandi

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366: Valid occupation code versus job hours

Those who have a job in the week before the interview (jbhas=1 OR jboff =1), whether in paid employment or self-emplo... Alita Nandi

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366: Valid occupation code versus job hours

You're welcome.
jbsemp =1 for in paid employment and =2 for self-employed. So, you need to check for jbsemp=1 and ... Alita Nandi

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366 (Feedback): Valid occupation code versus job hours

Hello,
Occupation question is asked of anyone who did paid work the week before the interview (jbhas=1 OR jboff=1)... Alita Nandi

06/22/2020

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1365 (Feedback): Payment methods gas and electricity

Hello Antonia,
The respondents read these categories and responded to these based on how they interpreted these. S... Alita Nandi

06/20/2020

02:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1362 (Feedback): Deriving own weights

Alita Nandi

02:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1363 (Feedback): Covid weights

Hi Laura,
As it says in the user guide "or the purposes of weighting, the COVID-19 study is treated as an instrume... Alita Nandi

02:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1364 (Feedback): Sample overlap with other studies

Hi Amy,
We have no restriction on our respondents participating in other surveys but we don't know who has partici... Alita Nandi

06/16/2020

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1362 (In Progress): Deriving own weights

Hello,
Thank you for your query. We have assigned this issue to our weighting expert who will get back to you.
... Alita Nandi

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (Feedback): How to find all publications

Hi Lina,
We are not aware of any other such resource, it is updated from the library system.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

06:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359: Using the EMB sample independently

" if I wanted to stratify my analysis by ethnicity and produce regression models separately for certain ethnic groups... Alita Nandi

06/15/2020

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359: Using the EMB sample independently

"If I want to analyse only those who have been asked the extra five minutes questions (so EMB + 500 random GPC + GPS ... Alita Nandi

10:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (In Progress): How to find all publications

Dear Lina,
When you say you are using the University of Essex database do you mean this page?
https://www.underst... Alita Nandi