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From 06/24/2020 to 07/23/2020
07/22/2020
- 09:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380: Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- Hello Alita,
I keep going back and reading Olena’s advice and the weighting FAQ to make sure that the results I ge... - 06:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380: Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- Hi Abigail,
Has this question been answered by Olena's response to 1378?
Thanks,
Alita - 11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1383: Coding of variable "hiqual_dv" in the harmonised BHPS
- Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Pascale,
> please take a look at the posts https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/551 ... - 10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1383: Coding of variable "hiqual_dv" in the harmonised BHPS
- Hi Pascale,
please take a look at the posts https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/551 and https://iserswww.ess... - 09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1383 (Resolved): Coding of variable "hiqual_dv" in the harmonised BHPS
- Hi,
I was wondering whether you would be able to give me some more information on how the variable “hiqual_dv” is... - 10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379: Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Thanks Gundi, yes I will look into getting a better match with the look-up files.
Thank you all for your help.
... - 10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379: Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Hi Clara,
jumping in here as I probably know a little more about geographical data linkage than Alita this being my ...
07/21/2020
- 05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1382 (Feedback): Where to find questionnaire modules?
- Hello,
Have you read our User Guide? Please take a look at that.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta... - 05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1382 (Resolved): Where to find questionnaire modules?
- I am interested in using the Wealth, assets and debt module in my research. However I cannot find this data on the UK...
- 04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379: Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> And for these unmatched cases we found gor_dv and country were missing, as is expected since th...
07/20/2020
- 06:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379: Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- And for these unmatched cases we found gor_dv and country were missing, as is expected since their postcodes were mis...
- 06:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379 (Feedback): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Hi Clara,
Our data team has looked into this and found the number of individuals in w_indresp for whom a matched L... - 06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- 06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1381 (Feedback): Query
- The negative values refer to self-employment losses. You can check that by:
tab a_jbemp if a_fimnlabnet_dv<0
An... - 05:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Hi Abigail,
You are correct, The answer to your first question "Which variable would indicate those “interviews th...
07/19/2020
- 04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Abigail Dumalus wrote:
> Thanks so much, Alita, for your feedback. Does the 24-month wave period preclude me from us... - 04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1381 (Resolved): Query
-
Hi
I would like to ask about the fimnlabnet_dv variable: what dose the negative values represent ?
07/17/2020
- 08:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- I will start with the second question:
- yes, you can use indinus_lw directly
- in the first option you assume that...
07/16/2020
- 07:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Thanks for the suggestions, Olena.
Which variable would indicate those “interviews that took place (finished) in J... - 07:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Oh, and with regard to your comment on 'it seems that I am still missing a step or two to generate average life satis...
- 06:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Abigail,
The method I described earlier does not correspond to BHPS data (before UKHLS started). BHPS is normally ... - 05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Hello Olena,
I am using indin91_lw for longitudinal regressions over time from 1996 to 2017 with life satisfaction... - 05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Abigail,
I think you have a few questions that I will try to answer below.
First, why are you using indin91_lw. I... - 12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- May I please get any advice on my queries above about item 11 in the weighting FAQ? Many thanks for your time and con...
- 05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (In Progress): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- Hi Abigail,
I have assigned this to Olena. This is similar to your question on the other post which also I have as... - 04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- Hello Alita,
I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave ... - 03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Hello,
I have recently added local authority level unemployment rates to a panel of individual-level UKHLS data (w...
07/15/2020
- 05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Hello Olena,
I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave ... - 04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Abigail,
Yes, I can confirm that FAQ question 11 applies to 3-months analysis. We do not have a ready syntax for y... - 03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- I read item 11 in the weighting FAQ. It seems appropriate but I cannot be sure whether this applies for building 3-mo...
- 02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- I see. Yes, you can analyse by calendar year. Take a look at item 11 in the weighting FAQ and see if that is appropri...
- 01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Thanks so much, Alita, for your feedback. Does the 24-month wave period preclude me from using “year” as a panel time...
- 01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378 (Feedback): Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Yes, in Understanding Society the fieldwork period for any wave stretches over 24 months and is overlaps with the nex...
- 01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Hello Alita,
I noticed from browsing the dataset that wave periods from wave 2 until wave 9 have been overlapping.... - 01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- Yes drop all the weight variables, then merge i_indin91_lw from i_indrsp onto the entire long format file (many to on...
- 01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- Hello Alita,
I apologise for not replying for almost a week. I have been ill. I currently have several weighting ... - 03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375 (Feedback): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- 03:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241 (Resolved): Problem merging inderesp with children data
- 03:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1337 (Resolved): w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category
- 03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374 (Resolved): Weights
- 03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1377 (Feedback): Weights in Covid-19 Study
- Hello Darja,
ca_betaindin_xw = i_indinui_xw * non-response probability based on a model of non-response between m...
07/14/2020
- 03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1377 (Resolved): Weights in Covid-19 Study
- Dear Support Team,
I tsset (pidp wave) the April and May Study. Can I only use the weight (betaindin_xw) cross-sec... - 01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376: Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)
- Hello,
Sorry the variable note for w_fimnnet_dv does not clearly explain how topcoding is done. There are 51 obser...
07/10/2020
- 10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights
- Dear Olena,
This perfectly answers my question. Thanks so much for the clarification!
Best,
Maria
07/09/2020
- 02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights
- Maria,
Thank you for your questions. I am replying in order:
In your original message:
(1) Yes, your set up is c... - 10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights
- ok. I am now assigning this to our Survey Statistican, Olena.
- 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.
... - 09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376 (Resolved): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)
- Hello there,
I'm working with h_fimnnet_dv, and trying to build a regression model to predict income based on a ra... - 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...
07/08/2020
- 04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- Hello Alita,
I understand what you’re saying. but is there an extra step or specific code that I need to implement... - 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... - 11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374: Weights
- Dear Anita,
Thank you for your quick reply!
Regarding point (1), I was already familiar with item 12 in the FAQ... - 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....
07/07/2020
- 08:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- Dear Olena,
As I mentioned in a separate issue weeks ago, I am analysing life satisfaction and GHQ (using indresp ... - 10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374 (Resolved): Weights
- Dear Sir/Madame,
I have a question regarding the use of weights when pooling the 9 waves of Understanding Society....
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...
- 01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- I will try your advice and see how it goes. Thanks so much, Alita.
I meant to raise this before: just looking at i... - 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
... - 11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello Alita,
It was a typo here. I used pidp. What I did was linking all indall files together for 26 waves (using... - 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...
- 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 ... - 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 ...
07/02/2020
- 02:16 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)
- Hello Alita,
I have read this variable note. But one of the input variables, dob_dv, is based on birthy. That's wh... - 01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello Alita,
Kindly see above for my question about appending/merging indall files with indresp+xwavedat file. I h...
07/01/2020
- 01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1373: Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]
- If it is that child a was their first child, child b their second ect.. then why are the ones not represented in the ...
- 01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1373 (Resolved): Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]
- I really tried to figure this one out before asking here, also had a scan of other questions but I cannot understand ...
- 01:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Thanks so much, Alita.
I was trying to append the indall longitudinal file (all 26 waves) with the indresp+xwaved...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ...
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.
- 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
06/26/2020
- 05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hi Olena,
I just sent an email request for creating a tailored weight.
About merging youth and child data file... - 05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Abigail,
To understand the difference between '91' and 'ub' weight please see
https://www.understandingsociety.a... - 05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Great to hear from you, Olena...
I am interested with creating my own tailored weight base on W_psnen??_lw. If I u... - 04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Abigali,
Yes, of course your analysis and research questions make sense, and indeed we do not have specific weight... - 04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Thanks so much, Alita!
Hello Olena,
Does it make sense to merge the youth sample (for the question/variable 'y... - 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...
- 12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello Alita,
Yes, I am especially interested in analysing life satisfaction and GHQ happiness. Thank you for shari... - 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... - 01:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello Alita,
I'm so glad to hear that you and Gundi are around to give advice!
I just have a follow up questio... - 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 ... - 04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368: Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data
- Sorry just to follow up so I can justify this later, could you confirm why those 2,898 cases are not in the LSOA file...
- 02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368: Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data
- Hi Alita and Gundi
Thanks both for your help, I understand the source of the non-matches now.
Thanks so much.
... - 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 ... - 02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Thanks so much for all this information - I will explore these possibilities now.
Thanks again for your time and h... - 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... - 01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Hi Daniela,
the list of geographical identifier data files we make available is complete. Via this route it is not p... - 01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Hi Gundi
Many thanks for this information. I have been exploring the link to geo-coded data shared by Alita but I ... - 01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Hi Daniela,
Alita has described procedures to link to geo-coded data. Your query suggest you may instead be interest... - 12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Hi Alita
Thanks for your feedback. I checked the link you shared. Can you please just confirm - Is it possible to ... - 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...
06/25/2020
- 10:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Not sure why the code on the website only goes to wave 8; it is porbably a co-incidence and I would not expect the co...
- 10:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Thanks for the advice, Gundi.
I will use the duplicates report command. Is this the main reason why the merging-i... - 09:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- the number of cases in wave 9 is suspicious because the sample size tends to reduce from wave to wave, due to non-res...
- 07:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Why is the number of cases for UKHLS wave 9 suspicious? Does this mean there should only be 25 waves in the longitudi...
- 07:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Try not to append UKHLS wave 9 to the data file that already has wave 9 data - the number of cases for w9 is suspicious.
- 06:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370: BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello Gundi,
I have been trying append all UKHLS waves, using the standard Stata syntax for looping through the wa... - 05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Feedback): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hi Abigail,
it seems like you the wave values 1-9 twice - once for the BHPS and once for the UKHLS. Maybe treat UKHL... - 03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- Hello,
I found that linking all 26 waves went without a hitch. Since I intend to do longitudinal analysis of life... - 05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368: Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data
- Hi Natalie,
the universe of cases in the geographical identifier datasets is sampled households with a valid postcod... - 11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369 (Resolved): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- I am doing my PhD on the impact of digital-first models of care on a range of outcomes, including health inequalities...
06/24/2020
- 03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366: Valid occupation code versus job hours
- Thanks so much for looking into this. I think I have figured it now. I was looking at unique observations (i.e. by pi...
- 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...
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