Understanding Society User Support

08/14/2020

06:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hello Alita,
I’ll take note of these helpful details. Would it be easier if I can attach the respective weights b... Abigail Dumalus

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hi Abigail,

Last time we spoke you said you wanted to estimate models using fixed effects using data from all 18 ... Alita Nandi

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1171 (Resolved): How to match information of any two household members across waves

Alita Nandi

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1175 (Feedback): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?

Alita Nandi

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1181 (Feedback): Merging general health variables

Alita Nandi

05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1120 (Feedback): Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS

Alita Nandi

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1118 (Resolved): f_closenum filtering issues

Alita Nandi

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216 (Feedback): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion

Alita Nandi

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1200 (Resolved): Wave 4 Famsup variable

Alita Nandi

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203 (Resolved): Net Income Variable in BHPS

Alita Nandi

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1211 (Resolved): promotion variable and household income

Alita Nandi

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."

Alita Nandi

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm

Alita Nandi

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218 (Feedback): job change since the previous survey

Alita Nandi

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220 (Feedback): Loneliness

Alita Nandi

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1222 (Feedback): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)

Alita Nandi

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1301 (Resolved): Volume change between releases

Alita Nandi

05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (Feedback): weighting

Alita Nandi

05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Feedback): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

Alita Nandi

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376 (Feedback): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)

Alita Nandi

08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1396 (Feedback): calculate taxable income

Hello Peter,
Have you looked at the questionnaires (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage... Alita Nandi

08/13/2020

06:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1396 (Resolved): calculate taxable income

Dear support team,
For my study i wish to calculate taxable income from indresp datasetS from the BHPS 1-18 . I a... Peter Jiang

08/12/2020

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395: f_scotvot2 - values

Hi Alita,
Thank you for your prompt reply and for clarifying.
Best wishes,
Ivelina Ivelina Hristova

03:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395 (In Progress): f_scotvot2 - values

Hi Ivelina,
Thanks for highlighting this. I have asked the data team to find out if there is any reason to believe... Alita Nandi

08/11/2020

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395 (Resolved): f_scotvot2 - values

Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope this finds you well.
I am currently looking at the Scottish referendum variables at Wave... Ivelina Hristova

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

Hi Colin,
I have forwarded your query to the team responsible for producing these variables. Due to team members b... Alita Nandi

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394 (Feedback): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hi Abigail,
As this is a longitudinal survey, the same sample members are interviewed every year. Part of the BHPS... Alita Nandi

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hello Alita,
I wanted to follow up on my query regarding having a “unified” weighting variable for analysing inter... Abigail Dumalus

12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Abigail Dumalus

08/06/2020

06:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

Hi Alita! I have a follow-up question to my previous query regarding hourly versus monthly wages. For individuals tha... C Josten

08/05/2020

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393: Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

Colin,
Alita's previous suggestion on the weight is correct. I see your point that you would want to include more ... Olena Kaminska

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393: Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

Hi Alita,
Brilliant, thank you. However, (if I can ask a follow-up?) I see how the longitudinal weight adjusts for... Colin Whittle

05:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393 (Feedback): Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

Hello,
Yes, as you are looking at change between Waves 4 & 6 and including self-completion items, you should use l... Alita Nandi

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392: natid - change in national identity

Hi Alita,
Thank you for your prompt reply and for following up!
It will be great to be able to explore these ch... Ivelina Hristova

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392: natid - change in national identity

Hi Ivelina,
You are right that within those who report twice, a high % change their responses. I agree it will be ... Alita Nandi

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392: natid - change in national identity

Hi Alita,
Many thanks for your prompt reply.
Yes, I was wondering why they were asked twice as I couldn't find ... Ivelina Hristova

06:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392 (Feedback): natid - change in national identity

Hi Ivelina,
The national identity questions are only asked once: first time someone is interviewed, or later if it... Alita Nandi

07:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Fiona,
You are right. But the labelling is not wrong. NRELS1-NRELS6 in Waves 3 & 5 correspond to NRELS3-NRELS8 ... Alita Nandi

05:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391 (Feedback): dropouts due to mental health

Alita Nandi

05:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391: dropouts due to mental health

Hi Kai,
Our survey team has confirmed that there aren't any targeted incentives for people in particular circumsta... Alita Nandi

05:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390 (Feedback): englang - change in English as first language

Alita Nandi

08/04/2020

06:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393 (Resolved): Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

Hello,
I actualy don't think it's quite a change score exactly, but for my outcome variable, I am looking at wheth... Colin Whittle

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392 (Resolved): natid - change in national identity

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am interested in the national identity measure (natid). Looking at the question universe, nati... Ivelina Hristova

03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Alita,
Thanks very much for your advice. I will look into constructing the variable using the natchild files.
... Fiona Steele

10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Fiona,
The file a_natchild records the number of children ever born to adult respondents in GPS+EMBS and whethe... Alita Nandi

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391: dropouts due to mental health

Hello Kai,
Information on incentives is available here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mains... Alita Nandi

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391 (Resolved): dropouts due to mental health

Hello,
i was wondering whether there is any particular incentive for previous respondents to attend to upcoming in... Kai Miele

10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390: englang - change in English as first language

Hi Alita,
Many thanks for your prompt reply - and for the helpful clarification and advice.
Best wishes,
Ive... Ivelina Hristova

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390: englang - change in English as first language

Hi Ivelina,
This question was supposed to be asked in Wave 1 of everyone, and in Wave 5 only those in the extra 5 ... Alita Nandi

08/03/2020

06:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347: weighting

Laura,
My previous suggestion of the weight is incorrect as I misunderstood the set up of your dataset. But to rep... Olena Kaminska

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390 (Resolved): englang - change in English as first language

Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope you are well.
I am doing analysis on ethnic identity and am currently looking at the eng... Ivelina Hristova

07/30/2020

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389 (Resolved): Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hello,
Is there a variable which indicates the number of children a respondent has living outside the household? ... Fiona Steele

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1388: Merging geographical special license data

Hi Alita,
It does, thanks for your help!
Kindest,
James James Risk

02:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1388 (Feedback): Merging geographical special license data

Hello,
The geographical special license data files include households with valid postcodes including those that di... Alita Nandi

02:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (Feedback): Estimates of UK population

Hello,
Please take a look at the discussion in this working paper about this issue on pg 19-20 & see Table 6.
htt... Alita Nandi

07/29/2020

09:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1388 (Resolved): Merging geographical special license data

Hi,
I've merged two geographical special license datasets (SN7630 and SN7248) with the main dataset (SN6614) for e... James Risk

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (In Progress): Estimates of UK population

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

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (Resolved): Estimates of UK population

* Hi,
I have a basic query regarding the estimates of the share of the foreign-born population aged 16 and above ... Marina Fernandez Reino

07/27/2020

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (In Progress): weighting

Alita Nandi

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347: weighting

Hi,
Apologies for the follow up.
I have a further question. Since I have individuals coming from only the you... Laura Silva

08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1384 (Feedback): Sharing Data

Hello Isaac,
Thanks for your query.
You are not allowed to upload or share the data. If anyone wants to use th... Alita Nandi

07/24/2020

04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1384 (Resolved): Sharing Data

Hello,
I am a MSc student at the United Nations University / Maastricht University completing my thesis using UKHL... Isaac Thornton

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380: Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Hi Abigail,
I will email you from our "usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk" email address (where you had corres... Alita Nandi

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... Abigail Dumalus

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 Alita Nandi

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 ... Pascale Bourquin

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... Gundi Knies

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... Pascale Bourquin

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.
... Clara Mascaro

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 ... Gundi Knies

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... Alita Nandi

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... Shreya Nanda

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... Clara Mascaro

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Nick Dret

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 ?
amwaj abugamza

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... Olena Kaminska

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... Abigail Dumalus

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... Olena Kaminska

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 ... Olena Kaminska

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... Abigail Dumalus

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... Olena Kaminska

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... Abigail Dumalus

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... Alita Nandi

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 ... Abigail Dumalus

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... Clara Mascaro