Understanding Society User Support

01/28/2021

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1492 (In Progress): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year

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

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net income

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03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491 (In Progress): advice on constructing ISCED variable

Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi

01/26/2021

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1490 (Feedback): Top-coding of net income

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Based on the user guide description of topcoding, all these variables... Alita Nandi

01/25/2021

11:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1487 (Resolved): Clarification on fuel expenditure

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01/22/2021

07:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1489: SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'

Sorry I meant age 5 or 8. If you take all adult respondents in c_indresp who completed the interview face-to-face (c_... Alita Nandi

06:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1489 (Feedback): SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'

Hello Giorgio,
This file includes all children (0-15 year old). These questions were asked of parents of 3 and 5 y... Alita Nandi

01/21/2021

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1487: Clarification on fuel expenditure

I have checked the routing on all these questions (as specified in the questionnaire) and these are ok.
cou if fuel... Alita Nandi

10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1487 (Feedback): Clarification on fuel expenditure

Dear Christina,
We will look into this. Could you please provide exact variable names and waves you are looking at... Alita Nandi

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1482: Top-coded income

Our income team has pointed out that the fimnlabgrs is a variable which is the sum of variables, and it is these comp... Alita Nandi

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1473 (Resolved): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents

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12:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (Resolved): Missing values vs negative income

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12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1485 (Resolved): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level

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10:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1485 (Feedback): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level

Hi Martin,
This is an analysis question and it is not within our remit to provide analytical help as we don't have... Alita Nandi

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1484 (Resolved): Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights

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10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights

There are multiple methods. For example, you can also use collapse:
Open your data
save temp, replace // collapse... Alita Nandi

01/20/2021

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1484: Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights

Sorry, I see what you mean.
The weights are scaled so that they add up to the sample size and not the UK populatio... Alita Nandi

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1484 (Feedback): Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights

Hello,
I repeated your code and then estimated your model without weights (option 1), with weights and survey desi... Alita Nandi

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1483 (Feedback): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?

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03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting

(b) In that case there is no appropriate weights. If you were to use Main survey Wave 9 + Covid waves for DID (pre an... Alita Nandi

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1477 (Resolved): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)

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03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1482: Top-coded income

I have asked the income team to get back to me about this, and will let you know when I have a response from them. Alita Nandi

01/18/2021

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income

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09:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (In Progress): Missing values vs negative income

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08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481: Missing values vs negative income

I don't think we have encountered this issue yet as it is very unlikely to have income amount exactly -7 or -9. But i... Alita Nandi

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1482 (Feedback): Top-coded income

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08:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1482 (In Progress): Top-coded income

Hello,
Could please you add which wave you are looking at? I did not find this issue when I looked at Wave 1 data.... Alita Nandi

08:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1483 (In Progress): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?

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

01/13/2021

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1476 (Resolved): Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472 (Feedback): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income

The negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are set aside for missing values. Other negative values are actual negative values... Alita Nandi

01/10/2021

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)

Hi Marion - We have identified that the value of strata=122 should be changed to 130 if hhorig=4. Please make this ch... Alita Nandi

01/08/2021

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1479 (Resolved): mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)

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11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1479 (Feedback): mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)

Hello,
While all individuals in indall must be in a responding household, the households in the file hhresp are on... Alita Nandi

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1477 (Feedback): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)

Hello Marion,
My colleague has checked your code and that is ok. We have identified that for 2 cases in b_indresp,... Alita Nandi

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1480 (Feedback): Who was sampled for question ca_timeshare in the COVID-19

Hello,
In the cW_indresp_w files, no responses were removed because of this reason (and that includes the timchcar... Alita Nandi

01/07/2021

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1474 (Feedback): Covid-19 weighting

Hello,
(a) For cross-sectional analysis use the weights cW_betaindin_xw for Covid waves 1-4 (W=a,b, c, d), W_indin... Alita Nandi

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1477 (In Progress): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)

Sorry I didn't notice that you had included the lonelypsu correction. We are looking into this. Alita Nandi

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1477 (Feedback): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)

Hello,
This is possible because of single PSU strata. While this is not the case by design, for a particular analy... Alita Nandi

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1462 (Resolved): respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness

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02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1465 (Resolved): Highest qualifcation variable

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02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1466: Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy

If you exclude proxy respondents then you will use the weight for full respondent. For cross-sectional analysis that ... Alita Nandi

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1467 (Resolved): Website links not working

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02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1468 (Resolved): Tracking category labels over time

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02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

If you are using Wave 9 + all Covid waves, and conducting a longitudinal analysis, you should use the longitudinal we... Alita Nandi

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1455 (Resolved): Inapplicable responses to GHQ-12 and SF-12 in the extra five minutes sample

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02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1473 (Feedback): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents

Hello,
The question is the same as in the JUly questionnaire so please take a look at that for now, while we updat... Alita Nandi

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1473 (In Progress): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents

Hello,
We are looking into this and will get back to you asap.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support... Alita Nandi

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1476 (In Progress): Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC

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

01/05/2021

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472 (In Progress): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

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

01/04/2021

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1471 (Feedback): Identifying relation to respondent of those being cared for

Hello,
The variables w_aidhuax records whether the person in the household with PNO=x is cared for by the responde... Alita Nandi

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1470 (Feedback): Question about data

Hello,
The sample is drawn from non-institutional postal addresses and so it is not likely to include any homeless... Alita Nandi

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1469: Matching data

The website problem is fixed, so you will be able to access the syntax page now. Please see if the following syntax f... Alita Nandi

05:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1469 (Feedback): Matching data

Hello Laura,
We have a worked out example on how to do this in our training material (available as Moodle course).... Alita Nandi

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1467 (Feedback): Website links not working

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02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1467: Website links not working

The problem has been fixed. Please try again and let us know if you continue to have problems. Please remember to emp... Alita Nandi

06:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1467 (In Progress): Website links not working

Hello,
We are sorry about this and hope to resolve this very soon.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Sup... Alita Nandi

06:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1468 (Feedback): Tracking category labels over time

Hello,
If a question remains the same across waves it will have the same name, as will the variables based on the ... Alita Nandi

06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1466 (Feedback): Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy

Hello,
Use the variable w_ivfio which will tell you if this was a proxy interview or a full interview (meaning the... Alita Nandi