Understanding Society User Support

10/08/2021

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Hi Olena,
Thanks so much for your prompt reply and for your help.
I tried to look for similar questions on thi... Karen Mak

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Karen,
Yes, weighting is necessary in fixed effect models.
Look for similar questions about pooled analysis on ... Olena Kaminska

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590 (Feedback): Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

(1) This is an analysis question. This is a good discussion about why and when we should weight. http://jhr.uwpress.o... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590 (Resolved): Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Dear UKHLS support,
Hope you are well.
May I ask for your advice on whether you think weighting should be app... Karen Mak

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1589 (In Progress): Tracking individuals moving house: lack of wave 2 data for addrmov_dv and distmov_dv

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/07/2021

06:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1583: Children in Wave 1 of BHPS

Thank you Chris Tracey

04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1589 (Resolved): Tracking individuals moving house: lack of wave 2 data for addrmov_dv and distmov_dv

Hello,
As part of my analysis I am attempting to track individuals who have move, how long they live at a subseque... Richard Belcher

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1588 (Resolved): Combining the BHPS and UKHLS CNEF datasets

Hi,
I'm a new user of the CNEF harmonised datasets, which include the BHPS dataset and the UKHLS from 2009 to 2015... A J

10/05/2021

06:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1581: Variables for the creation of education history spells

Dr. Liam Wright has provided syntax to produce Working Life Histories for BHPS and UKHLS data: https://osf.io/c3v9f/
... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1587 (Resolved): panssec8_dv

Hi folks,
I hope you are all well. I was just wondering why there are no positive values for manssec8_dv and panss... Michael Vallely

09/30/2021

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1586 (Feedback): Merging UKHLS waves and optimal weight

1. Do you want to set up the indresp data in long format? Then please look at the syntax file which shows you how to ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1586: Merging UKHLS waves and optimal weight

Typo: when I say svyset i_psu[pw=i_ind5mus_lw], strata(i_strata) I meant *svyset j_psu[pw=j_ind5mus_lw], strata(j_str... Gonçalo Gameiro

09/29/2021

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1586: Merging UKHLS waves and optimal weight

And if it is merging that I should do, is it 1:1 or m:1?
Thanks! Gonçalo Gameiro

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1586 (Resolved): Merging UKHLS waves and optimal weight

Hello everyone,
I am doing my master thesis and I am interested in studying the integration/assimilation process o... Gonçalo Gameiro

09/27/2021

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Thank you! Ruth Plackett

11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Ruth,
Yes, this would be the correct suboptimal weight.
Best,
Olena Olena Kaminska

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Hi there
As you've suggested I have used psnenus_lw weight when they are 13 at wave 2 and so on and ui from wave 6... Ruth Plackett

09/22/2021

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Ruth - I cannot see any email request from you. Please email usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk Understanding Society User Support Team

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Thanks Olena. OK that makes sense and so xw weights aren't relevant for my case as I do want to use info form latter ... Ruth Plackett

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Ruth,
You can use xw weight only if your analysis uses 1 wave, and therefore does not use any information from oth... Olena Kaminska

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1582 (Feedback): UKHLS labour liked data

Our data team have responded to this query:
About "the exact number of employees by firm": What the Nest data will... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/21/2021

11:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Hi Olena
Thanks for your reply it was really helpful. I've emailed user support to request the training material ... Ruth Plackett

09/20/2021

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1584 (Feedback): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave ended

Hello,
You are correct in your reading of how the questionniare works. I am summarising it here.
jbstat and mat... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1584 (In Progress): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave ended

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585 (Feedback): Weights for youth dataset

Understanding Society User Support Team

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585: Weights for youth dataset

Ruth,
Yes, technically you will be pooling young people from different years. As a suboptimal weight try to use ps... Olena Kaminska

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585 (Resolved): Weights for youth dataset

Hi there
I'm looking to conduct a longitudinal analysis using the youth data from waves 1-10 from Usoc. I'm lookin... Ruth Plackett

09/17/2021

06:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1584: "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave ended

apologies, some "=" got deleted from the above before posting.
The entry should read
Dear support team,
I am try... Laura Jones

06:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1584 (Resolved): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave ended

Dear support team,
I am trying to create a variable measuring length of labour market interruption following childbi... Laura Jones

09/15/2021

05:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1583 (Feedback): Children in Wave 1 of BHPS

Hello,
Basic information about all household members of households that responded/enumerated are recorded in the f... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/14/2021

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1583 (Resolved): Children in Wave 1 of BHPS

Hi.
I'd like to be able to track adults in Wave 2 of BHPS who were children in wave 1. There doesn't seem to be a ... Chris Tracey

01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1581 (Feedback): Variables for the creation of education history spells

Hello,
As you have rightly pointed out the education data is collected differently for UKHLS, so you will have to ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1581 (In Progress): Variables for the creation of education history spells

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1582 (In Progress): UKHLS labour liked data

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/13/2021

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1582 (Resolved): UKHLS labour liked data

Hello,
I am currently working on a research project in which I need to know the exact number of employees by firm ... Maria Cabrera

09/10/2021

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1581 (Resolved): Variables for the creation of education history spells

To whom it may concern,
my name is Constantin and I work as a research assistant at the WZB. I am writing on beha... Constantin von Estorff