Understanding Society User Support

11/25/2021

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
The FAQ is not related to the question you have. It relates to a pooled dataset where if you pool over many... Olena Kaminska

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Hi Olena,
Very helpful - thank you! Now I am confident that I did use the weights correctly.
I guess it is on m... Marie Mueller

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
Yes, I see what you mean, and I was able to replicate your results. By expectation this should not happen. ... Olena Kaminska

11/24/2021

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Hi Olena,
Yes, I use the same svyset (and therefore all 3 scenarios are weighted). I guess this is evident also in... Marie Mueller

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
Are all of your 3 scenarios weighted? And do you use the same svyset for them?
Thanks,
Olena
Olena Kaminska

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Hi Olena,
Interesting! Let me give you an example that I just tested:
I have a sample of n = 2,671. Of these, 3... Marie Mueller

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
I am not sure about your question. If you use weights correctly people with 0 weights won't contribute to y... Olena Kaminska

09:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609 (Feedback): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

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09:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609 (In Progress): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

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11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Jun Wang,
Thank you for your question.
1. Selection probabilities for refreshment sample are independent of ... Olena Kaminska

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610 (In Progress): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

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

09:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612 (In Progress): Understanding length of time unemployed

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

08:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1611 (Feedback): Geographical data

Hi Chiara,
The geographical locator variables for our survey respondents, levels lower than GOR are available as S... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/23/2021

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
Essentially, I am interested in the effect of exposure X on outcome Y. Exposure X is linked data (via LS... Marie Mueller

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
First of all, you could use youth in a longitudinal analysis, just keeping in mind that a few years before ... Olena Kaminska

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
I use youth data from waves 1-8. I pool these data into one data set. I do not run a longitudinal analys... Marie Mueller

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Thank you. Do you mean that you pool all youth data from all waves? And for each wave you want to combine y... Olena Kaminska

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612 (Resolved): Understanding length of time unemployed

Dear team, I hope you can help. I'm working with US W10 in Stata (file: j_indresp.dta). I'm using "j_jbstat == 3" to ... Chris Percy

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1611 (Resolved): Geographical data

Hi, will it be possible to know in which council area Scottish respondents live in? I know in the main survey there i... Chiara Costi

08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610 (Resolved): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Hi,

I'm user from Peking University, my research interests include survey sampling and data integration.
R... Jun Wang

11/22/2021

01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

PS In the FAQ on pooling cross-sectional data you say: "We strongly recommend that a non-zero value of the
weight va... Marie Mueller

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609 (Resolved): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Hello,
In my project, I am analysing youth data. For my analyses, I define my analytic sample. For example, youth ... Marie Mueller

11/19/2021

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

I forgot to mention: I use data from waves 1-8, and youth and adult data are matched for each wave (i.e., youth wave ... Marie Mueller

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your rapid response. Yes, for the *youth* analysis, I am using data from the youth quest... Marie Mueller

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Thank you. It sounds like the best approach would be for you to create a tailored weight. But you could als... Olena Kaminska

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608 (In Progress): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth 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

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608 (Resolved): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Dear Understanding Society support team,
Today I attended a workshop on using weights in Understanding Society. I ... Marie Mueller

11/17/2021

11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1607 (Feedback): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS

The questionnaire shows the order in which the questions were asked. These questions were not asked in one block.
... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1607 (Resolved): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS

Can we be told whether the extra 5 minutes worth of questions for EMBS and GP sub-samples occured at the end of the C... vanessa gash

11/16/2021

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order

Yes, there is a variable which ask for the number of siblings - NSIBS (also asked in BHPS Wave 13)
https://www.under... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/15/2021

10:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order

Dear Support Team,
Thank you very much for your response and pointing out the fampos variable in BHPS Wave13. I hav... INGO OUTES

11/14/2021

08:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1606 (Feedback): Adult Subject Birth Order

Hello,
This information is available for adult respondents only for the BHPS sample - they were asked in Wave 13:
... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1605 (Feedback): Life Satisfaction Data

In BHPS, this question was first asked in Wave 6 and then every wave after that, and in UKHLS it has been asked every... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/11/2021

08:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1606 (Resolved): Adult Subject Birth Order

Dear UndSoc team,
I am interested in analysing the long term effects of birth order using the UndSoc dataset. I a... INGO OUTES

11/09/2021

06:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1605 (Resolved): Life Satisfaction Data

Hi, I am a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds hoping to use the survey as part of my end of year dissert... Alex Brown

11/05/2021

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear Daniel,
Thanks for your response. It is clear now. I have passed on your request to the data team.
In the... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1587: panssec8_dv

The issue that you highlighted has been resolved for this latest data release. The latest data will be released by th... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/04/2021

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Karen,
Yes, that's correct.
Olena Olena Kaminska

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Daniel,
>
> It is not entirely clear what your ... Daniel Graeber

11/03/2021

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Feedback): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear Daniel,
It is not entirely clear what your question is.
You have said that you want to transform pasoc00 i... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (In Progress): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Re-opened upon request Understanding Society User Support Team

11/02/2021

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> This issue has been resolved - this person let us know ... Daniel Graeber

03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

This issue has been resolved - this person let us know via our usersupport@ email address so setting this to resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1604 (Feedback): religiosity variables

Hello,
ff_oprlg is just the value of oprlg fed forward from past waves.
This question has been asked in differe... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1604 (Resolved): religiosity variables

Hi,
Can you clarify the key difference between the variable oprlg and the ff_oprlg variable in Wave 2 of the UKHLS?... A J

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1602 (Feedback): unemployment rate

Hello,
We do not provide this information with our survey data. But we do provide data on the geographical locatio... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1598 (Feedback): Time Use Module

Hello,
We don’t have a time use set of questions in Understanding Society and we’ve not carried time-use diaries. ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/01/2021

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear all,
I am trying to harmonize parents' occupational position (e.g., pasoc00) across household panels. However... Daniel Graeber

10/29/2021

01:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1602 (Resolved): unemployment rate

Hi,
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to find the local unemployment rate of the geographical areas that the res... Seok Woo Kwon

10/28/2021

06:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1601 (Feedback): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores

Hello,
As stated in the syntax file you have mentioned for further details about the scoring method used please se... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/27/2021

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1591: Design and testing of questionnaire questions

Thank you so much for this, very helpful!
All the best,
Will Will Barnes

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1601 (Resolved): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores

Dear UKHLS support,
Hope you are well.
I am currently working on a research looking at the longitudinal assoc... Karen Mak