Understanding Society User Support

12/07/2021

08:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1615 (Feedback): Enquiry of participants data collection

Hello,
Ethnic group and country of birth questions are asked only once - the first time someone is interviewed. It... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1615 (Resolved): Enquiry of participants data collection

Hello, I am interested in exploring the data of ethnicity in the Understanding Society report. I understand the quest... Erica Lee

12/03/2021

07:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11

Many thanks! Theocharis Kromydas

07:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614 (Feedback): jbstat Wave 11

Thanks for letting us know that the issue has been resolved. You may also find this document looking at changes made ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/02/2021

09:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11

I have just read the comment that "New response option code added in Wave 11: 12 Furloughed and 13 Temporarily laid o... Theocharis Kromydas

09:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614 (Resolved): jbstat Wave 11

Hi there
Jbstat variable in Wave 11 has two additional values (12 and 13) that are not label and also they don't e... Theocharis Kromydas

12/01/2021

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
Yes, for each wave I only link data of the same wave. After creating 'complete' data sets for each wave,... Marie Mueller

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Yes, youth weights will be suboptimal weights for your analysis (assuming analysis within one wave, and not... Olena Kaminska

11/30/2021

10:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
Can I assume that the youth cross-sectional weight is the sub-optimal (or indeed the optimal) weight for... Marie Mueller

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Assuming no change in population size of PSUs over time, the selection probability at the PSU stage is the sa... Olena Kaminska

11/29/2021

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

That is very useful to know, many thanks. Is this list of examples of available administrative data still accurate?
... Lieke Holt

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data

Linked Welsh administrative health data are almost with us (with possibility of access to users by Spring 2022) but l... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

(1) About your question regarding inapplicables - anyone who is not asked the question is coded as inapplicable. You ... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-8:
> Jun,
>
> Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration).... Jun Wang

08:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-3:
> Dear Jun Wang,
>
> Thank you for your question.
> 1. Selection probabilities ... Jun Wang

11/28/2021

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

Thank you for the quick response. When I follow the approach you describe I get some values that I struggle to interp... Chris Percy

11/26/2021

06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1591 (Resolved): Design and testing of questionnaire questions

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06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1595 (Resolved): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

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06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (In Progress): Linking administrative health data

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10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

Thank you very much for the clarification!
Good to know that more information will be provided soon. Do you maybe ... Lieke Holt

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data

Hello,
We collected the consents but the data hasn't been linked yet. As and when data are linked information abou... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Resolved): Linking administrative health data

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am interested in participants' health status around the time of the Understandi... Lieke Holt

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610 (Feedback): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

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02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Also, if people move across PSUs you are in the territory of a cross-classified design, which would need to b... Olena Kaminska

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration). It depends on your longitudinal plans f... Olena Kaminska

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Hi, Olena, thanks very much, the second question is solved.
For the first question, suppose there are 100 PSUs in ... Jun Wang

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Let's talk about a theoretical example.
In IP1 let's say we sample 10 people out of each PSU. If each PSU ha... Olena Kaminska

08:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS project. Thanks for your reply, but there is still some questions here:
Accor... Jun Wang

08:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS(China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study) project. Thanks for your reply, ... Jun Wang

06:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612 (Feedback): Understanding length of time unemployed

The end of the first employment status since last interview is recorded in j_empstend(y/m/d). Then if the next employ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Thanks! Marie Mueller

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
I can confirm that "if weight2011>0" is not necessary in this example and should result in the same estimat... Olena Kaminska

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

Hi Olena,
Thank you!
What confused me is this part:
> svyset psu2011 [pw=weight2011], strata(strata2011) sin... Marie Mueller

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