Understanding Society User Support

05/19/2023

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Cross-sectional weight is a wrong one as a base weight, as we don't follow TSMs by design. You should use a ... Olena Kaminska

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Thank you for this clarification. You will need longitudinal weights. It may be best for you to create you o... Olena Kaminska

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Richard,
What to do with item missingness completely depends on the subject you study and research question you ha... Olena Kaminska

05/17/2023

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Thank you for your question. To answer it you would need to clarify the population that you want to represen... Olena Kaminska

01:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Richard,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, there may be some part of nonresponse unaccounted due to missing res... Olena Kaminska

05/15/2023

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1902: weights individual files waves 10 -11 wide format

Dear Annaelena,
Thank you for your question. Here is information on our weights that may be helpful to you:
https... Olena Kaminska

05/12/2023

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894: Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data

Yanan,
On tailored weights we have a online workshop for you: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training... Olena Kaminska

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899: Household weights

Imogen,
Yes, this is definitely a possible option. In comparison over the years it is best to do it at an individu... Olena Kaminska

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Laurence,
Look in xwavedat.dta. But please for this look in wave 11 release (which is not the most recent). You sh... Olena Kaminska

05/10/2023

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899: Household weights

Imogen,
Thank you for your question. How do you define household longitudinally? What happens if someone moves out... Olena Kaminska

04/24/2023

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894: Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data

Dear Yanan Zhang,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you always need to use weights with UKHLS, regardless of analy... Olena Kaminska

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892: Question regarding longitudinal weights

Johanna,
Yes, clustering changes only standard errors, and therefore confidence interval, and therefore p-values o... Olena Kaminska

04/21/2023

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892: Question regarding longitudinal weights

Johanna,
It sounds to me that you may be pooling information from multiple waves, which depending on how you do it... Olena Kaminska