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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8052017-06-29T15:55:35ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am still using the YPSOC variable from the Youth modules in BHPS but I noticed that it is only coded using SOC1990, even after 2001.<br />Is there any way I can get the SOC2000 version of the YPSOC variable for the youth module 2001-2008?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Meg</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6822016-12-13T11:48:30ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using a combined dataset of the youth panel and main adult survey for BHPS 1-18 and UKHLS 2-6.<br />My units of analysis are children and young adults (16-21). <br />At the moment, my analysis is a pooled cross-sectional analysis but I am also hoping to use a longitudinal analysis at a later date.</p>
<p>2 questions:</p>
<p>(1) Which weights should I be using if I am interested in both the children and the young adults? How do I combine the BHPS and the UKHLS weights?<br />(2) I can't seem to identify when the children from the youth panel move into the adult panel. Is there a different pid assigned to them? How can I track the number of children who move into the adult panel?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Meg</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSChttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6772016-12-07T15:11:37ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I would like to recode the yasoc00 and ypsoc00 variables, which use SOC2000 from UKHLS to RGSC categories, and I would also like to do this in BHPS youth panel, which uses SOC1990. In the guidance, it says that for the current job variable, jobsoc, this is translated to RGSC using the Camsin linking file. I have downloaded the linking file but I can't see exactly how this translates. It has code mapping the four-digit SOC2000 to estimated RGSC codes, but many of these have missing RGSC codes, or have numerous different RGSC codes within the same 4-digit SOC2000 code.</p>
<p>Firstly, Do you have the mapping files that you used in the survey to map from SOC1990 and SOC2000 to RGSC codes?<br />Secondly, in addition, up to Wave 2, the main job is coded using SOC1990 as well as using SOC2000, but this variable drops out after Wave 2. Do you have the mapping file so that I can map the main job to SOC90 for Wave 3 onwards? I want it to be consistent with BHPS.</p>
<p>Thanks very much</p>
<p>Meg</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6552016-11-04T15:23:00ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using BHPS together with UKHLS and I am trying to match children and young people to their parents in the dataset, even if they are no longer in the household.<br />Using BHPS, this seems straightforward as fnspid and mnspid are constant throughout the dataset, so you can merge by creating a separate mother/father file and then merging pid to mnspid/fnspid from indresp. <br />However, in UKHLS, merging on fnspid and mnspid does not provide as many matches. Are these pidps? Is there a better way of matching which does not use household indicators?<br />I had a look at the previous query using w_indall in UKHLS but this seems to lead to duplicate cases in mnspid which cannot then be merged?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Meg</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5942016-07-06T12:27:31ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>For yasoc00 (and yasoc90/yasoc10), what occupation would you like to do, there are zero 'don't know' responses for waves 3 and 4, and then 370 'don't know' responses in wave 5. Is this due to a change in the way the interviewers asked the question? How were respondents coded if they had no occupational preferences in waves 3 and 4? Are they in 'missing'? If so, is there any way that 'don't knows' in waves 3 and 4 can be separated out from those who were missing for other reasons?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Meg</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data i...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5702016-05-20T12:50:10ZMegan Scott
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using the xwavedat file to match stable characteristics of individuals in the main survey, but I noticed that on some of the background characteristics there is a large proportion of 'missing' responses. I am using xwavedat from the 2009-2014 download package.</p>
<p>I am especially interested in the parental characteristics when the respondent was aged 14, and ethnicity. <br />These are:<br />maedqf<br />paedqf<br />maju<br />paju<br />racel_dv</p>
<p>I know that the parental background variables are only asked once, presumably when the respondent joins the adult questionnaire? There still seem to be a lot of missings even after accounting for this, e.g. overall, maedqf has 57.1% missing responses. When you disaggregate this by age, there is a high proportion of missings within those who are aged 16-21 at some point between Wave 2 and Wave 5 (birth years 1989 to 1999), with 76% missing responses for maedqf. Are you able to help me with why these variables have such high proportions of missing data?</p>
<p>Ethnicity also has a relatively high proportion of missings in xwavedat, with 45% of those in the birth years 1989-1999 missing data on this variable. Is this to be updated?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Meg</p>