Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382014-05-09T12:03:16ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #260 (Closed): age leaving homehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2602014-05-09T12:03:16Zpeter tammes
<p>We are analysing the wave 3 question ‘age you think when you leave home’ (lvhm). We noticed that there are a significant number of ‘don't knows’ recorded in the dataset and would like to learn more about them, for example if ‘don't know’ is given more often by certain ethnic groups. Thus we have a couple of questions:</p>
<p>1) Is the answer option ‘don’t know’ explicitly given TO THE RESPONDENT by the interviewer or is this option only recorded when the respondent says this spontaneously? <br />2) How do interviewers deal with respondents who have no intention to leave home (for whatever reason) – were the interviewers given special instructions?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #253 (Closed): general population samplehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2532014-03-28T16:09:03Zpeter tammes
<p>Dear sir /madam,<br />We would like to use only the General Population Comparison sample. Which of the weight variables should we use in our analysis?<br />Thank you <br />Peter</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #251 (Closed): Whether born in UK - all respondents ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2512014-03-21T17:41:27Zpeter tammes
<p>Dear Sir / Madam</p>
<p>Where can we find information on whether an individual is born outside the UK for all adult individual respondents at wave 2? We have seen this data for those present at wave 1. We realise that for those that took part in wave 1 they will not be asked this again, and similarly BHPS participants will previously have been asked this. Therefore we had expected to have to use data from the xwavedat record when analysing wave 2 onwards. However when we look at the variable UKBORN from the xwavedat file from the most recent data deposit appears to have missing data for over 40,000 individuals. Please advise how to construct "uk born / non uk born" for all respondents. Thanks.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #235 (Closed): incomehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2352014-01-16T15:02:58Zpeter tammes
<p>Dear Sir / Madam<br />Following the discussion on income at this User Support, it is a couple of times mentioned that net income is not available (yet) for wave 1.<br />The dataset indresp, however,contains a_fimnlabnet_dv (total monthly labour income - net) and a_fimnnet_dv ( total personal income - net). What are these variables - do I read the labels incorrectly?<br />Thank you<br />regards,<br />Peter</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #163 (Closed): OMS movers, not resident in wave 2https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1632013-06-26T15:06:48Zpeter tammes
<p>We are interested in OSM's who have moved or are not resident any more in the wave 1 household. In the wave 2 questionnaire several questions are asked about them such as Curstat, Absuni, Movewith, Mothr, and Lvwhy. Where can I find these variables?<br /> Thank you,<br />Peter Tammes</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #140 (Closed): occupational (re)coding https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1402013-04-16T10:35:42Zpeter tammes
<p>Dear Sir/Madam</p>
<p>We would like to address a few questions regarding the (re)coding of occupations of the respondents, their father and mother, and the job aspirations of young teenagers.</p>
<p>In the Understanding Society User Manuel is written that: ’Occupational coding for respondent’s current or last occupations was carried out by NatCen. Coding was carried out on a case-by-case basis by trained coders, with 10% of the coding of SOC and SIC subject to a blind-coding check. Coding of parental occupations and respondent’s first occupation was carried out within ISER, using the Computer Assisted Structured Coding Tool (CASCOT) system developed by Peter Elias. As a result of the six-figure codes attached via CASCOT, matching of the 1990 SOC coding with previous occupational classifications is now possible; in addition, special algorithms within CASCOT allow the re-coding of SOC codes into SEG, RGSC, Goldthorpe, Hope-Goldthorpe, Cambridge Scale and ILOISCO 88.’</p>
<p>Where can we find the re-coded occupations of the respondents, or the algorithm to recode their occupations into e.g. Goldthorpe codes?</p>
<p>The occupations of the father and mother when the respondents were aged 14 are also asked. Are these occupations also already recoded?</p>
<p>In the youth module young teenager are asked to what job they would like to do. Again, are these occupations also already recoded?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Peter Tammes</p>