Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382013-10-07T12:41:48ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #208 (Closed): move abroadhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2082013-10-07T12:41:48ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello, <br />I am interested in those individuals who move abroad in wave 2.<br />I found the variable 'movearea' in the household grid module in the questionnaire, but I cannot find the variable in the dataset. Can you please help me with that?<br />Thanks and best regards,</p>
<p>Giulia Montresor</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #207 (Closed): income variables https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2072013-10-07T10:34:25ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I would like to know what sources of income contain the variables paygu_dv and paynu_dv.<br />Is it just labor income? Are unemployment benefits taken into account?<br />There are individuals who are unemployed but have positive income and I would like to understand why it is so.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Giulia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #206 (Closed): income variables in Understanding Soc...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2062013-09-27T11:57:26ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I would like to know what sources of income contain the variables paygu_dv and paynu_dv.<br />Is it just labor income? Are unemployment benefits taken into account?<br />There are individuals who are unemployed but have positive income and I would like to understand why it is so.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Giulia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #191 (Closed): current employment situation and curr...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1912013-08-31T18:28:26ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am using the first wave of Understanding Society.<br />I don't understand why individuals who are unemployed (a_jbstat==3) have also information on their current job (a_jbrgsc_dv). When individuals are unemployed, shouldn't the variable a_jbrgsc_dv have missing observations?<br />Thanks</p>
<p>Giulia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #172 (Closed): racelhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1722013-07-18T16:32:21ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I was thinking I'd better use the ethnicity variable racel for adults of age 16+ from xwavedat instead indresp.<br />I have noticed that there are less missing observations in xwavedat than in indresp.<br />Can you confirm my thought?<br />Thanks,</p>
<p>Giulia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #164 (Closed): ethnicityhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1642013-06-28T11:16:45ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I noticed that for some observations there is a mismatch for the ethnicity variables between the files a_indall and a_indresp. <br />For example some individuals that are Indian according to the indresp file, result Pakistani according to the indall file. <br />I would like to understand the reason for the mismatch.<br />I know that the indresp file registers the interviewees'responses to the individual questionnaire, but what does the indall file register? Is it directly compiled by the interviewers?<br />Thank you</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #156 (Closed): Variables and weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1562013-06-09T22:51:18ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello, <br />I would like to ask a few questions:</p>
<p>- In wave 2, what is the difference between the variable b_hcondn and b_hcondno? There is no description for b_hcondno in the documentation section of the Understanding Society website.</p>
<p>- I would like to use the variable ivintlang but I don't know what weight to apply, all the weights seems to have zero value for this variable.</p>
<p>- When I compute estimates using weights, e.g. indinus_xw, I see that I get different standard errors depending on whether I use the command:<br />svy, subpop (if varname=...): mean varname<br />or the command:<br />svy: mean varname, over(varname)<br />Why does this happen? What command is reliable?</p>
<p>Thanks and regards<br />Giulia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #145 (Closed): working with two waves and weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1452013-05-08T18:07:11ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,<br />I want to use both waves 1-2 of US. In such case I think I need to keep only those individuals that responded in both waves.<br />I have to estimate the mean of life satisfaction for different groups of immigrants over the two years.<br />Therefore I need to use the longitudinal self-completion weight, b_indscus_lw.<br />I don't understand one thing:<br />The weight regards only observations of wave 2, therefore I need to keep only these observations? doing so I end up with a miserable number of individuals, and I cannot estimate the life satisfaction mean for the groups because the observations have zero weight. I attached my do file. I look forward to your kind reply, thanks</p>