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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firmhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12152019-07-19T14:17:41ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>Hello,<br />I'm trying to find a way to use wJHSTAT to find out whether a participant worked at the same firm through all their labour spells. I have a few questions:<br />--wJHSTAT is only in BHPS. Is there a variable comparable to wJHSTAT in UKHLS?<br />--wJHSTAT has a value of 1 if someone has a different job at the same workplace. However, what happens if the person has the same job as the same workplace? Is wJHSTAT not applicable then? I'm not able to find this answer in the documentation. <br />--More broadly, is there a way using BHPS + UKHLS panel data to find who was employed at the same firm during every employment spell?</p>
<p>Chris</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #475 (Closed): ECHP-SCPR, ECHP-ONS, and ECHP-NIhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4752016-01-04T17:37:05ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>I am trying to understand the values of memorig, which codes the subsample in BHPS. I understand the meaning of values 1, 5, 6, and 7 (which are original, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland). I know that 3, 4, or 5 is the subsample of low-income households, but I can't figure our which one of these three exactly codes that set, and what the other two are for.</p>
<p>The abbreviations in the dataset are:<br />2 = ECHP-SCPR<br />3 = ECHP-ONS<br />4 = ECHP-NI</p>
<p>Could you update the BHPS documentation or add a document on the website to explain the difference between these subsamples? Thanks.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #474 (Closed): Large income jump between Wave 18 of ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4742016-01-04T17:33:40ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>Hello<br />I have merged data from the BHPS with Understanding Society and have an issue with income data. In BHPS, two of the imputed income variables are for annual labor income and total income (i.e. wfiyrl and wfiyr).<br />In UKHLS, there are similar variables for monthly labor income and total income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv w_fimngrs_dv). If I multiply these variables by 12 (and exclude values less than zero), I can compute the annual income.</p>
<p>When I do, I find a large jump between the last year of BHPS and Wave 2 of US. For example average total income is 16,674 in the last year of BHPS and 19,053 in the first year of US. Compared to other annual differences, this is very high, even accounting for the two-year gap between 2008 and 201. Could you explain why this might be, and also why there are negative incomes in UKHLS?</p>
<p>Also income appears to be top coded in US. Is there any way to get values that are comparable to wfiyrl and wfiyr in US (i.e. not top coded)? Thanks.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #473 (Closed): Zero income from labour but high job ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4732016-01-04T17:31:52ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>There are many cases where income from labor is zero, but the respondent has a high level of job satisfaction. Could you explain what might be going on in these cases?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #425 (Closed): MEMORIG unclear valueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4252015-10-01T17:34:35ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>Hello I am working with the BHPS, and am trying to learn more about values of the variable MEMORIG. This code the sample origin wher 1 = original sample. It is unclear what values 2, 3, and 4 stand for. I was able to deduce that they denote people from from the European Community Household Survey, but I wasn't able to find out more. 4 seems to stand for Northern Ireland, but it might not. Thank you. Chris</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #185 (Closed): Pre-participation unemployment spellhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1852013-08-26T16:00:50ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Is there a variable that records if a participant experienced a spell of unemployment <strong>before</strong> they began participating in BHPS? I have looked but haven't been able to find such a variable, but I wanted to be sure that no such variable exists.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Chris</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #175 (Closed): Over 24K participants seem to have no...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1752013-07-25T16:30:36ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>Hello<br />I'm using BHPS data and I merged xwavedat with xwaveid. Then I merged the resulting file with every wINDRESP file from a through r. In doing so, I used SPSS's "/in" command to mark whether a participant had data for a specific wave. Here is a snippet:</p>
<p>match files file = "c:\temp\tempx.sav" <br />/file = "c:\temp\tempxx.sav" <br />/file = "c:\temp\tempa.sav" /in=wave1<br />/file = "c:\temp\tempb.sav" /in=wave2<br />/file = "c:\temp\tempc.sav" /in=wave3<br />/file = "c:\temp\tempd.sav" /in=wave4</p>
<p>Wave1, Wave2, etc are dummy coded, so 1=yes. In theory, every participant should have had at least one wave of data. However, I only have wave-specific data for PIDs from 10002251 through 78133459. There is no wave-specific data for participants from 78133491 through 189364181, which is over half the dataset.</p>
<p>Are these UKPHS participants who have no BHPS data?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Chris</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #173 (Closed): Understanding "inapplicable"https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1732013-07-19T21:06:45ZChris Martinchris.martin.e@gmail.com
<p>This is a general question. I've found that "inapplicable" is a common answer to many questions in the xwavedat dataset, and I've deduced that "inapplicable" can mean:</p>
<p>a. the question was skipped due to a skip pattern<br />b. the question was never asked in years when the person participated in the survey<br />c. the question wasn't part of the survey, depending on interview type<br />d. the question wasn't part of the survey for a regional sample<br />e. some combination of the above</p>
<p>Is this correct? Also I've noticed that for every question in this dataset, 30% or higher of the values for any field are inapplicable/missing. Is there a general reason for this? Thank you.</p>