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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudin...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10212018-08-19T10:05:44ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I'm running an analysis at the household level with averaged individual-level attributes by household (dependent variable is a household attribute). I would like to clarify the following:</p>
<p>1) Can household weights be used irrespective of the individual-level attributes?<br />2) For a longitudinal analysis at the household level, has for each wave a different cross-sectional household weight to be used (n_hhdenub_xw) since there is not longitudinal weight for household-level analyses?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjus...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9922018-07-01T12:41:43ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, the derivation of the weighting adjustments for individual-level non-responses includes a logistic regressions as described as follows (p. 72):</p>
<p>"The predictors used in the models include all the predictors used for the household level nonresponse models and individual and household-level variables obtained from the household questionnaire, such as age and gender, marital and employment status, household size and presence of children in the household, as well as household expenditure on food and food outside, consideration of use of environmental energy, among others."</p>
<p>Is there a complete list that shows all the factors used in the regression? I'm asking because I would like to check whether the Big Five personality traits from Wave 3 are included (non-response might well depend on personality traits). I doubt that they are because they were only part of Wave 3 but I would like to double-check. Also, I'm interested whether education is accounted for.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #987 (Resolved): Weighting of sub-samplehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9872018-06-26T22:51:48ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>I would like to compare the means of several variables of a sub-sample (e.g. income, education) after data cleansing with those of the initial sample to test for representativeness of the sub-sample. If all variables are from the same wave (i.e. wave 4 of the UKHLS), cross-sectional weights can be applied. However, the sub-sample contains two variables that were not surveyed in wave 4, so they were carried forward from wave 1 and 3. Should in this case the variables for the comparison be weighted with the longitudinal weights of the last wave (i.e. wave 4) or should cross-sectional weights be used (i.e. cross-sectional weights from wave 1 and 3 for the two carried-forward variables and for the remaining variables, cross-sectional weights from wave 4)? The variables are from household level questionnaires and self-completion interviews, so that the lowest level of hierarchy is 1, which would suggest to use d_indscus_lw if longitudinal weights are appropriate? Do you agree?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards<br />Ante</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #493 (Closed): Difference in response 3 and 4 for so...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4932016-01-27T13:08:16ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>I'm referring to the summarised responses for variables d_solar1, d_solar2 and d_solar3 in wave 4 (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/datafile/d_hhresp/variable/d_solar1">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/datafile/d_hhresp/variable/d_solar1</a>).<br />The responses are distinguished between "no 4 considered in the past and rejected" and "considered in the past and rejected", whereas the questionnaire offers the "no 4 considered in the past and rejected" option only (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/questionnaire-module/household_w4#household_w4.solar1">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/questionnaire-module/household_w4#household_w4.solar1</a>).</p>
<p>Can you kindly advise what the difference between "no 4 considered in the past and rejected" and "considered in the past and rejected" is? Could it be that "no 4 considered in the past and rejected" should read "no"?</p>
<p>Thank you for the clarification.</p>
<p>Best regards<br />Ante</p>