Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382017-02-10T03:13:20ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7212017-02-10T03:13:20ZKing Fok
<p>According to the online documentation at <a class="external" href="https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave1/avars4.html">https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave1/avars4.html</a>, the variable ladistc that provides the Local Authority District of Residence of responding households should be included in waves 1-16 of BHPS within the hhresp file but I can't find this variable in the BHPS data that I downloaded? Is the online documentation not for the general release of BHPS but all releases including the confidential version. I know from experience that panel datasets from other countries i.e. HILDA and PSID do require special access to the confidential version to get the local area that respondents live in. For my research, I just need the local area information so I can match in local unemployment rates.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6852016-12-16T01:25:00ZKing Fok
<p>Just want to report that the variable jbsic07 is missing for wave 3 of Understanding Society but according to the online dictionary it should be available?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness histor...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6642016-11-25T00:04:06ZKing Fok
<p>Hi, my current research requires me to create a measure of proportion of household joblessness a respondent experienced during 1991-2000 when co-residing in their parents' household and a corresponding measure of respondent joblessness for the periods of 2008 onwards. Specifically, I have the following urgent question: <br />1) For Understanding Society, this particular thread (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/308">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/308</a>) made me realise that the data structure for BHPS and Understanding Society is slightly different. Specifically, Understanding Society does not provide spell starts, only spell ends (which is not the case for BHPS for which I used Mare's code). I understand that we can just set the spell start equal to the spell end of the previous activity spell for most cases for Understanding Society. However, if we have cases where an Understanding Society sample member who were part of the original BHPS sample did not provide valid information on the all the employment/non-employment spells they experienced until wave 3 or onwards in Understanding Society, there is the problem of a gap in the information and the missing start date of the first employment/non-employment the person reported for Understanding Society is effectively unknown. What should I do about such a situation?</p>