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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1387 (Resolved): Estimates of UK populationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13872020-07-29T12:51:39ZMarina Fernandez Reino
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<p>I have a basic query regarding the estimates of the share of the foreign-born population aged 16 and above based on Understanding Society data. Using the last wave (i_) and weight i_indinui_xw, I get that 10% of the UK population age 16+ is foreign born (in order to calculate this, I use bornuk_dv and i_dvage). However, based on the Annual Population Survey 2019, which is used by the ONS for their population estimates, I get that 16% of the UK resident population aged 16+ is foreign born. I am concerned about this discrepancy because I want to use Understanding Society to estimate certain categories of vulnerable migrant population and then construct population estimates based on the shares.</p>
<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>Marina Fernandez-Reino<br />Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory (University of Oxford)</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1355 (Resolved): question on household earnings in ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13552020-06-09T17:00:42ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am interested in the household questions in the COVID module (variables ca_blhhearn_answer ca_blhhearn_period ca_hhearn_answer ca_hhearn_period). I don't understand why there are more than 1000 observations who have the value 'inapplicable'. According to the guide, all households should be asked this question.</p>
<p>In addition, I would like to know how you compare the baseline household earnings with the current earnings when the reference period is different for each variable, e.g. baseline earnings reported as pounds per year and current as pounds per week.</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratiohttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12492019-09-27T11:15:21ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am trying to calculate a measure indicating the share of income spent on rent among private renters only. Most reports use the Family Resources Survey to calculate such measure, but I am trying to do it with the last wave of the UKHLS.</p>
<p>In order to calculate the rent-to-income ratio, I use the following variables:<br />- The household net income net of council tax and housing benefit (h_fihhmnnet4_dv), which I multiplied by the OECD equivalence scale (h_ieqmoecd_dv). This new measure, which I call netincomeq, should be equivalent to the Net Income Before Housing Costs provided by the Family Resources Survey.<br />- The housing costs (h_rentgrs_dv). I am using the total monthly gross rent. However, at this point I wasn't entirely sure whether I should use the monthly net rent (h_rent_dv) instead, which is the gross rent minus the housing benefit. Given that the housing benefits have been already computed in the net income variable (h_fihhmnnet4_dv), I assume that I need to use the gross rent (h_rentgrs_dv) to calculate the ratio.</p>
<p>Once I generated the rent-to-income ratio variable, I've calculated the median share of income spent on rent among households in London and the rest of the UK (only private renters). The results that I get are lower than the actual numbers estimated with the FRS data, so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. The weight I am applying is h_hhdenui_xw.</p>
<p>I'd really appreciate your help on this issue</p>
<p>Marina</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12472019-09-24T16:12:59ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>This is to ask you about the unusually high share of EU born respondents reporting only British citizenship (that is, no dual UK-EU nationality) in waves a_ to e_ (around 30%). In wave h_ this share is 8%, which makes more sense. I am aware that those respondents holding an UK passport in wave x are not asked about their citizenship again in wave x + 1 nor in subsequent waves.</p>
<p>My objective is to identify the citizenship(s) of wave h_ respondents, including those with dual nationality. That means I need to take into account the answers given at previous waves by those respondents who are not asked the citizenship question in wave h_ (h_citzn1==-8).</p>
<p>I’ve merged the citizenship variables in indresp from waves a_ to h_ and created a file named citizen.dta. My new citizenship variable uses the values of wave h_ and wave a_ only for those respondents that are not asked the question in wave h_. The final variable shows that there is an unusually high share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only. This high share cannot be accounted for by naturalisations. Since 1990, there have been 250,000 naturalisations of EU citizens, which is about 8% of the population who arrived since that year.</p>
<p>I’ve attached a do file with the code I've used to calculate this (it starts in line 23)</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1245 (Resolved): Weightinghttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12452019-09-18T16:39:39ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have a really basic question about weights though I want to make sure that I'm doing my analysis correctly. Most of my analysis involve the sample of respondents from the last wave (h_). However, sometimes I take into account the responses that those individuals interviewed in wave h_ gave in previous waves. At the moment I am using the cross-sectional weight from the last wave h_, but I'm not sure if this is correct. Should I use a longitudinal weight if I use their responses in previous waves? (even if I only consider those individuals inteviewed in the last wave)<br />Regarding the issue of weighting, I think I underestimated the complexity of it in the UKHLS. Do you have any slides from a past course about this topic that could be shared online?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1241 (Resolved): Problem merging inderesp with chil...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12412019-09-09T18:52:50ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My objective is to construct a dataset that includes all household members, including children aged 0 to 15. I want to examine certain youth outcomes in migrant families. In order to do that, I need to know the country of birth of the natural/adoptive/step mother and natural/adoptive/step father living in the same household as the child. Note that, in this case, I am just going to focus on the co-resident parent(s) regardless of whether they are the natural parents of the child. I am aware that one of the natural parents of child might not reside with the child.</p>
<p>I'm going to to detail the steps I followed so it is easier to understand the problem I have at the moment.</p>
<p>- Firstly I've merged the child and youth dataset. I saved all the variables of interest with capital letters except h_hidp and h_pno.<br />- Secondly, I’ve created couple-level variables in the indresp data file. These variables summarise the country of birth combinations of the partners within a couple, e.g. couples where both partners are UK born. I’ve also generated a variable identifying the country of birth of single adults. <br />- Thirdly, I’ve merged the new indresp dataset with the indall dataset. <br />- Fourthly, I’ve merged the resulting file from above with the children and youth dataset merged in step 1.</p>
<p>The resulting file includes all household members. I’ve generated a couple of variables to identify who is the responsible adult of children aged 0 to 15, so I know if the responsible adult is the mother other family member. The code reads as follows:</p>
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<p>gen motherguardian=1 if (H_ADRESP15_DV==H_MNSPNO) & H_ADRESP15_DV!=. // Adoptive/Natural/Step mother is the responsible adult<br />gen fatherguardian=1 if (H_ADRESP15_DV==H_FNSPNO) & H_ADRESP15_DV!=. // Adoptive/Natural/Step father is the responsible adult<br />gen grandpguardian=1 if ((H_ADRESP15_DV==H_GRFPNO) | (H_ADRESP15_DV==H_GRMPNO)) & H_ADRESP15_DV!=. // Grandparent is the responsible adult<br />gen parentguardian=1 if motherguardian==1 | fatherguardian==1<br />label var parentguardian "Guardian is nat/step/adopt parent"</p>
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<p>gen guardian=1 if motherguardian==1 | fatherguardian==1<br />replace guardian=2 if grandpguardian==1<br />replace guardian=4 if H_ADRESP15_DV==-8 | H_ADRESP15_DV==-9<br />replace guardian=3 if H_ADRESP15_DV>=1 & H_ADRESP15_DV<=12 & guardian==.<br />lab define guardian ///<br />1 "resp.adult is mother or father" ///<br />2 " resp.adult is grandparent" ///<br />3 " resp.adult who is not parent/grandparent" ///<br />4 " resp.adult missing", replace<br />lab val guardian guardian</p>
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<p>Then I want to identify the country of birth of children’s responsible adults as well as their partners. I’ve already generated this variable in indresp, so I have this information. The problem I have is that there are some households with 2+ children where there is more than 1 responsible adult for those children. I’ve included below a fictitious example of such household <strong>(file attached)</strong>. In this household there are 2 children (h_pno 4 and 5). Each children has different parents and hence different responsible adults. The mother of chidren 4 is UK born and her partner is also UK born. The mother of children 5 is Indian born and she is single. <br /> <br />I want to use a dataset only with children, but I need to have information about the country of birth of co-resdient parents and their couples in such dataset. The problem is that I don’t know how to attach the co-resident parents’ country of birth to each child when there are more than 1 responsible adults in the household (like in the example below) . This is mainly because the variable h_childpno in indresp is missing instead of indicating the pno of the child. This is actually surprising because I thought that h_childpno in indresp should take the value of the child the adult is responsible for.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12352019-08-29T15:33:58ZMarina Fernandez Reino
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am struggling to find the country of birth for children under age 16. I thought I could find this variable in the child or indall files, but it seems that this information was not recorded for household members under age 16. Am I correct?</p>