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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1519 (Resolved): Marital status (marstat_dv) and pr...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15192021-03-08T09:04:27ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I am wondering if respondents in the indresp file have a marital status (marstat_dv) of being married/civil partner or living as couple and their partners have no ppid/sppid, and livesp_dv=0, can we assume that their partners are non-respondents? I have been checking the indall file for reference but I am still not sure whether this is possible.</p>
<p>Bottom line: How can we know whether their self-reported marital status is correct?</p>
<p>Kind Regards,<br />Abigail</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1451 (Resolved): Matching household partners to fin...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14512020-11-23T10:23:53ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Is there a way to use ppid and sppid variables to designate a household's social class? For example, a man who has a middle class job and his partner/spouse has an upper class job... the woman's upper class position would represent an upper class household since they live together. Note that I am referring to current job or most recent job (if current job is missing). Are there other harmonised social class variables based on occupation? Thanks in advance.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” we...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13942020-08-11T11:46:00ZAbigail DumalusUnderstanding Society User Support - Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13802020-07-16T15:34:09ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave 5, sample month 1 (if wave==22 & month==1) using the data editor on Stata, istrtdaty indicated 2013, istrtdatm ranged from 1 to 6. I am confused why interviews that started in 2013 have to be added under “January 2014” monthly average. Am I doing the filtering in a completely wrong way? It would be helpful if an illustration of January 2014 can be provided, along with the appropriate weighting variable for this month. In order for me to generate 3-month rolling averages/variances, I would need to “create” a period variable that would uniquely identify each pidp within a wave period but in terms of calendar months or years. The command I am trying to do is rangestat on Stata:</p>
<p>rangestat (mean) monthmean_lfsat_3ma = monthmean_lfsat, by(panel_id) interval(panel_month -2 0) —> 3-month moving average of life satisfaction</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods acro...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13782020-07-15T12:28:44ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I noticed from browsing the dataset that wave periods from wave 2 until wave 9 have been overlapping. My basis for this observation are the following variables: istrtdaty, istrtdatm, istrtdatd, and wave. To illustrate, let me focus on waves 22 and 23:</p>
<p>- wave 22 (UKHLS wave 5) starts 9 January 2013 [11 interviews] until 29 April 2014 [1 interview]<br />- wave 23 (UKHLS wave 6) starts 8 January 2014 [26 interviews] until 11 May 2015 [1interview]</p>
<p>From my perception, interviews done from 8 January 2014 until 29 April 2014 in wave 23 can also be assumed to have happened in the latter portion of wave 22. I am really puzzled because I have set xtreg command with wave as a time variable, but then interview periods appear to overlap into the next wave. I have been searching for fieldwork information per wave to find out about official interview timelines. Can you please clarify where I can confirm actual interview periods per wave, so that I can still use wave as a panel time variable? Would this be an issue as well with how the weighting variables have been constructed?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be consta...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13752020-07-07T19:01:45ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Dear Olena,</p>
<p>As I mentioned in a separate issue weeks ago, I am analysing life satisfaction and GHQ (using indresp files) from 18 waves of the BHPS plus 8 waves of the UKHLS for a total of 16 waves. I have been referring to indin91_lw as the longitudinal weight. My problem/issue is that I have told Stata that the data has a panel structure via xtreg pidp wave. I wish to run: xtreg y x1 x2 [pw=indin91_lw], fe but I keep getting the error, "weight must be constant within pidp". What is the easiest workaround that I can implement for this analysis?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Tim...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13702020-06-25T14:45:27ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I found that linking all 26 waves went without a hitch. Since I intend to do longitudinal analysis of life satisfaction from wave 1 to wave 26, I am trying to tell Stata this has a panel structure (xtset pidp wave). Unfortunately, I am getting error r(451) for "repeated time values within panel". I tried doing xtset separately for all 18 BHPS indresp waves, and it worked. I also applied xtset for all 8 UKHLS indresp waves, but I am getting error r(451). What am I missing here?</p>