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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a datas...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19132023-06-05T16:01:28ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>Dear US team,</p>
<p>My question is about weighting when carrying out analysis with infants (0-2).</p>
<p>I want to carry out an analysis estimating the percentage of one and two year olds in England living in families who will be eligible for the new childcare policy announced in the Spring budget.<br />Eligibility depends on their parent's income.</p>
<p>My plan was to create a dataset of 0-2 year olds in England by using the information from j_indall, filter on country of residence (England only), then add information on their parent's income from j_indresp.</p>
<p>If I then weighted using j_psnenui_xw would this be the correct way to provide accurate population estimates of 0-2 year olds living in England? Or is a different weight required?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any help.</p>
<p>Laura</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1888 (Resolved): Interpretation of 'trainany'https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18882023-04-06T13:13:49ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>I wanted to clarify the interpretation of the variable 'trainany' in the annual event history module.</p>
<p>The variable is labelled 'Training since last interview' but the accompanying text in the questionnaire reads ' <strong>In the last 12 months,</strong> that is since [interview month] [interview year - 1] , have you done any [other] training schemes or courses'</p>
<p>For some interviewees their last interview may be more than 12 months ago, sometimes much more. However given the explicit wording of the question, which does not in fact refer to the last interview, it seems fair to me to label it as 'Training in the last 12 months?'</p>
<p>Is that correct or have I missed something.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<br />Laura</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1584 (Resolved): "inapplicable" end date of materni...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15842021-09-17T17:25:08ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>Dear support team,<br />I am trying to create a variable measuring length of labour market interruption following childbirth in months.</p>
<p>One important component of this is knowing when maternity leaves end - variable w_matlvendm .<br />However, I find that a large chunk of my sample have w_matlvendm & w_matlvendy listed as inapplicable despite the fact that they have non-missing values on variables w_matlvstm and w_matlvsty (maternity leave start month and year).</p>
<p>On closer inspection I see that these are people who have a value of 3 on variable w_matlv (SPONTANEOUS Currently on maternity/paternity leave) - i.e. they are still on maternity leave at the time of the interview.<br />For some of these people w_jbstat maternity leave and so I am able to trace the end of their leave at the next wave using notempchk, empstendm etc.</p>
<p>However for a good proportion of them w_jbstat paid employment (ft/pt) and so, as far as I can tell there is no way of tracing the date of the end of their leave at the next interview.</p>
<p>Can I ask whether there is something I am missing in terms of finding out the end date of their leave/ when they returned to their jobs? Can you suggest any alternative methods?</p>
<p>I’m also curious as to why in some cases jbstat = paid employment when matlv currently on mat leave, whereas in others jbstat maternity leave.</p>
<p>many thanks in advance,<br />Laura</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1462 (Resolved): respondents without a record in th...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14622020-12-10T17:25:21ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>Dear US team,<br />I don't believe this question has been asked elsewhere or addressed in the user manual, but please do let me know if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>I want to analyse date from the July wave and use information from the jk dataset to construct certain variables measured pre-covid that are unavailable in the covid surveys. There are 589 respondents to the July covid survey without records in the jk dataset.</p>
<p>I know that the cross-sectional weights account for non-response between the survey and wave 9. Would I be correct in saying that they do not correct for differential response between wave 9 and the jk dataset? And that therefore by including variables measured in the jk dataset the weights would no longer provide estimates representative of the population 16+ at the time of wave 9. If so could you provide guidance on how variables in the jk dataset can be used to provide population estimates.</p>
<p>many thanks!<br />Laura</p>