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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1817 (Resolved): oldest child via family matrixhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18172022-11-25T15:15:24ZLieke Holtl.voorintholt@rug.nl
<p>Dear Understanding Society team,</p>
<p>I am pleased to work with your newly released family matrix. My question regards the parent-child relationship identifier.</p>
<p>For my research I am interested in the first (alive) child of a parent. I aim to identify the oldest child by checking which of the listed children is the oldest, but I am wondering whether actually all of a parent's children are listed. If the oldest child of a parent for example has rejected to ever participate in the survey whereas younger siblings have participated, then my identification gives incorrect results.<br />Would you be able to clarify whether this is a possibility, and if so, how often you expect this case to occur?</p>
<p>Moreover, I wonder how you would recommend me to deal with twins. Specifically, in the household files where children are often already listed in order of birth, do you use a general rule to decide which twin to put first and which second (e.g., based on whether the child is a boy or girl)?</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance!</p>
<p>Best,<br />Lieke</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1623 (Resolved): Gender first-born childhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16232021-12-21T13:32:44ZLieke Holtl.voorintholt@rug.nl
<p>Dear User Support team,</p>
<p>I have been looking for a variable that captures the gender of individual respondents' first-born child, but cannot seem to find it.<br />Is there any such variable? I guess the alternative would be to work only with parent observations whose children have also been interviewed and infer their gender in that way, but this would be quite costly in terms of the number of observations that I would have to drop.</p>
<p>I look forward to hearing from you,</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Lieke</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1613 (Resolved): Linking administrative health datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16132021-11-26T09:46:12ZLieke Holtl.voorintholt@rug.nl
<p>Dear Understanding Society team,</p>
<p>I am interested in participants' health status around the time of the Understanding Society waves 4 and 10. <br />There are several questions about health status included in the (main) questionnaire, but I am wondering if I could also make use of administrative health records (of course following a procedure of requesting data access).</p>
<p>On your participants page I find information suggesting that you do, see e.g. [[<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/participants/health-records">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/participants/health-records</a>]].<br />However, I cannot find further information on this on the pages meant for researchers such as [[<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/linked-data">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/linked-data</a>]].<br />I hope you can clarify what are the possibilities for researchers to work with health admin data.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Lieke</p>