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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #2023 (Resolved): Is there a variable which indicate...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20232024-01-03T12:05:18ZConnor Drake
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 data as this was the most recent dataset which asked the questions we were looking at. I am posting as wondering if there is a simple(r) way to determine if a respondent is a single parent than the steps I have taken (outlined below - excuse the long syntax trail and attached images!), but also to ask for advice on how to fix an issue where I am getting .00 in a frequency table for wave 13 even though the syntax remains the same.</p>
<p>Steps I have taken for this analysis:</p>
<p>1. I have created a variable which bands the number of children into 0, 1, 2 and more than 3, using the following syntax:</p>
<p>compute newchildbands=0.</p>
<p>if j_ndepchl_dv=-9 newchildbands=-9.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-8 newchildbands=0.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-2 newchildbands=-2.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-1 newchildbands=-1.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=0 newchildbands=0.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=1 newchildbands=1.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=2 newchildbands=2.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=3 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=4 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=5 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=6 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=7 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=8 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=11 newchildbands=3.</p>
<p>ADD VALUE LABELS newchildbands<br />-9 "Missing" <br />-2 "Refusal" <br />-1 "Don't know" <br />0 "No children" <br />1 "One child" <br />2 "Two children" <br />3 "Three or more children".</p>
<p>Wave 10 frequencies table for 'newchildbands':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/281/newchildbands%20Wave%2010.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Wave 13 frequencies table for 'newchildbands':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/282/newchildbands%20Wave%2013.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>2. I have created a single parents variable, combining the newly-created newchildbands variable with j_marstat and m_marstat in the respective dataset for waves 10 and 13, using the following syntax.</p>
<p>compute singleparents=0.</p>
<p>if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=1 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=4 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=5 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=6 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=7 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=8 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=9 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=2 or m_marstat=3 singleparents=2.<br />if newchildbands=0 and m_marstat=1 or m_marstat=4 or m_marstat=5 or m_marstat=6 or m_marstat=7 or m_marstat=8 or m_marstat=9 singleparents=3.<br />if newchildbands=0 and m_marstat=2 or m_marstat=3 singleparents=4.</p>
<p>ADD VALUE LABELS singleparents<br />1 "Single parent" <br />2 "Parent with partner" <br />3 "Single but no children" <br />4 "Partnered and no children".</p>
<p>Wave 10 frequencies table for 'singleparents':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/283/singleparents%20Wave%2010.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Wave 13 frequencies table for 'singleparents':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/284/singleparents%20Wave%2013.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Apologies if I'm missing something fairly simple in my syntax or in a variable I could use alternatively instead, and I hope that I haven't added too much information in my attempts to be as detailed as possible! I can, of course, provide more information if needed and any advice that you can provide is more than appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Connor</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1961 (Resolved): Newly diagosed health conditions i...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19612023-08-22T13:53:16ZAlexander Labeit
<p>I want to potentially update health conditions for all waves from waves 2 to 12.</p>
<p>Looking at the updating health conditions (newly) diagnosed (e.g. asthma, diabetes, etc).</p>
<p>1) hcondn1 indresp waves 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9<br />Universe: if ff_ivlolw = 1 | ff_everint = 1 (interviewed at prior wave or has been interviewed previously)</p>
<p>2) hcondncode1 indresp waves 10, 11, 12<br />Universe: if ff_ivlolw = 1 | ff_everint = 1 (interviewed at prior wave or has been interviewed previously)</p>
<p>Also relating to the query is the issue 'New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10' or more general to health conditions in general in wave 10 and note #5<br /><a class="external" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1686">https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1686</a></p>
<p>Therefore, looking at the data documentation from variable search and as I understand it from this issue 1686: it is not possible to <br />update the health conditions information for continuing respondents in wave 10, only to use also the included 'ever' information.</p>
<p>Can you confirm this?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Alexander</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1927 (Resolved): SF1 and SCSF1 variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19272023-06-24T20:35:57ZC Rowan Marron
<p>Dear sir or madam,</p>
<p>The variables SF1 and SCSF1, in the w_indresp files, are supposed to represent self-assessed health on a 5-point scale, and are supposed to be the same. The documentation for these variables says that they should be combined together. However, for waves 2-5 inclusive, there are a large number of cases, about 23% of total data, where both are available and not null, they differ from each other. That is, the same person in the same wave reports their health as 'very good' on one variable and 'excellent' on the other, for example. Please advise how this can happen and which variable should preferentially be used in this situation.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Rowan.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1818 (Resolved): X-wave person identifier of resp. ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18182022-11-25T15:38:30ZEsme Lilly
<p>I'm trying to match children to their parent/responsible adult. To do this in the BHPS waves, I am using the variable rapid_bh. However, when I try to match to respondents using the pid that is present in the rapid_bh variable, it doesn't match to anyone.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1776 (Resolved): Wave6 - Migration history question...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17762022-10-06T08:29:49ZMarion Lieutaud
<p>Dear Understanding Society team,</p>
<p>I hope this finds you very well - I wanted to consult the Wave 6 migration history questionnaire module and, strangely, the link on the Understanding Society platform is empty, suggesting that there were zero questions in this module, which I know is not the case: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/6/questionnaire-module/migrationhistory_iemb1">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/6/questionnaire-module/migrationhistory_iemb1</a>. I think this is probably just a website oversight, and I thought it would be useful to flag it. I also wanted to ask where I may be able to find that module in the meantime? <br />Finally, just to clarify - was this module only presented to IEMB respondents at wave 6? Or were foreign-born respondents who entered the survey before wave 6 also asked those questions?</p>
<p>Many, many thanks for your time and help!</p>
<p>All best,</p>
<p>Marion</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1742 (Resolved): Recommended Method to Construct Un...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17422022-08-05T09:14:05ZJoAnn Tan
<p>Hi Alita,</p>
<p>Hope you are doing well. :)</p>
<p>I am wondering what the best way is to construct unemployment duration for Wave 1-11. The nmpsp_dv captures the number of employment spells since last interview, but according to my understanding, 'last interview' here does not necessarily mean the previous wave. Do you mind sharing what the ideal method is to construct accurate unemployment duration? Thank you so much for your help!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1692 (Resolved): Data Queryhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16922022-05-02T14:51:15ZStewart Dunlop
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm a 2nd Year Ph.D at Glasgow University, researching happiness. I've been trying to replicate and then update a 2003 study by Andrew Clark:</p>
<p>"Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data" <br />Author(s): Andrew E. Clark<br />Source: Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 21, No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 323-351.</p>
<p>This paper uses the 1st 7 waves of the BHPS to develop a model explaing whether happiness among the unemployed is affected by livong in an area of high unemployment.</p>
<p>My issue concerns the sample size. Clark (p327) clearly states that his sample size from thev 1st 7 waves is 39,477 observations. However, when I download the 1991-97 data, I get 42,244. These figures refer to individuals aged between 16-64 who are active in the labour force.</p>
<p>I have tried to reconcile these two totals, so far unsuccessfully. It is not due to proxies (which Clark MAY have avoided using, athough he doesn't state this). Neither is it due to diiferent definitions of the labour force. I've used the BHPS variable jbstat and Clark apears to have also done so.</p>
<p>My supervior has suggested that there may have been an exercise where early BHPS waves were recalibrated, perhsps when paper copies were digitised? However, I can't find evidence of this in any of the guides.</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if anyone could provide assistance with this question.</p>
<p>Thnks,</p>
<p>Stewart Dunlop.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12462019-09-24T09:55:26ZLydia Palumbolvpalu@utu.fi
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am interested in understanding what the value = 0 for the variables lmar1y lmar1m means.</p>
<p>It is associated to a value 1 of the variable evermar, but I cannot understand if it refers to a marriage <br />that actually took place (or it is missing) and if it occurred before the entry into the panel.</p>
<p>Thank you and best wishes,<br />Lydia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1097 (Resolved): YPDKLM: irregular variable dist.https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10972018-11-21T14:42:30ZAmy Orbenamy.orben@psy.ox.ac.uk
<p>Dear US team,</p>
<p>I have recently started working with the alcohol consumption variables you provide in the youth self-completion questionnaire. Graphing the distribution of ypdklm, I found that the variable is distributed in a very irregular way. The questionnaires show that the question has 5 different response options. But in 2010, 2012 and 2014 the data shows 6 different response options, while in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 the data shows 5 different response options. I include the histogram as an attachment in this email.</p>
<p>Could you please provide me with some clarification?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Amy</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital changehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10782018-10-17T17:22:17ZLydia Palumbolvpalu@utu.fi
<p>Dear User Support Forum,</p>
<p>sorry for the second raised issue in one day, but I am revising my work so far. <br />I am currently checking how marital status change in BHPS and UKHLS is captured. <br />I am interested in the transition from the status of single (either never married <br />or previously married) to marriage or cohabitation (living with a partner w/o being married).</p>
<p>From what I understand, the pre-computed indicator in both the surveys, only gets <br />the change in the legal marital status and, thus, the only transition that can be <br />identified is the following:</p>
<p>Single-->Marriage</p>
<p>If I want to control for the presence of cohabitation spells between the waves in t <br />and t+1, I can rely only on UKHLS because BHPS does not have a variable controlling <br />for that. Is it right?</p>
<p>Therefore, if I want to compute marital change from single to marriage or cohabitation <br />with an harmonized variable across the two waves, I can only compute the change in the<br />de-facto marital status from one wave to the other. Is it correct?</p>
<p>Thank you and best regards, <br />Lydia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1017 (Resolved): Creating synthetic householdshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10172018-08-08T16:17:52ZAndrew Ibbetsonandrew.ibbetson1@lshtm.ac.uk
<p>I am trying to create synthetic households by LSOA for the UK population for health modelling. I have data on household composition by LSOA (eg. couple, single, multiperson: students etc.), but at this stage I am unable to find data indicating the age distribution of these individuals (eg. The age of the respondent + their partner's age + (if applicable) the age of their children).</p>
<p>Would this be possible using the Understanding Society Data? Would I need a special license version? Would it be practical to scale this data up to the general population?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Andrew</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10002018-07-11T08:35:04ZAmy Orbenamy.orben@psy.ox.ac.uk
<p>Dear US Team,</p>
<p>I am working with the life satisfaction (hsw, hsc, hlf, hap, hfr, hfm) and self-esteem (estk, estj, estc, esta, esti, este, estf, estb) measures for children across all years. In both questionnaire responses there are a couple participants (e.g. 2-5 participants) who have been coded as answering "9". I cannot find the response option in the documentation, could you give me more details about what the response "9" is?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Amy</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9632018-04-19T11:16:36ZAmy Orbenamy.orben@psy.ox.ac.uk
<p>Dear US support,</p>
<p>I want to use wave 1-7 youth data in a longitudinal analysis. I can, however, only find cross-sectional weights in the dataset. Is there a reason why there are no longitudinal youth self-completion weights?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Amy</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9552018-04-10T14:40:10ZAnisa Buttanisakbutt@outlook.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using individual level net monthly income (w_fimnnet_dv) and am looking at the different income components which construct it. I wanted to know how the social benefit income component (w_fimnsben_dv) is reported, particularly how the benefit is allocated across the individuals in the household. Do individuals report the benefit received or is it determined at the household level and then shared across individuals?</p>
<p>Many thanks, <br />Anisa</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9412018-03-14T11:53:19ZAmin Oueslatiamin.oueslati.15@ucl.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Societ team,</p>
<p>I am looking for a concordance from the SIC 1980 used in the BHPS to more recent industry classification schemes, such as the SIC 2007.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your time and help.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Amin</p>