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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1937 (Resolved): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19372023-07-10T14:08:37ZVikram Patil
<p>Hello, <br />My question is about the variable "dweltyp" in the hhsamp files. <br />- Why are so many households reported as "-8" or "inapplicable" from Wave 7 onwards in the Understanding Society (USoc) data? <br />- How is "dweltyp" different from the "hstype" variable that was included in the BHPS?<br />- Why are there no inapplicable responses prior to Wave 7? <br />Thanks!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17232022-07-07T08:49:00ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I can't find any information on what exactly 'other qualifications' consists of in your hiqual_dv variable (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv</a>)</p>
<p>Would you be able to provide a quick explanation or point me in the right direction?</p>
<p>Many thanks</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 #1454 (Resolved): Understanding Society area level d...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14542020-12-02T11:46:37ZLaura Bryce
<p>I am just wondering if Understanding Society contains a measure of area level deprivation</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12952019-12-16T18:28:10ZC Jostenjostenc@hotmail.de
<p>Hi! I'd be interested to know if someone has tested the stability of personality across the two waves in which the Big5 were recorded. The correlations across those two waves appear to be very low, which I am puzzled about. Has anyone tested the validity of this?<br />Thanks and best,<br />C.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1281 (Resolved): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BH...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12812019-11-26T17:20:22ZC Jostenjostenc@hotmail.de
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I have two questions regarding the Big5 personality traits in the BHPS and Understanding Society:</p>
<p>1. I am currently using all waves from BHPS and Understanding Society to understand the impact of personality (the Big Five) on labour market outcomes by occupation. I am aware that the Big Five were asked in wave 14 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society. I am now unsure on how to merge those two variables. Given that personality is often assumed to be constant across years I would like to extend this measurement to more than just the year of the wave they were asked. However, I am unsure as to how to treat those values for BHPS versus Understanding Society and how they differ across waves by individual. Is there a best practice?</p>
<p>2. Derived personality variables from wave 3 of UKHLS: I have tried to replicate those with the non-derived individual responses (following the description on the Understanding Society) but I do not get the same but similar results. It would be important to know how those are coded for me to do the same for the 2005 responses. I have followed the instruction on your website: "Component score calculated as the average item response if no more than one of the three input responses is missing". And then rounded those values. But my derived variable is different from yours.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an exhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12692019-11-01T17:13:46ZHarvey Dayharvey.day@bbc.co.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>A recent report using data from the Understanding Survey found that 2.5 million Brits are in "hidden households" they cannot afford to move out of, including house shares, adults living with their parents, or people living with an ex-partner.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49787913">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49787913</a></p>
<p>I'm writing a story about people living with an ex-partner. Is it possible to find out how many of these 2.5 million are living with an ex-partner?</p>
<p>My deadline is Monday so it would be fantastic if you were able to shed any light on this.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Harvey Day<br />BBC Three Editorial<br />07881 373 402</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1173 (Resolved): Clustering https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11732019-03-27T11:21:11ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>I am trying to run some analysis using individual and household characteristics and having to deal with clustering issues. Presently, I am clustering at Pidp level on the premise that errors are unlikely to be uncorrelated within individuals. Do you think clustering at Pidp makes sense? I am also trying to cluster at household level (hidp), but household IDs change every year and it will be difficult to keep track of all these changes for a large number of observations. Do you recommend clustering at hidp level instead (despite that these change every year)?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11292019-01-15T18:10:21ZLydia Palumbolvpalu@utu.fi
<p>Dear UKHLS User Support,</p>
<p>it is quite surprising for me to notice that the missing values (as proxy) of the harmonized variable (b)w_fimnlabgrs_dv are present only in BHPS and not in UKHLS. Is there a place where I can find answer to this question?</p>
<p>Thank you and best regards,<br />Lydia</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1121 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_allhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11212018-12-19T15:04:27ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I expect that the number of observations for values (countries) 5-27 should be the same for both the "plbornc" and "plbornc_all" variables. for instance, Republic of Ireland has 722 observations in the "plbornc" and has 457 in "plbornc_all". May I please know why this is the case?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1098 (Resolved): Consultinghttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10982018-11-22T13:15:38ZLeonardo Nunezlnunez@desarrollosocial.gob.cl
Dear Sirs:<br />My name is Leonardo Núñez and I work at the Social Observatory of the Chilean Department of Social Development. We are in charge of carrying out the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) and we have been evaluating the transfer from PAPI format to CAPI. According to this I want to ask some introductory questions:
<ul>
<li>Can you send the form BHPS survey?</li>
<li>In this survey (BHPS) what software do you use for data collection, Blaise software? or other market or own software?<br />I look forward to hearing from you<br />Thank you in advance<br />━━━━━━━━<br />Leonardo Núñez López<br />División Observatorio Social<br />Subsecretaría de Evaluación Social<br />Ministerio de Desarrollo Social <br />Gobierno de Chile</li>
</ul> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1088 (Resolved): More information on variable "plbo...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10882018-11-07T12:05:31ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Please is there a further breakdown of the countries of origin of immigrants (plbornc)? I am conducting a study on the EU accession 8 countries and it appears that only Poland is part of the countries explicitly labeled (10). I believe the other Eastern European countries are embedded in "others" 97. Is there any chance that you have a further breakdown of these so I can identify other Eastern European countries?</p>
<p>Also, what is the date of the release of Wave 9?</p>
<p>Thank you in anticipation of your response.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudin...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10212018-08-19T10:05:44ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I'm running an analysis at the household level with averaged individual-level attributes by household (dependent variable is a household attribute). I would like to clarify the following:</p>
<p>1) Can household weights be used irrespective of the individual-level attributes?<br />2) For a longitudinal analysis at the household level, has for each wave a different cross-sectional household weight to be used (n_hhdenub_xw) since there is not longitudinal weight for household-level analyses?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjus...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9922018-07-01T12:41:43ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, the derivation of the weighting adjustments for individual-level non-responses includes a logistic regressions as described as follows (p. 72):</p>
<p>"The predictors used in the models include all the predictors used for the household level nonresponse models and individual and household-level variables obtained from the household questionnaire, such as age and gender, marital and employment status, household size and presence of children in the household, as well as household expenditure on food and food outside, consideration of use of environmental energy, among others."</p>
<p>Is there a complete list that shows all the factors used in the regression? I'm asking because I would like to check whether the Big Five personality traits from Wave 3 are included (non-response might well depend on personality traits). I doubt that they are because they were only part of Wave 3 but I would like to double-check. Also, I'm interested whether education is accounted for.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9102018-02-05T17:13:32Znirosha elsem varghese
<p>Hello,<br />I am not able to download the National Pupil Database from the Uk Data website.Is there any additional formalities to download this data.</p>