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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #1902 (Resolved): weights individual files waves 10 ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19022023-05-15T13:20:37ZAelen Valen
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am trying to merge individual files across waves 10 and 11 into wide format to create a 2019 calendar year dataset.<br />I used this method from "Box 1: Example syntax for pooled analysis for cross-sectional estimation relating <br />to calendar year 2011, with weight re-scaling" in <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/documentation/user-guides/mainstage/weighting_faqs.pdf">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/documentation/user-guides/mainstage/weighting_faqs.pdf</a></p>
<p>ge wts=0 <br />replace wts=indpxui_xw if month>=13 & month<=24 <br />ge ind=1 <br />sum ind [aw=indpxui_xw] if month>=1 & month<=12 <br />gen jwtdtot=r(sum_w) <br />sum ind [aw=indpxui_xw] if month>=1 & month<=12 <br />gen kwtdtot=r(sum_w) <br />replace wts=indpxui_xw*(jwtdtot/kwtdtot) if month>=1 & month<=12</p>
<p>For the purpose of the research I am working on, I am using the equivalised household income and other variables referring to parental occupation, education and place of birth.</p>
<p>Since I am using it together with EUSILC 2019 for different EU countries, I was comparing the weights with the weights in EUSILC. While the sum of the weights in the latter equals on average the 80% of the real population in each country, the sum of weights of the dataset I created for UK 2019 (with the merge of wave 10 and 11) gives a number way lower than the census 2019 UK population.</p>
<p>Could you please help me understanding how those weights are constructed, which characteristics of the population they consider, whether they can comparable to ones in EUSILC and whether the procedure I followed to merge the two waves is correct. <br />Many thanks in advance for the support!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1782 (Resolved): DK and prefer not to say options i...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17822022-10-10T16:33:39ZAlessandra Gaia
<p>Dear Sir/Madam, <br />I am writing to ask a question regarding the DK and prefer not to say options in web component of Understanding Society. I have noted that the questionnaire includes items regarding voting (e.g. which party have you voted in the general elections) and income, and those questions are asked to some sample members throught CAWI. I could not find in the data documentation information on whether the DK and Prefer not to say option are visible to the respondent. I am inferring from the questionaire and associated literature (i.e. Al Baghal and Lynn, 2015), that the DK/PNS options are not visible but do only appear once the respondent attempts to skip the survey question. Could you please confirm whether this is the case?<br />In case the information is available in the questionnaire and I did not see it, I do apologise for the inconvenience that this question may have posed, <br />BW<br />AG</p>
<p>Reference<br />Al Baghal, T., & Lynn, P. (2015). Using motivational statements in web-instrument design to reduce item-missing rates in a mixed-mode context. Public Opinion Quarterly, 79(2), 568-579.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1661 (Resolved): Merging children with thier parent...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16612022-02-15T15:13:26ZAfag Mohammed
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am trying to study the association between children's mental health and their parents' mental health, before and during Covid-19.</p>
<p>The mental health of children has been assessed using the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the parents' mental health has been evaluated using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). SDQ and GHQ are both give me scores that indicate mental health.<br />When I merge the three datasets of each wave alone using'pidp', I ended up with SDQ just for children and GHQ just for adults and missing in both. Therefore, I couldn't run the analysis.</p>
<p>How can I merge the datasets of children with their parents using SPSS, so I can run a correlation test between SDQ and GHQ?</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1624 (Resolved): Weights for subsamplehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16242022-01-06T14:49:27ZAshley Burdett
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am trying to estimate the fraction of people that transition to their first relationship (cohabitation or marriage) by age using the BHPS.</p>
<p>To do this I have constructed an unbalanced panel containing observations for individuals who have never had a relationship (marriage or cohabitation) before. Precisely I use observations for individuals that did not report a relationship in the marital history datasets but provided a full response to the wave 2 main survey. I also include observations for individuals that aged into the sample during the panel to increase my sample size.</p>
<p>I include observations for these individuals up until either they form their first relationship, they have a missing observation or the survey ends (2008).</p>
<p>Using this sample, I simply calculate the fraction of individuals observed at each age that transition to their first relationship at that given age.</p>
<p>My question is how do I appropriately incorporate weights into this analysis? I have tried numerous ways of approaching this problem and get very different results each time.</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for your help.</p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Ashley</p> 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 #1290 (Resolved): Zero/negative values of monthly la...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12902019-12-09T16:35:51ZC Jostenjostenc@hotmail.de
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I'd like to better understand what a value of zero means for the variable fimnlabgrs_dv. Similarly, what does it mean if this value is negative?</p>
<p>Thanks and best,<br />C</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabit...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11322019-01-16T16:51:08ZAshley Burdett
<p>Dear UKHLS support,</p>
<p>Apologies for the multiple posts.</p>
<p>I would like to know if in the retrospective files regarding the number of adoptive/step children (a_adopt (USoc) and bb_childad (BHPS)) systematically contain information about non-biological children living in the respondents household because they are the biological child of their cohabitation partner ("cohabitation-step children").</p>
<p>I have been exploring the USoc data and it seems that some people report new stepchildren in historic cohabitation spells, however, because I do not see it specified in the documentation, I am unsure if these are errors/misunderstandings or indeed these variables do systemically contain "cohabitation-step children". Could you please clarify if the dataset contains this information, or if this information is available elsewhere.</p>
<p>Many thanks,</p>
<p>Ashley</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1063 (Resolved): Employment variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10632018-09-23T12:10:29ZArmine Ghazaryan
<p>Hello</p>
<p>I've noticed that employment status of some variables in the Main survey don't match. For instance, EMPLOY, JBFT_DV and JBSTAT. That is, a person unemployed according to EMPLOY appears "in paid employment (full or part-time)" in JBSTAT. Is it due to a timing issue, or am I missing something?</p>
<p>Many thanks.<br />Amie</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weighthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10222018-08-20T21:15:06ZCamille Portier
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I am looking at change in health status if individuals accross wave 2 to wave 5. My variable of interest comes from the longitudinal self-completion questionaire therefore I believe the right weight to use for my fixed-effect models is indscus_lw. However, when I want to run my fixed effect model with this pweight, stata tells me that the weight must be constant within pidp. To which values should I therefore set my weight to? What does a indscus_lw=0 mean?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help,</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Camille</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Pan...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9892018-06-27T12:28:24ZEliud Kibuchi
<p>We are doing some research on the effect of interviewers on the effectiveness of incentives, one of the data sets we are using is the Innovation Panel (Wave 1). It is the sample file which shows the fieldwork outcome for each issued address and has the interviewer ID attached. We have come across a potential problem with your analysis which relates to whether the outcome data is based on the initial (prior to re-issues) or final (after re-issues) outcomes. We think it is the initial outcome but cannot tell from the information provided. Because our analysis uses the experimental design of within-interviewer allocation of the incentive, it is important that our analysis is based on the initial rather than the final outcomes.</p>
<p>I wonder whether a data set with the initial outcome codes is available for Innovation Panel wave 1 and how we can obtain it?</p>
<p>Many thanks, <br />EK</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call fo...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9662018-04-24T15:41:53ZRichard TylerR.P.O.Tyler.837039@swansea.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society members,</p>
<p>I am contacting you on behalf of the Active Healthy Kids Wales report card expert group <a class="external" href="http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/">http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/</a>.</p>
<p>As the AHK-Wales expert group of academics, educators and allied professionals we are concerned about the health of children in Wales. The AHK-Wales expert group aims to use data on physical activity/inactivity behaviours and influences to advocate for children’s right to play, to be hooked on sport and dance, learn and achieve, and be active and healthy. We are motivated to promote healthy active behaviour and physical literacy in children. Our mission is to produce AHK-Wales Report Cards that provide a clear evidence base on quality indicators related to physical activity that should be used to advocate and influence local, regional and national policies and investments in physical activity for children and young people.</p>
<p>We are currently in the process of assigning grades to the following indicators:<br /><strong><ins>Physical Activity and health behaviours and their outcomes</ins></strong><br />- Sedentary Behaviour<br />- Physical Activity<br />- Active Transport<br />- Organised Sport Participation<br />- Physical Literacy<br />- Physical Fitness</p>
<p><ins><strong>Settings and Influences on Physical Activity and Health</strong></ins><br />- Family and Peer Influence<br />- School<br />- Community and the Built Environment<br />- National Policies and Strategies</p>
<p>I can see that on your website, all data is reported for UK children on the whole, but I am wondering whether you have data specific to children/adults in Wales? Further, if so, is there any way that we could have access to the Welsh data?</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,<br />Richard</p>
<p>Richard Tyler<br />Swan-Linx Research <br />Applied Sports Science Technology and Medicine Research Centre | Canolfan Ymchwil Technoleg Chwaraeon Cymhwysol, Ymarfer a Meddygaeth (A-STEM)<br />College of Engineering | Coleg Peirianneg<br />Bay Campus| Campws y Bae<br />Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe<br />Fabian Way | Ffordd Fabian<br />Swansea | Abertawe<br />Wales | Cymru<br />SA1 8EN<br /><a class="external" href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales">www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales</a></p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9122018-02-05T20:13:43ZMichael Baumkautner
<p>Dear User Support</p>
<p>I am trying to understand the identifier variables in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat.</p>
<p>1) Why are there records in xwavedat that have the same pid value?</p>
<p>2) And why do they have different pidp values?</p>
<p>See here:</p>
<p>use pid pidp using data\xwavedat, clear<br />recode pid (-8 = .)<br />keep if !missing(pid)<br />duplicates tag pid, gen(dup)</p>
<p>Thanks for your consideration</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #897 (Resolved): device used data in Wave 7 https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8972018-01-15T12:17:55ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I would like to ask where I can find “device used” variable in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. I was also not able to locate variables which record devices available to the respondent (I am aware that this information was collected in the Wave 7 of the main survey). I checked all files but did not manage to locate any of these variables.</p>
<p>I would also like to ask what the coding “3” mean in g-indall file, “mode of completion of household grid” variable. I am assuming it is cawi but would be great to know for sure.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #895 (Resolved): data release mental health and soci...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8952018-01-09T17:19:43Zdanilo di emidio
<p>I'm in a very urgent/immediate situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) that looks at (young) people use of social media and its impact on mental health that would be very appreciated, it's for a project where I have to use the R software to compute statistics and show that my analysis helps (or not) to extent knowledge on the research problem (in my case the correlation between the use of social media and mental health).</p>
<p>my tutor suggested I came through your institution and after spending 2 days in your website I have given up, there is so much stuff. my tutor tells me first:</p>
<p>'Did you find any information on the variables you need through US?'</p>
<p>I had no clue what he meant, I guessed I would be interested in variables such as age? nationality? gender? ethnicity or as many variables as I want, based on my specific interest.</p>
<p>His reply was:</p>
<p>'The understanding society dataset is huge so in the first instance you would need to identify where the bits you need are. Look for a “code book” or other guide to the variables. You’re looking specifically for variable names and for the file name containing them. I can help with fiddly aspects of loading this into R but you need to go through the administrative side of getting to grips with what’s in the dataset'</p>
<p>I went as far as finding this page, then I get lost, when I click on some of the links I get e.g. 'variable 160'...what does it mean? that that study has 160 variables and I have to know what to unpick based on my want/need?</p>
<p>sorry if I'm asking silly questions but I have been chucked into a stats course and hve little knowledge and understanding. can you help? many thanks in advance. danilo</p>