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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #2000 (Resolved): BHPS+UKLHS weigthshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20002023-12-05T16:16:27ZAelen Valen
<p>Hello, first of all thanks for you prompt support, that's super helpful!<br />My issue is the following: I pooled BHPS and UKLHS to perform two analysis of inequality of opportunity, panel and cross-sectional. I'm basically using a measure of equivalised household income (if I'm not wrong, fihhmngrs_dv is the only one that we have for all the waves from 1991 to now, right?) and individual/parental variables like sex, ethnicity, country of birth, mother and father education, occupation and place of birth to measure inequality in income, predicted by this set of variables (inequality of opportunity).<br />I want to compare the estimate across waves, should I use indinui_xw as weights?<br />For a longitudinal analysis which weigths shoud I use? Are there no missings in the weighting variables right? Is it most likely my mistake in the pooling if I have missing values in the weighting variables?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1992 (Resolved): household income https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19922023-11-08T08:27:14ZAelen Valen
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm using Understanding Society together with Eu SILC and I was wondering whether w_fihhmnnet1_dv+ (*12 months) corresponds to the total disposable income in EUSILC (HY020) which is derived as follows:</p>
<p>Total disposable household income (HY020) can be computed as:<br />- the sum for all household members of gross personal income components<br /> <del>gross employee cash or near cash income (PY010G),<br /> - company car (PY021G),<br /> - gross cash benefits or losses from self-employment (including royalties) (PY050G),<br /> - pensions received from individual private plans (other than those covered under ESSPROS) (PY080G),<br /> - unemployment benefits (PY090G),<br /> - old-age benefits (PY100G),<br /> - survivor' benefits (PY110G),<br /> - sickness benefits (PY120G),<br /> - disability benefits (PY130G),<br /> - education-related allowances (PY140G);<br /></del> plus gross income components at household level<br /> - income from rental of a property or land (HY040G),<br /> - family/children related allowances (HY050G),<br /> - social exclusion not elsewhere classified (HY060G),<br /> - housing allowances (HY070G),<br /> - regular inter-household cash transfers received (HY080G),<br /> - interests, dividends, profit from capital investments in unincorporated business (HY090G),<br /> - income received by people aged under 16 (HY110G));<br />- minus<br /> - regular taxes on wealth (HY120G),<br /> - regular inter-household cash transfer paid (HY130G),<br /> - tax on income and social insurance contributions (HY140G).</p>
<p>Many thanks for the support!!!</p> 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 #1604 (Resolved): religiosity variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16042021-11-02T15:47:39ZA J
<p>Hi, <br />Can you clarify the key difference between the variable oprlg and the ff_oprlg variable in Wave 2 of the UKHLS? Are they pertaining to responses from different sub-sample participants?</p>
<p>I’m particularly following the BHPS participants through to 2015, and wish to know which religion variables pertain to them and which do not, but as far as I can tell, this is not easy to tell from the documentation. The frequencies of responses are very different for oprlg and ff_oprlg, which makes me think they are responses from different sub-samples, but which ones?</p>
<p>Thanks, <br />A</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1593 (Resolved): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15932021-10-13T14:25:49ZA J
<p>Hi,<br />I need to merge CNEF datasets and so cannot use the harmonised BHPS UKHLS dataset. I will, however, use the harmonised dataset to attribute the correct pidp values to the BHPS members.</p>
<p>Can you tell me whether, for every BHPS individual who has a pidp in the harmonised dataset (who will be found using their pid number), are the pidp values distinct from the pidp values for individuals in the UKHLS dataset 2009- onwards?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1588 (Resolved): Combining the BHPS and UKHLS CNEF ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15882021-10-07T10:00:09ZA J
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm a new user of the CNEF harmonised datasets, which include the BHPS dataset and the UKHLS from 2009 to 2015. I have read the userguide on the harmonised BHPS UKHLS data, but note that a specific treatment of the CNEF is not found, hence my query.</p>
<p>Since I need to do analyses on the UK sample from 2001-2015, it would be ideal if I could merge the two CNEF datasets to make one dataset. Since the data are already harmonised, I am guessing that this will be straightforward. However, I am not sure if my thinking is correct here or whether there are other issues with the data about which I am not aware. In the absence of a specific help file for merging the CNEF versions of the datasets, can you give some advice about this? Can the two sets be merged?</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 #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” we...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13942020-08-11T11:46:00ZAbigail DumalusUnderstanding Society User Support - Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13802020-07-16T15:34:09ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave 5, sample month 1 (if wave==22 & month==1) using the data editor on Stata, istrtdaty indicated 2013, istrtdatm ranged from 1 to 6. I am confused why interviews that started in 2013 have to be added under “January 2014” monthly average. Am I doing the filtering in a completely wrong way? It would be helpful if an illustration of January 2014 can be provided, along with the appropriate weighting variable for this month. In order for me to generate 3-month rolling averages/variances, I would need to “create” a period variable that would uniquely identify each pidp within a wave period but in terms of calendar months or years. The command I am trying to do is rangestat on Stata:</p>
<p>rangestat (mean) monthmean_lfsat_3ma = monthmean_lfsat, by(panel_id) interval(panel_month -2 0) —> 3-month moving average of life satisfaction</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods acro...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13782020-07-15T12:28:44ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I noticed from browsing the dataset that wave periods from wave 2 until wave 9 have been overlapping. My basis for this observation are the following variables: istrtdaty, istrtdatm, istrtdatd, and wave. To illustrate, let me focus on waves 22 and 23:</p>
<p>- wave 22 (UKHLS wave 5) starts 9 January 2013 [11 interviews] until 29 April 2014 [1 interview]<br />- wave 23 (UKHLS wave 6) starts 8 January 2014 [26 interviews] until 11 May 2015 [1interview]</p>
<p>From my perception, interviews done from 8 January 2014 until 29 April 2014 in wave 23 can also be assumed to have happened in the latter portion of wave 22. I am really puzzled because I have set xtreg command with wave as a time variable, but then interview periods appear to overlap into the next wave. I have been searching for fieldwork information per wave to find out about official interview timelines. Can you please clarify where I can confirm actual interview periods per wave, so that I can still use wave as a panel time variable? Would this be an issue as well with how the weighting variables have been constructed?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be consta...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13752020-07-07T19:01:45ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Dear Olena,</p>
<p>As I mentioned in a separate issue weeks ago, I am analysing life satisfaction and GHQ (using indresp files) from 18 waves of the BHPS plus 8 waves of the UKHLS for a total of 16 waves. I have been referring to indin91_lw as the longitudinal weight. My problem/issue is that I have told Stata that the data has a panel structure via xtreg pidp wave. I wish to run: xtreg y x1 x2 [pw=indin91_lw], fe but I keep getting the error, "weight must be constant within pidp". What is the easiest workaround that I can implement for this analysis?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Tim...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13702020-06-25T14:45:27ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I found that linking all 26 waves went without a hitch. Since I intend to do longitudinal analysis of life satisfaction from wave 1 to wave 26, I am trying to tell Stata this has a panel structure (xtset pidp wave). Unfortunately, I am getting error r(451) for "repeated time values within panel". I tried doing xtset separately for all 18 BHPS indresp waves, and it worked. I also applied xtset for all 8 UKHLS indresp waves, but I am getting error r(451). What am I missing here?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13502020-05-19T18:12:28ZAbigail Batemanabi.batemanx@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I need some help with my analysis for my undergrad dissertation</p>
<p>I am using the Harmonised BHPS data and my dissertation question revolves around looking at the GCSE grades (English and Maths most likely) of people, based on their socioeconomic class. I will then be looking at if material and cultural factors such as having a computer at home, going to places like the museum, extracurricular activities and having books at home etc. have an affect on the GCSE grades of those from lower socioeconomic classes.</p>
<p>The problems I am having at the moment are:</p>
<p>- I've tried to analyse data from waves 7,8,9 using the variable gcseeng in the indresp datafile. However the response rate is extremely low:<br />e.g. for wave 9: 34,900 cases are 'inapplicable', 1096 are 'proxy', only 8 responses for 'A*' etc.<br />- So even with waves 7,8,9 combined the numbers are too low to use this as my dependent variable</p>
<p>- There aren't variables with respondent's GCSE grades (or equivalent) in older waves. There are variables in a few older BH waves that include respondent's number of GCSE qualifications A-C etc.<br />The problem is that I need to choose either/or - I cannot see a variable for number of GCSE grades in recent waves, and I cannot see specific English and Maths grades attained in older waves - so this means I am unable a the moment to merge the data from different waves together</p>
<p>- This will then prove to be a problem when trying to look at GCSE grade attained in relation to factors such as frequency of visiting a museum</p>
<p>Any help would be very very appreciated</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #1242 (Resolved): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of bir...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12422019-09-10T14:24:41ZAnonymous
<p>To whom it may correspond,</p>
<p>My name is Barbara Boggiano and I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Leicester. I am contacting you because I was granted a One Year Research Grant by the DAAD to work on a project using BHPS data at ZEW Mannheim (as a visiting researcher) starting in October 2019.</p>
<p>Our project tries to examine whether seasonality in working hours within the calendar year affects seasonality in fertility, potentially causing delays in fertility. Given the nature of the project, I am looking for data on the month of birth of the first child. This information is the only piece of information we require that it is not available in the publicly available sample and I was wondering about the procedure to be able to get this information.</p>
<p>Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. <br />Thank you in advance for your time. <br />Best regards,</p>
<p>Barbara Boggiano<br />PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant<br />Economics Division, School of Business<br />University of Leicester, UK<br />Contact: <a class="email" href="mailto:bb203@leicester.ac.uk">bb203@leicester.ac.uk</a></p>