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Redmine Understanding Society User Support - Support #985 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-section ov...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9852018-06-22T10:51:51ZNhat An Trinh
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Although this issue has already been discussed a couple of times, I would like to address the selection and use of the appropriate weights when pooling across all waves of Understanding Society once again to avoid any mistakes. I'm very much appreciating the guidance that has been provided so far, but haven't found a clear answer to my question and thus be extremely grateful if someone could help me out.</p>
<p>For my analysis of intergenerational social mobility across labour market entry cohorts, I am using all waves including all samples of Understanding Society in a pooled cross-section. Obviously, I have dropped all duplicates as I want to have each observation only once in my dataset and take the first interview in which the individual has indicated both her first occupation and year of leaving school/further education as my observation of interest. In line with [<a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/758">#758</a>], I have constructed the individual cross-sectional weight as follows:</p>
<p>gen xweight = .</p>
<p>replace xweight = a_indpxus_xw if wave == 1<br />foreach x in b c d e {<br /> replace xweight = `x'_indpxub_xw if inlist(wave,2,3,4,5) <br />}<br />repalce xweight = f_indpxui_xw if wave 6<br />replace xweight = g_indpxui_xw if wave 7</p>
<p>Is this the correct way of selecting the cross-sectional weights? And do I need to do anything else such as rescaling to correctly apply them for my pooled cross-sectional analysis (i.e. calculating social mobility rates and proportions of class of origin and destination by labour market entry cohorts)?</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
<p>Nhat An</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #949 (Resolved): Total length of interview time for ...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9492018-04-04T16:13:58ZDana Garbarskidgarbarski@luc.edu
<p>Hello,<br />I'm trying to figure out whether there is a variable that gives the total length of time in which an individual is interviewed in waves 7, 8, and 9. I know the timings for the individual questions are in the CSV files--is there 1 variable that sums across these? the user guide does not indicate a total length of interview time variable and there is no data dictionary for the csv files. <br />Thanks,<br />Dana</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #944 (Resolved): Lowest level reliability with spati...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9442018-03-23T09:39:01ZPaul Downward
<p>I am currently supervising a PhD student who is very interested in exploring the environmental influences on individual well-being and, consequently, undertaking some analysis of how spatial features might influence this. We would naturally apply to use the special license access data but could I ask an initial question about what is the lowest level that the study is designed to give reliable inferences. Thus, as we drill down are their spatial gaps in the sampling?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #939 (Resolved): Northern Irish Samplehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9392018-03-13T09:31:18ZTara McNeilltara.mcneill7@gmail.com
<p>Hello</p>
<p>I am currently looking at wellbeing inequality in Northern Ireland in conjunction with national, political and religious identity. I plan to use Understanding Society at a fine grain level (hopefully output area level). Ideally, I want to extract the Northern Irish sample and also map in some other data at the same geographical level, so it’s important I get the boundaries right.</p>
<p>I was wondering if you could provide with some details of the smallest area that is available for Northern Ireland in Understanding Society? For example, for this study “Understanding Society: Waves 1-7, 2009-2016: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas” on the UK data service, it says that Super Output areas in NI are not included.</p>
<p>Does that mean they are only included in the Middle Layer or it is Ward level that is the smallest available for NI? If this is the case which Ward classifications are used, am I right in thinking the Understanding Society at Ward level would be based on Ward1992?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for your help.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #929 (Resolved): Youth SDQ Scores Wave 7 Incorrecthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9292018-02-26T12:26:24ZCara Bookercbooker@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>The scores for the SDQ total difficulties and subscale scorees in wave 7 are incorrect. At first glance it looks like the variables have not been recoded or reversed scored. All other waves are correct.</p>
<p>Cara</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #924 (Resolved): Derivation of Fed Forward Valueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9242018-02-21T15:39:36ZLiam Wrightliam.wright.17@ucl.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am interesting in using data from the Annual History Module from Waves 2-7 in Understanding Society. I'm particularly interested in the variables relating to annual employment (job and status) history.</p>
<p>The universe, routing and form the questions take in the Annual History Module are dependent on four fed forward variables: ff_everint, ff_ivlolw, ff_jbstat, ff_emplw.</p>
<p>I was wondering if you have any information on how these variables are derived? I have been trying to see whether they are related to previous variables (ff_ivlolw=ivfio; ff_jbstat=jbstat; ff_emplw=(jbhas==1 | jboff==1)), but can't get the figures to match up.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Liam</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #919 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections o...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9192018-02-14T11:15:55ZNico Ochmannnico.ochmann@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Peter, <br />I have a quick follow-up question with regard to my past issue <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB) (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/839">#839</a>. You wrote the following below:<br />A simpler approach would be to select based on current wave GOR. This will not remove the sample imbalance problem, but should reduce it to a minimum, so may be good enough.<br />For me to implement this simpler approach and to minimize the sample imbalance, you suggest to drop Scot, Wales, NI for the current wave g only? Or do you mean to drop all Scot, Wales, NI for all seven waves? <br />I would appreciate a short reply and sorry about the very delayed follow-up question. <br />Best. <br />Nico</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #907 (Resolved): Error message (invalid 'and') while...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9072018-01-29T18:35:40ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am trying to merge BHPS to the UKLS data. Using the command below, by the time I get to foreach (looping), it gives me an error message: _""""""invalid 'and'<br /> r(198);""""" <br />What am I doing wrong?</p>
<p>capture mkdir M:\example9data<br />global dir3 "M:\example9data\" <br />log using $dir3\Example9.log, replace<br />foreach w in a b c d e f g h i j {<br /> use pid `w'hid `w'pno `w'hlghq1 `w'jbstat `w'xrwght `w'sex ///<br /> using $dir2/`w'indresp, clear <br /> renpfix `w'<br /> gen wave = strpos("abcdefghijklmnopqr","`w'")<br /> recode jbstat (5=6) (6=7) (7=8) (8=5) if wave==1 <br /> // The coding frame of ajbstat needs to be aligned with that of other <br /> // waves. Best to do this before appending other waves as labels get <br /> // overwritten.<br /> lab var wave "wave of BHPS interview" <br /> sort pid wave<br /> save $dir3/ind_junk`w', replace <br /> }<br />foreach w in k l m n o p q r {<br /> use pid `w'hid `w'pno `w'hlghq1 `w'jbstat `w'xrwght `w'xrwtuk1 `w'sex ///<br /> using $dir2/`w'indresp, clear <br /> renpfix `w'<br /> capture rename id pid<br /> // this line of command is only needed in wave 16 (p) so was not needed <br /> // in the previous loop<br /> gen wave = strpos("abcdefghijklmnopqr","`w'")<br /> lab var wave "wave of BHPS interview" <br /> sort pid wave<br /> save $dir3/ind_junk`w', replace <br /> }</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #896 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8962018-01-15T12:16:35ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I would like to request access to the timing data in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. We would like to analyse length of time respondents take to answer questions. Please let me know what I have to do to obtain access to these data. Many thanks!</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #891 (Resolved): Matching f_fihhmnnet1_dv to previou...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8912017-12-19T11:29:04ZDavid Leesedavid.leese@jrf.org.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I've recently downloaded the wave 7 data, but am struggling to replicate results that I had by using previous versions of the data. I'm looking specifically at the wave 6 data, I know that this is probably to be expected as the data has changed in some cases, but I was hoping you could confirm that I would not get the same results.</p>
<p>The area i'm interested in is household income. I've done joins (using f_hidp) to compare the f_hhnetic1 that we previously held and the new f_fihhmnnet1_dv variable. These very rarely match, and from the documentation am struggling to account for these differences. Is there anything you can point towards?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>David</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #890 (Resolved): SDQ variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8902017-12-12T16:09:29ZCharlotte Hassell
<p>My query relates to the SDQ variable scales. It is my understanding that the total SDQ score is calculated by summing four subscales, relating to conduct problems; emotional symptoms; hyperactivity and inattention; and peer relationship problems. Each of these subscales are scored from 0-10, with the total difficulties score scored from 0-40. While attempting to subset the total difficulties variable (g_ypsdqtv_dv), I noticed that the scores are much higher than expected, ranging from 25-75. The subscales related to conduct problems (g_ypsdqcp_dv), hyperactivity and inattention (g_ypsdqha_dv) and peer relationship problems (g_ypsdqpp_dv) also contain scores higher than the expected 0-10. Has there been any change to the scales used to calculate the SDQ scores?</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #889 (Resolved): Wave 2 main interview & nurse asses...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8892017-12-11T11:48:32ZRachel Bennett
<p>I am interested in using the wave 2 main interview data linked to the nurse assessment data on biomarkers for this sample only (i.e. I am only interested in the GPS sample, not combining with the BHPS sample who had their nurse assessment after wave 3). I understand from the Nurse Assessment user guide that I should use the weight variable 'b_indnsus_xw' for this type of analysis. However I cannot seem to find this variable in the wave 2 main data or the nurse's assessment data. Would you be able to advise where it can be found? Many thanks.</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #888 (Resolved): Teacher reported NPD measureshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8882017-12-08T11:46:40ZTim Morristim.morris@bristol.ac.uk
<p>Hi, I would like to know if the NPD data linked to Understanding Society includes measures of teacher reports of ability, level pupil working towards, and progress. The data linkage page doesn't explicitly state that these variables are available, but I imagine that they may fall under the category of 'attainment' that is listed on the website. Any help that you can provide would be gratefully received. tim</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #885 (Resolved): Shapefile for RREGION (BHPS)https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8852017-11-28T00:39:23ZMirko Moromirko.moro@gmail.com
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I would like to map some of the information in the BHPS at regional level.</p>
<p>How do I go about finding the boundaries for the variable RREGION in the BHPS (region/metropolitan areas)</p>
<p>See here: <a class="external" href="https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rhhresp4.html#RREGION">https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rhhresp4.html#RREGION</a></p>
<p>Many thanks<br />Mirko</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #775 (Feedback): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7752017-05-06T13:32:23ZFiona Pashazadeh
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>In the nurse visit file for wave 2 individuals, b_indsamp_ns, there are 3827 records with nurse interviewer ID 9999 (b_nsintnum). It looks as though this ID was applied to those who refused the nurse visit at the CATI stage or were out of scope/ineligible at CATI, but the numbers do not quite match up (e.g. some households and individuals recorded as CATI refusals have nurse IDs that correspond to nurses in the xivdata_ns file).</p>
<p>Please could you confirm the criteria for applying nurse interviewer ID 9999?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Fiona.</p>