Understanding Society User Support

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:

Hello Evie

I recommend taking a look at the Weighting guidance section in our user guide: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/user-guides/main-survey-user-guide/weighting-guidance/. In particular, the subsection “representing the population” may be helpful: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/user-guides/main-survey-user-guide/representing-the-population/. You also find information there about the extra 5 minutes questionnaire.

Additionally, please review the subsection “How to use weights – Analysis guidance for weights, PSU, Strata” for examples on setting up your dataset to achieve unbiased standard errors: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/user-guides/main-survey-user-guide/how-to-use-weights-analysis-guidance-for-weights-psu-strata/

I hope this information is helpful.

Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User Support Team

Hi Roberto,

Thank you for your response.

I have reviewed the documents you attached and from what I can understand providing I appropriately account for PSU and strata in my analyses, then my standard errors will be calculated correctly.
These documents however do not provide any guidance on what methods to use to create a subpopulation dataset, thus I am still unsure if the method I have used is correct.

Best Wishes,

Evie Gates