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Weights Northern Ireland UK

Added by Gretta Mohan over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Weights
Start date:
07/01/2015
% Done:

100%


Description

I am looking only at the Northern Ireland data - I have merged BHPS and US and am concerned with GHQ and self-rated health over the period 2001-latest wave of US (wave 4).
Out of interest I would like to compare GHQ scores in NI with UK and indeed other UK regions. I have read the waves 1-4 user manual and online advice but am still confused as to which weights are most appropriate and the practical use of these.

From what I can discern I am interested in the longitudinal individual main response weight from 2001 to include BHPS, that is n_indin01_lw. Can anyone confirm if this is correct given my research interests?

So for wave 4 I can take this from d_indin01_lw.
Knowing this now, can you point me to instructions on how to apply this weighting in Stata if possible. I am not able to attend any of the training days so will have to work this out myself. I have looped all the variables waves 1-4 US so indin01_lw will be looped for wave b and d - I am guessing I should only apply wave d - how can I do this in stata when they are looped? I know coding concerning pweight and svy but its just isolating the d wave I am unsure about.

Many thanks

Gretta

#1

Updated by Alita Nandi over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 90

Hi Gretta,

I am not exactly sure from your message, but it seems that you have set up the data in long format and now would like to know how to apply wave d weights to all the years. Is that correct? If yes, then there are different ways of doing that. One way is to create a separate dataset containing only pid and d_indin01_lw and then merge (one-to-many) it with your long form data using pid.

One other point, we encourage using the abbreviations UKHLS or Understanding Society and not US.

Best wishes,
On behalf of the team

#2

Updated by Redmine Admin over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
#3

Updated by Gundi Knies over 8 years ago

  • Target version set to X M

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