https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382017-07-20T10:39:48ZUnderstanding Society User SupportUnderstanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28052017-07-20T10:39:48ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Category</strong> set to <i>Derived variables</i></li><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>Gundi Knies</i></li><li><strong>Private</strong> changed from <i>Yes</i> to <i>No</i></li></ul><p>Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Stephanie - Understanding Society User Support Officer</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28072017-07-20T14:47:10ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>New</i> to <i>In Progress</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>0</i> to <i>10</i></li></ul> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28092017-07-24T08:17:29ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>In Progress</i> to <i>Feedback</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>10</i> to <i>80</i></li></ul><p>Hi Andrew,</p>
<p>We are aware of some inconsistencies in relationships recorded in the data. As with all data collection, there always is some degree of error in the data. The Understanding Society survey team deals with many of these issues before data are released but it is a manual process that can take time to resolve. Some changes in relationship may be genuine; we are aware of one case, for instance, where the grandparents became the children’s adoptive parents over time. For each data release, further work on cleaning up these inconsistencies takes place, but it is not possible to fully resolve all of them. You will have to ‘clean’ the data according to the needs of your specific analysis via tracking the information in the _relationship_dv variable. It is the only place where information about adoption status is stored.</p>
<p>The Quality Profile may be helpful here (see section 8.1.2 and tables 57-59). <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/quality-profile">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/quality-profile</a></p>
<p>In terms of step-adoptions, you could try making sure the child has been adopted by both parents, not just one. Another tip could be to merge _dvage from _indall with _egoalt, and to merge egoalt files in wide format across waves. Then restrict the merged egoalt files to those households that ever contained children that were adopted. That will reduce the size of the multilevel data at least. Then remove households where the adoption situation is straightforward across waves, and investigate (probably manually) the less straightforward cases.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Stephanie Auty - Understanding Society User Support Officer</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28132017-07-24T20:01:02ZAndrew Brown
<ul></ul><p>Hi Stephanie<br />Thanks for your swift and detailed reply (I hope this is the proper way to reply!).<br />I will try the merging of _egoalt files as you suggest. <br />How does the _adopt file fit in to all this? I see it is only at waves 1 & 6, are the variables derived from elsewhere in the mainstage questionnaire?<br />I think I will have to decide about adoption patterns that are not straightforward - as in the example you gave. I have found one or two though that only appear as adopted (by examining hgbiom, hgbiof, hgadoptm and hgadoptf) in one wave (usually wave 3) but not in the waves either side. I think I will put this down to error and exclude them from analysis to be on the safe side.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your guidance</p>
<p>Kind regards<br />Andrew</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28532017-08-08T11:56:52ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul></ul><p>Hi Andrew,</p>
<p>I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.</p>
<p>The w_adopt file is created from questions in the fertility history module, asked of the original sample at wave 1 and the IEMB sample at wave 6, in order to include their previous step and adopted children. Other waves did not include as much detail in the fertility history module of the new entrants so the data is in the w_indresp file rather than a separate file.</p>
<p>This is the fertility history questionnaire module at wave 1:<br /><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/1/questionnaire-module/fertilityhistory_w1">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/1/questionnaire-module/fertilityhistory_w1</a></p>
<p>You can view the module at other waves my clicking Dataset Documentation and Questionnaire modules. Each question has a linked variable to show you where to find it in the dataset.</p>
<p>However, the w_adopt file will not give you any more information than the relationship variable in w_egoalt about whether co-resident children were adopted by their step parent.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Stephanie Auty - Understanding Society User Support Officer</p> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=28542017-08-08T11:57:13ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> changed from <i>Gundi Knies</i> to <i>Andrew Brown</i></li></ul> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=29272017-08-30T08:52:45ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Feedback</i> to <i>Resolved</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>80</i> to <i>100</i></li></ul> Understanding Society User Support - Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adoptedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816?journal_id=29782017-09-14T16:25:24ZStephanie Autys.auty@essex.ac.uk
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Resolved</i> to <i>Closed</i></li></ul>