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From 05/02/2012 to 05/31/2012
05/31/2012
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01:53 PM Support #61: HOUSEHOLD INCOME
- We are in the process of documenting the methodology for deriving the income variables.
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- Ethan, Please see #36
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11:06 AM Support #61 (Closed): HOUSEHOLD INCOME
- Please can you tell me how you calculate household income from the understanding society questionnaire? I would be gr...
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10:48 AM Support #60 (Closed): SL Version W2 Interim Relaease
- Jakob, Which study number holds the SL version of the W2 interim release? I was very pleased when you told me I could...
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- Alicia,
The Mainstage Wave 1 Youth file (N=4,899) contains the questionnaire responses from 11-15 year olds in respo... -
- NATCHILD records both resident and non-resident children (together identified by childno) - only the former will have...
05/30/2012
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05:55 PM Support #59: Linking BHPS - Understanding Society
- Thanks, Jacob.
The file a_natchild has 26 observations which are not uniquely identified by hidp and childno (an... -
- Melanie,
> 1. Is there any documentation that allows me to easily check whether a BHPS variable is available in Un... -
- I am using BHPs data and wish to link it a) to the BHPS sample households in Understanding Society, and b) use a pool...
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09:21 AM Support #58 (Closed): Youth Wave 1 data
- Hello. I have downloaded the Wave 1 youth dataset and have 4,899 individuals. This total does not marry up with the f...
05/29/2012
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- Thank you. Please tell me the SN for the special liceence version with full urbanity classification for the US Wave 2...
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- Ian,
The full urban-rural classification is only on the "Special License version":https://www.understandingsociety.a... -
- I am trying to continue analyses I have carried out with the 18 waves of BHPS with the inclusion of the BHPS incorpor...
05/28/2012
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- Nicolet,
From the following you can add W11 to the list of waves where Important-Events were collected
https://ww...
05/27/2012
05/25/2012
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07:47 PM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- Thank you! This makes sense.
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05:02 PM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- The proxy weight of 0 in indresp is given to temporary sample members whom we will not follow in the future. These ar...
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- I have a problem understanding the data for the BHPS variable on asthma, wHLPRXE, which is available for waves K and ...
05/22/2012
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- Thank you for your response! I believe when I compare the a_indinus_xw and the a_indpxus_xw weights, proxy respondent...
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- inresp dataset consists of proxy and full respondents. If you are using information available for proxy respondents, ...
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- No such weights were developed for the interim release. We are considering to release such weights in the future, alt...
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10:41 AM Support #54 (Closed): Weights for youth self-completion data
- I'm interested in looking at the Youth self-completion (10-15 years old) data across wave 1 and wave 2 (interim rel...
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- Peter,
Thank you for your question. Weights do not adjust for so-called clustering or nesting within households. T... -
- I wanted to know whether the weights provided for the youth self-completion data adjust for the problem of non-indepe...
05/21/2012
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- Thanks, this makes sense.
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10:14 AM Support #53 (Closed): "Events" variable BHPS
- Hello,
For my research on repossessions in the UK mortgage market I am studying the BHPS SN 5151 database.
In the B...
05/18/2012
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02:48 PM Support #50: Comparison to LFS
- Sung,
The early findings volume was published in Feb 2011 and the analysis was done in Oct-Nov 2010 using the data... -
- Sometimes it is indeed a good approach to model nonresponse as part of the model. If you want to do it, please make s...
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- Hello:
I am considering whether to run my regressions with weight a_indinus_xw vs. running my regressions with unwei...
05/16/2012
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- Hello:
I was wondering if you could confirm that that the a_indinus_xw weight variable should contain 3,933 observat...
05/14/2012
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- The life event job history module was asked of the GB sample at Wave2, the Scotland and Wales extension samples Wave1...
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05/12/2012
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01:19 PM Support #45: BHPS year first job
- Just to clarify - According to Vol A the LLIFEMST file is only for respondents from Northern Ireland (p.A3-70)?
05/11/2012
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- Thank you!
05/10/2012
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- No, you don't need to include a_hidp in addition to a_psu. Households are nested within psu, so controlling for psu w...
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- Thanks, Jakob.
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- Sung,
Yes, SPONTANEOUS is a valid response code, that isn't prompted or printed on showcards, etc.
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- Hello: I see that for certain questions, in the online documentation, it says "SPONTANEOUS" (for example, variable a_...
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- Hi Jakob:
I downloaded the data in Jan 2012, so I think it is the most current version. Using the INDALL file gives m... -
- Sung,
There could be different reasons to why you get slightly different results. The most important is probably ver... -
- Hello: I am looking at the report "APPENDIX: UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY DESIGN OVERVIEW" which I believe is Chapter 15 of ...
05/09/2012
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- Sarah,
Thanks for raising this coding issue. Values 8 and 9 were for some BHPS variables used as missing value codes... -
- Thank you for your help!
One general follow-up question to one of your prior responses that "a_psu_dv, a_strata_d...
05/08/2012
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- Yes, you will need to use the weight for extra five minutes a_ind5mus_xw, simply because by using at least one variab...
05/04/2012
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- Thank you so much for your response!
I have one last question: I AM interested in studying ethnic minorities (tho... -
08:15 PM Support #48 (Closed): Height variable in wave 16 of BHPS
- Dear Support Team,
I have a question about the height variables in wave 16 of the BHPS. The height in inches vari...
05/03/2012
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- Apologies - you need to look at the job history questions asked under "Life Events section":http://www.iser.essex.ac....
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- Hi Jakob,
Thank you for your message. Can you please confirm that there is no variable containing the YEAR of first j... -
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01:55 PM Support #40: School Code (Schcode)
- Ok, thank you for your help.
Best wishes,
Lorraine
05/02/2012
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12:09 PM Support #47: BHPS Question
- Many thanks, Jakob -- This urban/rural code should work for my study. I've prepared a request as per the ESDS websit...
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10:45 AM Support #42: Imputation flags on gross income
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> Mark,
> The flags are are equal to zero when none of the underlying income components are im... -
- Mark,
The flags are are equal to zero when none of the underlying income components are imputed.
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- Amy,
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