Activity
From 02/13/2013 to 03/14/2013
03/14/2013
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05:12 PM Support #132 (Closed): problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2
- Dear Understanding Society Team,Dear All,
I am trying to with the Understanding Society data wave 2. I am mainly int... -
03:59 PM Support #130 (In Progress): Jbsec variable in wave 2 - 12 months or 2 months?
- Sagar,
The question wording is what was read out to the respondent, so this is the correct number of months. Thanks ...
03/11/2013
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12:02 PM Support #131 (Closed): Geocoded Wave 2 data
- Hi, I’m a researcher working with the USoc data, interested in neighbourhood effects. I have been using the (Special ...
03/08/2013
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09:18 AM Support #125: household income variables in Understanding society
- to answer your follow-up question: we are hoping to catch up with the net total household income part of your request...
03/07/2013
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03:31 PM Support #129 (In Progress): Item origin in Youth self completion data
- Peter,
BHPS is the source.
We are planning to provide the source info for the youth paper self-completion items on ... -
03:24 PM Support #125 (In Progress): household income variables in Understanding society
- Leen,
> Could you please inform me when the net total household income (ideally yearly income) will be available i...
03/06/2013
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04:27 PM Support #130 (Closed): Jbsec variable in wave 2 - 12 months or 2 months?
- I have a query about the jbsec variable in understanding Society. The variable description suggests it is ‘job secur...
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02:13 PM Support #128 (Closed): working with England & Wales
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12:59 PM Support #128: working with England & Wales
- Thanks! Carolina
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11:19 AM Support #128: working with England & Wales
- Carolina,
In this situation dropping countries that you don't need or using subpop() are both correct and should g... -
09:44 AM Support #128: working with England & Wales
- Hi Jakob,
Would you then suggest selecting the country with the subpop() option after svy?
Thanks for your respon... -
12:18 PM Support #129 (Closed): Item origin in Youth self completion data
- I wanted to know if the items in the youth self-completion data a_yphsw "feel about your school work" to a_yphlf "fee...
03/05/2013
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12:48 PM Support #128 (In Progress): working with England & Wales
- Carolina,
Generally speaking, the weights should adjust different sub samples to UK figures.
Jakob -
11:38 AM Support #128 (Closed): working with England & Wales
- Hello,
I want to work with England and Wales only. Do I need to do any adjustments to the weights?
Or just drop t...
03/04/2013
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09:29 AM Support #126: Wave 1 files
- Charlie,
I don't seem to be able to reproduce this based on the information you have given me.
An alternative solut... -
08:51 AM Support #124 (Closed): Questionnaire routing of wJBSECT
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08:51 AM Support #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weights
03/01/2013
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05:03 PM Support #127: variables used to construct survey weights
- Laura,
The answer to your question is - it depends. Each weight uses different set of variables, but the wave 2 we... -
12:49 PM Support #127: variables used to construct survey weights
- Hi Jakob,
Thank you for your reply. I am not seeking advice about whether or not to use survey weights. I have rea... -
08:42 AM Support #127 (In Progress): variables used to construct survey weights
- Laura,
I wonder whether this is a question about whether or not to use survey weights? The "User Guide":https://www....
02/28/2013
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11:58 PM Support #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weights
- Hello,
Where can I find out which variables were used to construct the survey weights available for Wave 2 of US? ... -
01:43 PM Support #126 (Closed): Wave 1 files
- I am analysing data from Wave 1 of Understanding Society (SN6614). There is a file called a_egoalt which defines the ...
02/27/2013
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09:23 AM Support #119: Large values on alcohol consumption variables
- A clerical review of the paper self-completion questionnaires has shown that the true values of alcohol units will ha...
02/21/2013
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03:24 PM Support #125 (Closed): household income variables in Understanding society
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am trying to calculate income poverty measures on the basis of Understanding Society.
Could ...
02/20/2013
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03:21 PM Support #121 (Closed): Information Treatment-IP Wave 5
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03:21 PM Support #122 (Closed): Data Availability
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03:20 PM Support #124 (In Progress): Questionnaire routing of wJBSECT
- Karen,
Just to confirm that we have come to the same conclusions as you have.
Jakob
02/18/2013
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02:34 PM Support #118 (Closed): total gross income variables
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02:34 PM Support #117 (Closed): Car use Qs in BHPS
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02:34 PM Support #115 (Closed): Highest qualification variable
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02:33 PM Support #123 (Closed): b_heritage96 and b_herfreq variables
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02:19 PM Support #123 (In Progress): b_heritage96 and b_herfreq variables
- Jenny,
It is the opposite. b_heritage96 is 1 (or TRUE) if "None of these things" were visited and 0 (or FALSE) if at...
02/14/2013
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11:19 AM Support #124 (Closed): Questionnaire routing of wJBSECT
- In the BHPS documentation [Volume A] the following is stated …
“III.9.2.2. The Employment Section
Users should be...
02/13/2013
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12:46 PM Support #123 (Closed): b_heritage96 and b_herfreq variables
- I'm a bit confused to what the variable b_heritage96 is suppose to record. My interpretation is that 0 means people w...
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