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From 04/24/2016 to 05/23/2016
05/23/2016
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07:20 PM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels
- And thanks Alita - have found and read that example!
Alita Nandi wrote:
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- Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
I have two follow up questions:
1) You say 'basically you will have at leas... -
05:48 PM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels
- Hello Dan,
The training manual that Olena has asked you to look at to deal with single unit PSUs, is Example 6 of ... -
04:58 PM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels
- Dan,
Thanks for your questions.
To start with the issues with weights and strata+psu are separate and are not re... -
06:49 PM Support #568 (In Progress): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents
- Hi Marianne,
there are different ways of doing this.
One option is to start off with the data file XWAVEDAT. It in... -
- Hi Zoe,
on your query regarding a_jbhad. In Wave 1 JBHAD had the following routing:
if (JBHAS = 2 and JBOFF = 2)
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05/21/2016
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04:25 PM Support #571 (Resolved): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy
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I am trying to work out the routing for some of the employment variables and for some variables, the routing i...
05/20/2016
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- Hi Paulino,
Thanks for letting us know. We are looking into this.
Best wishes,
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12:04 PM Support #569 (Closed): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file
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In the file a_natchild the variable a_childno records every child listed by a given adult. However, some of... -
- Hi Meg,
This file includes every person who has ever been part of a sampled and enumerated household. Which means ... -
01:50 PM Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat
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I am using the xwavedat file to match stable characteristics of individuals in the main survey, but I noticed ...
05/19/2016
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10:25 PM Support #568 (Closed): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents
- Hi, I'm hoping someone could offer some guidance.
I'm currently working with the BHPS and trying to see the effect... -
- Libby,
Thank you for your question. You situation is complex and unique and we do not have the weight that will ta... -
- Yes, there is information on 10-15 yaer olds' SDQ scores (see the youth quesionnaires), their self-reported ethnic gr...
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- Hi Leolo,
we do not provide a combined BHPS/Understanding Society, but the BHPS member’s pid is included in the Unde... -
08:37 AM Support #567 (Closed): Household Income vs. Housing costs
- I am trying to derive a measure of the % of household income that is spent on housing. I am using gross household in...
05/17/2016
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02:46 PM Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
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05/16/2016
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10:11 PM Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health
- Dear Understanding Society,
I wanted to ask about the process of applying to access the data for a research proje... -
- I have previously asked ISER for the meaning of the alwstat codes in the egoalt file, but did so via email (not on th...
05/12/2016
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07:42 PM Support #564 (Closed): Is there an Opportunity to get the BHPS Waves 1-18 and BHPS data that's integrated in UKHLS as one big dataset?
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If I understood coorectly, the BHPS got completely integrated into UKHLS. So that the variables and questionair... -
04:46 PM Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel
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I'm wondering which are the most appropriate weights for my analysis. I'm analysing employment transitions betwe... -
- Hi Moyin,
Apologies for the delay. Please find attached details of the 2a/2b classificaitons for BHPS and UKHLS.
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- Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in responding. We do not currently provide a summary measure of housing/mortga... -
- Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your follow-up. My colleague Olena, who is responsible for weighting, is currently on le...
05/11/2016
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- Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for posting as an attachment! I have read the worksheets on weight...
05/10/2016
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- Hi Emily,
"ret'ing" stands for "retiring" and "ret'd" for "retired". If you cross-tabulate astat with the variable l... -
- Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please have a look at the worksheets on weighting i... -
- Hi all!
My questions are in the attached pdf file. Thanks very much for your help!
Cheers,
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05/06/2016
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- Note that 959 persons had left both boxes of Q23 blank (so -9 was coded) but had filled in b_scfalcdrnk categories 1-...
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- B_SCEVERDRNK was mislabelled: 1 means they ticked the "Have never had an alcoholic drink" box. We will revise it. Tha...
05/04/2016
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- Thanks for letting us know that m_rename is not available in the Moodle course. It has now been uploaded. Check the f...
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06:52 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
- Hi Gundi,
can you please post the m_rename.sps macro for exercise 8? i am reworking through the exercises.
than... -
- Further to my last post, it has puzzled me why your interpretation of Stata code does not yield the same number of in...
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- Hi Christa,
when you are unsure about which relationships are covered in a variable pointing to a significant other ... -
03:23 PM Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS
- Hello,
Just for clarification: is the hgspn variable in BHPS waves 1-18 the same as ppno in UKHLS? It is not exact...
05/03/2016
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- Hi Zoe,
as we have said before, it is bejond the remit of this support forum to work through individual user's code ... -
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04/29/2016
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06:08 PM Support #554: Special license data for non-UK issues
- Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your reply. I read through the links you gave me, I still have 3 more quest... -
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I have managed to finally perform steps 1 and 2. In case other people read this feed you need to:
ADD FILES for... -
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each i...
04/28/2016
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04:54 PM Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold
- Is it correct that to obtain the original purchase price and the amount borrowed at purchase for mortgagors it is nec...
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- Dear Moyin,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the broken link, we will get this fixed.
Medium level g... -
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- Dear Alba,
The great majority of differences are proxy cases for which we do include the component values in the d... -
- Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each individual can have mor...
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In the BHPS, as in UKHLS, you can also identify deceased respondents using "wivfio" variable in "winds... -
- Emily,
There is a cross-wave variable indicating final known status of respondents: it is astat in xwlsten.dta dat... -
09:30 AM Support #550: Interview date
- Great, thanks Victoria!
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- Hi Christoph,
In the BHPS, the respondent never reports the date of interview, it’s always done by the interviewer...
04/27/2016
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- Thanks Vicotria,
that is helpful, as a follow up:
At least in the BHPS (haven't checked US yet) there are vars wh... -
- How can I determine whether an individual in BHPS has died at following waves, including during their time in Underst...
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03:22 PM Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components
- We are researching changes in household income over time, and are interested in determining which components (labour ...
04/26/2016
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- Hi Vanessa,
further to Victoria's response, I am now uploading the code that we run to create a proxy for the Unders... -
- Hi Vanessa,
Many thanks for your enquiry and for transferring it to the user support forum.
Please can I refer ... -
03:38 PM Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data
- Dear Victoria,
I noted that you responded to a colleague’s question on this matter, but provided the solution via... -
- Hi there,
I'm a PhD student from the U.S.. I'm working with my professors on a social exclusion project that co... -
- Hi Alita,
I have been trying to do the steps Gundi mentioned was done in stata in spss. Is there a possibility of g...
04/25/2016
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- Hi Emily,
we are aware that there are, unfortunately, problems with the correct display of some of the variable note... -
09:22 AM Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation
- I am looking for information about how the hiqual_dv variable is derived. I have found on the website the following i...
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- Dear Christoph,
Advance letters are sent to adults living in households that we are issuing to field. The advance ... -
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- Dear Thea,
Many thanks for your enquiry and I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
These questions are...
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