Understanding Society User Support

06/04/2016

08:18 AM Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables

Hi,
I am doing some research which involves looking at wages. In the data for the variable "total monthly labour ... Catherine Taylor

06/03/2016

03:01 PM Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Megan,
1. Parental education was asked of the first 6 months sample (that is a quarter of the UKHLS sample) in ... Alita Nandi

01:34 PM Support #573 (In Progress): citizenship in BHPS

The individual cross-wave identifier is PID. You can use that to attach these variables to all waves.
Alternative... Alita Nandi

06/02/2016

01:10 PM Support #568 (Closed): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents

Victoria Nolan

06/01/2016

10:02 AM Support #571 (Feedback): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Dear Zoe,
further to my previous reply, I can now confirm that there has been a data processing error in Wave 2. The... Gundi Knies

05/31/2016

03:17 PM Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health

Victoria Nolan

03:17 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?

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #556 (Closed): Death in BHPS and US

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #554 (Closed): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Support #554 (Resolved): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

05/30/2016

04:33 PM Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS

Hi there
I am looking for a variable Nationality / Citizenship in the BHPS.
So far I only found Country Born or ... Matthias Buser

05/27/2016

01:17 PM Support #567: Household Income vs. Housing costs

Hi Emily,
sorry this took a bit longer to reply.
We have checked with experts on income and expenditure data to s... Gundi Knies

12:55 PM Support #547: Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS

Dear Victoria,
Many thanks for your reply. I have noticed that there are a lot of missing values on the PASOC vari... Christa Hubers

11:58 AM Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Alita,

Thanks for your quick response.

I understand that this question would not be asked of children 11-1... Megan Scott

05/25/2016

01:00 PM Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Great!
FYI you won't find any information about derived variables / weights in the questionnaire because these var... Gundi Knies

12:57 PM Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Gundi
Sorry, that’s me using the wrong terminology! I meant the PDF of the questionnaire that is downloaded wit... Rachel Sumner

12:49 PM Support #572 (In Progress): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Rachel,
I am not sure what you mean by the "codebook"?
Have you tried the online dataset documentation? The vari... Gundi Knies

12:08 PM Support #572 (Closed): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi
I'm struggling to work with the above two variables. Their difference is not delineated in the code book/docume... Rachel Sumner

05/24/2016

01:26 PM Support #538 (In Progress): missing proxy interviews in wave 1

Alita Nandi

01:25 PM Support #563 (In Progress): Weights when using the youth panel

Alita Nandi

01:23 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Alita Nandi

10:59 AM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dan,
1) xtreg assumes you have clustering / nesting (this does not include psu - some nesting related to analysis)... Olena Kaminska

05/23/2016

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:
> Hello Dan,
>
> The training manual t... Dan Brown

07:19 PM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
I have two follow up questions:
1) You say 'basically you will have at leas... Dan Brown

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 ... Alita Nandi

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... Olena Kaminska

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... Gundi Knies

11:15 AM Support #571 (In Progress): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Zoe,
on your query regarding a_jbhad. In Wave 1 JBHAD had the following routing:
if (JBHAS = 2 and JBOFF = 2)
... Gundi Knies

05/21/2016

04:25 PM Support #571 (Resolved): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi,
I am trying to work out the routing for some of the employment variables and for some variables, the routing i... Zoe Oldfield

05/20/2016

02:08 PM Support #569 (In Progress): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file

Hi Paulino,
Thanks for letting us know. We are looking into this.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

12:04 PM Support #569 (Closed): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file

Hello,
In the file a_natchild the variable a_childno records every child listed by a given adult. However, some of... Paulino Font Gilabert

01:59 PM Support #570 (In Progress): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Meg,
This file includes every person who has ever been part of a sampled and enumerated household. Which means ... Alita Nandi

01:50 PM Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi,
I am using the xwavedat file to match stable characteristics of individuals in the main survey, but I noticed ... Megan Scott

05/19/2016

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... marianne walker

04:47 PM Support #563: Weights when using the youth panel

Libby,
Thank you for your question. You situation is complex and unique and we do not have the weight that will ta... Olena Kaminska

04:39 PM Support #566 (In Progress): Data on children's mental health

Yes, there is information on 10-15 yaer olds' SDQ scores (see the youth quesionnaires), their self-reported ethnic gr... Alita Nandi

01:53 PM Support #564 (Feedback): Is there an Opportunity to get the BHPS Waves 1-18 and BHPS data that's integrated in UKHLS as one big dataset?

Hi Leolo,
we do not provide a combined BHPS/Understanding Society, but the BHPS member’s pid is included in the Unde... Gundi Knies

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... Emily Murray

05/17/2016

02:46 PM Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Victoria Nolan

02:46 PM Support #537 (Closed): Merged File Request

Victoria Nolan

05/16/2016

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... Sophie Epstein

12:56 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

I have previously asked ISER for the meaning of the alwstat codes in the egoalt file, but did so via email (not on th... Dan Brown

05/12/2016

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?

Hey,
If I understood coorectly, the BHPS got completely integrated into UKHLS. So that the variables and questionair... Leolo Vogt

04:46 PM Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel

Hi,
I'm wondering which are the most appropriate weights for my analysis. I'm analysing employment transitions betwe... Libby Webb

02:00 PM Support #554: Special license data for non-UK issues

Hi Moyin,
Apologies for the delay. Please find attached details of the 2a/2b classificaitons for BHPS and UKHLS.
... Victoria Nolan

01:38 PM Support #557 (Resolved): hscost mgold

Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in responding. We do not currently provide a summary measure of housing/mortga... Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your follow-up. My colleague Olena, who is responsible for weighting, is currently on le... Victoria Nolan

05/11/2016

05:49 PM Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for posting as an attachment! I have read the worksheets on weight... Dan Brown

05/10/2016

05:16 PM Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Hi Emily,
"ret'ing" stands for "retiring" and "ret'd" for "retired". If you cross-tabulate astat with the variable l... Gundi Knies

04:18 PM Support #561 (In Progress): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please have a look at the worksheets on weighting i... Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Support #561 (Closed): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Hi all!
My questions are in the attached pdf file. Thanks very much for your help!
Cheers,
Dan Dan Brown

04:03 PM Support #541 (Closed): Health conditions module

Victoria Nolan

04:02 PM Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components

Victoria Nolan

04:02 PM Support #550 (Closed): Interview date

Victoria Nolan

04:01 PM Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data

Victoria Nolan

04:01 PM Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation

Victoria Nolan

04:00 PM Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality

Victoria Nolan

04:00 PM Support #549 (Closed): self employment

Victoria Nolan

03:59 PM Support #543 (Closed): household income

Victoria Nolan

05/06/2016

05:25 PM Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Note that 959 persons had left both boxes of Q23 blank (so -9 was coded) but had filled in b_scfalcdrnk categories 1-... Alita Nandi

05:14 PM Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

B_SCEVERDRNK was mislabelled: 1 means they ticked the "Have never had an alcoholic drink" box. We will revise it. Tha... Alita Nandi