Activity
From 05/06/2016 to 06/04/2016
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 ...
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 ... - 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...
06/02/2016
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...
05/31/2016
- 03:17 PM Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health
- 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?
- 03:16 PM Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold
- 03:16 PM Support #556 (Closed): Death in BHPS and US
- 03:16 PM Support #554 (Closed): Special license data for non-UK issues
- 03:15 PM Support #554 (Resolved): Special license data for non-UK issues
- 03:15 PM Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS
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 ...
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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
05/24/2016
- 01:26 PM Support #538 (In Progress): missing proxy interviews in wave 1
- 01:25 PM Support #563 (In Progress): Weights when using the youth panel
- 01:23 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- 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)...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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)
...
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...
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 - 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... - 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 ... - 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 ...
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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 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
- 02:46 PM Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
- 02:46 PM Support #537 (Closed): Merged File Request
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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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.
... - 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... - 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...
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...
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... - 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... - 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 - 04:03 PM Support #541 (Closed): Health conditions module
- 04:02 PM Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components
- 04:02 PM Support #550 (Closed): Interview date
- 04:01 PM Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data
- 04:01 PM Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation
- 04:00 PM Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality
- 04:00 PM Support #549 (Closed): self employment
- 03:59 PM Support #543 (Closed): household income
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-...
- 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...
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