Activity
From 11/23/2016 to 12/22/2016
12/22/2016
- 04:55 PM Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
- Hi, we are trying to derive a longitudinal weight for linked youth datasets, following guidance given by Peter Lynn p...
12/21/2016
- 11:56 AM Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
- Dear US user support team,
I am using the secure access releases of BHPS (6340) and US (6670) to track the origina...
12/19/2016
- 12:34 PM Support #687 (Closed): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
- Conditioning on the variable `wJBSTATT` (https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rindresp18.html#...
12/16/2016
- 12:08 PM Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS
- My research topic is about the labour force participation, and so I collected some dataset from BHPS dataset, I have ...
- 09:24 AM Support #685 (Feedback): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
- Hi King Fok,
that's almost correct. To be precise: there are two different versions of the socio-economic classifica... - 02:51 AM Support #685: jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
- Update: upon further investigation, the consistency is in naming conventions. In earlier waves, this variable is name...
- 01:25 AM Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
- Just want to report that the variable jbsic07 is missing for wave 3 of Understanding Society but according to the onl...
12/15/2016
- 12:57 PM Support #681 (Feedback): Variable construction: employment duration
- Hi,
to learn more about the meaning of variables it is best to look at the questionnaire, which has the question wor... - 10:30 AM Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- 10:29 AM Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
- 10:29 AM Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- 10:29 AM Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure
12/14/2016
- 03:26 PM Support #680: Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
- Dear Heinrich,
Just to follow up on the cognitive ability query, if it's ok I will email you directly about this s... - 11:47 AM Support #679 (Feedback): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- 11:46 AM Support #683 (Feedback): Weights for combined measures and data files
- 11:45 AM Support #684 (Feedback): Survey question - people to rely on
- Dear Amanda,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The questions that you are referring to come from the ‘Self-completion ... - 10:57 AM Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- Hi Peter
Thanks for your reply and for the link to the weighting document.
I am a bit confused about the way tha...
12/13/2016
- 03:47 PM Support #683: Weights for combined measures and data files
- Hi,
Guidance on what weights to use when you are combining data from different files is given at the start of sect... - 02:50 PM Support #683 (In Progress): Weights for combined measures and data files
- Dear Theodora,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
... - 02:46 PM Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files
- Hi all,
I am using data from wave 2 & 3 from the main respondent's interview, the household data file and the heal... - 03:43 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
- Min,
Apologies for the slow reply.
1. You should not need to do any further scaling, as each weight is independ... - 03:04 PM Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on
- Hi,
I am trying to measure change in social capital as a result of taking part in a sport.
I have been told t... - 02:22 PM Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- Meg,
(1) For pooled cross-sectional (CS) analysis, you should use the CS weight from each respective wave. Each se... - 12:00 PM Support #682 (In Progress): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- Dear Megan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I will pass this on to our weighting team who will be able to respond.
... - 11:48 AM Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- Hi,
I am using a combined dataset of the youth panel and main adult survey for BHPS 1-18 and UKHLS 2-6.
My units... - 11:57 AM Support #681: Variable construction: employment duration
I saw that there are some variables like this one: Pos. = 1515 Variable = b_nmpsp_dv Variable label = No. employmen...
12/12/2016
- 09:29 PM Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration
- Hi,
I want to create a variable using wave 2 of Understanding Society: the time that a person is in the curren... - 11:46 AM Support #680 (Feedback): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
- Dear Heinrich,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed on your questions about the cognitive ability measures ... - 09:04 AM Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to ask you the following questions concerning variables in wave 3 of Understanding... - 09:40 AM Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
- 09:40 AM Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household
- 09:39 AM Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
- 09:39 AM Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable
- 09:39 AM Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
- 09:38 AM Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- 09:38 AM Support #668 (Closed): Weights
12/08/2016
- 05:00 PM Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- Glenna,
I think that using the cross-sectional weight for either t or t-1 is reasonable (but not a mixture of them... - 10:17 AM Support #679 (In Progress): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I will pass this on to our weighting team for a reply.
Best wishes,... - 10:12 AM Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- I have used the cross sectional weight at wave t-1 as the weight for each individual row. I have used the weights for...
- 10:11 AM Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- Hello,
I am modelling data from both the UKHLS and BHPS and my dataset is constructed so that I can compare pairs of... - 10:21 AM Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data
- 10:20 AM Support #660 (Closed): Private Education Variable?
- 10:05 AM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- Thank you very much, we wanted to make sure that release date would stay the same for the following waves.
Best wi... - 08:51 AM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- Dear Al,
We release our data annually in November each year. We have just released wave 6 (https://www.understandi... - 09:15 AM Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable
- Hi,
I'm working with W1-6 of UKHLS and have noticed that in W6 there are 4656 cases where fimngrs_dv==-9. Accordin...
12/07/2016
- 05:18 PM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- Dear Victoria,
Thank you very much, that's very helpful.
Do you have information on when data from Waves 9 and ... - 03:12 PM Support #677: Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
- That should say CAMSIS linking file, which is found here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/CAMSIS/occunits/distribution...
- 03:11 PM Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
- Hi,
I would like to recode the yasoc00 and ypsoc00 variables, which use SOC2000 from UKHLS to RGSC categories, an... - 03:08 PM Support #673 (Feedback): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
- Dear Naz,
Please see the following Stata code:
gen occ_dummy=(<your occupation variable>==<values of whichever ...
12/06/2016
- 12:54 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- Kenisha,
Create a data set consisting of wave 1 respondents aged 10 or 11 and a 0/1 indicator of whether or not th... - 09:12 AM Support #674: Family Structure
- Thank you Gundi.
I will try that.
Best,
Kenisha - 08:57 AM Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates
- 08:57 AM Support #663 (Closed): Weighting
- 08:56 AM Support #659 (Closed): Data linkage
12/05/2016
- 07:20 PM Support #674 (Feedback): Family Structure
- Hi Kenisha,
you may want to look at derived variables in the following files: _indall, _child, _egoalt.
The first t... - 06:40 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- Dear Peter,
Yes, it was my plan to assess if youth reporting of happiness changed between the wave 1 and wave 5.
C...
12/02/2016
- 02:23 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- Hello,
1) If your units of analysis are the children, and you are treating the parental characteristics as attribu... - 02:04 PM Support #675 (In Progress): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- Dear Kenisha,
I have added Peter Lynn as a watcher for this post and he will be able to get back to you about your... - 10:02 AM Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- Dear support team,
I have another query regarding the use of weights in the youth data.
I am looking at reported h... - 06:54 AM Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure
- Dear Support team,
I am interested to examine the relationship between family structures and a range of youth outco...
12/01/2016
- 04:03 PM Support #665: Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
- Dear James,
Just to add, you could also look at:
Scott JL and Chaudhary C (2003) Beating the odds: youth and fa... - 01:49 PM Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
- I would like to generate a ındustry and occupational dummy.
would you tell me process step by step.
many than... - 09:26 AM Support #672 (Feedback): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- Dear Al,
Many thanks for your query.
Unfortunately we don't yet have information about expected sample sizes in... - 07:20 AM Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- Hi,
Is there information available on expected sample sizes for households in Scotland for Waves 9 and 10?
Man...
11/30/2016
- 04:35 PM Support #666 (Feedback): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household
- Dear Nico,
the gender of all children enumerated in the household is included in the following files: _indall, _chil... - 04:28 PM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
- Hi King Fok,
you are right, these questions draw on information collected during the last (full adult) interview wit... - 04:01 PM Support #665 (Feedback): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
- Dear James,
There has been some research on bullying:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/search?a=Di... - 03:56 PM Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data
- 03:54 PM Support #669 (Feedback): Assistance with income variable
- Dear Katrina,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user guide, plea... - 12:47 PM Support #667 (Resolved): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
- 12:47 PM Support #670 (Feedback): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- 12:44 PM Support #670: weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- Jane,
All 16/17 year-olds, when they first complete the main (adult) interview receive the adult longitudinal weig... - 12:29 PM Support #670 (In Progress): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your message - I will assign this to Peter for a reply.
Best wishes, Victoria. - 09:35 AM Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- Many thanks for previous advice on how to construct longitudinal weights for linking youth self-completion datasets. ...
- 12:28 PM Support #671 (Feedback): Nurse Survey Data
- Dear Dan,
Nurse data were only collected at waves 2 and 3 of Understanding Society.
Best wishes, Victoria. - 12:19 PM Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data
- Hi there,
I am trying to download the data from the Nurse Health Assessment for Wave's 1, 4 and 5. I can only find... - 10:06 AM Support #668: Weights
- sorry, meant to say f_indinui_xw!
- 09:40 AM Support #668: Weights
- Tess,
We took the decision to discontinue producing an adult self-completion cross-sectional weight, given that th... - 08:59 AM Support #668 (In Progress): Weights
- Dear Tess,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed this on to my colleague and we will reswpond as soon as pos...
11/29/2016
- 08:04 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
- Dear Peter,
Many thanks for your suggestions. They are very helpful. I apologize for my late reply. I spent a few ... - 11:36 AM Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable
- Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me with a query I have about your Wave 6 income data.
We are wishing... - 11:36 AM Support #668 (Closed): Weights
- I am looking for the cross sectional adult self-completion weight (var - e_indscub_xw on wave e), however it doesn’t ...
- 11:22 AM Support #667: how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
- Jane,
The best way would be to start with the wave 2 cross-sectional weight and then make an adjustment to it, to ... - 08:02 AM Support #667 (In Progress): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
- Dear Jane,
I've passed on your query to Peter and he will reply shortly.
Best wishes, Victoria
11/28/2016
- 05:07 PM Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
- This is a further question for Peter Lynn, following on from his response to my previous question.
I am doing an l... - 12:17 PM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
- Dear King Fok,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will respond to you as soon as we can. Please note our 10 working-... - 11:48 AM Support #660 (In Progress): Private Education Variable?
- This was asked of adult respondents about their children (4-15 year old) but not of the adult respondents themselves....
- 11:15 AM Support #658 (Feedback): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
11/27/2016
- 08:43 PM Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household
- Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am trying to find the gender of the children in a given household.
The children ...
11/25/2016
- 09:57 AM Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
- Hi all
I'm using the understanding society variables: ypfght (fights); ypvand (vandalises); ypshop (shoplifts) and ... - 12:42 AM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
- I just went back to the questionnaire of wave 2 of Understanding Society and I just want to confirm that the wording ...
- 12:04 AM Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
- Hi, my current research requires me to create a measure of proportion of household joblessness a respondent experienc...
11/24/2016
- 04:20 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
- So, take for example your analysis based on all respondents who have at least one interview at which they were aged o...
- 04:19 PM Support #662 (Feedback): Households: Geographical Coordinates
- Dear Christian,
These are also available for BHPS from wave 1 (1991) onwards. Please see: https://discover.ukdatas... - 02:34 PM Support #663 (Feedback): Weighting
- 02:31 PM Support #663: Weighting
- Jane,
There are no longitudinal weights for the youth self-completion, primarily because this instrument on its ow... - 12:23 PM Support #663 (In Progress): Weighting
- Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
Be... - 12:07 PM Support #663 (Closed): Weighting
- Please could you let me know if there are longitudinal weights available for the youth self-completion questionnaires?
11/23/2016
- 02:23 PM Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
(This is not really an "issue", but I hope I can post my question here as well.)
... - 11:07 AM Support #659 (Feedback): Data linkage
- Dear Nic,
While we have obtained consent from participants to link to HES data, the Understanding Society team has...
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