Activity
From 03/22/2019 to 04/20/2019
04/20/2019
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05:06 PM Support #1186 (Resolved): Ethnicity Data Inapplicable
- Hi i am looking to work with the ethnicity data in the BHPS sample, i was going through the data in stata and have fo...
04/19/2019
04/18/2019
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01:01 PM Support #1181: Merging general health variables
- Dear Erica,
Our Policy Unit (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/policy) are interested in contacting ...
04/17/2019
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05:57 PM Support #1183 (Feedback): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census
- Hello Jing Shen,
The Census question and the Understanding Society questions are slightly different.
In the 2... -
10:19 AM Support #1185: Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
- Thank you Alita!
This is very helpful as I was mostly wondering whether I did something wrong in the matching proces... -
- Also, sex_dv is only available for the 8 UKHLS waves and it does not have the same problem, that is, there is a valid...
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- Hi Nicole,
Without looking at your code I cannot comment but I can say that when I appended 25 waves I too find si...
04/16/2019
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- Hello,
I've merged all the waves of the BHPS and Understanding Society into one master data file in the long-forma...
04/12/2019
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- >> In that case do the data team correct RELATIONSHIP_DV based on a respondents answers to other questions in the sur...
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12:37 PM Support #1184: informal care receipt in wave 7
- Hi Alita,
Thankyou for looking into this so quickly.
In that case do the data team correct RELATIONSHIP_DV base... -
- Hello Sean,
I have looked into this and identified these discrepancies that you have mentioned.
The relationsh...
04/11/2019
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- Hi,
I am currently using the information regarding informal care receipt in the social care module of wave 7.
T... -
12:58 PM Support #1183 (Resolved): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census
- I'm currently working on religious variables in Understanding Society, and have found that the distribution of religi...
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- Thank you very much. This is very helpful!
04/09/2019
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04:10 PM Support #1162: Month of Sample Issue
- Hi Olena and Peter,
Thank you for these replies. These are very helpful.
Best wishes,
Liam
04/08/2019
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11:19 AM Support #1182: Pooling data for analysis by calendar year
- Dear Rebecca,
Thank you for your question. No, your suggestion will not work. You should base your calendar year o... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/07/2019
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12:07 PM Support #1171: How to match information of any two household members across waves
- Sorry for the late reply Alita,
if you add to your code above the following line: rename sp_`w'_* sp_* , then eve... -
09:35 AM Support #1182 (Resolved): Pooling data for analysis by calendar year
- I am trying to get to the mean of certain variables for each calendar year and I am uncertain about rescaling weights...
04/05/2019
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- Dear Erica,
There could be unmatched cases because not every individual responds in every wave, but I would need m... -
12:19 PM Support #1181 (Resolved): Merging general health variables
- Hi there,
after merging data using variables related to general health (such as scsf1) there seems to be many unmatc... -
- Dear Giorgio,
You can look at the index terms pages for health: subjective wellbeing (https://www.understandingsoc...
04/03/2019
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08:40 AM Support #1180 (Resolved): BHPS + US harmonized measure of mental well-being
- Dear all,
I would like to know your opinion about the following issue: I am working with all the waves of BHPS + US...
04/02/2019
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- Dear Erica,
These questions have been included in Wave 11 of the Innovation Panel, but are not yet part of our mai... -
- Dear Inga,
I'm sorry, the data is not available now and we cannot give an expected date at the moment. We will let... -
10:09 AM Support #1177: Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother
- Thanks for clarifying this!
04/01/2019
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- The variable ch1bm_dv ch1by_dv in xwavedat show the month and year of birth of first child (note: ch1bm_dv variable ...
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- Each row in this file is uniquely identified by A_HIDP A_PNO A_CHILDNO. The variables A_HIDP A_PNO identify the paren...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Is the health variable EQ-5D-5L available is USOC data, or can it maybe be calculated using other variables in the da...
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- Dear Amandeep,
There is not one variable which tells you gross hourly pay, but you could calculate it yourself usi... -
01:24 PM Support #1178 (Resolved): Income
- Hi, is there an income on gross hourly pay? I could not find one on the mainstage user guide.
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- Dear Olayiwola Oladiran,
Apologies, I have been told that the information in this document: http://doc.ukdataservi... -
- Dear Jing Shen,
Thank you for your question. This question is rather a statistical one, and I can only answer abou... -
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- Dear Lewis,
Apologies for the delay in responding.
Yes, this is the reason for the change in wording. When the ...
03/31/2019
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- INSTEAD OF
use filename, clear
USE
use var1 var2 using filename, clear
This only extracts var1 var2 iste...
03/29/2019
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- (p.s this is using stata)
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- Hi there,
Thank you for previously helping me with merging USOC waves.
Unfortunately, my work PC does not allow me ... -
- Dear User support team,
I would like to have a birth order variable for all natural children observed for a given ...
03/28/2019
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- We're currenlty working on a study, for which we need to know the percentage of each religous group in every LA unit....
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09:35 AM Support #1162: Month of Sample Issue
- Liam,
Just to add to the above:
I can confirm that the allocation of GPS PSUs to sample month was random - spec...
03/27/2019
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11:50 PM Support #1174 (Resolved): Creating reliable fertility history variables - UKHLS waves 1-8
- Dear UKHLS team
I have had a look at the existing FAQs but haven't been able to find a response, but please let me... -
03:44 PM Support #1111: Data discepancy? Tenure_dv and movdir / plnew
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Chris,
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> We have some team members looking into this issue and will update you whe... -
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01:24 PM Support #1172: seeming errors in fnspid and mnspid variables
- Alita Nandi wrote:
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> egen long fpidp=max(fnspid), by (pidp)
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> egen fpidp=max(fnspi... -
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egen long fpidp=max(fnspid), by (pidp)
INSTEAD OF
egen fpidp=max(fnspid), by (pidp)
Best wishes,
Alita -
- Following on from our discussion now here is the syntax file.
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- Dear Alita,
thanks for your prompt reply. You write:
When matching for each wave separately (as shown in the ex... -
- Stephanie now handles this forum and I am responding as she is away :)
When matching for each wave separately (as ... -
02:21 PM Support #1168: Selecting correct weighting
- Thanks Olena!
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- Ningqian,
Yes, the h_psnenui_xw will be the correct weight for the combination of child and hhresp datasets.
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- Dear Olena,
Thanks a lot for your answer.
May I ask what if I only use hhresp and h-child in the analysis? Whic... -
- Dear Ningqian,
Thank you for your clarification. Your weight will depend on the datasets you use. When you use hhr... -
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- Dear Olena,
Thanks for your kind answer.
Sorry for not having provided enough information in my questions. For ... -
12:01 PM Support #1173: Clustering
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> If you use a pooled cross-sectional set up then there will be more than one observation for som... -
- If you use a pooled cross-sectional set up then there will be more than one observation for some individuals and so t...
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- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello,
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> Please provide some more information about your analysis.
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- Hello,
Please provide some more information about your analysis.
We can say that the data is clustered and stra... -
- I am trying to run some analysis using individual and household characteristics and having to deal with clustering is...
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- Liam,
Thank you for contacting us. Yes, your question is very interesting. The differences observed are very likel... -
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03/26/2019
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- Hello,
I am trying to match parents and children in UKHLS (using via pidp, fnspid and mnspid variables) and obtai... -
- Dear Ningqian,
Thank you for your question. I don't have enough details about your analysis, but it sounds to be t...
03/25/2019
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- Dear Alita,
have not heard from you in a while, but Stephanie was very helpful too.
Both the 28K and 19K are wa... -
- Hi Nico,
Yes, you can replicate this matching excercise for each wave. You could do this excercise for each wave a...
03/24/2019
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- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for the response.
I'm surprised by the answer as I find differences in (Wave 1) region of ...
03/23/2019
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- Dear Stephanie,
the handout to the question about matching info of any two hh members states that I quote: "In this...
03/22/2019
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- Dear Erica,
You can access our data on the UK Data Service website, here: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacat... -
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to inquire about self-reported health prevalence data (i.e variable scsf1 ), Is a da... -
07:58 AM Support #1166: Material deprivation response categories
- Thank you so much for your quick reply, Stephanie! This is very helpful.
Kind Regards,
Christina
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