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From 06/20/2020 to 07/19/2020
07/19/2020
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04:46 PM Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Abigail Dumalus wrote:
> Thanks so much, Alita, for your feedback. Does the 24-month wave period preclude me from us... -
04:34 PM Support #1381 (Resolved): Query
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Hi
I would like to ask about the fimnlabnet_dv variable: what dose the negative values represent ?
07/17/2020
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08:32 PM Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- I will start with the second question:
- yes, you can use indinus_lw directly
- in the first option you assume that...
07/16/2020
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07:21 PM Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- Thanks for the suggestions, Olena.
Which variable would indicate those “interviews that took place (finished) in J... -
- Oh, and with regard to your comment on 'it seems that I am still missing a step or two to generate average life satis...
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- Abigail,
The method I described earlier does not correspond to BHPS data (before UKHLS started). BHPS is normally ... -
- Hello Olena,
I am using indin91_lw for longitudinal regressions over time from 1996 to 2017 with life satisfaction... -
- Abigail,
I think you have a few questions that I will try to answer below.
First, why are you using indin91_lw. I... -
- May I please get any advice on my queries above about item 11 in the weighting FAQ? Many thanks for your time and con...
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05:04 PM Support #1380 (In Progress): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014
- Hi Abigail,
I have assigned this to Olena. This is similar to your question on the other post which also I have as... -
- Hello Alita,
I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave ... -
03:46 PM Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- Hello,
I have recently added local authority level unemployment rates to a panel of individual-level UKHLS data (w...
07/15/2020
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- Hello Olena,
I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave ... -
- Abigail,
Yes, I can confirm that FAQ question 11 applies to 3-months analysis. We do not have a ready syntax for y... -
- I read item 11 in the weighting FAQ. It seems appropriate but I cannot be sure whether this applies for building 3-mo...
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- I see. Yes, you can analyse by calendar year. Take a look at item 11 in the weighting FAQ and see if that is appropri...
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- Thanks so much, Alita, for your feedback. Does the 24-month wave period preclude me from using “year” as a panel time...
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- Yes, in Understanding Society the fieldwork period for any wave stretches over 24 months and is overlaps with the nex...
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- Hello Alita,
I noticed from browsing the dataset that wave periods from wave 2 until wave 9 have been overlapping.... -
- Yes drop all the weight variables, then merge i_indin91_lw from i_indrsp onto the entire long format file (many to on...
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- Hello Alita,
I apologise for not replying for almost a week. I have been ill. I currently have several weighting ... -
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- Hello Darja,
ca_betaindin_xw = i_indinui_xw * non-response probability based on a model of non-response between m...
07/14/2020
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03:36 PM Support #1377 (Resolved): Weights in Covid-19 Study
- Dear Support Team,
I tsset (pidp wave) the April and May Study. Can I only use the weight (betaindin_xw) cross-sec... -
- Hello,
Sorry the variable note for w_fimnnet_dv does not clearly explain how topcoding is done. There are 51 obser...
07/10/2020
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10:31 AM Support #1374: Weights
- Dear Olena,
This perfectly answers my question. Thanks so much for the clarification!
Best,
Maria
07/09/2020
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- Maria,
Thank you for your questions. I am replying in order:
In your original message:
(1) Yes, your set up is c... -
- ok. I am now assigning this to our Survey Statistican, Olena.
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- Hello,
Thank you for your query. I have passed on your query to our income team and we will get back to you soon.
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09:44 AM Support #1376 (Resolved): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)
- Hello there,
I'm working with h_fimnnet_dv, and trying to build a regression model to predict income based on a ra... -
- Let's say your long file is, long.dta. Then you do this:
use long, clear
merge m:1 pidp using i_indresp, keepus(i...
07/08/2020
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- Hello Alita,
I understand what you’re saying. but is there an extra step or specific code that I need to implement... -
- Hi Abigail,
You need to take i_indin91_lw (as Wave 9 is the last wave you are including) and then attach that to a... -
- Dear Anita,
Thank you for your quick reply!
Regarding point (1), I was already familiar with item 12 in the FAQ... -
- Hello,
(1) Take a look at item 12 in the weighting FAQ which discusses pooling waves for cross-sectional analysis....
07/07/2020
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- Dear Olena,
As I mentioned in a separate issue weeks ago, I am analysing life satisfaction and GHQ (using indresp ... -
- Dear Sir/Madame,
I have a question regarding the use of weights when pooling the 9 waves of Understanding Society....
07/03/2020
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- Yes, this happens sometimes, but only a few such cases. In the 9 UKHLS waves there are 13 such cases. In BHPS the cut...
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- I will try your advice and see how it goes. Thanks so much, Alita.
I meant to raise this before: just looking at i... -
- First check that that indall_longfile and indresp_longfile don't have repeated observations. Type
isid pidp wave
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- Hello Alita,
It was a typo here. I used pidp. What I did was linking all indall files together for 26 waves (using... -
- You said you ran the code "xtset pid wave" and got an error message. Did you use "pid" instead of "pidp" or this just...
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- For the 9 wave of UKHLS data:
The variable w_birthy was checked for consistency across the waves. After resolving ... -
- Hello,
Respondents to this survey, who reported at least one child below the age of 18 (hhcompa>0 or hhcomdb>0 or ...
07/02/2020
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- Hello Alita,
I have read this variable note. But one of the input variables, dob_dv, is based on birthy. That's wh... -
- Hello Alita,
Kindly see above for my question about appending/merging indall files with indresp+xwavedat file. I h...
07/01/2020
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01:32 PM Support #1373: Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]
- If it is that child a was their first child, child b their second ect.. then why are the ones not represented in the ...
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- I really tried to figure this one out before asking here, also had a scan of other questions but I cannot understand ...
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- Thanks so much, Alita.
I was trying to append the indall longitudinal file (all 26 waves) with the indresp+xwaved...
06/30/2020
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- I am responding to issue #17 above:
There are a few ways to do this. What you have suggested (first append all you... -
- Hello Abigail,
I am sorry I deleted the issue 1371 that you had posted by mistake. As it is not possible for us to... -
- Hi Abigail,
Have you read the variable note and the input variables mentioned on the variable page? https://www.un... -
- Hello Abgail,
I am passing on your query about age_dv to the data team and will get back to you wth their response... -
- Hello Alita,
I am wondering why the age_dv variable is not consistent with birthy when the latter is read side by ...
06/27/2020
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- This issue is now continuing via email. So, this post is set to resolved.
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- Hi Natalie,
These are the households without valid postcodes.
Best wishes,
Alita
06/26/2020
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- Hi Olena,
I just sent an email request for creating a tailored weight.
About merging youth and child data file... -
- Abigail,
To understand the difference between '91' and 'ub' weight please see
https://www.understandingsociety.a... -
- Great to hear from you, Olena...
I am interested with creating my own tailored weight base on W_psnen??_lw. If I u... -
- Abigali,
Yes, of course your analysis and research questions make sense, and indeed we do not have specific weight... -
- Thanks so much, Alita!
Hello Olena,
Does it make sense to merge the youth sample (for the question/variable 'y... -
- I am assigning this to our Survey Statistician, Dr. Kaminska, to answer your question on appropriate weights for this...
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- Hello Alita,
Yes, I am especially interested in analysing life satisfaction and GHQ happiness. Thank you for shari... -
- You're welcocme Abigail!
From your description it seems that you are planning to use the BHPS sample over 26 waves... -
- Hello Alita,
I'm so glad to hear that you and Gundi are around to give advice!
I just have a follow up questio... -
- Hi Abigail,
Following up on what Gundi has said, I took a look at the syntax file on our website and added Wave 9 ... -
04:38 PM Support #1368: Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data
- Sorry just to follow up so I can justify this later, could you confirm why those 2,898 cases are not in the LSOA file...
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- Hi Alita and Gundi
Thanks both for your help, I understand the source of the non-matches now.
Thanks so much.
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- To follow up on what Gundi has said,
All households in c_hhsamp who have a valid postcode for their addresses are ... -
02:02 PM Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Thanks so much for all this information - I will explore these possibilities now.
Thanks again for your time and h... -
- Thanks Gundi.
Hi Daniela,
I had simultaneously asked our data team to provide a response to your query. Below i... -
01:40 PM Support #1369: Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- Hi Daniela,
the list of geographical identifier data files we make available is complete. Via this route it is not p... -
- Hi Gundi
Many thanks for this information. I have been exploring the link to geo-coded data shared by Alita but I ... -
- Hi Daniela,
Alita has described procedures to link to geo-coded data. Your query suggest you may instead be interest... -
- Hi Alita
Thanks for your feedback. I checked the link you shared. Can you please just confirm - Is it possible to ... -
- Hello,
Matching of Understanding Society data with external datasets which are at different levels of geography is...
06/25/2020
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- Not sure why the code on the website only goes to wave 8; it is porbably a co-incidence and I would not expect the co...
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- Thanks for the advice, Gundi.
I will use the duplicates report command. Is this the main reason why the merging-i... -
- the number of cases in wave 9 is suspicious because the sample size tends to reduce from wave to wave, due to non-res...
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- Why is the number of cases for UKHLS wave 9 suspicious? Does this mean there should only be 25 waves in the longitudi...
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- Try not to append UKHLS wave 9 to the data file that already has wave 9 data - the number of cases for w9 is suspicious.
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- Hello Gundi,
I have been trying append all UKHLS waves, using the standard Stata syntax for looping through the wa... -
- Hi Abigail,
it seems like you the wave values 1-9 twice - once for the BHPS and once for the UKHLS. Maybe treat UKHL... -
- Hello,
I found that linking all 26 waves went without a hitch. Since I intend to do longitudinal analysis of life... -
- Hi Natalie,
the universe of cases in the geographical identifier datasets is sampled households with a valid postcod... -
- I am doing my PhD on the impact of digital-first models of care on a range of outcomes, including health inequalities...
06/24/2020
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03:26 PM Support #1366: Valid occupation code versus job hours
- Thanks so much for looking into this. I think I have figured it now. I was looking at unique observations (i.e. by pi...
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- No problem. I have looked at the data again. Over the 18+9 waves of data:
jbhas=1|jboff=1 for 370979 cases
jbocc9...
06/23/2020
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- Hi Alita! Sorry to bother you again but just to reiterate: the occupation code actually has more unique observations ...
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- Those who have a job in the week before the interview (jbhas=1 OR jboff =1), whether in paid employment or self-emplo...
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- I am interested in employed and self-employed. This should match the number of individuals with a valid occupation co...
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- You're welcome.
jbsemp =1 for in paid employment and =2 for self-employed. So, you need to check for jbsemp=1 and ... -
- Hi Alita!
Thanks for your fast and very helpful reply, which makes sense. The only follow up question - why is it ... -
- Hello,
Occupation question is asked of anyone who did paid work the week before the interview (jbhas=1 OR jboff=1)... -
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I'm puzzled about the fact that in my data (all BHPS and US waves merged) I have ... -
- basrate is a direct question asked of those who said that they are paid an hourly rate. So, this will be missing for ...
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- This does make sense. Thanks, Alita.
Adding to the above I was wondering how basrate can be defined? Is it gross h... -
- Hello,
w_fimnlabgrs_dv is the gross monthly income from all labour market earnings = usual gross monthly wage from... -
- Adding to the above I was wondering how basrate can be defined? Is it gross hourly wage or income? Does it make sense...
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- Hi!
I would like to calculate hourly wages across all waves and am now wondering whether to use fimnlabgrs_dv or p... -
- Hi I am trying to distribute LSOA identifiers to household level data using wave 3. I have an issue when I merge the ...
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- Great thanks so much for your help Alita.
Many thanks
Natalie
06/22/2020
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- Hello Antonia,
The respondents read these categories and responded to these based on how they interpreted these. S... -
02:30 PM Support #1365 (Resolved): Payment methods gas and electricity
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is there any information how to sort your categories in "method of payment for electricity" or "method of pay...
06/20/2020
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- Hi Laura,
As it says in the user guide "or the purposes of weighting, the COVID-19 study is treated as an instrume... -
- Hi Amy,
We have no restriction on our respondents participating in other surveys but we don't know who has partici...
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