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From 12/28/2020 to 01/26/2021
01/26/2021
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08:42 PM Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting
- Hi Alita,
Thanks so much for your reply. I have noted down your suggestions.
Thanks again!
best,
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02:38 PM Support #1490 (Feedback): Top-coding of net income
- Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Based on the user guide description of topcoding, all these variables...
01/25/2021
01/24/2021
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06:32 PM Support #1482: Top-coded income
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- Hi, how would I find out if observations of the following variables have been top-coded?:
fimnnet_dv
fimnmisc_dv
f...
01/22/2021
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- Sorry I meant age 5 or 8. If you take all adult respondents in c_indresp who completed the interview face-to-face (c_...
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- Hello Giorgio,
This file includes all children (0-15 year old). These questions were asked of parents of 3 and 5 y... -
10:18 AM Support #1489 (Resolved): SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'
- Dear all,
I would like to know your opinion on the following issue (maybe silly, but I am pretty new to this data...
01/21/2021
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02:40 PM Support #1487: Clarification on fuel expenditure
- Dear Alita,
Thank you so much for taking the time to check this and for helping me understand this matter. I reall... -
- I have checked the routing on all these questions (as specified in the questionnaire) and these are ok.
cou if fuel... -
- Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
I am specifically interested in fuel expenditure, so I ha... -
- Dear Christina,
We will look into this. Could you please provide exact variable names and waves you are looking at... -
- Hello,
I am conducting analysis on several waves of the UKHLS. I have noticed that, when looking at expenditure on... -
01:56 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Yes, if the weight is at an individual level.
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01:27 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. This is super useful!
As for the weight, in a longitudin... -
- Marie,
The enumeration weight is the same for everyone in a household (with very few exceptions in EMB sample) onl... -
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much - this is very helpful!
Does this mean that the enumeration weight is the same fo... -
- Our income team has pointed out that the fimnlabgrs is a variable which is the sum of variables, and it is these comp...
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- Hi Martin,
This is an analysis question and it is not within our remit to provide analytical help as we don't have... -
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- There are multiple methods. For example, you can also use collapse:
Open your data
save temp, replace // collapse...
01/20/2021
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08:33 PM Support #1484: Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Many thanks for your explanation! It is very helpful.
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- Sorry, I see what you mean.
The weights are scaled so that they add up to the sample size and not the UK populatio... -
- Hi Alita,
Many thanks for your reply. Please find my result table in the attachment. The command that I mentioned ... -
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I repeated your code and then estimated your model without weights (option 1), with weights and survey desi... -
- Thanks
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08:21 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi Leilah,
to generate the mean in a group you do not need to use the svy suite of commands.
Simply generate a new ... -
- Great, thank you for your help!
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- Hi Leilah,
to generate the mean in a group you do not need to use the svy suite of commands.
Simply generate a new ... -
- Hi, I am trying to construct an income reference group for each individual in each wave but am having issues incorpor...
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- Marie,
If the last wave used in your analysis is wave 12 (i.e. you have at least one variable from wave 12 in your... -
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you mean by ... -
- Thank you
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- I have asked the income team to get back to me about this, and will let you know when I have a response from them.
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- (b) In that case there is no appropriate weights. If you were to use Main survey Wave 9 + Covid waves for DID (pre an...
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10:58 AM Support #1485 (Resolved): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level
- I am aiming to look at the impact of residential age structure on a range of health and well being outcomes by linkin...
01/19/2021
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- Thank you for your question. You are using the correct weight if your model includes longitudinal information (i.e. a...
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12:08 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Dear Alita,
I can confirm that this solved the problem completely!
Thank you again!
best wishes,
Marion -
- Hi,
I would like to explore the relationship between internet use (ce_netpusenew) and mental health status (ce_scg...
01/18/2021
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- That would be helpful, thank you.
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- I don't think we have encountered this issue yet as it is very unlikely to have income amount exactly -7 or -9. But i...
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- I used the following Stata code to summarise by wave and topcoding: bysort wave fimnlabgrs_tc: su fimnlabgrs_dv
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Could please you add which wave you are looking at? I did not find this issue when I looked at Wave 1 data.... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/16/2021
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03:59 AM Support #1483 (Resolved): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
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I’m currently doing some analysis about immigrants’ subjective well-being, so in my regression models, I us...
01/15/2021
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- Manuel,
Your option 1 is the best: it goes back to the most recent of our weights and then models nonresponse in o...
01/13/2021
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- I've been looking at summary statistics for fimnlabgrs_dv and have noticed that individuals with no top-coding (fimnl...
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- So suppose income were actually -7. Would you enter income as -7.00 to differentiate it from the missing values?
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- The negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are set aside for missing values. Other negative values are actual negative values...
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Sorry for bothering again with this! I still have this doubt regarding the longitudinal weight.. we have two ... -
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10:38 AM Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample
- Dear Alita and Olena
Thanks for alerting about the release of the new longitudinal weights.
I have been reading t...
01/12/2021
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- Hi, when looking at income variables (e.g. fimnlabgrs_dv) and I see negative integer values, how do I know whether th...
01/11/2021
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- Marie,
Thank you for your question.
On weights: we do not have a specific weight for your analysis. Please do no...
01/10/2021
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- Hi Marion - We have identified that the value of strata=122 should be changed to 130 if hhorig=4. Please make this ch...
01/08/2021
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- Dear Understanding Society support team,
a thousand thanks for identifying the problem - that explains it all!
I ha... -
- Hello Marion,
My colleague has checked your code and that is ok. We have identified that for 2 cases in b_indresp,... -
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12:14 PM Support #1479: mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
- Thank you for the clarification, Alita.
That was very useful.
Best wishes,
Pilar -
- Hello,
While all individuals in indall must be in a responding household, the households in the file hhresp are on... -
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In the cW_indresp_w files, no responses were removed because of this reason (and that includes the timchcar... -
11:13 AM Support #1480 (Resolved): Who was sampled for question ca_timeshare in the COVID-19
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I am working with the April 2020 COVID-19 web survey dataset ( ca_indresp_w ) and was wondering if the questio...
01/07/2021
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- Hi there,
I was merging household-level variables onto individual files (indresp) and found mismatches, so to make ... -
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Thanks so much for your detailed and prompt reply.
Just a note around (b). We are not doing a separate an... -
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(a) For cross-sectional analysis use the weights cW_betaindin_xw for Covid waves 1-4 (W=a,b, c, d), W_indin... -
- Thank you! Perhaps I should mention that I use the special license data. So the first line of the code is actually:
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- Sorry I didn't notice that you had included the lonelypsu correction. We are looking into this.
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- Dear Understanding Society team,
Thank you for your reply.
I am surprised because I had registered for and had lo... -
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This is possible because of single PSU strata. While this is not the case by design, for a particular analy... -
Dear Understanding Society team,
I have an issue with the combination of clusters and strata in the Wave 2 dat...-
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- If you exclude proxy respondents then you will use the weight for full respondent. For cross-sectional analysis that ...
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- If you are using Wave 9 + all Covid waves, and conducting a longitudinal analysis, you should use the longitudinal we...
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02:22 PM Support #1473: keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
- Many thanks! This is very useful.
Harry -
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The question is the same as in the JUly questionnaire so please take a look at that for now, while we updat... -
- Hello,
We are looking into this and will get back to you asap.
Best wishes,
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02:01 PM Support #1476: Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
- Thanks very much for your helpful reply.
Reviewing the documentation I see that to be consistent with HBAI after ... -
- Hi Henry,
it is not possible to say why the results look different across the two studies; you'd have to compare t... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/06/2021
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- Okay, thank you for the clarification.
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- Thanks, it's working now.
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- Thanks. If I take a subsample of the individual-level data (which happens to have no proxy respondents), would I use ...
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- Dear USOC User Team,
I've written some code which seeks to work out people's equivalised household income decile af... -
- Good morning,
I have checked the guide and previous issues on weighting for Covid-19 study but I am still unclear...
01/05/2021
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- Hi there. I think the variable keyworksector is missing from the "8644_ukhls_covid19_sept20_questionnaire_v2.0" pdf d...
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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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- Hello,
I will use youth data from waves 1 to 8 (not always from all 8 waves, depending on the analysis). I will al...
01/04/2021
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- Hello,
The variables w_aidhuax records whether the person in the household with PNO=x is cared for by the responde... -
02:41 PM Support #1471 (Resolved): Identifying relation to respondent of those being cared for
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I've been looking at the x_aidhh variables in the Understanding Society individual response files. F... -
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The sample is drawn from non-institutional postal addresses and so it is not likely to include any homeless... -
09:42 AM Support #1470 (Resolved): Question about data
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I am currently working on a research proposal for a project regarding the interplay of societal factors and... -
- The website problem is fixed, so you will be able to access the syntax page now. Please see if the following syntax f...
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- Hello Laura,
We have a worked out example on how to do this in our training material (available as Moodle course).... -
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- The problem has been fixed. Please try again and let us know if you continue to have problems. Please remember to emp...
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- Hello,
We are sorry about this and hope to resolve this very soon.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Sup... -
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If a question remains the same across waves it will have the same name, as will the variables based on the ... -
- Hello,
Use the variable w_ivfio which will tell you if this was a proxy interview or a full interview (meaning the...
01/02/2021
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09:57 AM Support #1469 (Resolved): Matching data
- I am attempting to use wave 1 data to match data on individuals and their friends. I have used the 'egoalt' file to c...
12/30/2020
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- Hi, I noticed recently that the links on the Understanding Society have stopped working. I am able to search for a va...
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- Hi, I noticed recently that the links on the Understanding Society have stopped working. I am able to search for a va...
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- Hi, are variables with the same name (but across different waves) measured consistently over time? If this is not alw...
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- Hi, how do I determine which observation questions have been answered by a proxy? My understanding is that if the val...
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