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From 01/06/2021 to 02/04/2021
02/04/2021
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07:13 PM Support #1494 (Resolved): Weights
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04:31 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Yes, Olena. That indeed helped.
Thanks very much.
Best,
Lydia -
01:46 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Lydia,
Yes, all the steps described above are correct.
The scaling fractions on the whole population or just you... -
- Dear Leilah,
Your question is about Stata and more generally about statistics/econometrics. That is beyond the rem... -
- Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... -
06:16 PM Support #1501 (Resolved): xtreg and fixed effects
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I have been trying to estimate a panel regression using xtreg, fe in Stata. My observations are at the level o... -
- Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... -
- Hi,
Could you please confirm whether "living as a couple" in mastat_dv means living with a partner as someone who ... -
03:54 PM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Hi Gundi,
Indeed I had only looked in the mainstage questionnaire for wave 6.
Thanks for your advice, it has be... -
01:57 PM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- We are glad to hear you find the flowchart useful.
Regarding f_qfhighoth, the IEMBS had a separate questionnaire a... -
- Dear Gundi,
Thanks for this answer - it seems that w_qfhighoth was only asked (in wave 9, it does not appear in th...
02/03/2021
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- Sorry, Olena.
Let me just add a question to the previous post re: 1).
1) Calculate the weighted sample size f... -
- Thank you for your answer. I would like to check if I follow the correct procedure.
Following the instructions you ... -
- Lydia,
Then it's yes to both questions: use cross-sectional weights, and rescale them to take into account larger ... -
- Yes,
Step 1: create the step/adopted/natural parent pidp using the egoalt files. This was covered in the workshop... -
01:09 PM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Hi Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your the kind of response - the Do.file has really helpful information.
Howeve... -
- Hello Mario,
If you want to link children with their parents information you can do it for the waves they were liv... -
- Natalie,
Some of these participants are TSMs-from-wave1. These are non-eligible for boost people who live with eth... -
- As fimnnet_tc doesn't exist, how would I know if fimnnet_dv observations are top-coded? fimnnet_dv is comprised of 6 ...
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- Hello Leah,
Currently the only way to identify the cases where income has been topcoded is using the _tc variable...
02/02/2021
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- Hi Rachel,
1) I am assuming you want to merge a household level file (such as w_hhresp) with an individual level f... -
- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... -
03:42 PM Support #1481 (In Progress): Missing values vs negative income
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- Dear Olena,
thank you for the answer. Yes - I am pooling observations. Individuals might be observed more than on... -
- Lydia,
Thank you. Are you pooling all the information together and using it in one model?
Are you studying a cros... -
02:18 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your help. I have already removed all participants who are not part of the extra five minutes ... -
- Natalie,
Extra 5 minutes are questions meant for ethnic minorities - so all ethnic minorities are asked them, but ... -
- Hi,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I would like to add a better way to create children id:
foreach w in $W ... -
- Dear Mario,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... -
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I have managed to create a mother, father, and children identifier using the EGOALT file in BHP... -
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02/01/2021
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- Thank you.
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- Hi Leilah,
as you are looking for the population mean, you can use summarize which allows aweight, but not pweight. ... -
05:28 PM Support #1496 (Resolved): data merge
- Sorry if this has been asked before!
How can i merge variables from one dataset to another from the same year. on... -
02:23 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you so much for your detailed reply and suggestion for even more accurate analysis. I will probabl... -
- Marie,
One more point. If you want to skip postal sectors and go with the lower LSOAs it is theoretically possible... -
- Marie,
You do need to go with the highest level of clustering in the model (other levels are optional). But indeed... -
- Hi Olena,
Yes, thank you very much!
As for the clustering, I was wondering: when I am interested in neighbourho... -
- Hi Natalie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... -
- Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t...
01/30/2021
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- In addition, how would I know which population weight to choose for the mean income calculation? When calculating mea...
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- Hi Gundi, why do you use an aweight? I am trying to construct the mean income of a reference group weighted by popula...
01/29/2021
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- Hi Clara,
the variable isced11_dv is a recode of the variable w_qfhighoth. To understand the inapplicable -8, please... -
- Dear Rachel,
Negative values result from self-employed respondents reporting losses. This question comes up quite ... -
- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... -
- I am using the ‘total household net income - no deductions’ variable but it has several negative values ranging from ...
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- Dear Babar,
"my concern is that a person could be interviewed on 5th April 2013 (end of 2012/13 FYR) and then 20th... -
- Hi, I am using wave 3 extra five minutes sample participants in my analysis only. I am using the specific cross secti...
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- Dear USoC team,
I am doing an analysis on young adults which comprises wave 12,13,17 of BHPS and 2,3,5,7,9 of UKH...
01/28/2021
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04:19 PM Support #1492 (In Progress): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
- 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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03:32 PM Support #1492 (Resolved): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
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I'm running a model on SAS which uses financial year, i.e. from 6 April to 5 April, so I want to see how USoc ... -
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- Thank you. Could you please ask the Income Team how I can identify which individual observations have been top-coded?
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- Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear support team,
I am looking to construct an ISCED variable from UKHLS data (waves 2-9) for comparison with GSO... -
- Marie,
Sample design is described here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/worki...
01/27/2021
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- Dear Olena,
I am now at the stage of trying to get a deeper understanding of what PSUs, strata, and weights actual...
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,
Laura -
- 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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- Thanks.
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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... -
- Yes, if the weight is at an individual level.
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- 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 ... -
- Hello,
I repeated your code and then estimated your model without weights (option 1), with weights and survey desi... -
- Thanks
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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 ... -
- 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
I t... -
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- Hello,
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... -
- Hello,
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 ... -
- Hi,
Thanks so much for your detailed and prompt reply.
Just a note around (b). We are not doing a separate an... -
- Hello,
(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... -
- Hello,
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 -
- Hello,
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,
Understanding Society User Support... -
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...
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