Activity
From 01/18/2021 to 02/16/2021
02/16/2021
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08:40 AM Support #1470: Question about data
- Hello,
Thank you so much for answering this last month so quickly and helpfully.
I had a follow up question:
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02/15/2021
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06:23 PM Support #1509 (Resolved): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Hello,
In my Metrics project, I am trying to explore the causal impact of income on subjective well-being by expl...
02/12/2021
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01:06 PM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- In Wave 1, a_nnatch is missing for 3262 cases who are the Proxy respondents. Then those with a_nnatch=0 (no children ...
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11:46 AM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
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Thank you for your reply. I have checked these variables before, but noticed that there are a substantial ...
02/11/2021
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- Unfortunately we cannot give you a date when this linked data will be available as talks are ongoing, but it will not...
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02:32 PM Support #1505: UKHLS data question
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At the moment I can work with the variable you just told me about, but my project depends on the exact numb... -
- Hello,
The variable w_jbsize shows the number of employees at the workplace of current job (as reported by the res... -
- ok. I have added more explanation in the attached syntax file, and also slightly changed the syntax so that only thos...
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11:38 AM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, you have provided me with this syntax but there is not too much descri... -
- Hi Mario,
We have provided you with the syntax for merging parents with children. Please modify that to create the... -
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- Hello,
The variable w_mastat_dv is "de-facto" marital status and not the legal marital status. To know about the l... -
- Hello,
The variable a_lprnt asks those who have no children in the household (a_nnatch=0) if they have ever had/fa... -
- Hello Mario,
To merge INDRESP and HHRESP use HIDP
To merge INDRESP and YOUTH - there is no point doing this as ...
02/09/2021
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- Dear Sir or Madam,
I have appended all the 18 waves of each file (e.g. indresp, hhresp, indall, jobhist, younth), ...
02/08/2021
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04:59 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Cameron,
Yes, from what you have said it sounds like you would need cross-sectional weights. As long as you don't ... -
03:22 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, my mistake on the cross-sectional weight in the second question. M... -
- Cameron,
It sounds like you are using pooled analysis. I suggest you search for other similar questions on this fo... -
- 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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- Dear Team,
I am having a little trouble understanding how to implement the weights in my analysis. I have read the... -
- Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you so much for your kind of response - I have been working with the codes and your advic... -
- 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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- I have some questions about the UKHLS, and I would be very grateful if you could help me:
Is there any possibility... -
- 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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- Hi,
I am working on all waves of BHPS and Understanding Society. I would like to know if you have information on t... -
- Thank you for your answer! (Sorry for my late reply!)
02/05/2021
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- Natalie,
To understand why we have TSMs with 0 from wave 1 you would need to understand how weight-sharing works (... -
09:14 AM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your response. Why is it that they were entered as TSMs in wave 1? Apologies if I am not under... -
12:05 PM Support #1501: xtreg and fixed effects
- Okay, thank you so much!
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- Leilah,
Thank you for your question. My suggestion is the following:
1) ignore stratification - this can't be tak...
02/04/2021
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04:31 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Yes, Olena. That indeed helped.
Thanks very much.
Best,
Lydia -
- 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... -
- Hi,
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... -
- 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... -
- 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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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...
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