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From 11/13/2021 to 12/12/2021

12/12/2021

10:04 AM Support #1620 (Resolved): Raven Progressive Matrix
Hello,
In youth questionnaires of Wave 10, there are questions on the Raven Progressive Matrix. However, I could ...
Hai Tran

12/09/2021

10:34 AM Support #1619 (Resolved): Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)
Dear Support Team,
In my current research project, I am focussing on benefit recipients. More specifically, I would ...
Lucas Auer

12/08/2021

05:00 PM Support #1618 (Resolved): Measuring attacks in the home using wave 1 module on harassment. Q'aire suggests this is possible. Data does not.
Hello,
Might you be able to help?
The variable lables are inconsistent with the questionnaire grid for the har...
vanessa gash
02:05 PM Support #1617 (In Progress): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:34 PM Support #1617 (Resolved): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata
Dear support team,
When trying to account for the complex survey design, I have run into the following stata error m...
Lucas Auer
09:11 AM Support #1613: Linking administrative health data
Dear Understanding Society team,
Would you still be able to answer my final questions in this thread? Thank you in...
Lieke Holt

12/07/2021

08:20 AM Support #1615 (Feedback): Enquiry of participants data collection
Hello,
Ethnic group and country of birth questions are asked only once - the first time someone is interviewed. It...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:34 AM Support #1615 (Resolved): Enquiry of participants data collection
Hello, I am interested in exploring the data of ethnicity in the Understanding Society report. I understand the quest... Erica Lee

12/03/2021

07:54 AM Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11
Many thanks! Theocharis Kromydas
07:46 AM Support #1614 (Feedback): jbstat Wave 11
Thanks for letting us know that the issue has been resolved. You may also find this document looking at changes made ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/02/2021

09:43 PM Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11
I have just read the comment that "New response option code added in Wave 11: 12 Furloughed and 13 Temporarily laid o... Theocharis Kromydas
09:36 PM Support #1614 (Resolved): jbstat Wave 11
Hi there
Jbstat variable in Wave 11 has two additional values (12 and 13) that are not label and also they don't e...
Theocharis Kromydas

12/01/2021

03:01 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
Yes, for each wave I only link data of the same wave. After creating 'complete' data sets for each wave,...
Marie Mueller
12:15 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
Yes, youth weights will be suboptimal weights for your analysis (assuming analysis within one wave, and not...
Olena Kaminska

11/30/2021

10:23 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
Can I assume that the youth cross-sectional weight is the sub-optimal (or indeed the optimal) weight for...
Marie Mueller
11:55 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Jun,
Assuming no change in population size of PSUs over time, the selection probability at the PSU stage is the sa...
Olena Kaminska

11/29/2021

01:57 PM Support #1613: Linking administrative health data
That is very useful to know, many thanks. Is this list of examples of available administrative data still accurate?
...
Lieke Holt
12:33 PM Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data
Linked Welsh administrative health data are almost with us (with possibility of access to users by Spring 2022) but l... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:39 PM Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed
(1) About your question regarding inapplicables - anyone who is not asked the question is coded as inapplicable. You ... Understanding Society User Support Team
08:28 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-8:
> Jun,
>
> Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration)....
Jun Wang
08:14 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-3:
> Dear Jun Wang,
>
> Thank you for your question.
> 1. Selection probabilities ...
Jun Wang

11/28/2021

04:00 PM Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed
Thank you for the quick response. When I follow the approach you describe I get some values that I struggle to interp... Chris Percy

11/26/2021

06:13 PM Support #1591 (Resolved): Design and testing of questionnaire questions
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:13 PM Support #1595 (Resolved): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:12 PM Support #1613 (In Progress): Linking administrative health data
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:05 AM Support #1613: Linking administrative health data
Thank you very much for the clarification!
Good to know that more information will be provided soon. Do you maybe ...
Lieke Holt
09:53 AM Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data
Hello,
We collected the consents but the data hasn't been linked yet. As and when data are linked information abou...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:46 AM Support #1613 (Resolved): Linking administrative health data
Dear Understanding Society team,
I am interested in participants' health status around the time of the Understandi...
Lieke Holt
06:12 PM Support #1610 (Feedback): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:04 PM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Jun,
Also, if people move across PSUs you are in the territory of a cross-classified design, which would need to b...
Olena Kaminska
02:03 PM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Jun,
Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration). It depends on your longitudinal plans f...
Olena Kaminska
01:50 PM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Hi, Olena, thanks very much, the second question is solved.
For the first question, suppose there are 100 PSUs in ...
Jun Wang
12:39 PM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Jun,
Let's talk about a theoretical example.
In IP1 let's say we sample 10 people out of each PSU. If each PSU ha...
Olena Kaminska
08:03 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS project. Thanks for your reply, but there is still some questions here:
Accor...
Jun Wang
08:00 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS(China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study) project. Thanks for your reply, ...
Jun Wang
06:11 PM Support #1612 (Feedback): Understanding length of time unemployed
The end of the first employment status since last interview is recorded in j_empstend(y/m/d). Then if the next employ... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:34 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Thanks! Marie Mueller
12:29 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
I can confirm that "if weight2011>0" is not necessary in this example and should result in the same estimat...
Olena Kaminska
08:08 AM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Thank you!
What confused me is this part:
> svyset psu2011 [pw=weight2011], strata(strata2011) sin...
Marie Mueller

11/25/2021

02:45 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
The FAQ is not related to the question you have. It relates to a pooled dataset where if you pool over many...
Olena Kaminska
12:00 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Very helpful - thank you! Now I am confident that I did use the weights correctly.
I guess it is on m...
Marie Mueller
11:43 AM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
Yes, I see what you mean, and I was able to replicate your results. By expectation this should not happen. ...
Olena Kaminska

11/24/2021

03:23 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Yes, I use the same svyset (and therefore all 3 scenarios are weighted). I guess this is evident also in...
Marie Mueller
03:07 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
Are all of your 3 scenarios weighted? And do you use the same svyset for them?
Thanks,
Olena
Olena Kaminska
12:18 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Interesting! Let me give you an example that I just tested:
I have a sample of n = 2,671. Of these, 3...
Marie Mueller
11:27 AM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
I am not sure about your question. If you use weights correctly people with 0 weights won't contribute to y...
Olena Kaminska
09:08 AM Support #1609 (Feedback): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:06 AM Support #1609 (In Progress): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:20 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Dear Jun Wang,
Thank you for your question.
1. Selection probabilities for refreshment sample are independent of ...
Olena Kaminska
09:05 AM Support #1610 (In Progress): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:09 AM Support #1612 (In Progress): Understanding length of time unemployed
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
08:50 AM Support #1611 (Feedback): Geographical data
Hi Chiara,
The geographical locator variables for our survey respondents, levels lower than GOR are available as S...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/23/2021

01:10 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
Essentially, I am interested in the effect of exposure X on outcome Y. Exposure X is linked data (via LS...
Marie Mueller
12:52 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
First of all, you could use youth in a longitudinal analysis, just keeping in mind that a few years before ...
Olena Kaminska
12:26 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
I use youth data from waves 1-8. I pool these data into one data set. I do not run a longitudinal analys...
Marie Mueller
12:04 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
Thank you. Do you mean that you pool all youth data from all waves? And for each wave you want to combine y...
Olena Kaminska
01:05 PM Support #1612 (Resolved): Understanding length of time unemployed
Dear team, I hope you can help. I'm working with US W10 in Stata (file: j_indresp.dta). I'm using "j_jbstat == 3" to ... Chris Percy
11:16 AM Support #1611 (Resolved): Geographical data
Hi, will it be possible to know in which council area Scottish respondents live in? I know in the main survey there i... Chiara Costi
08:54 AM Support #1610 (Resolved): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Hi,

I'm user from Peking University, my research interests include survey sampling and data integration.
R...
Jun Wang

11/22/2021

01:30 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
PS In the FAQ on pooling cross-sectional data you say: "We strongly recommend that a non-zero value of the
weight va...
Marie Mueller
10:35 AM Support #1609 (Resolved): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hello,
In my project, I am analysing youth data. For my analyses, I define my analytic sample. For example, youth ...
Marie Mueller

11/19/2021

04:48 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
I forgot to mention: I use data from waves 1-8, and youth and adult data are matched for each wave (i.e., youth wave ... Marie Mueller
04:46 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Dear Olena,
Thank you for your rapid response. Yes, for the *youth* analysis, I am using data from the youth quest...
Marie Mueller
04:24 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
Thank you. It sounds like the best approach would be for you to create a tailored weight. But you could als...
Olena Kaminska
03:57 PM Support #1608 (In Progress): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:54 PM Support #1608 (Resolved): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Dear Understanding Society support team,
Today I attended a workshop on using weights in Understanding Society. I ...
Marie Mueller

11/17/2021

11:18 AM Support #1607 (Feedback): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS
The questionnaire shows the order in which the questions were asked. These questions were not asked in one block.
...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:32 AM Support #1607 (Resolved): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS
Can we be told whether the extra 5 minutes worth of questions for EMBS and GP sub-samples occured at the end of the C... vanessa gash

11/16/2021

11:16 AM Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order
Yes, there is a variable which ask for the number of siblings - NSIBS (also asked in BHPS Wave 13)
https://www.under...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/15/2021

10:29 PM Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order
Dear Support Team,
Thank you very much for your response and pointing out the fampos variable in BHPS Wave13. I hav...
INGO OUTES

11/14/2021

08:42 AM Support #1606 (Feedback): Adult Subject Birth Order
Hello,
This information is available for adult respondents only for the BHPS sample - they were asked in Wave 13:
...
Understanding Society User Support Team
08:38 AM Support #1605 (Feedback): Life Satisfaction Data
In BHPS, this question was first asked in Wave 6 and then every wave after that, and in UKHLS it has been asked every... Understanding Society User Support Team
 

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