Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382016-04-20T12:50:46ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #547 (Closed): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5472016-04-20T12:50:46ZChrista Hubersc.g.t.m.hubers@uvt.nl
<p>Dear,</p>
<p>I would like to compare 18-39 year old respondents from BHPS waves 13-17 with those from UKHLS waves 1-5. One of the variables I would like to examine is the socio-economic status (SES) of the respondents' parents. However, it is not very clear to me which indicators I can use for this. I see the UKHLS xwavedat file contains the variables masoc00 and pasoc00, but in how far are these comparable to the BHPS xwavedat variables masoc and pasoc? Can you suggest a measurement of SES that is similar in both the BHPS and UKHLS?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, and best wishes,<br />Christa</p> Support #399 (Closed): w_hiqual_dv codinghttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3992015-08-06T16:05:09ZStefanie Janelqxsw5@nottingham.ac.uk
<p>Could you tell me which specific qualifications are coded in to the 'other higher' category of w_hiqual_dv?</p>
<p>An additional question about BHPS, if you happen to know: does wqfedhi include vocational qualifications and wqfachi exclude vocational qualifications? Also, could you direct me towards the specific details of how the bhps qualifications were coded in to the b_hiqual_dv variable.</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #397 (Closed): question about Total personal income annuallyhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3972015-08-02T09:44:26ZGreg Hinesgreg@zooniverse.org
<p>Hi, I'm trying to look at issues related to income. There is a variable c_prfitba which is the "total personal income annually". This seems like an obvious variable but for 97.82%, the answer is "inapplicable". Obviously far more than 2% of people have a personal income. Can anyone clarify what is going on?</p>
<p>Regards,<br />Greg Hines</p> Support #396 (Closed): Health Condition Variables - heart attack and strokehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3962015-07-29T20:15:11ZLea Samek
<p>I am currently interested in whether a respondent had any of the provided health conditions in one or more of the 4 waves provided. Therefore, I am using hconds# to check if someone, who has ever been diagnosed with something (hcond#) still has it in the following wave. I also use hcondns# to check if someone was newly diagnosed and still has the health condition.</p>
<p>1. However, when looking at hconds06 (heart attack) and hconds07 (stroke), there are no useful responses provided (only missing and proxy respondent and only wave 1). I am aware that they are not chronic diseases but how can I check if someone experienced a stroke or a heart attack in wave 1 if I only have hcond6/7 (if someone has ever been diagnosed)?</p>
<p>2. Moreover, I wanted to use hcondns and the definition says that these two conditions are left out (I assume for the same reason as above - they are not chronic). However, it appears that both variables are provided in waves 2, 3 and 4 and instead I could not find hcondns11-17 and hcondns9 and hcondns10 are only provided for wave 4. Is that correct or am I missing something?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.<br />Regards, <br />Lea</p> Support #395 (Closed): Match income variables from BHPS to UndSochttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3952015-07-29T12:42:04ZAndreas Wiedemannawiedem@mit.edu
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm working with the BHPS and UndSoc and would like to create consistent income measures for the same underlying BHPS population extended to UndSoc. I'm interested in annual gross and net household income and, if possible, net disposable income. Can the variables wFIHHYR, wFIHHYL, FIHHYNL, wFIHHYI in the BHPS matched to ones in UndSoc? There is only fihhmngrs_dv (gross monthly HH income) and hhnetinc1 (total net HH income), but upon closer inspection these variables display huge discontinuities across the different panels for the same individuals and households. To rule out changes in household composition I also looked at individual level income, but again there are discontinuities. Any help on how to find consistent income variables without breaches would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Andreas</p> Support #392 (Closed): secondary vs. post-secondary distinctions in vocational qualshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3922015-07-27T08:19:20ZJonathan Burtonjburton@essex.ac.uk
<p>On behalf of Lori D. Bougher <<a class="email" href="mailto:lbougher@Princeton.EDU">lbougher@Princeton.EDU</a>>:</p>
<p>We are looking at the relationship between political interest and education, and we would like to make the distinction between post-secondary (ISCED level 5) and secondary (ISCED level 3) vocational education.</p>
<p>Am I correct in my belief that this is not wholly possible with Understanding Society because, unlike in the BHPS, Understanding Society pools some secondary and post-secondary vocational options. For example, in the qfvoc variable, NVQ/SVQ levels 3 through 5 are pooled, and NVQ level 3 would represent secondary education, but NVQ levels 4 and 5 are post-secondary (at least according to the ISCED). Similarly, there is no distinction between BTEC national and higher degrees.</p> Support #391 (Closed): job tenure variable in Understanding Societyhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3912015-07-20T14:56:23ZJun LiuJun.Liu@warwcik.ac.uk
<p>Dear support team</p>
<pre><code>I'm using both Understanding Society dataset and the BHPS dataset to estimate a wage equation. In the BHPS dataset there is a variable WCJSTEN (Length (days) current labour market sp) which measures the length of time in the current labour market spell, whether, employee, self employed or not employed in number of days. but I'm having trouble to find a similar variable in the Understanding Society dataset. Any inputs on the question will be much appreciated.</code></pre>
<pre><code>Thank you</code></pre>
<pre><code>Jun</code></pre> Support #390 (Closed): how to deal with inapplicable valueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3902015-07-20T14:42:58ZJun LiuJun.Liu@warwcik.ac.uk
<p>Dear support team<br /> a lot of the variables in the Understanding Society dataset has a high percentage of inapplicable values. For example, the highest qualification variable, w_qfhigh, has around 85-90% of inapplicable values. How should I deal with the inapplicable values? Is inapplicable values the same as missing values? why is a variable like the highest qualification has so many inapplicable values? I would assume most of the people in the sample has some kind of education. Any other inputs on the questions will be much appreciated.</p>
<pre><code>Thank you </code></pre>
<pre><code>Jun</code></pre> Support #367 (Closed): Enquiry about class classification, SOC and NS-SEChttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3672015-04-29T08:39:47ZMin Zhangmin.zhang-7@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear all, I am trying to examine the class association between parents and children in Understanding society data. However, as I prefer using the NS-SEC (the five-class version) as class measurement, the answers to the question regarding the father/mother's occupation when the respondents were aged 14 are coded as SOC2010, SOC2000, SOC1990.</p>
<p>The derivation of the NS-SEC from SOC, according to the NS-SEC manuals by Office for National Statistics, needs the information on size of organizations, employers/employees, supervisory status and the numbers of employees (if self-employed), but such information is not available, as far as I understood, for the questions regarding fathers' and mothers' occupational status. <br />Another way to derive the NS-SEC is to use the derivation NS-SEC based on SOC table provided by Office for National Statistics. But the tables use 4-digit codes and the SOC coded in Understanding Society questionnaire uses 3-digit.</p>
<p>I am writing to ask if there is any way that fathers/mothers' occupation can be re-coded using the NS-SEC (five-class version)?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Min</p> Support #104 (Closed): occupation codeshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1042013-01-03T10:34:21ZCarolina Zuccotticarolina.zuccotti@eui.eu
<p>I have a few questions related to the occupational coding. I want to study social mobility for which I need parents and respondent's occupations. I want to translate everything into either ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 codes. In the "www.ons.gov.uk" web page, only the conversion into ISCO-08 (from SOC 2010) is available... My questions are:</p>
<p>- I participated in the UKHLS train and there I got a database in which the ISCO-88 is coded for respondents. Is this based on the SOC 2000? Could I get the translation/syntax you have used for this? This way I could do the same for the parents.<br />- SOC 2010 is available for parents but not for respondents, why is this the case? Will SOC 2010 be available for respondents?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>