Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382024-03-08T16:20:51ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #2073 (Feedback): Data filehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20732024-03-08T16:20:51ZLuisa Edwards
<p>What is the date period for the Wave 13 indresp file, and was this post Covid.<br />I.e would it be possible to compare a monthly COVID data set to the whole of Wave 13, looking at post Covid environment?</p> Support #2072 (Feedback): tracking spouse after the household dissolutionshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20722024-03-06T20:57:10ZSeok Woo Kwonkwonsw@gmail.com
<p>Hi, I am wondering if the study follows ALL household members after household dissolutions and not just the household head.<br />Thanks for your help in advance.</p> Support #2070 (Feedback): Creating Chronology when using COVID-19 and main panel datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20702024-03-06T11:29:09ZIsaac Hance
<p>I want to create a variable in stata that allows me to ensure I am viewing each individuals responses in order, when using the COVID panel and main panel merged together. Because of the overlap in waves - such as some COVID panels being during the data collection period of multiple main survey waves, this is complex. I am planning to merge _intdatem and _intdatey, but cannot seem to do it in a way that lets me sort.</p> Support #2069 (Feedback): Match children information with parental informationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20692024-03-06T08:17:49ZGiovanni Greco
<p>Good morning Users.<br />For my Master thesis, I am using data on children, and I need parental information (their household ID and their household income) to be matched into childrens data. Probably the family matrix is of great help, but I am struggling to figure out how to do it in Stata.<br />Has there been anyone with a similar challenge?<br />Thank you in advance.</p> Support #2067 (Feedback): data accesshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20672024-03-04T17:02:55Zmike polkey
<p>Dear UKHLS</p>
<p>I am writing from the Royal Brompton Hospital (now part of GSTT) and imperial College in London</p>
<p>We would very much like to access the UKHLS database to extend a research theme that began 2 years ago. In the first stage we have developed a model which predicts the likelihood of having obstructive sleep apnoea. In the next stage we wanted to relate it to economic activity but HSE data only gives this at an occupation or industry level but our reading of your published papers is that you have individual level data; the other data we would need would be PSQI, ht, wt, h/o cardiovascular disease, age gender and occupation.</p>
<p>I reviewed the FAQ; the lead student here did his MSc with us at Imperial but has now returned to Japan so would not be able to analyse the data in the UK</p>
<p>Please do reply by phone if easier; 07801553468</p> Support #2065 (Feedback): How to manage longitudinal data analysis after excluding sample based o...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20652024-03-04T15:09:36ZMarina Kousta
<p>I am conducting a (longitudinal) diff-in-diff analysis for a policy evaluation where the date of policy introduction is important. I have a few questions below:</p>
<p>1) As my date of interest falls in the middle of a single wave, I could split up wave X into two parts indicating the before and after. Is this enough so that I can only use a single wave for the analysis, OR would you say it is preferable that I also use more waves to more accurately represent the year for the before and after treatment? ( the reason i am asking is because i read the following on your website: "As some samples are fielded in the first 12 months (BHPS and General Population-Northern Ireland samples), some in months 13-24 (IEMB sample) and some across all 24 months (General Population-Great Britain and EMB samples), just using data from the same wave to compare the two consecutive years will result in comparing different samples. Similarly, just using data from year 1 or year 2 of a wave to conduct cross-sectional analyses of that year will result in analysing samples that are not-representative. So, to correctly do these types of analyses, data from two waves need to be combined. For example, for 2019, use data from year 2 of Wave 10 and year 1 of Wave 11."</p>
<p>2) To split up any given wave into two separate waves etc, which variable would you recommend? I have seen many variables in the dataset indicating the month of interview, year, etc but there are also others relating to the sample, but I am unsure which variable would be the most accurate? Moreover, I am confused as some waves suggest they may extend across three calendar years but when I look at the year of interview variable, it only reflects year 1 and year 2, there is no mention of year 3.</p>
<p>3) Which weights would you recommend using in this case?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide.</p>
<p>Best,<br />Marina</p> Support #2064 (Feedback): calendar year dataset - longitudinal analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20642024-03-04T14:44:42ZMarina Kousta
<p>I am conducting an analysis for which I need to use the provided calendar year datasets. I have the following questions:<br />1) You state on the website that the calendar year datasets are not intended for longitudinal analysis; why is that, and, is there a way to overcome this? (asking as I want to conduct a longitudinal analysis)<br />2) Do you also recommend avoiding longitudinal analysis when we manually construct the calendar year datasets ourselves (by merging the waves)?<br />3) If I go ahead with either 10 or 20, would you recommend avoiding to use the provided longitudinal weights?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for your help.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Marina</p> Support #2063 (Feedback): List of Validated Measures or Scales used in the Study? https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20632024-03-04T14:30:12ZLuke DeCoste
<p>Hi, I'm wondering if there is a list of validated measures that are used in the study? Specifically I'm wondering how to identify questions that should be grouped together to produce a specific construct.</p>
<p>e.g. One variable is the 7-item short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS, see Tennant et al., 2007).</p>
<p>Are there other scales that have been assembled intentionally that we can somehow identify? e.g. I'm using a number of variables related to sleep (hours of actual sleep (hrs) ghq: loss of sleep quality of sleep overall cannot get to sleep within 30 mins wake up in the night). Is there research behind the use of these variables that can be found? I have similar questions regarding variables related to sleep, exercise, etc.</p>
<p>I'm wondering where I find a list of scales used in the study.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p> Support #2062 (Feedback): hcondncode38 variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20622024-02-29T15:24:44ZEmma Kirwan
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm a little confused by the hcondncode38 variable and am hoping you can help me.</p>
<p>I read in the questionnaire Universe that this question, if they have ever been diagnosed with a condition (in this case i am interested in clinical depression), is asked to new entrants. It is coded 0 for 'not mentioned' and 1 for 'yes, mentioned' in the data file. But I'm wondering how can a participant have a response of 1 for Wave 10 and 0 for Wave 11? Or how should I interpret this? Does this mean the participant has reported a diagnosis but because they have not mentioned it in the subsequent wave it is coded as 0 'not mentioned'? In this case shouldn't this be inapplicable?<br />Is there a variable I can use where it will provide information if a participant has ever reported a diagnosis of depression?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance.</p> Support #2061 (Feedback): Video content for part 8 + sections 11,12 & 13 greyed outhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20612024-02-29T13:58:26ZJoe Mattock
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am a new user just going through the content. I was just wondering if there is accompanying video content for the slides in section 8 as this currently does not appear to be visible.</p>
<p>Furthermore, sections 11, 12 and 13 appear to be greyed out, and the content is inaccessible. If I could please have access to these sections that would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Joe</p> Support #2052 (Resolved): Vote Choice: display all partieshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20522024-02-09T15:52:16ZTarek Jaziri-Arjona
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>In the questions regarding voting behaviour. Is it possible to get the all the vote choices of the respondents? Concretely, is it possible to get all the possible parties that people named when answering those questions?</p> Support #2050 (Resolved): Linking BHPS and US Dataset for special license data (6931)https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20502024-02-07T22:00:17ZMax Bradley
<p>I am attempting to merge individual files from harmonised bhps and ukhls into long format. The datasets I am using are the special license datasets 6931. In the syntax provided in the documentation page, it uses the age_dv (i.e., derived variable). However, it seems that these dervide variables are not present in the BHPS indresp stata files. Could someone enlighted me as to whether I am missing something? Or perhaps, how to derive such variables myself?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #2049 (Resolved): Linking BHPS and US Dataset for special license data (6931)https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20492024-02-07T15:44:08ZMax Bradley
<p>I am attempting to merge individual files from harmonised bhps and ukhls into long format. The datasets I am using are the special license datasets 6931. In the syntax provided in the documentation page, it uses the age_dv (i.e., derived variable). However, it seems that these dervide variables are not present in the BHPS indresp stata files. Could someone enlighted me as to whether I am missing something? Or perhaps, how to derive such variables myself?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #2047 (Resolved): Council Taxhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20472024-02-06T15:00:26ZElaine Robinson
<p>Where can I find the amount of council tax paid by a household?<br />The variable look up suggests I need ficountax_dv and it is listed as present the hhresp file in waves 1 to 13 of Understanding Society:<br /><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/variables/ficountax_dv/">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/variables/ficountax_dv/</a><br />Yet, when I browse the data in the hhresp file, it seems that this variable is not present.</p> Support #2046 (Resolved): Unable to locate org variable used in the pasthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20462024-02-05T11:23:20ZMel Cairns
<p>Hello, We have previously used a variable which we noted the name of as 'org' which was about being a member of one of (or at least one of) a list of organisations such as WI, trade union, religious organisation etc. The last data we have for this variable was from 2016. Now when I search for 'org' in the variable list it doesn't come up. It looks like it was one of the questions listed here: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/questionnaire-modules/groupsandorganisations_w12/">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/questionnaire-modules/groupsandorganisations_w12/</a> <br />but either these are from the BHPS which finished well before 2016, or when I search for them in the mainstage variable search they don't come up.</p>
<p>So I'm wondering how I can find the latest data for this variable? Is it in a different section (not the main stage survey)? And if so is that comparable to the data from 2016? Or is there something else I'm missing?</p>
<p>Many thanks for any help you can give.<br />Mel</p>