Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382017-10-20T09:47:48ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #868 (Closed): wealthassetsanddebthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8682017-10-20T09:47:48ZAnonymous
<p>Dear staff,</p>
<p>Do you have any information on when the next time data on assets and debt will be collected (the "wealthassetsanddebt" section)?</p>
<p>I would be grateful if you could provide any information on the timing of future collection of these variables.</p> Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general populationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8362017-08-15T15:31:19ZRay Storryraystorry@incomesdataresearch.co.uk
<p>I have run a query on persons employed who expect to move in the next year Yes/No. I have weighted the data in Wave 6 with f_indpxui_xw. The total population I am getting along with don't knows etc. is 23557.862. But this looks to me like the total number of employed respondents in the sample. There are around 31.4 millions employed persons in the UK.</p>
<p>So how do get from the weighted figures shown above to come anywhere near the real world figures?</p> Support #494 (Closed): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4942016-02-01T09:41:19ZPeter Lynnplynn@essex.ac.uk
<p>We are aware that some users wish to pool data from multiple waves for the purpose of cross-sectional estimation (for example, to increase the sample size for a small population subgroup, or to obtain an estimate relating to a calendar year).</p>
<p>We have prepared the attached note, explaining when and how this can be done. We hope this helps.</p> Support #481 (Closed): Should household identifier match (for most respondents) across waves?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4812016-01-08T17:11:24ZPhil Jonesphil.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
<p>Do household identifiers (b_hidp, and c_hidp) match across waves (for respondents who do not move home)?</p>
<p>I've created one consolidated data frame with all individuals who completed wave b and wave c. Thus all remaining individuals in my data frame have a b_hidp and a c_hidp. However, in <strong>all</strong> cases, these IDs do not match.</p>
<p>I've tested and re-run my code, and am satisfied that individual waves have merged correctly on pidp so each individual respondent has not been joined to another erroneously. This leaves me unsure if I've made a mistake, or if the household identifiers are not supposed to match up.</p>
<p>Clearly, people who move home will not have the same identifier, but <strong>no</strong> cases match. Below is a snippet of the error from the test comparing b_hidp and c_hidp:</p>
<pre>
Error: Test failed: 'Household IDs for recurrent respondents match'
* Not expected: us$b_hidp not equal to us$c_hidp
44178/44178 mismatches (average diff: 5903312).
First 10:
pos x y diff
1 68013602 68013604 -2
2 68020402 68020404 -2
3 68027202 68040804 -13602
4 68034002 68047604 -13602
5 68047602 68068004 -20402
6 68054402 68074804 -20402
7 68068002 68088404 -20402
8 68115602 68149604 -34002
9 68136002 68170004 -34002
10 68156402 68190404 -34002.
</pre>
<p>And a section of the dataframe I've constructed with the relevant variables:</p>
<pre>
id b_hidp c_hidp
(int) (int) (int)
1 68004087 68013602 68013604
2 68006127 68020402 68020404
3 68006807 68027202 68040804
4 68007487 68034002 68047604
5 68008847 68047602 68068004
6 68009527 68054402 68074804
</pre>
<p>Is this what you would expect given how the household identifier is constructed?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p> Support #472 (Closed): Inapplicable Answers https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4722015-12-27T18:14:22ZAlex Best
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I looked at the variable c_pjbptft (whether they work full time or part time) in c_indresp (adult self completion questionnaire) and the answers can be seen on the following link:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_pjbptft">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_pjbptft</a></p>
<p>and it says that 49681 people are inapplicable, 18 work part-time and 38 work full-time. Surely this cannot be right?! Why are so many inapplicable??</p>
<p>Also, does c_indresp contain proxy interviews too or not?</p>
<p>Note: I have read the user manual and still don’t understand.</p>
<p>Your help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p> Support #471 (Closed): Weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4712015-12-27T17:57:51ZAlex Best
<p>I am doing cross-sectional analysis of wave 3 (adult self completion questionnaire), so I am aware I need to use the weight c_indscub_xw but I don't actually understand how the weight is implemented on STATA. Do I just add c_indscub_xw as if it were an independent variable or is there a command I need to type into stata before doing my analysis in order for the weights to have an effect?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #467 (Closed): Ns-sec/UKborn and religionhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4672015-12-15T12:55:04Zangela potter-collinsangela.potter-collins@ons.gsi.gov.uk
<p>Please could you just clarify(apologies unfamilar with running these in Understanding society and a colleague has queried):</p>
<p>• Whether current job NS-SEC is given by c_j1soc10_cc (NS-SEC 10) or c_j1soc00_cc (NS-SEC 2000)?</p>
<p>• Any issues to be aware of using the UKborn variable?</p>
<p>• Why are there a lot of missings when running Oprlg1. Religion: E/S/W?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #466 (Closed): Deprivation scoreshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4662015-12-14T20:39:19ZJohanna Jokioh.jokio.1@research.gla.ac.uk
<p>My enquiry is about IMD/Carstairs scores. As I understand they are not included in the data but should be linked to geographical identifiers (such as OA) accessible with the special license? <br />There has been a question about this (Support <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: questions regarding wave 2 (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/99">#99</a>) but the link on it has expired.</p>
<p>Thank you</p> Support #464 (Closed): Local Authority Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4642015-12-14T13:20:50Zmegan macphersonmegan.macpherson@nhs.net
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am looking to use the Understanding Society data for a project I am involved in. I wondered if the data can be broken down by local authority level?</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Megan</p> Support #455 (Closed): Residential mobility indicatorshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4552015-11-27T12:48:30ZRory Coulterrcc46@cam.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I have the latest version (W5 release) of SN6614 and SN7248 and have a question about residential mobility indicators. In a way this builds on query 257 I raised last year.</p>
<p>I've attached 2011 census LSOA codes to UKHLS and have derived an indicator measuring whether the respondent changed LSOA since the previous wave. For each wave this yields roughly a 5-6% residential mobility rate. Although the relationships between other variables and this mobility indicator make sense, this rate seems very low so I'm trying to see whether there are a lot of very short moves within LSOAs I'm missing. These moves may also be important in other ways too.</p>
<p>In past releases of UKHLS, at least up until W3, there were at least two ways to identify moves in SN6614: (a) use the plnow variables based on interview responses or (b) use the xwhist variable on xwavedat to examine whether respondents have changed postcode sector since last wave.</p>
<p>Both of these have problems so I like to compare both methods but in the latest UKHLS I can't find the xwhist indicator. Is this no longer being provided or have I just overlooked it? If xwhist is no longer available is there an alternative way to measure changes in address that comes from the administrative records of addresses rather than the interview itself? BHPS had a useful movest variable to do this and triangulation with the plnew variable helped reconcile inconsistencies.</p>
<p>Any advice would be much appreciated. Obviously it would be possible to use the secure access datasets but I'd rather avoid that if possible.</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Rory</p> Support #452 (Closed): identifying same-sex (female-female)partnerhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4522015-11-22T23:27:40ZNora Alafifnouraafeef@hotmail.com
<p>Dear Understanding society team<br />I'm interested in studying sleep in pregnancy, I'm keen to identify the predictors related to good or bad sleep among pregnant women in wave1 and wave4 using the main questionnaires .<br />I would appreciate your support to find the pregnant women who have the same-sex partner(female-female) to be able to know this category ( frequency)in order to know the association between having the same-sex partner and pattern of sleep.<br />Could you pinpoint any variable highlighted (same-sex partner in wave1 and wave4)?</p>
<p>Best regards<br />Nora</p> Support #451 (Closed): Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample Wave 6https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4512015-11-19T12:30:29ZDharmi Kapadiadharmi.kapadia@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Is there any written documentation on the sample design for the additional immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample to be added in Wave 6?</p>
<p>Thanks, <br />Dharmi</p> Support #450 (Closed): subpopulation analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4502015-11-17T14:52:40ZStefanie Janelqxsw5@nottingham.ac.uk
<p>Hi, I need some advice on analyzing a subpopulation of the sample. Specifically I am only analyzing individuals that were aged 16-24 in the first wave and who have a 'full interview' at each subsequent wave.</p>
<p>Previously I had been just been applying a filter to the data and still using the sample weights, but it has occurred to me that this might not be statistically sound thing to do. What do I need to do in order to analyze this subpopulation correctly using spss? Also, would I need to adjust the sample weights manually at some point?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Stef</p> Support #449 (Closed): Sexuality Variable https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4492015-11-16T15:00:43ZAlex Best
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have downloaded understanding society's dataset and have realised the variable c_sexuor which should be in dataset "c_indresp" is not actually there. This document suggests it should be: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor</a></p>
<p>Please could you either send me an updated version of the dataset or let me know why the sexual orientation variable is not in the dataset.</p> Support #447 (Closed): Wave 5https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4472015-11-09T11:23:32ZDharmi Kapadiadharmi.kapadia@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Please can you let me know the date of the Wave 5 data release?</p>
<p>Many thanks, <br />Dharmi</p>