Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382023-08-10T13:17:02ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #1954 (Resolved): Absent from household https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19542023-08-10T13:17:02ZKatherine Bruce
<p>I am working on a project looking at parental imprisonment. I was interested in the variable in each wave that indicates whether a household member was absent for the reason that they are in prison.</p>
<p>I have found this in "absreason" for the first wave within indall, and then in abspris after wave 7. However, i have not been able to find these for waves 2-6 (abspris or absreason within indall for each wave). Page 24 of this paper (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/working-papers/2019-15.pdf">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/working-papers/2019-15.pdf</a>) indicates that the question was asked every year but doesnt say in which variable. Could you help me locate this?</p> Support #1937 (Resolved): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19372023-07-10T14:08:37ZVikram Patil
<p>Hello, <br />My question is about the variable "dweltyp" in the hhsamp files. <br />- Why are so many households reported as "-8" or "inapplicable" from Wave 7 onwards in the Understanding Society (USoc) data? <br />- How is "dweltyp" different from the "hstype" variable that was included in the BHPS?<br />- Why are there no inapplicable responses prior to Wave 7? <br />Thanks!</p> Support #1869 (Resolved): 2021 calendar datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18692023-02-28T10:00:18ZMatthias Pierce
<p>Hi, do you have any further updates on when the 2021 calendar data will be available? Sorry to be persistnent, but we would like this data to complete our analysis!</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #1836 (Resolved): 2021 calendar datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18362023-01-09T11:39:56ZMatthias Pierce
<p>Hi, do you have an update on when the 2021 calendar data will be released? <br />Thanks</p> Support #1814 (Resolved): "inapplicable" in sempderived variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18142022-11-22T13:21:55ZClaire Wu
<p>Dear support team,</p>
<p>I have a question about the "semderived" variable in the Covid-19 study. I intend to create a binary variable that includes people who are in paid employment and people who are not employed. However, I am very confused as to what the "not applicable" category represents in this variable. Are these people not employed?</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help!</p>
<p>Claire</p> Support #1803 (Resolved): Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage fileshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18032022-11-11T10:58:56ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm currently applying for Special Licence access to Understanding Society. I'm interested in using some of the geographical data linkage files, listed here: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/linked-data/geographical-identifiers#:~:text=Understanding%20Society%20can%20be%20linked,as%20indicated%20by%20the%20filenames">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/linked-data/geographical-identifiers#:~:text=Understanding%20Society%20can%20be%20linked,as%20indicated%20by%20the%20filenames</a>, specifically 2011 LSOAs and the 2011 Rural / Urban identifiers.</p>
<p>Would you be able to say whether you would accept an application to link both of these files at the same time? To me, the risk of disclosure is quite low, since there are only 8 very general levels to the urban / rural identifiers, which do not identify specific settlements, only rough classifications. These are themselves only a disaggregation of the 2-level rural / urban identifier already available in the base dataset.</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Albert</p> Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dvhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17232022-07-07T08:49:00ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I can't find any information on what exactly 'other qualifications' consists of in your hiqual_dv variable (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv</a>)</p>
<p>Would you be able to provide a quick explanation or point me in the right direction?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #1600 (Resolved): 'Other' response in hsownd variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16002021-10-26T11:22:42ZJames Morrison
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am working on a project looking at economic security across different housing tenures. Is there any more information on what kinds of living arrangements are covered in the 'other' response to the hsownd variable. I have consulted the questionnaire but the help section only includes information about shared ownership.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I have been having trouble accessing the support forum via the website and have had to do so via links in emails notifying me of responses to previous queries. I suspect this may be because the link directs users to 'iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support', whereas the forum now seems to be hosted at 'iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support'.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />James</p> Support #1584 (Resolved): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15842021-09-17T17:25:08ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>Dear support team,<br />I am trying to create a variable measuring length of labour market interruption following childbirth in months.</p>
<p>One important component of this is knowing when maternity leaves end - variable w_matlvendm .<br />However, I find that a large chunk of my sample have w_matlvendm & w_matlvendy listed as inapplicable despite the fact that they have non-missing values on variables w_matlvstm and w_matlvsty (maternity leave start month and year).</p>
<p>On closer inspection I see that these are people who have a value of 3 on variable w_matlv (SPONTANEOUS Currently on maternity/paternity leave) - i.e. they are still on maternity leave at the time of the interview.<br />For some of these people w_jbstat maternity leave and so I am able to trace the end of their leave at the next wave using notempchk, empstendm etc.</p>
<p>However for a good proportion of them w_jbstat paid employment (ft/pt) and so, as far as I can tell there is no way of tracing the date of the end of their leave at the next interview.</p>
<p>Can I ask whether there is something I am missing in terms of finding out the end date of their leave/ when they returned to their jobs? Can you suggest any alternative methods?</p>
<p>I’m also curious as to why in some cases jbstat = paid employment when matlv currently on mat leave, whereas in others jbstat maternity leave.</p>
<p>many thanks in advance,<br />Laura</p> Support #1548 (Resolved): 4-digit-ISCO-08?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15482021-06-03T13:10:14ZTobias Wolfram
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>First of all, I would like to thank you very much for your outstanding service. Understanding Society is an exceptionally well curated dataset that is a real pleasure to work with. Nevertheless, I am currently facing a bit of a problem. I am interested in (weighted) distributions of various psychological outcomes (cognitive skills, big 5, etc.), granularly broken down by occupational group, as an illustrative supplement to a methodological project I am currently working on. Unfortunately, the freely available version of the dataset only contains condensed occupational classification schemes, such as the three digit version of ISCO-08. Would there be a way to get access to the four digit ISCO codes? If so, how difficult would it be? As I said, ultimately I am not concerned with individual data, but exclusively with weighted parameters on occupational group level.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help<br />Tobias Wolfram</p> Support #1533 (Resolved): Adjusting weights when constructing a calendar year from two waveshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15332021-04-08T10:03:38ZCharlotte Bermingham
<p>I'm combining the second half of one wave with the first half of the next wave based on sample month to create a calendar year of data.<br />Looking at question 12 in the weighting FAQ document, the weights of the second wave date need to be adjusted as they will be under represented.</p>
<p>The FAQ says 'if we pool sample<br />months 1 to 12 from wave 3 with sample months 13 to 24 from wave 2, the former will<br />be under-represented (as the responding sample size is smaller at wave 3 than at wave<br />2). To overcome this, we should scale the weights for these cases to give the same<br />weighted total that this sample had at wave 2.'</p>
<p>Does this mean that the weights of the second wave used should be adjusted so that the total weights of sample months 1-12 in the second wave used = the total weights of sample months 1-12 in the 1st wave used? Or should the total weights of the whole waves rather than just months 1-12 be used for rescaling? I think the stata code is doing the former but would just like to clarify that I have interpreted this correctly as I'm not sure why the weights are reweighted to the first half of the 1st wave, which is not used in the calendar year dataset.</p> Support #1401 (Resolved): AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14012020-08-31T21:17:32ZDana Garbarskidgarbarski@luc.edu
<p>Hello,<br />I am trying to figure out the response rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8 per the AAPOR response rate standards for calculation: <a class="external" href="https://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/For-Researchers/Poll-Survey-FAQ/Response-Rates-An-Overview.aspx">https://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/For-Researchers/Poll-Survey-FAQ/Response-Rates-An-Overview.aspx</a>. I see in the user guide that there is information about households that did not result in an interview (tables 13.13 and 13.4)<br /><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/documentation/innovation-panel/user-guides/ip_user_guide.pdf">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/documentation/innovation-panel/user-guides/ip_user_guide.pdf</a>). However, I do not see any information on the addresses that were UH (unknown household) or UO (unknown other) to go into the denominator. Do you have any information on this in order to calculate AAPOR Response Rates 1 or 2 for Innovation Panel Wave 8? Similarly, an estimate of e (proportion of cases with unknown eligibility that are ineligible) to calculate Rates 3 or 4? Has anyone done this before? Apologies if I'm missing something. This is for a reviewer in a journal article.<br />All the best,<br />Dana</p> Support #1303 (Resolved): Accessing linked datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13032020-01-22T11:50:13ZPetra Graham
<p>Dear User Support team,</p>
<p>We are academics from outside the UK who are interested in obtaining access to the linked health and economic information together with the Understanding society survey data. If access is possible do we apply for access the same was as for the unlinked data?</p>
<p>We also wondered if there is a data dictionary for the linked data so that we can see, ahead of applying, whether the information that we are interested in is available.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Petra.</p> Support #877 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8772017-11-10T14:55:16ZNico Ochmannnico.ochmann@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Peter, <br />I have a few more questions with regard to my original support <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/758">#758</a>. <br />1. When I generate my new weighting variable, newwgt, 600 observations in my estimation sample are assigned a zero meaning they are dropped. Why do you guys assign zero weights in w_indinus, w_indinub, etc. ? <br />2. The sample mean of my newwgt is 1.1 with a s.d. of 0.58. Does this look reasonable to you as in theory the mean should be 1. <br />3. Does USoc normalize weights so that N observations in weighted data equal N observations in unweighted data? It seems to me that you guys do that. <br />4. Given the normalization, how would I find the number of weighted and unweighted observations with Stata for my estimation sample?</p> Support #154 (Closed): '0' weight in BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1542013-05-31T14:26:15ZDavid Baylissdavid.bayliss-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Good afternoon,</p>
<p>I have a question regarding the weight variable xrwtuk1 in the BHPS. For my analysis I have selected cases who have a valid response to my two main vairables (economic status and GHQ-12), and then had a look at the weights. Within the cross-sectional weight variable for the UK (xrwtuk1) I have around 2.5% of cases which are '0' weighted. All of the cases I have selected are full interviews, and the '0' weighted cases have a range of sample origins (67% are OSMs). I have read the weighting section of the user manual but I cannot find a reason that matches the data. Please could you advise me on what may be the cause of the '0' weight?</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />David Bayliss</p>