Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382021-11-02T15:47:39ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #1604 (Resolved): religiosity variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16042021-11-02T15:47:39ZA J
<p>Hi, <br />Can you clarify the key difference between the variable oprlg and the ff_oprlg variable in Wave 2 of the UKHLS? Are they pertaining to responses from different sub-sample participants?</p>
<p>I’m particularly following the BHPS participants through to 2015, and wish to know which religion variables pertain to them and which do not, but as far as I can tell, this is not easy to tell from the documentation. The frequencies of responses are very different for oprlg and ff_oprlg, which makes me think they are responses from different sub-samples, but which ones?</p>
<p>Thanks, <br />A</p> Support #1593 (Resolved): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15932021-10-13T14:25:49ZA J
<p>Hi,<br />I need to merge CNEF datasets and so cannot use the harmonised BHPS UKHLS dataset. I will, however, use the harmonised dataset to attribute the correct pidp values to the BHPS members.</p>
<p>Can you tell me whether, for every BHPS individual who has a pidp in the harmonised dataset (who will be found using their pid number), are the pidp values distinct from the pidp values for individuals in the UKHLS dataset 2009- onwards?</p> Support #1588 (Resolved): Combining the BHPS and UKHLS CNEF datasetshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15882021-10-07T10:00:09ZA J
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm a new user of the CNEF harmonised datasets, which include the BHPS dataset and the UKHLS from 2009 to 2015. I have read the userguide on the harmonised BHPS UKHLS data, but note that a specific treatment of the CNEF is not found, hence my query.</p>
<p>Since I need to do analyses on the UK sample from 2001-2015, it would be ideal if I could merge the two CNEF datasets to make one dataset. Since the data are already harmonised, I am guessing that this will be straightforward. However, I am not sure if my thinking is correct here or whether there are other issues with the data about which I am not aware. In the absence of a specific help file for merging the CNEF versions of the datasets, can you give some advice about this? Can the two sets be merged?</p> Support #1519 (Resolved): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (pp...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15192021-03-08T09:04:27ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I am wondering if respondents in the indresp file have a marital status (marstat_dv) of being married/civil partner or living as couple and their partners have no ppid/sppid, and livesp_dv=0, can we assume that their partners are non-respondents? I have been checking the indall file for reference but I am still not sure whether this is possible.</p>
<p>Bottom line: How can we know whether their self-reported marital status is correct?</p>
<p>Kind Regards,<br />Abigail</p> Support #1451 (Resolved): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14512020-11-23T10:23:53ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Is there a way to use ppid and sppid variables to designate a household's social class? For example, a man who has a middle class job and his partner/spouse has an upper class job... the woman's upper class position would represent an upper class household since they live together. Note that I am referring to current job or most recent job (if current job is missing). Are there other harmonised social class variables based on occupation? Thanks in advance.</p> Support #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13942020-08-11T11:46:00ZAbigail DumalusSupport #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to re...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13802020-07-16T15:34:09ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I tried following item 11 for doing January 2014 as an example. When I filtered interviews from wave 5, sample month 1 (if wave==22 & month==1) using the data editor on Stata, istrtdaty indicated 2013, istrtdatm ranged from 1 to 6. I am confused why interviews that started in 2013 have to be added under “January 2014” monthly average. Am I doing the filtering in a completely wrong way? It would be helpful if an illustration of January 2014 can be provided, along with the appropriate weighting variable for this month. In order for me to generate 3-month rolling averages/variances, I would need to “create” a period variable that would uniquely identify each pidp within a wave period but in terms of calendar months or years. The command I am trying to do is rangestat on Stata:</p>
<p>rangestat (mean) monthmean_lfsat_3ma = monthmean_lfsat, by(panel_id) interval(panel_month -2 0) —> 3-month moving average of life satisfaction</p> Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods across waves?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13782020-07-15T12:28:44ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello Alita,</p>
<p>I noticed from browsing the dataset that wave periods from wave 2 until wave 9 have been overlapping. My basis for this observation are the following variables: istrtdaty, istrtdatm, istrtdatd, and wave. To illustrate, let me focus on waves 22 and 23:</p>
<p>- wave 22 (UKHLS wave 5) starts 9 January 2013 [11 interviews] until 29 April 2014 [1 interview]<br />- wave 23 (UKHLS wave 6) starts 8 January 2014 [26 interviews] until 11 May 2015 [1interview]</p>
<p>From my perception, interviews done from 8 January 2014 until 29 April 2014 in wave 23 can also be assumed to have happened in the latter portion of wave 22. I am really puzzled because I have set xtreg command with wave as a time variable, but then interview periods appear to overlap into the next wave. I have been searching for fieldwork information per wave to find out about official interview timelines. Can you please clarify where I can confirm actual interview periods per wave, so that I can still use wave as a panel time variable? Would this be an issue as well with how the weighting variables have been constructed?</p> Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13752020-07-07T19:01:45ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Dear Olena,</p>
<p>As I mentioned in a separate issue weeks ago, I am analysing life satisfaction and GHQ (using indresp files) from 18 waves of the BHPS plus 8 waves of the UKHLS for a total of 16 waves. I have been referring to indin91_lw as the longitudinal weight. My problem/issue is that I have told Stata that the data has a panel structure via xtreg pidp wave. I wish to run: xtreg y x1 x2 [pw=indin91_lw], fe but I keep getting the error, "weight must be constant within pidp". What is the easiest workaround that I can implement for this analysis?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p> Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Statahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13702020-06-25T14:45:27ZAbigail Dumalus
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I found that linking all 26 waves went without a hitch. Since I intend to do longitudinal analysis of life satisfaction from wave 1 to wave 26, I am trying to tell Stata this has a panel structure (xtset pidp wave). Unfortunately, I am getting error r(451) for "repeated time values within panel". I tried doing xtset separately for all 18 BHPS indresp waves, and it worked. I also applied xtset for all 8 UKHLS indresp waves, but I am getting error r(451). What am I missing here?</p> Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/13502020-05-19T18:12:28ZAbigail Batemanabi.batemanx@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I need some help with my analysis for my undergrad dissertation</p>
<p>I am using the Harmonised BHPS data and my dissertation question revolves around looking at the GCSE grades (English and Maths most likely) of people, based on their socioeconomic class. I will then be looking at if material and cultural factors such as having a computer at home, going to places like the museum, extracurricular activities and having books at home etc. have an affect on the GCSE grades of those from lower socioeconomic classes.</p>
<p>The problems I am having at the moment are:</p>
<p>- I've tried to analyse data from waves 7,8,9 using the variable gcseeng in the indresp datafile. However the response rate is extremely low:<br />e.g. for wave 9: 34,900 cases are 'inapplicable', 1096 are 'proxy', only 8 responses for 'A*' etc.<br />- So even with waves 7,8,9 combined the numbers are too low to use this as my dependent variable</p>
<p>- There aren't variables with respondent's GCSE grades (or equivalent) in older waves. There are variables in a few older BH waves that include respondent's number of GCSE qualifications A-C etc.<br />The problem is that I need to choose either/or - I cannot see a variable for number of GCSE grades in recent waves, and I cannot see specific English and Maths grades attained in older waves - so this means I am unable a the moment to merge the data from different waves together</p>
<p>- This will then prove to be a problem when trying to look at GCSE grade attained in relation to factors such as frequency of visiting a museum</p>
<p>Any help would be very very appreciated</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #1242 (Resolved): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of birth of first child.https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12422019-09-10T14:24:41ZAnonymous
<p>To whom it may correspond,</p>
<p>My name is Barbara Boggiano and I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Leicester. I am contacting you because I was granted a One Year Research Grant by the DAAD to work on a project using BHPS data at ZEW Mannheim (as a visiting researcher) starting in October 2019.</p>
<p>Our project tries to examine whether seasonality in working hours within the calendar year affects seasonality in fertility, potentially causing delays in fertility. Given the nature of the project, I am looking for data on the month of birth of the first child. This information is the only piece of information we require that it is not available in the publicly available sample and I was wondering about the procedure to be able to get this information.</p>
<p>Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. <br />Thank you in advance for your time. <br />Best regards,</p>
<p>Barbara Boggiano<br />PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant<br />Economics Division, School of Business<br />University of Leicester, UK<br />Contact: <a class="email" href="mailto:bb203@leicester.ac.uk">bb203@leicester.ac.uk</a></p> 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 #444 (Closed): I need helphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4442015-11-03T16:21:13ZAbdulganiyu Ajani
<p>I am currently using BHPS to do a research, but facing problems merging the waves. I was able to successfully append the needed variables together across the eighteen waves using indresp.dta folders. But the observation reduced tremendously. I came across XWAVEID, XWLSTEN and XWAVEDAT in the documentation. I don't know how and if they are needed to solve the problem Please I need help.</p> Support #362 (Closed): weights for longitudinal analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3622015-04-27T13:38:08ZAnonymous
<p>Dear Alita Nandi,</p>
<p>I am postgraduate student aat the University of Lund. I am working on my final dissertation and I am using the UKHLS survey. I want to study the so-called Healthy Immigrant Effect which says that immigrants tend to be healthier than native-born when they arrive to the country, but they converge to the health of natives as time passes.</p>
<p>It is the first time that I use the UKHLS survey and I have used the material of the online course, in particular the weighting section. I must admit that everything is really well explained and do files are specially helpful. However, I still have a doubt about which weight to pick for my analysis and I was wondering if you could help me on that.</p>
<p>To first study the inequalitites in health status between immigrants and natives I will use the wave 1. Therefore I think tthat I have to use the weight a_indpxus_xw since I am using adult main and proxy interview data.</p>
<p>To study the "health assymilation effect", i.e: wether immigrants´ health converge to native levels, I plan to run a regression where the dependent variable is the difference in health between wave 4 and wave 1. I will include as explanatory variables country of origin and other control variables for wave 1. Since in this model I will also use data from wave 4 (health status in wave 4) I am guessing that if I use the cross-section weight for wave 1, I won´t be controlling for attrition. Therefore, I am really confused about what weight I should use. I would really appreciate if you could give me any advice about it.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>