Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382018-02-08T11:22:50ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #914 (Closed): end dates of individual interview for IP W9https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9142018-02-08T11:22:50ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I have noticed that in i_indresp_ip there are the following variables available:</p>
<p>Individual interview start time (hours)<br />Individual interview start time (minutes)<br />Individual interview start time (seconds)<br />Interview start date (year)<br />Interview start date (month)<br />Interview start date (day)<br />Time at end of individual interview (hours)<br />Time at end of individual interview (minutes)<br />Time at end of individual interview (seconds)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, interview end date is not available. I can see from data that at least on 64 occasions “interview” ended not on the same day which is expected with online mode of data collection. Unfortunately, I do not know how many days lapsed between the beginning and the end. Is there a chance to get interview end date (year, month, day) variables?</p>
<p>Many thanks!</p> Support #893 (Rejected): Urgent/ish data mental health and social mediahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8932018-01-09T17:18:44Zdanilo di emidio
<p>I'm in a very urgent situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) that looks at (young) people use of social media and its impact on mental health that would be very appreciated, it's for a project where I have to use the R software to compute statistics and show that my analysis helps (or not) to extent knowledge on the research problem (in my case the correlation between the use of social media and mental health).</p>
<p>my tutor suggested I came through your institution and after spending 2 days in your website I have given up, there is so much stuff. my tutor tells me first:</p>
<p>'Did you find any information on the variables you need through US?'</p>
<p>I had no clue what he meant, I guessed I would be interested in variables such as age? nationality? gender? ethnicity or as many variables as I want, based on my specific interest.</p>
<p>His reply was:</p>
<p>'The understanding society dataset is huge so in the first instance you would need to identify where the bits you need are. Look for a “code book” or other guide to the variables. You’re looking specifically for variable names and for the file name containing them. I can help with fiddly aspects of loading this into R but you need to go through the administrative side of getting to grips with what’s in the dataset'</p>
<p>I went as far as finding this page, then I get lost, when I click on some of the links I get e.g. 'variable 160'...what does it mean? that that study has 160 variables and I have to know what to unpick based on my want/need?</p>
<p>sorry if I'm asking silly questions but I have been chucked into a stats course and hve little knowledge and understanding. can you help? many thanks in advance. danilo</p> Support #848 (Closed): Clinical Depression H_COND variableshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8482017-09-04T15:55:51ZLuca Bernardiluca.bernardi@uab.cat
<p>Dear Support group,</p>
<p>I am measuring clinical depression and I would kindly need your advice on a couple of questions. I apologise sincerely for putting immediate priority on this, but your answer might also have implications for a paper I am co-authoring within the Understanding Society EU Referendum project and we have a deadline shortly for submitting the paper.</p>
<p>As I am interested in objective depression, I was using the questions H_COND17 and H_CONDS17 to create a measure of depression. What I was doing is to assign value 1 to respondents who replied that they still have depression in H_CONDS17=Yes (as I am interested in the effects of depression, I do not care much if the person was diagnosed with depression at some point in his/her life - i.e. H_COND17=Yes - but rather it is important that the person is depressed at the time of the interview). I assign value 0 if the respondent mentioned that he/she has never been diagnosed with depression in H_COND17=No.</p>
<p>So far I was using data from waves 1, and 3 to 6 as I noticed that these two variables are available in all waves but wave 2 (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/2/datafile/b_indresp">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/2/datafile/b_indresp</a>), where instead a slightly different question is asked: H_CONDN17. In turn, this question is not available in all waves and sometimes is asked together with the previous two questions (e.g., <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/datafile/d_indresp">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/4/datafile/d_indresp</a>).</p>
<p>My questions thus are the following. Do you please know what is the reason of such a variation and, more importantly, can I "maximise" my number of depressives by creating a measure of depression that combines both sets of questions (i.e., H_COND17 and H_CONDS17, and H_CONDN17) and makes use of all available waves (i.e. 1 to 6)?</p>
<p>My idea was to do the following:</p>
<p>gen depression = .</p>
<p>replace depression = 1 if hconds17==1 | hcondn17==1</p>
<p>replace depression = 0 if hcond17==0 | hcondn17==0</p>
<p>However, I wonder how problematic can be mixing questions that are not available in all waves, as this is certainly a point that reviewers will raise. I would really appreciate your thoughts on this.</p>
<p>Many thanks and best wishes,<br />Luca</p> Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooledhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6582016-11-17T21:09:30ZMin Zhangmin.zhang-7@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Support team,</p>
<p>I have two questions with weights. Our data is based on a sub-population (respondents whose parents had non-missing interview records on their parents, that is, respondents' grandparents), while BHPS and USoc are pooled together. We are using BHPS wave 1-18, USoc wave 1-5. We have read through both BHPS and USoc user guides and weights-related posts on this forum but could not find the best solution.</p>
<p>Our research is on social class and education.</p>
<p>1. Class:<br />I use non-missing social class variables at the last, or most recent, waves that respondents attended. For example, in the case in which the last wave that a respondent was interviewed was BHPS wave 12, the non-missing social class recode at BHPS wave 12 would be taken as the measure of social class. Say, if the record at BHPS wave 12 is missing but the one at BHPS wave 11 is non-missing, the social class variable at wave 11 would be taken as the measure of social class.</p>
<p>This means that our data is drawn from different waves of BHPS and USoc. Can you please suggest which weights serve the best for our purpose.</p>
<p>2. Education<br />We use the highest educational qualifications that respondents have ever achieved. Which weights should we use in this case?</p>
<p>We incorporated gender, birth cohort, age, race (a roughly binary white vs non-white variable though), regions and data sources (a binary BHPS vs USoc variable) as the control variables in our analyses. We also take into clustered errors using household ID. We wonder whether it is statistically acceptable if there are no perfect weights used in our analyses.</p>
<p>We highly appreciate your supports.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p> Support #622 (Closed): hcost, hsyr04, mgold, mgtypehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6222016-08-30T14:21:29Zdavid rhodes
<p>Please could you advise what the situation is with these variables. In BHPS they (or their equivalents) were initially asked of all owners in wave A, and then subsequently of movers and new morgagees. This condition means that it is possible to 'back-fill' up to a given wave to identify these mortgage variables for all applicable cases. (This is a laborious approach, necessitating extraction from all previous waves, so if you could advise me of a better method it would be appreciated.)</p>
<p>In US, it appears that movers and new morgagees were also asked these questions, but so far as I can ascertain from the missing cases in the data these questions do not appear to have been asked of all owners in US in wave a (nor in any other wave I think), meaning that it is not possible to complete an analysis of all owners in any wave of US using these variables (but just the BHPS cohort, and the movers and new mortgagees)? Can you confirm that my understanding of this situation is correct?</p>
<p>Please can you get back to me asap, as I am working to a deadline on a project for the JRF. Thank you.</p> Support #579 (Closed): attrition questionhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5792016-06-11T14:49:13Zzoe youngcox.zoe@gmail.com
<p>Hi I have merged 3 variables from wave3 to wave 5 they are : c_cgwri_dv, c_cgvfc_dv, and c_cgna_dv. I want to obtain the mean for these variables but only for those who are present in wave 5. I created 2 dummy variables where wave 5 =1 is present in wave 5 and wave 3=1 if present in wave 3. when i ran a cross tab it showed that the entire sample that were in wave 3 were in wave 5. Can someone confirm this as it seems strange that no attrition occured between wave 3 and 5?</p>
<p>Thanks Zoe</p> Support #549 (Closed): self employmenthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5492016-04-21T10:03:04Zdavid rhodes
<p>Is e_jb2pay_dv a gross figure - it doesn't say on your web, as neither does it in the datafile, p90 of the user guide suggests it may be gross, however.<br />What time period does it cover? Ditto regarding your web and the datafile.</p> Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5202016-03-07T19:57:24Zclaudia cuchic.cuchi-requesens@warwick.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>For a lot of variables in the survey, there is a value 'inapplicable' for the majority of them. Can you please explain the meaning of 'inapplicable' and if there is a way o recover that information from the observations showing that value?</p>
<p>Thank you very much</p> Support #378 (Closed): Retirement datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3782015-05-22T09:42:31ZSarah Quqjingj@essex.ac.uk
<p>I am interested in the data of retirement plan in the understanding society. I looked at the data. It only existed in Wave 2 and Wave 4 with a large extent of missing data when I merging the two data set. the sample size become even smaller. If I want to look into a specific group population, the data size is too small to use.<br />can I ask Is there a better way to dealing with these missing data. or other approach I can use the data more efficiently. It will be very kind of you if you can give me some suggestions on it<br />Thank you very much!Very looking forward of your helps</p> Support #287 (Closed): Clarification on showcard itemshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2872014-07-21T12:53:14ZSarah Hillcoat-NalletambyS.Hillcoat-Nalletamby@swansea.ac.uk
<p>Household questionnaire: "House in decent state of repair". "Enough money to keep your house in a decent state of repair"? Showcard TBC: "we have this"; "we would like but can't afford", etc. <br />Could you please indicate what items are shown on this showcard so that we know what they are saying they can and can't afford in relation to the state of repair of the home.</p>
<p>With thanks,</p>
<p>Sarah</p> Support #233 (Closed): variables locationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2332014-01-11T09:33:10ZQueena Wong
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using the British Household Panel Survey for my research about income and well being. <br />I found the life satisfaction variable I am intended to use - wLFSATO on the BHPS codebook. However, after I downloaded the dataset from the UK archive, the variable is not in the dataset and I have checked every single file. Apart from the satisfaction variable, other variables does not seem to match with the website codebook either. Would you please help to locate the variables or tell me what I should do?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<br />Queena</p> Support #230 (Closed): Weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2302013-12-14T00:29:28ZOurega-Zoe Ejebuzoejebu@yahoo.co.uk
<p>I am using BHPS but I did not apply weight on my sample (I aksed my supervisor and he told me it is not that important to use weight of the dataset seems representative enough)? Does that matter that I did not use weight?</p> Support #229 (Closed): Social class for unemployed individualhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2292013-12-14T00:27:43ZOurega-Zoe Ejebuzoejebu@yahoo.co.uk
<p>I am using the BHPS and I would like to know why do unemployed individuals report a social class (e.g skilled, unskilled or managerial professions...). I looked at the previous waves to identify the 'previous social class' of those individuals but it did not match.<br />Thank you for your help</p>
<p>Best Regards</p> Support #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1272013-02-28T23:58:06ZLaura Kudrna
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Where can I find out which variables were used to construct the survey weights available for Wave 2 of US?</p>
<p>This will be essential information for persuading my colleagues to use them on an imminent analysis.</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Laura</p> Support #51 (Closed): a_indinus_xw weight=0https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/512012-05-16T05:54:48ZSung Park
<p>Hello:<br />I was wondering if you could confirm that that the a_indinus_xw weight variable should contain 3,933 observations (or about 7.71% of the total indresp file )where a_indinus_xw=0? I was analyzing a subpopulation of the data, and noticed that the subpopulation # of obs was lower than expected, due to this weight being zero.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your response.</p>