Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382019-08-20T14:35:34ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #1230 (Closed): Equality Act 2010 definition of disabilityhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12302019-08-20T14:35:34ZOnyinye Ezeyi
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I would like to conduct some analysis on disabled sample members in USoc as defined by the Equality Act 2010 (EA2010). EA2010 defines an individual to be disabled if they "have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities." (source: <a class="external" href="https://www.gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010">https://www.gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010</a>)</p>
<p>I have identified the variable g_health in wave 7 as covering the 'long-term' element of the EA2010 definition. However, I would like some guidance on how I go about identifying the 'day to day' element of the EA2010 definition. Would it be sufficient to class individuals as EA2010 disabled if they provide at least one response to the variable g_disdif i.e. state that their health is limited by the activities listed in g_disdif? Or I assume that individuals that state 'yes' in the g_health variable are EA2010 disabled?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<br />Onyinye</p> 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 #886 (Closed): Zero weights and statistical powerhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8862017-12-04T17:45:15ZEric Emersoneric.emerson@lancaster.ac.uk
<p>Hi</p>
<p>I'm interested in data contained the harassment modules (in Waves 1, 3, 5 and 7), but am concerned about the significant reduction in statistical power arising from the increasing proportion of respondents who are assigned values of 0 in w_ind5mus_xw. I understand from a previous thread (<a class="issue tracker-3 status-3 priority-5 priority-high2" title="Support: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) (Resolved)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/877">#877</a>) that ..... 'The provision of weights requires the ability to estimate probabilities of continuing to respond over multiple waves. This is true of cross-sectional weights as well as longitudinal ones, as they are derived from the longitudinal ones (how this was done is described in section 3.8.3.10 of the User Guide). In consequence, a person in a household where there is no person who has been enumerated at every wave up to wave w will get a weight of zero. Such people should not be given a weight, as the weights for all other sample members are calculated in a way that compensates for these "missing" people.'</p>
<p>However, the 'compensation' appears to also result in a significant loss of statistical power. Taking as base the unweighted number of respondents who provide a valid answer to the 'attacked' items, the weighted population size has reduced from 92% of actual respondents in W1 (7418/8072) to just 27% in W7 (2711/9973). The resulting reduction in power is of concern and given the rationale outlined above, will continue to increase over time as the % of households in which someone has been enumerated at every wave will continue to diminish. It also seems rather wasteful of people's time that the responses of the majority of participants is, through the weighting process, assigned to a statistical waste bin!</p>
<p>Be very grateful if you could suggest any ways round this problem.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Eric</p> Support #884 (Closed): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visitshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8842017-11-23T00:04:39ZFiona Pashazadeh
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I am hoping to investigate the usefulness of call records from the nurse visits in predicting non-response however I have found that a large number of households are missing the call record data in the files b_callrec_ns and c_callrec_ns. This seems to be the case even where households have been assigned a nurse ID when matching to b_hhsamp_ns and c_hhsamp_ns. Could you let me know why this call record data is missing for the sampled households?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Fiona.</p> Support #883 (Closed): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8832017-11-22T15:18:14ZSharon Blake
<p>I am writing in respect of your data set a_indrep.sav as available via UK Data Service. I noticed that in this wave you asked respondents questions from the Spanier dyadic adjustment scale - variables labelled as follows:</p>
<p>a_screlparei<br />a_screlparcd<br />a_screlparwt<br />a_screlpards<br />a_screlparrg<br />a_screlparar<br />a_screlparir<br />a_screlparks<br />a_scparoutint<br />a_screlhappy</p>
<p>I am currently working on a research project which too uses this scale and I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of any publications that have analysed the results of the answers to these questions in your data set? Were they specifically added to the survey for a particular project? <br />Many thanks,<br />Sharon</p> Support #882 (Closed): scprely, scrrely and scfrely https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8822017-11-21T13:34:15ZChris Randallchris.randall@ons.gov.uk
<p>Could i just check that these variables are not included in the survey after wave 5? Can't find them on the questionnaires.</p> Support #881 (Closed): weighting values of zerohttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8812017-11-21T11:51:17ZAndrew Brown
<p>Hi</p>
<p>Could I ask a question related to issue <a class="issue tracker-3 status-3 priority-5 priority-high2" title="Support: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) (Resolved)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/877">#877</a>?</p>
<p>For those cases not assigned a weight because 'a person in a household where there is no person who has been enumerated at every wave up to wave w will get a weight of zero. Such people should not be given a weight, as the weights for all other sample members are calculated in a way that compensates for these "missing" people'</p>
<p>How could/ should they be included in any analysis as SPSS 'makes them invisible' - could they be assigned the mean weight of 1? or should they be excluded from any analysis as the weighting for the other cases takes account of this?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Andrew</p> Support #880 (Closed): Genetic data linked to NPDhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8802017-11-15T16:13:46ZMichelle Lucianomichelle.luciano@ed.ac.uk
<p>Is genetic data available for individuals with linked National Pupil Database Wave 1 data, if so, what is the sample size? Thanks,<br />michelle</p> Support #879 (Closed): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8792017-11-12T14:54:20ZNico Ochmannnico.ochmann@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Alita,</p>
<p>I hope you are doing well. I have noticed that macob_all and pacob_all are not available in xwavedat_protect, but just macob and pacob. I am wondering why this is the case. I did notice that they are present for each individual wave in the special licence version. <br />Will you guys make these variables available in wave 7 for the protected dataset? <br />If not, what would be an elegant way to construct these two variables from the individual waves.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your help once again.</p>
<p>Nico</p> Support #878 (Closed): employment historieshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8782017-11-10T17:01:37Zmarco tosiM.Tosi@lse.ac.uk
<p>Hello,<br />I try to reconstruct employment histories in wave 1 to analyse implications on health in the later waves. Since employment histories are collected for three quarters of the sample in wave 5, I am using both a_empstat (for the first quarter of the sample) and e_empstat (for the remaining sample). Some employment histories of the second group (which should be present in e_empstat) are missed because some people drop out between wave 1 and 5. Am I correct? If yes, would be better to use only the first quarter of the sample (which is randomly selected)?</p> Support #876 (Closed): Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8762017-11-10T10:26:40Znicola brimblecombe
<p>Hi</p>
<p>Is there a cross wave (xwave) derived variable available for father's and mother's occupation when respondent was aged 14: NSSEC 5 categories? This variable is available for all US waves but for the xwave data only the condensed SOC categories (SOC90, 00 and 10) seem available. Alternatively is there syntax, or a list/instructions, available to derive the NNSEC5 categories from the condensed SOC list?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Nicola</p> Support #875 (Closed): Veterans employmenthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8752017-11-02T16:09:16ZDavid Owen
<p>I hope to use US to identify the labour market experience of former members of the UK armed forces, with a particular interest in identifying the experience of those who went into self-employment. I note that the variables in US include occupation, and the armed forces can be identified by 4 digit SOC 2010 code (and approximated by 3 digit SOC). Does the survey also include a variable which identifies current or former service in the armed forces? Can reservists be identified?</p> Support #874 (Closed): try to link the birthweight to each childhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8742017-11-02T15:30:22ZYIN XUyin.xu@kcl.ac.uk
<p>There is a file called a_natchild containing the information about the natural children including birth weight, gestational age, and breastfed. <br />There is another file called a_child containing information about child's identifier(pidp), childs age (a_dvage). <br />I had a hard time trying to link those two files together. a_natchild only provided a_childno, which is the birth order. But I don't know which kid that's apply for (e.g. pidp). Is the a_childno from a_natchild same as the a_childpno ? Do you have any suggestions about how to link the birthweight to each child? Many thanks</p> Support #873 (Closed): Westminster constituency identifiershttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8732017-10-31T18:18:31ZQuinton Mayne
<p>I am looking for information that will allow me to identify the individual parliamentary constituencies that respondents lived in during the period 1991-1996. The default parliamentary constituency file currently available contains data for the constituencies that took effect with the 1997 General Election. As a result, it "imposes" the post-1997 situation on the 1991-1996 period. If possible, I would like to be able to identify the old constituencies that were in place prior to 1997.<br />Many thanks for your help.</p>