Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382018-01-09T17:18:44ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine 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 #855 (Closed): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completionhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8552017-09-22T20:02:51ZMin Zhangmin.zhang-7@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear USoc team,</p>
<p>I have a question with drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion. The variable value labelling seems odd to me.</p>
<p>I expect the variable b_sceverdrnk, ever had an alcoholic drink, to have values as "never had drink" or "had drink before". However, it is how the variable is labelled:</p>
<pre>
. labelbook b_sceverdrnk
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
value label b_sceverdrnk
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values labels
range: [-9,2] string length: [5,28]
N: 7 unique at full length: yes
gaps: yes unique at length 12: yes
missing .*: 0 null string: no
leading/trailing blanks: no
numeric -> numeric: no
definition
-9 missing
-8 inapplicable
-7 proxy
-2 refused
-1 don't know
1 age provided
2 never had an alcoholic drink
variables: b_sceverdrnk
</pre>
<p>I ran a cross-tabulation between b_sceverdrnk and b_scfalcdrnk, how often have you had an alcoholic drink. The results also seem odd. I expect that the inapplicable in b_scfalcdrnk could be partially explained by "never had drink" in b_sceverdrnk. But it is not the case.</p>
<pre>
tab b_sceverdrnk b_scfalcdrnk, m
ever had an alcoholic | how often have you had an alcoholic drink during the last 12 months?
drink | missing inapplica proxy don't kno almost ev five or s three or once or t once or t once ever once or t not at al not in la | Total
----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
missing | 8 0 0 217 3,118 2,116 5,673 11,822 6,635 3,975 3,782 1,404 2,804 | 41,554
inapplicable | 0 6,582 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 6,582
proxy | 0 0 3,882 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 3,882
don't know | 392 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 392
age provided | 2,186 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 | 2,187
----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
Total | 2,586 6,582 3,882 217 3,118 2,116 5,673 11,822 6,635 3,975 3,782 1,405 2,804 | 54,597
</pre>
<p>I understand that the same issue was raised one year ago, <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/511">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/511</a></p>
<p>But I do not think it has been fixed yet.</p>
<p>Could you please let me know what I can do to get correct records of whether the respondent has ever had alcoholic drink?</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
<p>Regards,<br />Min</p> Support #796 (Closed): #794 continuedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7962017-06-14T09:56:48ZJulia Borodinajul1bor35@me.com
<p>Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an age when a respondent is supposed to leave further education while still in it. Is it correct?<br />If it is so, how can I find out the age at which all respondents completed their full-time education. Any help would be appreciated!</p> Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Databasehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7762017-05-08T10:28:04ZEmily Lowthianlowthianem@Cardiff.ac.uk
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am a Masters student at Cardiff University currently using the Understanding Society (USoc) data for my dissertation.</p>
<p>I was looking at using some FSM variables, however they only seem to exist when USoc has been linked with the National Pupil Database (NPD). I have a few questions if that is ok -<br />1. Is it only Wave 1 that is available for the linkage of USoc and NPD? <br />2. Is the data archive the only way to access this data? <br />3. What is secure access? Is this available to students? <br />4. When will future waves of USoc and NPD linkage be available?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Emily</p> Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Societyhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6942017-01-04T15:41:56ZDebora Pricedebora.price@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Hi, is there, anywhere, a derived variable for 'ever divorced' or 'ever widowed' and ages at last divorce or last widowhood? Or do these need to be derived from the entire data series? I can't help thinking many people must have created these variables even if they are not in the main datasets and am wondering whether this is something I really need to do all over again - or (I am hoping) they are lurking somewhere and I have just missed them, thanks.</p> Support #648 (Closed): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6482016-10-25T09:07:11ZChristoph Kronenberg
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have a question about variables d_depenth1-6, how did you come up with those questions?<br />Other mental well-being/distress questions come from a known measure such as GHQ, SF12 MCS, WEMWBS, etc or ask specifically about whether the person was diagnosed with anxiety/depression. However, these questions appear to be more along the GHQ lines, but without the GHQ-style references to back it up as a valid and useful measure.</p>
<p>Additionally, I found pretty much the same questions in WERS 2011:<br /><a class="external" href="http://nesstar.ukdataservice.ac.uk/webview/index/en/UKDA/About-the-UK-Data-Service-Nesstar-Catalogue.d.55/Research-Datasets.d.56/Workplace-Employment-Relations-Survey.d.57/Workplace-Employee-Relations-Survey-2011.s.7226/Employee-Data.h.1F3/Section-A-About-Your-Job.h.2F3/How-much-of-the-time-has-your-job-made-you-feel-tense-/fVariable/7226_V1161">http://nesstar.ukdataservice.ac.uk/webview/index/en/UKDA/About-the-UK-Data-Service-Nesstar-Catalogue.d.55/Research-Datasets.d.56/Workplace-Employment-Relations-Survey.d.57/Workplace-Employee-Relations-Survey-2011.s.7226/Employee-Data.h.1F3/Section-A-About-Your-Job.h.2F3/How-much-of-the-time-has-your-job-made-you-feel-tense-/fVariable/7226_V1161</a></p>
<p>I really like this questions, but I would be great to give the child a name and reference its parents.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Christoph (UoY)</p> Support #639 (Closed): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6392016-10-05T13:12:12ZPilar Gonalons Ponspgonalons@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I work on unemployment and I am trying to create a measure that summarizes respondents' yearly labor income. My question is, does the Understanding Society survey include information on labor income for respondents who do not have jobs at the time of the interview? I have reviewed all the income variables and it seems that all labor income variables rely on answers to variables like paygl, for which the universe is restricted to respondents who have a job at the time of the interview. Is there any other labor income variable that I am missing?</p>
<p>Many thanks! Best,</p>
<p>Pilar</p> Support #623 (Closed): Access to datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6232016-09-05T08:05:08ZThea Elnantheasel@student.sv.uio.no
<p>Dear Understanding Society,</p>
<p>my name is Thea Elnan and I'm a Norwegian postgraduate student at the University of Oslo in Norway. In my master thesis I'm using data from British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which I have already accessed from the ESRC Data Archives. I am specifically interested in the survey questions regarding attitudes towards gender roles.</p>
<p>The British Household panel was taken over by Understanding Society after 2008, and if I have understood it correctly, Understanding Society still runs the panel every year. I looked through the questionnaires at Your website, and found one survey done in 2012 where the same questions on gender roles that I am interested in frequented (coded wOPFAMA, wOPFAMB and so on in BHPS).</p>
<p>Since it would be preferable to merge data from a more recent point in time to my dataset, I am wondering if 1) it is true that you still have (and in 2012 had) the same panel as they used in BHPS, 2) I can access these data from 2012 from Understanding Society, and 3) if it is possible to merge data from BHPS and US on the respondents identification number?</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Thea Storøy Elnan</p>
<p>University of Oslo</p> Support #617 (Closed): "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfiohttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6172016-08-11T12:42:18ZHelena Retamalhpreta@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I need to know if the the individual interview outcome with code 9 (Lost CAPI intvw) is a complete interview or not, in order to clasify these cases as respondents or not respondents. I know that the informacion from the interviews is not available but I am not sure if these people answered before the CAPI lost. Would you help me, please?</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
e_ivfio Individual interview outcome
<ul>
<li> 2 9 Lost CAPI intvw*<br /> 124 10 Refusal<br /> 123 11 Other non-intvw<br /> 21 14 Ill/away during survey period<br /> 5 15 Too infirm/elderly<br /> 2 16 Language difficulties<br /> 5 18 Unknown eligibility<br /> 135 21 Youth Interview<br /> 351 24 Child under 10<br /> 94 25 Youth non-interview<br /> 375 50 Refusal/non-int HH<br /> 11 52 Age, infirm/non-int HH<br /> 210 53 Non-cont/non-int HH<br /> 4 54 Out of scope/non-int HH<br /> 2 55 Institutionalised/non-int HH<br /> 18 57 Ill/away during survey period<br /> 116 60 Child <16 ref/non-int HH<br /> 64 63 Chd <16 non-cont/non-int HH<br /> 3 67 Chd <16 ill/away during survey<br /> period<br /> 26 80 TSM - no OSM/PSM<br /> 1 81 Prev wave adamant refusl<br /> 3 84 Other ineligible<br /> 2 98 Other Retiring<br /> 22 99 Dead</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>type: numeric (byte)<br /> label: e_ivfio</code></pre>
<pre><code>range: [1,99] units: 1<br /> unique values: 26 missing .: 0/3861</code></pre>
<pre><code>Freq. Numeric Label<br /> 1995 1 Full interview<br /> 147 2 Proxy interview</code></pre> Support #507 (Closed): 'inapplicable' on newborn.dtahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5072016-02-19T17:34:24ZLaia Becares
<p>Dear UKHLS team,</p>
<p>The variables on the newborn dataset have a large amount of missing data coded as 'inapplicable' (see two examples from wave 5 at the bottom). I've looked into the skip patterns but can't understand why the large numbers. Could you please let me know?</p>
<p>Many thanks!<br />Laia</p>
<pre><code>birthweight | Freq. Percent Cum.<br />-------------------------+-----------------------------------<br /> missing | 1 0.08 0.08<br /> inapplicable | 569 42.94 43.02<br /> don't know | 5 0.38 43.40<br />answer in lbs and ounces | 662 49.96 93.36<br /> answer in kilograms | 88 6.64 100.00<br />-------------------------+-----------------------------------<br /> Total | 1,325 100.00</code></pre>
<p>child's sex | Freq. Percent Cum.<br />-------------+-----------------------------------<br />inapplicable | 1,283 96.83 96.83<br /> don't know | 1 0.08 96.91<br /> boy | 18 1.36 98.26<br /> girl | 23 1.74 100.00<br />-------------+-----------------------------------<br /> Total | 1,325 100.</p> Support #434 (Closed): "None of the above" in `w'_qfhighhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4342015-10-16T20:30:13ZYujung Whangyujung.whang@yale.edu
<p>Hi, I have a question about 96 "None of the Above" category in `w'_qfhigh variable (highest educational qualification)<br />I found quite many people chose this category as their answers..</p>
<p>May I consider this category as "Below high school degree or equivalent" ?</p> Support #382 (Closed): *_sex (not *_sex_cr) in egoalt filehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3822015-06-12T12:42:29ZDave Griffithsdavid.griffiths@stir.ac.uk
<p>Hello, I've been looking at gender in the egoalt file and it appears that ego gender is based on *_sex, rather than *_sex_cr.</p>
<p>I've found 54 cases with different *_sex and *_sex_cr values. In all cases, the ego-alt file contains data corresponding to *_sex, not *_sex_cr (thus, the miscoded data, rather than actual gender).</p>
<p>My Stata syntax file spotting this problem is below (inresp gender only shown for years when _sex and _sex_cr are inconsistent).</p>
<p>Dave</p>
<p>global path1 "C:\data\under_society\data\" <br />global path9 "C:\temp\"</p>
<p>foreach wave in a b c d {<br />use pidp `wave'_sex `wave'_sex_cr using ///<br /> $path1\`wave'_indresp.dta, clear<br />drop if `wave'_sex `wave'_sex_cr <br />sort pidp<br />save $path9\sex`wave'.dta, replace<br />}</p>
<p>use $path9\sexa.dta, clear<br />foreach wave in b c d {<br />sort pidp<br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\sex`wave'.dta<br />drop _merge<br />}<br />save $path9\sex_cr.dta, replace</p>
<p>foreach wave in a b c d {<br />use pidp `wave'_esex ///<br /> using $path1\`wave'_egoalt.dta, clear<br />duplicates drop<br />save $path9\ego`wave'.dta, replace<br />}<br />use $path9\egoa.dta, clear<br />foreach wave in b c d {<br />sort pidp <br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\ego`wave'.dta<br />drop _merge<br />}<br />sort pidp<br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\sex_cr.dta<br />keep if _merge3<br />list</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> Support #53 (Closed): "Events" variable BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/532012-05-21T09:14:42Znicolet van Dijke
<p>Hello,<br />For my research on repossessions in the UK mortgage market I am studying the BHPS SN 5151 database.<br />In the British Household Panel Survey User Manual is stated, on page App3-101, that from Wave Two onwards, an open ended question was placed as the final question on the individual questionnaire which includes 'Important Events', which includes the event "repossession".<br />However I can only find these variables in waves 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 14.<br />Can someone please tell me where to find these variables for the other waves, if they even exist?<br />Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Best,<br />Nicolet</p> Support #49 (Closed): "SPONTANEOUS" response categoryhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/492012-05-10T07:48:44ZSung Park
<p>Hello: I see that for certain questions, in the online documentation, it says "SPONTANEOUS" (for example, variable a_pafar) for some response values in a given question. Can you clarify what this means? Does this mean this response category was NOT asked to respondents and rather, they "spontaneously" volunteered the answer? Thank you!</p>