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 #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 #515 (Closed): Matching pid across waves https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5152016-03-02T20:04:50ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>I have merged whhresp and windresp files using a m:1 match as you mentioned before. However, when matching pid between waves J and O I have found that only 1500 individuals are included in both waves. I am under the impression that this should not be the case as all individuals in the sample are followed for every wave? So should all individuals interviewed in wave J also have been interviewed in wave O? Please could you let me know if this is the case and possibly what could have led me to only finding 1500 persons with the same pids across waves J and O.</p>
<p>Thank you</p> Support #514 (Closed): BHPS wave O proxy and or phone datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5142016-02-29T19:25:32ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am looking at wave O, specifically files ohhresp and oindresp. However, for variables osvack, onvestk, oxpmeal, oxpleis almost all of the results are 'proxy and or phone'.I am looking to run cross-sectional analysis using waves J and O, but it seems I may not be able to do this because of the missing data. Does this mean that there is no data for these variables in wave O, or is there another way of finding the data for these variables?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #508 (Closed): BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5082016-02-21T10:46:34ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am looking to analyse a number of variables such as income, wealth and consumption across waves and to see how they change. From what I understand I cannot link households across waves. But to link individuals across waves I have to use the person identifier (PID). I am specifically looking at the data files whhresp and windresp from waves J-R. Within these I can find the variable for household identification number but I cannot find the variable for PID. Please could you help identify where I can find PID so that I can analyse this data for individuals across waves.</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #479 (Closed): Urgent - data accesss support https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4792016-01-06T05:31:37ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>I am looking to download data in a format that I can ideally use in excel. If not, I am willing to download any software which will help me access the data. I am confused by the number of different data files available to download and am unsure which is best for me.</p>
<p>After downloading the British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 data file in tab format I have opened it in excel. However, it is in a format which seems impossible for me to understand.</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if you could provide exact instructions on what file I should download to access the variables I require as follows:</p>
<p>From at least 3 waves or more:</p>
<p>Household makeup / structure / type <br />Household income <br />Household wealth <br />Household financial assets <br />Household housing/property assets</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Chris</p> Support #465 (Closed): Immediate - BHPS data access help https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4652015-12-14T16:33:05ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society User Support,</p>
<p>I have registered for the UK Data Service and acquired BHPS data for my dissertation. However, I have found it difficult to find data on household’s wealth, financial and housing assets and consumption. Looking at the summary table I noticed that waves 5,10 and 15 include information on wealth, assets and debt.</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if you would be able to help me find and access information on the following variables or others of a similar nature from at least 3 waves or more:</p>
<p>Household makeup / structure / type <br />Household income <br />Household wealth <br />Household financial assets <br />Household housing/property assets</p> Support #411 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic informationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4112015-09-08T15:30:49ZJaviera Cartagena Fariasjaviera.cartagena-farias@natcen.ac.uk
<p>We are looking at the possibility of using Understanding Society to compare pupils outcomes (intervention v/s comparison groups). We would like to make sure we could request information related to: pupils attainment, Unique Pupil Number (UPN), ethnicity and socio-economic information providing we have a opt-out consent letter from every pupil.<br />Thank you very much in advance</p> Support #390 (Closed): how to deal with inapplicable valueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3902015-07-20T14:42:58ZJun LiuJun.Liu@warwcik.ac.uk
<p>Dear support team<br /> a lot of the variables in the Understanding Society dataset has a high percentage of inapplicable values. For example, the highest qualification variable, w_qfhigh, has around 85-90% of inapplicable values. How should I deal with the inapplicable values? Is inapplicable values the same as missing values? why is a variable like the highest qualification has so many inapplicable values? I would assume most of the people in the sample has some kind of education. Any other inputs on the questions will be much appreciated.</p>
<pre><code>Thank you </code></pre>
<pre><code>Jun</code></pre> Support #284 (Closed): Ethnic Boost in Innovation Panelhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2842014-07-10T08:11:24ZHSIN CHENhsinchen.sylvana@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Are there boost samples for ethnic in Innovation panel? Since I cannot find the information about it, thank you.<br />Besides, I've checked a_psnenip_xd (cross-sectional person design weight), the value ranged from 1 to 4. However, the frequency table on the website is only 1, I would like to know what make them different, thank you. And since the Innovation Panel sample is a equal probability design, why there are different design weights for individuals. Thank you.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel/dataset-documentation/wave/1/datafile/a_indresp_ip/variable/a_psnenip_xd">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel/dataset-documentation/wave/1/datafile/a_indresp_ip/variable/a_psnenip_xd</a></p> Support #281 (Closed): Weights for IP5https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2812014-07-04T12:20:09ZHSIN CHENhsinchen.sylvana@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Thanks for previous answers.</p>
<p>However,I still have a problem on design weight for both original sample and refreshment sample.According to previous feedback, it is stated "Essentially, considering the longitudinal structure of the data and recognizing that attrition occurs between waves 1 and 4, we do not provide separate design weight. But if it helps, IP (both original and refreshment) have almost an equal probability sample designs."</p>
<p>In the IP1 data set, the variable "a_psnenip_xd" shows that the design weight is from 1 to 4. So for refreshment sample in IP4, should I use 1 as design weight or other amount(from 1 to 4)? Thank you so much.</p> Support #277 (Closed): Wave 2 Results from Methodological Experimentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2772014-06-30T18:20:03ZHsin Chen
<p>When I was reading "Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 2 Results from Methodological Experiments" I tried to compare the the response in the report with the data set. I have a question about the data. According to the paper, the total sample size for the experiment on interview mode is 2,100. However, I tried to run the data set and filtered out samples who are less than 16, the total sample size was 2,148. I know there were 37 allocation errors happened during interviewing, however, there were still 11 samples not shown in the table. I would like to know whether I missed to filter unqualified sample, if so, what type of sample was been removed, thanks.</p> Support #272 (Closed): Questions about IP1 and IP4.https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2722014-06-20T07:16:03ZHsin Chen
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>My name is Hsin, a postgraduate student in the Univeirsty of Manchester. I used Innovation Panel as my data set for my dissertation, and I have fronted some problems.</p>
<p>One is the missing data. Due to my topic, I need to merge data (1) IP1 and IP2 individual (2) IP4 and IP5 individuals. However, after I proceed the merging, there are 1031 and 637 missing respectively. I also tried to merge only (1) IP1 "full productive interview" individual and IP2 all individual (2) IP4 "full productive interview" and IP5 all indivudals, still, there are 600 and 329 missing relatively. I could not understand the reason why cross wave personal id of respondents in IP1 or IP4 doesn't exist in IP2 or IP5.</p>
<p>Another issue is about "design weight". I could not find the design weight for IP4 refreshment sample.</p>
<p>Thank you for your kindly help.</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>