Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382024-03-09T16:03:06ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #2074 (In Progress): Longitudinal weights https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20742024-03-09T16:03:06ZJoe Mattock
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm conducting an analysis specifically over waves 2, 3, 6 and 9 for Understanding Society, as relating to the voteintent variable which is only included in these waves. I would just like to ask about the weighting procedure for this case. I am examining how an independent variable (gentrification, as measured by an index) affects voting intention at the LSOA-level.</p>
<p>My understanding is that I need to take the longitudinal weight from the final wave used in my analysis and apply it to all respondents (i_indscub_lw - I believe). However, given that my dependent variable of interest is not observed in consecutive waves, I wanted to ask whether this principle applies in the same way.</p>
<p>I also wanted to ask how this weighting would be applied in practice. I am slightly confused about the order of things. For example, would you remove all wave-specific prefixes, merge LSOA indicators with the Understanding Society data, and then apply the relevant weight for each respondent?</p>
<p>Much appreciated,</p>
<p>Joe</p> Support #1942 (In Progress): Bornuk_dv missing datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19422023-07-19T13:19:05ZLuis Ortiz
<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>I have observed that the derived variable "Born in UK" reports a substantial number (8.61% of observations, if I'm not wrong) of 'missing values'. The other two values are obviously 'born in UK' and 'not born in UK'. Is there any specific reason / pattern explaining these missing values.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your attention</p>
<p>And best wishes</p>
<p>Luis Ortiz Gervasi</p> Support #1914 (In Progress): job title and descriptive information in the covid wavehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19142023-06-06T10:25:52ZShiyu Yuan
<p>To who it may concern,</p>
<p>I am currently using UKHLS covid wave 7,8,9 to conduct research. In the questionnaires, jbsoc variable exists in these three waves, but in the data file, I can only find it in wave 8.</p>
<p>Also, there is no derived industry variable, and I found the question in wave 8 is checking the industry in wave 7 and in wvae 9 is checking either wave 7 and wave8. In this case, can I get the information by firstly derived one industry variable for wave 8 and then another one for wave 9.</p>
<p>The last part is regarding the marriage/cohabitation status. Can I generate a variable based on household relationships? But what if they get married but not living together? According to the way UKHLS suggests finding a partner or spouse, does it mean we can only identify a spouse or partner for couples living together that have the same household address?</p>
<p>Would you mind helping me with this issue, please?</p>
<p>best<br />shiyu</p> Support #1890 (In Progress): Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Modelhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18902023-04-11T16:35:50ZLaurence Rowley-Abel
<p>Dear Understanding Society team,<br />I am running a multilevel model using individuals nested within census areas (LSOAs) in Waves 9, 10, 11 and 12. To account for clustering I am using the following levels in my multilevel model: individuals at the first level, PSUs at the second level and LSOAs at the third level. Therefore, from the provided weights, I need to extract separate weights for individuals and for PSUs. Having read your response here [[<a class="external" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1572">https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1572</a>]], I am wondering if the below would be the correct approach:</p>
<p>- For the individual level, I would divide l_psnenus_xw by a_psnenus_xd (from the l_indall.dta and the a_indall.dta files respectively)<br />- For the PSU level, I would use a_psnenus_xd (from the a_indall.dta file)<br />- For the LSOA level, I would not be able to calculate a weight as it is not part of the sampling design. I would set this weight to 1 for all respondents.</p>
<p>Would this be correct? Additionally, would this mean I could only include respondents who were included at Wave 1, since I need to use the design weight (a_psnenus_xd) from Wave 1?</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Laurence</p> Support #1874 (In Progress): Issue with religion variable in wave 12https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18742023-03-10T11:56:38ZLaurence O'Brien
<p>Hello support forum,</p>
<p>I think there might be an issue with the religion variable (l_oprlg1) in wave 12. I suspect this because nearly all the people who report belonging to both the Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic group (l_racel values 10 and 11) have l_oprlg1 = 11, indicating Christian (no specific denomination) religion. This can't be right - in other waves the vast majority of these ethnic groups report being Muslim. There are also some weird patterns for other ethnic groups, but this is the clearest indication of a mistake.</p>
<p>I therefore wonder if there is a coding issue for the values of l_oprlg1. Is this the right place to raise this issue to be looked into?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Laurence</p> Support #1839 (In Progress): Combining individual level files across waves with different variabl...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18392023-01-12T14:10:28ZIngrid Storm
<p>I am trying to follow the suggested syntax for appending individual level files across waves into a long format. However I wish to retain some variables that are not available in all the waves.</p>
<p>When I try to use the syntax dofile available on the website (MERGING INDIVIDUAL FILES ACROSS WAVES INTO LONG FORMAT) I get error messages when it encounters variables that are only available in some waves (e.g. "variable a_simrace not found").</p>
<p>I noticed on the moodle course a command called "isvar" was proposed as a solution. However, when I try this I also get an error message, saying that "the command isvar is not recognised" (I am using Stata version 17).</p>
<p>What do you propose?</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help</p> Support #1673 (In Progress): pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for menhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16732022-03-29T10:29:15ZTom Waters
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>The pensioner_dv variable is supposed to determine whether the respondent is past State Pension Age (SPA). But for men, in wave K, all men aged 64 or younger are defined as not being past SPA, and all men aged 65 or older are. However, men born after 6 December 1953 have a SPA after their 65th birthday (<a class="external" href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>For women this does not seem to be a problem - at least, there are 65 year old women in wave K for whom the pensioner_dv variable says they are below SPA.</p>
<p>(Though, there are 36 women in wave K who are 60 years old and pensioner_dv indicates that they are past SPA. Presumably that can't be right?)</p> Support #1627 (In Progress): Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youthhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16272022-01-10T11:24:40ZAlexandra Turner
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have just started looking at the data in Wave K of the youth data file and found that for k_ypfhweve: "During an average week in term time, on how many evenings do you do any homework?" there were 155 cases coded as 9. I was wondering what this code relates to as I cannot find any guidance on how to interpret this data?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Alexandra</p> Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net incomehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14902021-01-24T12:22:44ZLeilah Plant-Tchenguiz
<p>Hi, how would I find out if observations of the following variables have been top-coded?:<br />fimnnet_dv<br />fimnmisc_dv<br />fimnprben_dv<br />fimninvnet_dv<br />fimnpen_dv<br />fimnsben_dv</p>
<p>I have read the documentation but can't seem to find information specifically on the top-coding of these variables.</p> Support #1279 (In Progress): Wave 9 chmain filehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12792019-11-21T15:20:53ZCharlotte Edneyc.edney@lancaster.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've just downloaded wave 9 of Understanding Society to add another wave of child maintenance data (chmain file) to my analysis.<br />I was quite surprised that there are only 456 entries in the i_chmain file, compared with over 3,000 in waves 3, 5 and 7. <br />Do you know why there are so few entries in this wave? <br />I noticed in the questionnaire documentation something written about a script error for some of the variables in the file and am wondering if this has anything to do with it?</p>
<p>Best,<br />Charlotte</p> Support #1258 (In Progress): Housing costs in BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12582019-10-09T13:17:22ZLindsay Judge
<p>I am keen to create an after housing costs in BHPS but am unclear what is included in the variable xphsg (gross monthly housing costs). I would like to know whether this (i) includes or excludes housing benefit and (ii) includes or excludes the principal payment for those with mortgages. If the principal is included, is there a way to deduct this from xphsg (i.e. a way to split mortgage payments into interest and principal)?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any help.</p> Support #1250 (In Progress): Identifying transitions from households to institutions (older adults)https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12502019-09-30T15:18:13ZTom Snell
<p>I am trying to identify transitions from households to institutions among older people aged 65+ (ideally residential or nursing homes, but otherwise any institutional setting). I'm hoping to identify all respondents known to have moved to an institution, rather than just those that are successfully followed up (<strong>w_dweltyp</strong> and <strong>w_preason</strong> provide a handful of institutional/proxy interviews).</p>
<p>Any advice on other variables to investigate would be gratefully received!</p> Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12462019-09-24T09:55:26ZLydia Palumbolvpalu@utu.fi
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am interested in understanding what the value = 0 for the variables lmar1y lmar1m means.</p>
<p>It is associated to a value 1 of the variable evermar, but I cannot understand if it refers to a marriage <br />that actually took place (or it is missing) and if it occurred before the entry into the panel.</p>
<p>Thank you and best wishes,<br />Lydia</p> Support #1227 (In Progress): Family sizehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12272019-08-13T10:38:53ZElla Moonan-Howard
<p>To whom it may concern,</p>
<p>I am attempting to generate non-household family size variables for both waves three and six.</p>
<p>I wanted to clarify which variables denote which type of non-residential family member across the waves. In the family life module webpage nrels3 is number of children, nrels4 is number of brothers and sisters, nrels5 is number of grandchildren and nrels6 is number of grandparents - with nrels7 and nrels8 on great grandparents and great grandchildren only being measured at wave 7.</p>
<p>Yet on the details for these variables in wave three, it appears to be different suggesting that in fact, nrels2 is siblings, nrels3 is grandchildren, nrels6 is great grandparents etc.</p>
<p>If you could let me know which is correct, that would be brilliant. Moreover, in either scenario there are types of family member not accounted for in wave three. In the former it is great grandchildren and great grandparents, in the latter it is children. If you could advise me as to potential other variables I could use to account for these gaps that would be incredibly helpful.</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>Ella</p> Support #1167 (In Progress): Linking Understanding Society and HESA data https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11672019-03-21T10:13:19ZInga Steinberg
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Could you please let me know what the predicted date of completion of the linking of Understanding Society and HESA data is? I am currently writing a proposal for my PhD (I'm in my first year), and want to know if I will be able to use the data for at least one of my papers.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Inga</p>