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 #868 (Closed): wealthassetsanddebthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8682017-10-20T09:47:48ZAnonymous
<p>Dear staff,</p>
<p>Do you have any information on when the next time data on assets and debt will be collected (the "wealthassetsanddebt" section)?</p>
<p>I would be grateful if you could provide any information on the timing of future collection of these variables.</p> Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general populationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8362017-08-15T15:31:19ZRay Storryraystorry@incomesdataresearch.co.uk
<p>I have run a query on persons employed who expect to move in the next year Yes/No. I have weighted the data in Wave 6 with f_indpxui_xw. The total population I am getting along with don't knows etc. is 23557.862. But this looks to me like the total number of employed respondents in the sample. There are around 31.4 millions employed persons in the UK.</p>
<p>So how do get from the weighted figures shown above to come anywhere near the real world figures?</p> Support #494 (Closed): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4942016-02-01T09:41:19ZPeter Lynnplynn@essex.ac.uk
<p>We are aware that some users wish to pool data from multiple waves for the purpose of cross-sectional estimation (for example, to increase the sample size for a small population subgroup, or to obtain an estimate relating to a calendar year).</p>
<p>We have prepared the attached note, explaining when and how this can be done. We hope this helps.</p> Support #481 (Closed): Should household identifier match (for most respondents) across waves?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4812016-01-08T17:11:24ZPhil Jonesphil.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
<p>Do household identifiers (b_hidp, and c_hidp) match across waves (for respondents who do not move home)?</p>
<p>I've created one consolidated data frame with all individuals who completed wave b and wave c. Thus all remaining individuals in my data frame have a b_hidp and a c_hidp. However, in <strong>all</strong> cases, these IDs do not match.</p>
<p>I've tested and re-run my code, and am satisfied that individual waves have merged correctly on pidp so each individual respondent has not been joined to another erroneously. This leaves me unsure if I've made a mistake, or if the household identifiers are not supposed to match up.</p>
<p>Clearly, people who move home will not have the same identifier, but <strong>no</strong> cases match. Below is a snippet of the error from the test comparing b_hidp and c_hidp:</p>
<pre>
Error: Test failed: 'Household IDs for recurrent respondents match'
* Not expected: us$b_hidp not equal to us$c_hidp
44178/44178 mismatches (average diff: 5903312).
First 10:
pos x y diff
1 68013602 68013604 -2
2 68020402 68020404 -2
3 68027202 68040804 -13602
4 68034002 68047604 -13602
5 68047602 68068004 -20402
6 68054402 68074804 -20402
7 68068002 68088404 -20402
8 68115602 68149604 -34002
9 68136002 68170004 -34002
10 68156402 68190404 -34002.
</pre>
<p>And a section of the dataframe I've constructed with the relevant variables:</p>
<pre>
id b_hidp c_hidp
(int) (int) (int)
1 68004087 68013602 68013604
2 68006127 68020402 68020404
3 68006807 68027202 68040804
4 68007487 68034002 68047604
5 68008847 68047602 68068004
6 68009527 68054402 68074804
</pre>
<p>Is this what you would expect given how the household identifier is constructed?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p> Support #472 (Closed): Inapplicable Answers https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4722015-12-27T18:14:22ZAlex Best
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I looked at the variable c_pjbptft (whether they work full time or part time) in c_indresp (adult self completion questionnaire) and the answers can be seen on the following link:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_pjbptft">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_pjbptft</a></p>
<p>and it says that 49681 people are inapplicable, 18 work part-time and 38 work full-time. Surely this cannot be right?! Why are so many inapplicable??</p>
<p>Also, does c_indresp contain proxy interviews too or not?</p>
<p>Note: I have read the user manual and still don’t understand.</p>
<p>Your help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p> Support #471 (Closed): Weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4712015-12-27T17:57:51ZAlex Best
<p>I am doing cross-sectional analysis of wave 3 (adult self completion questionnaire), so I am aware I need to use the weight c_indscub_xw but I don't actually understand how the weight is implemented on STATA. Do I just add c_indscub_xw as if it were an independent variable or is there a command I need to type into stata before doing my analysis in order for the weights to have an effect?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #467 (Closed): Ns-sec/UKborn and religionhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4672015-12-15T12:55:04Zangela potter-collinsangela.potter-collins@ons.gsi.gov.uk
<p>Please could you just clarify(apologies unfamilar with running these in Understanding society and a colleague has queried):</p>
<p>• Whether current job NS-SEC is given by c_j1soc10_cc (NS-SEC 10) or c_j1soc00_cc (NS-SEC 2000)?</p>
<p>• Any issues to be aware of using the UKborn variable?</p>
<p>• Why are there a lot of missings when running Oprlg1. Religion: E/S/W?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #466 (Closed): Deprivation scoreshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4662015-12-14T20:39:19ZJohanna Jokioh.jokio.1@research.gla.ac.uk
<p>My enquiry is about IMD/Carstairs scores. As I understand they are not included in the data but should be linked to geographical identifiers (such as OA) accessible with the special license? <br />There has been a question about this (Support <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: questions regarding wave 2 (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/99">#99</a>) but the link on it has expired.</p>
<p>Thank you</p> Support #464 (Closed): Local Authority Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4642015-12-14T13:20:50Zmegan macphersonmegan.macpherson@nhs.net
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am looking to use the Understanding Society data for a project I am involved in. I wondered if the data can be broken down by local authority level?</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Megan</p> Support #452 (Closed): identifying same-sex (female-female)partnerhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4522015-11-22T23:27:40ZNora Alafifnouraafeef@hotmail.com
<p>Dear Understanding society team<br />I'm interested in studying sleep in pregnancy, I'm keen to identify the predictors related to good or bad sleep among pregnant women in wave1 and wave4 using the main questionnaires .<br />I would appreciate your support to find the pregnant women who have the same-sex partner(female-female) to be able to know this category ( frequency)in order to know the association between having the same-sex partner and pattern of sleep.<br />Could you pinpoint any variable highlighted (same-sex partner in wave1 and wave4)?</p>
<p>Best regards<br />Nora</p> Support #450 (Closed): subpopulation analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4502015-11-17T14:52:40ZStefanie Janelqxsw5@nottingham.ac.uk
<p>Hi, I need some advice on analyzing a subpopulation of the sample. Specifically I am only analyzing individuals that were aged 16-24 in the first wave and who have a 'full interview' at each subsequent wave.</p>
<p>Previously I had been just been applying a filter to the data and still using the sample weights, but it has occurred to me that this might not be statistically sound thing to do. What do I need to do in order to analyze this subpopulation correctly using spss? Also, would I need to adjust the sample weights manually at some point?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Stef</p> Support #449 (Closed): Sexuality Variable https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4492015-11-16T15:00:43ZAlex Best
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have downloaded understanding society's dataset and have realised the variable c_sexuor which should be in dataset "c_indresp" is not actually there. This document suggests it should be: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor</a></p>
<p>Please could you either send me an updated version of the dataset or let me know why the sexual orientation variable is not in the dataset.</p>