Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382017-08-29T22:21:47ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #845 (Closed): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statisticshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8452017-08-29T22:21:47ZAlex Turneralexander.turner@manchester.ac.uk
<p>On your data linkage page (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage</a>) it states that consent for linkage was asked in Waves 1 and 5. I was looking at information from the UK data service (<a class="external" href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053">http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053</a>) and it looks as though this data is not available yet.</p>
<p>Could you let me know when this data is planned to be made available? We are looking to include this information in a grant proposal and the submission date is the end of September.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Alex</p> Support #750 (Closed): Industry codeshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7502017-03-17T10:02:08ZAina Gallego
<p>Are there cross-walk that map the 1980 and 1992 industry classifications used in the BHPS?</p>
<p>I need to create a variable about the industry in which respondents work that is consistent for the 18 waves of the BHPS. The information is contained in two main variables: jbsic, which uses the UK SIC 1980 classification and is available until 2001 and jbsic92 which uses the UK SIC 1992 classification and is available from 2001 onwards. I would need a cross-walk to map each category of one of the variables to the closest category in the other variable.</p>
<p>I'm sure many users have had similar problems. I would be grateful if you could indicate how to do this.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> Support #703 (Closed): Longitudinal weights for periods of yearshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7032017-01-16T15:22:12ZAgnes Norris Keilleragnes_k@ifs.org.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm working on a project that examines changes in individual incomes over different periods of years.</p>
<p>I'm aware you produced a note titled "Pooling data from different waves of Understanding Society for cross-sectional analysis", which describes how to construct yearly cross-sectional weights from pooled waves. How would you recommend constructing longitudinal yearly weights that would be appropriate for analysing samples defined as "all individuals observed in year X and year Y" (where X and Y are not necessarily consecutive)?</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6722016-12-01T07:20:56ZAl Lo
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Is there information available on expected sample sizes for households in Scotland for Waves 9 and 10?</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help,</p>
<p>Al</p> Support #635 (Closed): Environmental behaviour questions, Wave 4https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6352016-10-03T08:34:28ZAlex Gnanapragasam
<p>To whom it may concern</p>
<p>I am a researcher broadly interested in environmental behaviour survey instruments and I have been having a look at the Environmental Behaviour module in wave 4 of the Understanding Society UK household longitudinal study.</p>
<p>I wanted to understand the source of your questions in this module.</p>
<p>I note helpfully you provide the sources, but I was having difficulty tracking down what “DEFRA adapted” may be.</p>
<p>I believe “UKHLS” and “BHPS” to correspond to the Understanding Society and British Household Panel Survey respectively.</p>
<p>I thought that “DEFRA adapted” might have referred to the consumer segmentation exercise DEFRA completed in 2008, but I was unsure about this.</p>
<p>Any help you can offer would be most welcome.</p>
<p>I look forward to hearing from you<br />Best wishes<br />Alex</p> Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income componentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5552016-04-27T14:22:33ZAlba Lanaulanaua@cardiff.ac.uk
<p>We are researching changes in household income over time, and are interested in determining which components (labour earnings, benefit income, etc.) are associated with the observed changes.<br />As far as I can see, the "hhresp" dataset contains an aggregate income variable but no income components. I was wondering if there are plans for those to be released?</p>
<p>In the meantime, I was considering using the information available in the "indresp" dataset, there are however some issues that I was hoping you could help me with.</p>
<p>a) w_hhnetinc1 is different from the sum of w_netinc1 for all individuals in the household. I understand this is due to the fact that w_hhnetinc1 includes additional information on proxy and individuals who did not respond to the individual questionnaire. Is that correct? Are there other possible sources of difference?</p>
<p>b) I also computed the sum of the individual income components for the first wave as follows:<br />egen a_totalinc = rowtotal(a_inc1lab a_inc2misc a_inc3prben a_inc5inv a_inc6pen a_inc7sben)</p>
<p>and compared it with a_netinc1. For 46794 cases the variables take the same value, but not for the other 4200 cases. I was wondering whether I am missing some income component? Or is there perhaps imputed income included in w_netinc1 but not in the component variables?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help,</p> Support #504 (Closed): Svy Commands on Statahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5042016-02-15T15:23:12ZAlex Best
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am using Wave C in my dissertation and I've read that because Understanding Society's Dataset is so complex, I need to use svy commands on stata to account for this. However, when I do this, I get no standard errors, t values, p values, or confidence intervals. I have used the following command:</p>
<p>svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata)</p>
<p>and then I put svy: reg y x1 x2 <br />However, it doesn't work and I am not sure why. <br />Note: 87 strata omitted because they contain no population members.<br />Note: Missing standard errors because of stratum with single sampling unit.</p>
<p>Does the above mean I need to do this:<br />svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata) singleunit(scaled)<br />then drop alll 87 strata that have been omitted and then do my regressions by putting svy: first??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>Underneath the regression table it says the following:</p> Support #459 (Closed): derived variable for total number of childrenhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4592015-11-30T22:06:08ZAlexey Bessudnov
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'd like to create variables for a total number of biological children for individuals in each wave. My understanding is that nnatch gives me the number of biological children currently residing in the household, and lnprnt is for the number of children outside hh in wave 1 and only applies to new entrants in later waves. What I want is a series of variables for the total number of children in each wave (no matter dead or alive, residing in the hh or living separately), i.e. something along these lines:</p>
<p>pidp a_nch b_nch c_nch d_nch e_nch<br />1 0 0 0 1 1 (a person has a new child between waves 3 and 4)<br />2 1 1 1 1 1 (a person enters the study with one child and doesn't have any more children)</p>
<p>Next I'd like to do the same for the total number of adoptive children.</p>
<p>Any advice on this would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p> Support #444 (Closed): I need helphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4442015-11-03T16:21:13ZAbdulganiyu Ajani
<p>I am currently using BHPS to do a research, but facing problems merging the waves. I was able to successfully append the needed variables together across the eighteen waves using indresp.dta folders. But the observation reduced tremendously. I came across XWAVEID, XWLSTEN and XWAVEDAT in the documentation. I don't know how and if they are needed to solve the problem Please I need help.</p> Support #416 (Closed): SOC 00 to ISCO 1988 stata dofile (code for 4 digits) Understanding society...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4162015-09-12T18:49:51ZAlbert Arcarons
<p>Dear Madam/Sir,</p>
<p>I was wondering if you could provide me the stata code you used to convert the variable current job isei (SOC00) to ISCO88 <br />as I want to convert the variables for the parents, for whom as far as I can see there is not a 4-digit ISCO variable. I only need <br />the code.</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Albert</p> Support #333 (Closed): Components of: a_fihhmngrs_dv gross household income: month before interviewhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3332015-01-07T18:30:52ZAlex Turneralexander.turner@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Good evening.</p>
<p>Would it be possible for you to tell me what component variables make up the derived variable in the subject heading? In particular, I am looking for a measure of gross labour income at household level (and at an individual level if possible). Unlike in the BHPS, this data doesn't seem to be available in Understanding Society.</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Alex Turner</p> Support #323 (Closed): which weight to usehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3232014-11-14T12:57:41ZVeronique Siegler
<p>I am currently working on a publication with a very tight schedule using data from the Understanding Society. The publication will use different measures at an individual level, sometimes extracted from the questionnaire, sometimes from the self-completed questionnaire. Despite reading the Understanding Society literature, I am still unsure on which weight to use in which situation and would be grateful if you could clarify the following:</p>
<p>- lets say I would like to know the proportion of people who feel they belong to their local area (wave 3, adult self-completed questionnaire). After reading the user guide, my understanding is that I should use the following weight: c_indscub_xw (for combined cross-sectional adult self-completion weight) . However, a colleague is advising me to use the following weight: c_indinub_xw (for combined cross-sectional adult main interview weight).</p>
<p>- lets say I would like to know the proportion of people who are male and female (wave 3, adult questionnaire) . After the user guide, my understanding is that I should the following weight: c_indinub_xw (for combined cross-sectional adult main interview weight).</p>
<p>- lets now say I would like to know the proportion of people who feel they belong to their local area by age (one variable from the adult self-completed questionnaire and one variable from the questionnaire, both wave 3). The user guide suggests that "for individual level analysis you may want to combine information from different questionnaire sources. In this situation please select the weight suitable for the lowest level according to the hierarchy below" - which suggests to me that in that case, I should use the following weight: c_indscub_xw (for combined cross-sectional adult self-completion weight). However, again my colleague is suggesting that I should use the following weight: c_indinub_xw (for combined cross-sectional adult main interview weight). </p>
<pre><code>I expect the same logic would apply to other previous waves? (waves 2, 1 and BHPS) and future wave (wave 4)</code></pre>
<p>I would be so grateful if you could advise me regarding that important matter.</p> Support #298 (Closed): USOC cross-section household weight for BHPS sample: wave 3https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2982014-08-28T16:17:06ZAlex Hurrellalexhurrell1@gmail.com
<p>Hello, this is a follow-up query related to a previous query (<a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: USOC cross-section household weight for BHPS sample: wave 3 (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/291">#291</a>).</p>
<p>I need to estimate weighted medians for the BHPS sub-sample in UKHLS wave 3. What are the most appropriate weights to use for this?</p>
<p>Is it valid to use c_hhdenub_xw and c_indpxub_xw, even if I am restricting my analysis to just the BHPS sub-sample?</p>
<p>If not, then what would you advise I should do?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Alex</p> Support #289 (Closed): Reproducing survey questionshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2892014-07-24T13:14:12ZVictoria Peaceyvickipea@gmail.com
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I just want to check whether it is acceptable to reproduce some of the survey questions, including the GHQ-12 questions, in an appendix to my Master's thesis, which is using data from waves 2 and 3. I will reference them properly but thought I should check if there are any other issues I should be aware of.</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p> Support #288 (Closed): Question about xwave datasethttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2882014-07-23T11:43:56ZYinxuan Huangyinxuan.huang@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>I am currently working on the c_ wave but would also like to include some variables from xwave dataset. It seems that there are xwave versions of some variables and c_ versions of the same thing. The c_ version tends to be much smaller with lots of inapplicable cases. However, there seem to be differences between the xwave version and the c_version when you cross-tab them. This is odd and makes me wonder whether the c_ version is a correction of the xwave version (ie they asked respondents things in 2009 and either the information has changed since or the respondent has said, no that’s wrong and so it has been updated). <br />So coupld you explain to me what is the relationship between the different variables in different datasets, I could hardly find any comprehensive descriptions from the userguid.<br />Thank you very much!</p>