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Redmine Support #2023 (Resolved): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent?...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20232024-01-03T12:05:18ZConnor Drake
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 data as this was the most recent dataset which asked the questions we were looking at. I am posting as wondering if there is a simple(r) way to determine if a respondent is a single parent than the steps I have taken (outlined below - excuse the long syntax trail and attached images!), but also to ask for advice on how to fix an issue where I am getting .00 in a frequency table for wave 13 even though the syntax remains the same.</p>
<p>Steps I have taken for this analysis:</p>
<p>1. I have created a variable which bands the number of children into 0, 1, 2 and more than 3, using the following syntax:</p>
<p>compute newchildbands=0.</p>
<p>if j_ndepchl_dv=-9 newchildbands=-9.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-8 newchildbands=0.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-2 newchildbands=-2.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=-1 newchildbands=-1.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=0 newchildbands=0.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=1 newchildbands=1.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=2 newchildbands=2.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=3 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=4 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=5 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=6 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=7 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=8 newchildbands=3.<br />if j_ndepchl_dv=11 newchildbands=3.</p>
<p>ADD VALUE LABELS newchildbands<br />-9 "Missing" <br />-2 "Refusal" <br />-1 "Don't know" <br />0 "No children" <br />1 "One child" <br />2 "Two children" <br />3 "Three or more children".</p>
<p>Wave 10 frequencies table for 'newchildbands':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/281/newchildbands%20Wave%2010.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Wave 13 frequencies table for 'newchildbands':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/282/newchildbands%20Wave%2013.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>2. I have created a single parents variable, combining the newly-created newchildbands variable with j_marstat and m_marstat in the respective dataset for waves 10 and 13, using the following syntax.</p>
<p>compute singleparents=0.</p>
<p>if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=1 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=4 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=5 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=6 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=7 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=8 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=9 singleparents=1.<br />if newchildbands=1 or newchildbands=2 or newchildbands=3 and m_marstat=2 or m_marstat=3 singleparents=2.<br />if newchildbands=0 and m_marstat=1 or m_marstat=4 or m_marstat=5 or m_marstat=6 or m_marstat=7 or m_marstat=8 or m_marstat=9 singleparents=3.<br />if newchildbands=0 and m_marstat=2 or m_marstat=3 singleparents=4.</p>
<p>ADD VALUE LABELS singleparents<br />1 "Single parent" <br />2 "Parent with partner" <br />3 "Single but no children" <br />4 "Partnered and no children".</p>
<p>Wave 10 frequencies table for 'singleparents':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/283/singleparents%20Wave%2010.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Wave 13 frequencies table for 'singleparents':</p>
<p><img src="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/attachments/download/284/singleparents%20Wave%2013.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Apologies if I'm missing something fairly simple in my syntax or in a variable I could use alternatively instead, and I hope that I haven't added too much information in my attempts to be as detailed as possible! I can, of course, provide more information if needed and any advice that you can provide is more than appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Connor</p> Support #1961 (Resolved): Newly diagosed health conditions in UKHLS wave 10https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19612023-08-22T13:53:16ZAlexander Labeit
<p>I want to potentially update health conditions for all waves from waves 2 to 12.</p>
<p>Looking at the updating health conditions (newly) diagnosed (e.g. asthma, diabetes, etc).</p>
<p>1) hcondn1 indresp waves 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9<br />Universe: if ff_ivlolw = 1 | ff_everint = 1 (interviewed at prior wave or has been interviewed previously)</p>
<p>2) hcondncode1 indresp waves 10, 11, 12<br />Universe: if ff_ivlolw = 1 | ff_everint = 1 (interviewed at prior wave or has been interviewed previously)</p>
<p>Also relating to the query is the issue 'New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10' or more general to health conditions in general in wave 10 and note #5<br /><a class="external" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1686">https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1686</a></p>
<p>Therefore, looking at the data documentation from variable search and as I understand it from this issue 1686: it is not possible to <br />update the health conditions information for continuing respondents in wave 10, only to use also the included 'ever' information.</p>
<p>Can you confirm this?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Alexander</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 #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 #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>