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 #463 (Closed): Job History Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4632015-12-09T17:01:17ZAnuj Vithlani
<p>I've looked at both the BHPS and UKHLS data. Am I correct in saying that BHPS has job history data whilst the UKHLS does not? I wanted to extract the 'years of part time work experience' and the 'years of full time work experience' and use them as variables. Is this not possible with the UKHLS data?</p>
<p>Thank you!</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 #446 (Closed): Childcare analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4462015-11-06T12:28:24ZCeri Hughes
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I would like to use the Understanding Society wave 4 data to assess whether childcare arrangements made to cover working hours/commitments vary by employment status (self-employed vs employees).</p>
<p>The ccwork variable asks respondents with children under 15 who have a job what arrangements they make to look after their children when working. It is only asked of people who have said they do not use 'childcare' (care provided by someone other than them or a partner).</p>
<p>My question is whether I can use the d_ccwork variable alongside d_ccare (use childcare) to provide a broad overview of childcare arrangements made to accommodate work. I.e. x per cent of employees use childcare, x per cent don't but work from home and another x per cent think their children are old enough to look after themselves (and so on along the different response options). It seems to me that there is an assumption in the way that the questions are structured that those who state that they use childcare would be using it when they are at work whereas those who answer no are pressed to provide more detail on the arrangements that they make. However it could be that people who say they use childcare only use it for babysitting and that they actually make arrangements to work from home or structure their working hours in a particular way to ensure care is provided whilst they work. A question similar to ccwork does not seem to be asked of those who say they use childcare.</p>
<p>Is there another combination of variables that need to be looked at to determine whether the ccwork response options apply to those who use childcare?</p>
<p>Any help on this much appreciated.</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 #373 (Closed): Enquiry on household income data https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3732015-05-04T03:20:18ZAi Yun Taytay_ai_yun@mof.gov.sg
<p>We saw the Understanding Society Design Overview and would like to seek your expertise on some of the queries that we have:</p>
<p>1) Are respondents required to answer questions related to household income in the survey?</p>
<p>2) Does the study track household income across time? If yes, could you share more on the data processing methodology? E.g. How does the study treat the problem of household formation/dissolution? If household A splits into household B and C in year X+1, does the household income figure follows from household A to B or household A toC?</p>
<p>3) We note that it is mentioned that the study is representative of the whole population across time (as a result of births to sample members joining the sample). Would the study be representative of the population if over the years the country has more and more new immigrants? (Note: these new immigrants would not be part of the OSM in wave 1 and will not be related to the original households. As such, they will never be part of the survey sample.)</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>