Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382023-12-20T10:59:26ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #2018 (Resolved): Month migrants came to Britainhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20182023-12-20T10:59:26ZMichael Mahony
<p>I wish to use Understanding Society retrospective data to construct life histories of migrants within the Understanding Society survey from their point of arrival within the UK.</p>
<p>The retrospective data is generally provided in monthly format. However, I can only find the year migrants came to Britain (yr2uk4).</p>
<p>Is there a variable capturing the month migrants arrived in the UK?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your help,</p>
<p>Michael</p> Support #2013 (Resolved): Issue with new USoc variable searchhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20132023-12-15T14:36:10ZFergus McCormack
<p>The variable search page on the understanding society website seems to have been updated recently and is no longer working well. I've tried multiple times to search various variables (either by their encoded name e.g. xpoily for oil and gas expenditure) or by using descriptive words, and in all cases I've tried so far the variable doesn't come up.</p>
<p>If it would be possible to try and figure out what's going wrong here, that would be greatly appreciated, and I'm sure it would be very helpful for other users if they're facing similar issues.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/variables/?wpsolr_fq%5B0%5D=variable_datafile_mainstage_str%3Ahhresp&wpsolr_fq%5B1%5D=index_term_str%3AHousehold%20Consumption%3A%20Heating%20and%20Fuel">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/variables/?wpsolr_fq%5B0%5D=variable_datafile_mainstage_str%3Ahhresp&wpsolr_fq%5B1%5D=index_term_str%3AHousehold%20Consumption%3A%20Heating%20and%20Fuel</a></p> Support #2007 (Resolved): Code Creatorhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20072023-12-12T15:24:35ZMartha Tindall
<p>Good afternoon, when using the code creator function on the website I get the following error when I click "get your code". I have used the function before without issue. Please could you help me resolve this? <br /><img src="clipboard-202312121524-vztcu.png" alt="" /></p> Support #1986 (Resolved): Jbbgdat variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19862023-10-25T10:05:47ZAlena Oxenham
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am trying to look at participants' start date of their current job. In the Wave 12 questionnaire, it looks like "jbbgdat" was used, however I can't find this variable in my dataset or in the variable search tool. I looked at the jbbgd/m/y variables, but they have ~98% inapplicable responses. Was jbbgdat included in Wave 12 or any previous waves? Or is there a different variable I should be using to look at employment start dates?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> Support #1981 (Resolved): Loneliness measure 'inapplicable' responses at wave 12https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19812023-10-05T13:18:08ZEmma Kirwan
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I'm wondering why are there so many 'inapplicable' responses for Wave 12 loneliness measure items (sclackcom, scleftout, scisolate)?</p>
<p>Thanks</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 #1917 (Resolved): DVLA Data: Untaxed vehicleshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19172023-06-07T18:14:08ZEduardo Fe eduardo.fe@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Hello</p>
<p>I would be greatful if anyone could explain this aspect of the DVLA dataset. I’m looking at the proportion of non-taxed vehicles. In accordance to the descriptive statistcs in the HLS' website, about 14% of the cars in the dataset are not taxed (variable e_vehicle_status). The DVLA, however, estimates that only 1.4-1.9% of the cars are not taxed in any one year (since 2015).</p>
<p>I really would like to gain some insights on this discrepancy. I wondered if someone involved in the DVLA dataset could please explain what the likely reasons behind these differences are. Specifically, I would like to be able to rule out issues of measurement error. <br />Best regards<br />Eduardo</p> Support #1866 (Resolved): Code Creator Beta No longer working https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18662023-02-24T09:38:13ZScarlett Scott
<p>Hello, <br />The code creator beta tool is no longer working and I receive the following error message:</p>
<p>Error: call to URL <a class="external" href="https://isergwapi.essex.ac.uk/requests">https://isergwapi.essex.ac.uk/requests</a> failed with status 0, response , curl_error Peer's Certificate has expired., curl_errno 60</p>
<p>Thanks so much</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 #1831 (Resolved): hhgrid_w12.clstat https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18312022-12-15T17:02:07ZBecky Pennington
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>There is a question in the household grid about where household leavers are now living (leavers abode): hhgrid_w12.clstat<br />But the variable doesn't appear in the variable search and is not included in the datasets when I download them.<br />Is it possible to access this variable please? <br />I would like to use it to analyse how household members' health and wellbeing outcomes change when someone they are living with dies, to understand the effect of bereavement on health and wellbeing. Without access to this variable, I currently do not know why somebody leaves a household. I am happy to provide more details of my planned analysis if required.</p>
<p>many thanks</p> Support #1828 (Resolved): Partnership histories response status https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18282022-12-07T22:16:27ZMichaela Kyclova
<p>Dear Understanding Society team,</p>
<p>I was wondering if there is any way to know whether a woman (specifically, a mother) responded to the partnership histories. I know that in the partnership histories, you only include those who had at least one partnership spell. My question is, how do I differentiate the mothers who had never been partnered and those who just have many missing responses and therefore appear (based on the merge) as never partnered, but have rather incomplete responses?</p>
<p>Based on phistory files only, when merging with indresp (all waves), I have much more 'never partnered' mothers than anticipated in the data.</p>
<p>Thank you very much.<br />Best wishes,<br />Michaela</p> Support #1825 (Resolved): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waveshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18252022-12-06T18:01:17ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the 2011 LSOA file (<a class="external" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7248&type=Data%20catalogue">https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7248&type=Data%20catalogue</a>) apply to the BHPS waves, in the same way that the 2001 LSOA file (<a class="external" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6670&type=Data%20catalogue">https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6670&type=Data%20catalogue</a>) applies to the UKHLS waves of the survey.</p>
<p>I ask because we are only permitted to match one or the other to the Special Licence file, and therefore it is not possible to study the whole panel using the most up-to-date LSOAs.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p> Support #1822 (Resolved): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicatorshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18222022-11-29T14:33:31ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've noticed that the Special Licence dataset SN 7630 (Rural-Urban Indicators) is not as described here: <a class="external" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7630&type=Data%20catalogue#!/documentation">https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7630&type=Data%20catalogue#!/documentation</a> . In particular, the codes are not as described in the PDF (for England and Wales, Scotland, and NI). They seem instead to be 1-6, A1, A2, B1, B2, etc.</p>
<p>Would you be able to advise on this?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p> Support #1797 (Resolved): Child birth years/fertility historieshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17972022-10-31T18:58:53ZEmily Humphreys
<p>Hello</p>
<p>I am trying to create datasets for each wave of the survey which include the date (year) of birth for each of a respondent's children.</p>
<p>I initially started with the ch1by_dv (DOB of oldest biological child) in the xwavedat file. I found that the number of respondents with oldest children born in each year seems to drop off sharply in the early 2000s, particularly for women. I would expect fewer people to have had their oldest child in very recent years, but not such a sudden drop or a gender difference. Can you explain why this would be the case and/or share the code (in stata) for the derived variable?</p>
<p>(I merged variables from a_indresp and xwavedat to tabulate a_sex_dv and ch1by_dv)</p>
<p>I've also tried using an adapted version of the code from support enquiry <a class="issue tracker-3 status-3 priority-4 priority-default" title="Support: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent (Resolved)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/947">#947</a>, intending to identify a years of birth for all resident and nonresident children from the w_indall and a_natchild files, but as my output on oldest children looks very different to the ch1by_dv output, I don't want to go too far with this until I understand where the difference has come from.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Emily</p> Support #1789 (Resolved): Missing responses for racel_dv at each wavehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17892022-10-19T10:43:57ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm using the crosswave variable racel_dv: when I match it into UKHLS indresp waves that I am interested in, I notice that there are a surprising number of missing responses (usually around a 1000). Why is this? I would think that ethnicity would be available for every respondent.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Albert</p>