Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382020-12-02T11:46:37ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #1454 (Resolved): Understanding Society area level deprivation measurehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/14542020-12-02T11:46:37ZLaura Bryce
<p>I am just wondering if Understanding Society contains a measure of area level deprivation</p> Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 o...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12952019-12-16T18:28:10ZC Jostenjostenc@hotmail.de
<p>Hi! I'd be interested to know if someone has tested the stability of personality across the two waves in which the Big5 were recorded. The correlations across those two waves appear to be very low, which I am puzzled about. Has anyone tested the validity of this?<br />Thanks and best,<br />C.</p> Support #1281 (Resolved): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12812019-11-26T17:20:22ZC Jostenjostenc@hotmail.de
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I have two questions regarding the Big5 personality traits in the BHPS and Understanding Society:</p>
<p>1. I am currently using all waves from BHPS and Understanding Society to understand the impact of personality (the Big Five) on labour market outcomes by occupation. I am aware that the Big Five were asked in wave 14 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society. I am now unsure on how to merge those two variables. Given that personality is often assumed to be constant across years I would like to extend this measurement to more than just the year of the wave they were asked. However, I am unsure as to how to treat those values for BHPS versus Understanding Society and how they differ across waves by individual. Is there a best practice?</p>
<p>2. Derived personality variables from wave 3 of UKHLS: I have tried to replicate those with the non-derived individual responses (following the description on the Understanding Society) but I do not get the same but similar results. It would be important to know how those are coded for me to do the same for the 2005 responses. I have followed the instruction on your website: "Component score calculated as the average item response if no more than one of the three input responses is missing". And then rounded those values. But my derived variable is different from yours.</p> Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an exhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12692019-11-01T17:13:46ZHarvey Dayharvey.day@bbc.co.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>A recent report using data from the Understanding Survey found that 2.5 million Brits are in "hidden households" they cannot afford to move out of, including house shares, adults living with their parents, or people living with an ex-partner.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49787913">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49787913</a></p>
<p>I'm writing a story about people living with an ex-partner. Is it possible to find out how many of these 2.5 million are living with an ex-partner?</p>
<p>My deadline is Monday so it would be fantastic if you were able to shed any light on this.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Harvey Day<br />BBC Three Editorial<br />07881 373 402</p> Support #1173 (Resolved): Clustering https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11732019-03-27T11:21:11ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>I am trying to run some analysis using individual and household characteristics and having to deal with clustering issues. Presently, I am clustering at Pidp level on the premise that errors are unlikely to be uncorrelated within individuals. Do you think clustering at Pidp makes sense? I am also trying to cluster at household level (hidp), but household IDs change every year and it will be difficult to keep track of all these changes for a large number of observations. Do you recommend clustering at hidp level instead (despite that these change every year)?</p> Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11292019-01-15T18:10:21ZLydia Palumbolvpalu@utu.fi
<p>Dear UKHLS User Support,</p>
<p>it is quite surprising for me to notice that the missing values (as proxy) of the harmonized variable (b)w_fimnlabgrs_dv are present only in BHPS and not in UKHLS. Is there a place where I can find answer to this question?</p>
<p>Thank you and best regards,<br />Lydia</p> Support #1121 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_allhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11212018-12-19T15:04:27ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I expect that the number of observations for values (countries) 5-27 should be the same for both the "plbornc" and "plbornc_all" variables. for instance, Republic of Ireland has 722 observations in the "plbornc" and has 457 in "plbornc_all". May I please know why this is the case?</p> Support #1098 (Resolved): Consultinghttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10982018-11-22T13:15:38ZLeonardo Nunezlnunez@desarrollosocial.gob.cl
Dear Sirs:<br />My name is Leonardo Núñez and I work at the Social Observatory of the Chilean Department of Social Development. We are in charge of carrying out the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) and we have been evaluating the transfer from PAPI format to CAPI. According to this I want to ask some introductory questions:
<ul>
<li>Can you send the form BHPS survey?</li>
<li>In this survey (BHPS) what software do you use for data collection, Blaise software? or other market or own software?<br />I look forward to hearing from you<br />Thank you in advance<br />━━━━━━━━<br />Leonardo Núñez López<br />División Observatorio Social<br />Subsecretaría de Evaluación Social<br />Ministerio de Desarrollo Social <br />Gobierno de Chile</li>
</ul> Support #1088 (Resolved): More information on variable "plbornc"https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10882018-11-07T12:05:31ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Please is there a further breakdown of the countries of origin of immigrants (plbornc)? I am conducting a study on the EU accession 8 countries and it appears that only Poland is part of the countries explicitly labeled (10). I believe the other Eastern European countries are embedded in "others" 97. Is there any chance that you have a further breakdown of these so I can identify other Eastern European countries?</p>
<p>Also, what is the date of the release of Wave 9?</p>
<p>Thank you in anticipation of your response.</p> Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudinal analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10212018-08-19T10:05:44ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I'm running an analysis at the household level with averaged individual-level attributes by household (dependent variable is a household attribute). I would like to clarify the following:</p>
<p>1) Can household weights be used irrespective of the individual-level attributes?<br />2) For a longitudinal analysis at the household level, has for each wave a different cross-sectional household weight to be used (n_hhdenub_xw) since there is not longitudinal weight for household-level analyses?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9102018-02-05T17:13:32Znirosha elsem varghese
<p>Hello,<br />I am not able to download the National Pupil Database from the Uk Data website.Is there any additional formalities to download this data.</p> Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codeshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5652016-05-16T11:56:26ZDan Browndaniel.brown@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
<p>I have previously asked ISER for the meaning of the alwstat codes in the egoalt file, but did so via email (not on the user support). The following were the answers I received (which I have been asked to upload here):</p>
<p>1. Not enumerated means that this person was not counted as being present in any household in the last wave.<br />2. Rejoiner means this person was not enumerated in the last wave but has been enumerated earlier<br />3. “new entrant” means someone who has never been part of the sample until this wave<br />4. “new birth, OSM” are new entrants who are OSMs and whose age is 0. No distinction is made between natural/adoptive/…. Children. There is one issue about this that is not perhaps clear from its name or description. Although egoalt file is about the relationship between household members, the new birth does not refer to the relationship between the ego and alter. For example, if there is a new child in the household the w_elwstat for this child and any other household member will show “new birth, OSM”. Also, new members of age 0 who are not OSMs will not be coded as “new birth, OSM” but simply as “new entrant”.<br />5. Yes, egoalt files only include individuals in multiple person households. So, single person households are excluded.</p> Support #489 (Closed): HRPhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4892016-01-22T16:56:31Zdavid rhodes
<p>How do I identify the HRP? Although the HH data is answered by the HRP ('usually'), there are no details of sex, age, economic status, etc etc included, so how do I identify the person in the individual data who is the HRP, or do I have to create my own indicator using the criteria used in Govt surveys? I feel sure the BHPS used to have such an indicator.</p> Support #240 (Closed): Derived variable in the BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2402014-01-31T12:06:19ZJonathan Burtonjburton@essex.ac.uk
<p>Message from Tina Haux:<br />I am getting in touch as I am doing a project together with Lucinda using the MCS on contact and parenting before and after separation and we are looking derive a variable capturing the length of separation of couples. I seem to remember that Chiara Pronzato did something similar for the BHPS data with John Ermisch and I was wondering whether it would be possible to get more information on how this variable has been derived to see whether it would make sense to do something similar with the MCS data.</p> Support #156 (Closed): Variables and weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1562013-06-09T22:51:18ZGiulia Montresorgmontr@essex.ac.uk
<p>Hello, <br />I would like to ask a few questions:</p>
<p>- In wave 2, what is the difference between the variable b_hcondn and b_hcondno? There is no description for b_hcondno in the documentation section of the Understanding Society website.</p>
<p>- I would like to use the variable ivintlang but I don't know what weight to apply, all the weights seems to have zero value for this variable.</p>
<p>- When I compute estimates using weights, e.g. indinus_xw, I see that I get different standard errors depending on whether I use the command:<br />svy, subpop (if varname=...): mean varname<br />or the command:<br />svy: mean varname, over(varname)<br />Why does this happen? What command is reliable?</p>
<p>Thanks and regards<br />Giulia</p>