Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382018-04-24T15:41:53ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9662018-04-24T15:41:53ZRichard TylerR.P.O.Tyler.837039@swansea.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society members,</p>
<p>I am contacting you on behalf of the Active Healthy Kids Wales report card expert group <a class="external" href="http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/">http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/</a>.</p>
<p>As the AHK-Wales expert group of academics, educators and allied professionals we are concerned about the health of children in Wales. The AHK-Wales expert group aims to use data on physical activity/inactivity behaviours and influences to advocate for children’s right to play, to be hooked on sport and dance, learn and achieve, and be active and healthy. We are motivated to promote healthy active behaviour and physical literacy in children. Our mission is to produce AHK-Wales Report Cards that provide a clear evidence base on quality indicators related to physical activity that should be used to advocate and influence local, regional and national policies and investments in physical activity for children and young people.</p>
<p>We are currently in the process of assigning grades to the following indicators:<br /><strong><ins>Physical Activity and health behaviours and their outcomes</ins></strong><br />- Sedentary Behaviour<br />- Physical Activity<br />- Active Transport<br />- Organised Sport Participation<br />- Physical Literacy<br />- Physical Fitness</p>
<p><ins><strong>Settings and Influences on Physical Activity and Health</strong></ins><br />- Family and Peer Influence<br />- School<br />- Community and the Built Environment<br />- National Policies and Strategies</p>
<p>I can see that on your website, all data is reported for UK children on the whole, but I am wondering whether you have data specific to children/adults in Wales? Further, if so, is there any way that we could have access to the Welsh data?</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,<br />Richard</p>
<p>Richard Tyler<br />Swan-Linx Research <br />Applied Sports Science Technology and Medicine Research Centre | Canolfan Ymchwil Technoleg Chwaraeon Cymhwysol, Ymarfer a Meddygaeth (A-STEM)<br />College of Engineering | Coleg Peirianneg<br />Bay Campus| Campws y Bae<br />Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe<br />Fabian Way | Ffordd Fabian<br />Swansea | Abertawe<br />Wales | Cymru<br />SA1 8EN<br /><a class="external" href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales">www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales</a></p> Support #914 (Closed): end dates of individual interview for IP W9https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9142018-02-08T11:22:50ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I have noticed that in i_indresp_ip there are the following variables available:</p>
<p>Individual interview start time (hours)<br />Individual interview start time (minutes)<br />Individual interview start time (seconds)<br />Interview start date (year)<br />Interview start date (month)<br />Interview start date (day)<br />Time at end of individual interview (hours)<br />Time at end of individual interview (minutes)<br />Time at end of individual interview (seconds)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, interview end date is not available. I can see from data that at least on 64 occasions “interview” ended not on the same day which is expected with online mode of data collection. Unfortunately, I do not know how many days lapsed between the beginning and the end. Is there a chance to get interview end date (year, month, day) variables?</p>
<p>Many thanks!</p> Support #897 (Resolved): device used data in Wave 7 https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8972018-01-15T12:17:55ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I would like to ask where I can find “device used” variable in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. I was also not able to locate variables which record devices available to the respondent (I am aware that this information was collected in the Wave 7 of the main survey). I checked all files but did not manage to locate any of these variables.</p>
<p>I would also like to ask what the coding “3” mean in g-indall file, “mode of completion of household grid” variable. I am assuming it is cawi but would be great to know for sure.</p> Support #895 (Resolved): data release mental health and social mediahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8952018-01-09T17:19:43Zdanilo di emidio
<p>I'm in a very urgent/immediate situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) that looks at (young) people use of social media and its impact on mental health that would be very appreciated, it's for a project where I have to use the R software to compute statistics and show that my analysis helps (or not) to extent knowledge on the research problem (in my case the correlation between the use of social media and mental health).</p>
<p>my tutor suggested I came through your institution and after spending 2 days in your website I have given up, there is so much stuff. my tutor tells me first:</p>
<p>'Did you find any information on the variables you need through US?'</p>
<p>I had no clue what he meant, I guessed I would be interested in variables such as age? nationality? gender? ethnicity or as many variables as I want, based on my specific interest.</p>
<p>His reply was:</p>
<p>'The understanding society dataset is huge so in the first instance you would need to identify where the bits you need are. Look for a “code book” or other guide to the variables. You’re looking specifically for variable names and for the file name containing them. I can help with fiddly aspects of loading this into R but you need to go through the administrative side of getting to grips with what’s in the dataset'</p>
<p>I went as far as finding this page, then I get lost, when I click on some of the links I get e.g. 'variable 160'...what does it mean? that that study has 160 variables and I have to know what to unpick based on my want/need?</p>
<p>sorry if I'm asking silly questions but I have been chucked into a stats course and hve little knowledge and understanding. can you help? many thanks in advance. danilo</p> Support #893 (Rejected): Urgent/ish data mental health and social mediahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8932018-01-09T17:18:44Zdanilo di emidio
<p>I'm in a very urgent situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) that looks at (young) people use of social media and its impact on mental health that would be very appreciated, it's for a project where I have to use the R software to compute statistics and show that my analysis helps (or not) to extent knowledge on the research problem (in my case the correlation between the use of social media and mental health).</p>
<p>my tutor suggested I came through your institution and after spending 2 days in your website I have given up, there is so much stuff. my tutor tells me first:</p>
<p>'Did you find any information on the variables you need through US?'</p>
<p>I had no clue what he meant, I guessed I would be interested in variables such as age? nationality? gender? ethnicity or as many variables as I want, based on my specific interest.</p>
<p>His reply was:</p>
<p>'The understanding society dataset is huge so in the first instance you would need to identify where the bits you need are. Look for a “code book” or other guide to the variables. You’re looking specifically for variable names and for the file name containing them. I can help with fiddly aspects of loading this into R but you need to go through the administrative side of getting to grips with what’s in the dataset'</p>
<p>I went as far as finding this page, then I get lost, when I click on some of the links I get e.g. 'variable 160'...what does it mean? that that study has 160 variables and I have to know what to unpick based on my want/need?</p>
<p>sorry if I'm asking silly questions but I have been chucked into a stats course and hve little knowledge and understanding. can you help? many thanks in advance. danilo</p> Support #622 (Closed): hcost, hsyr04, mgold, mgtypehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6222016-08-30T14:21:29Zdavid rhodes
<p>Please could you advise what the situation is with these variables. In BHPS they (or their equivalents) were initially asked of all owners in wave A, and then subsequently of movers and new morgagees. This condition means that it is possible to 'back-fill' up to a given wave to identify these mortgage variables for all applicable cases. (This is a laborious approach, necessitating extraction from all previous waves, so if you could advise me of a better method it would be appreciated.)</p>
<p>In US, it appears that movers and new morgagees were also asked these questions, but so far as I can ascertain from the missing cases in the data these questions do not appear to have been asked of all owners in US in wave a (nor in any other wave I think), meaning that it is not possible to complete an analysis of all owners in any wave of US using these variables (but just the BHPS cohort, and the movers and new mortgagees)? Can you confirm that my understanding of this situation is correct?</p>
<p>Please can you get back to me asap, as I am working to a deadline on a project for the JRF. Thank you.</p> Support #579 (Closed): attrition questionhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5792016-06-11T14:49:13Zzoe youngcox.zoe@gmail.com
<p>Hi I have merged 3 variables from wave3 to wave 5 they are : c_cgwri_dv, c_cgvfc_dv, and c_cgna_dv. I want to obtain the mean for these variables but only for those who are present in wave 5. I created 2 dummy variables where wave 5 =1 is present in wave 5 and wave 3=1 if present in wave 3. when i ran a cross tab it showed that the entire sample that were in wave 3 were in wave 5. Can someone confirm this as it seems strange that no attrition occured between wave 3 and 5?</p>
<p>Thanks Zoe</p> Support #549 (Closed): self employmenthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5492016-04-21T10:03:04Zdavid rhodes
<p>Is e_jb2pay_dv a gross figure - it doesn't say on your web, as neither does it in the datafile, p90 of the user guide suggests it may be gross, however.<br />What time period does it cover? Ditto regarding your web and the datafile.</p> Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5202016-03-07T19:57:24Zclaudia cuchic.cuchi-requesens@warwick.ac.uk
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>For a lot of variables in the survey, there is a value 'inapplicable' for the majority of them. Can you please explain the meaning of 'inapplicable' and if there is a way o recover that information from the observations showing that value?</p>
<p>Thank you very much</p> Support #378 (Closed): Retirement datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3782015-05-22T09:42:31ZSarah Quqjingj@essex.ac.uk
<p>I am interested in the data of retirement plan in the understanding society. I looked at the data. It only existed in Wave 2 and Wave 4 with a large extent of missing data when I merging the two data set. the sample size become even smaller. If I want to look into a specific group population, the data size is too small to use.<br />can I ask Is there a better way to dealing with these missing data. or other approach I can use the data more efficiently. It will be very kind of you if you can give me some suggestions on it<br />Thank you very much!Very looking forward of your helps</p> Support #287 (Closed): Clarification on showcard itemshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2872014-07-21T12:53:14ZSarah Hillcoat-NalletambyS.Hillcoat-Nalletamby@swansea.ac.uk
<p>Household questionnaire: "House in decent state of repair". "Enough money to keep your house in a decent state of repair"? Showcard TBC: "we have this"; "we would like but can't afford", etc. <br />Could you please indicate what items are shown on this showcard so that we know what they are saying they can and can't afford in relation to the state of repair of the home.</p>
<p>With thanks,</p>
<p>Sarah</p> Support #233 (Closed): variables locationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2332014-01-11T09:33:10ZQueena Wong
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am using the British Household Panel Survey for my research about income and well being. <br />I found the life satisfaction variable I am intended to use - wLFSATO on the BHPS codebook. However, after I downloaded the dataset from the UK archive, the variable is not in the dataset and I have checked every single file. Apart from the satisfaction variable, other variables does not seem to match with the website codebook either. Would you please help to locate the variables or tell me what I should do?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<br />Queena</p> Support #230 (Closed): Weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2302013-12-14T00:29:28ZOurega-Zoe Ejebuzoejebu@yahoo.co.uk
<p>I am using BHPS but I did not apply weight on my sample (I aksed my supervisor and he told me it is not that important to use weight of the dataset seems representative enough)? Does that matter that I did not use weight?</p> Support #229 (Closed): Social class for unemployed individualhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2292013-12-14T00:27:43ZOurega-Zoe Ejebuzoejebu@yahoo.co.uk
<p>I am using the BHPS and I would like to know why do unemployed individuals report a social class (e.g skilled, unskilled or managerial professions...). I looked at the previous waves to identify the 'previous social class' of those individuals but it did not match.<br />Thank you for your help</p>
<p>Best Regards</p> Support #51 (Closed): a_indinus_xw weight=0https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/512012-05-16T05:54:48ZSung Park
<p>Hello:<br />I was wondering if you could confirm that that the a_indinus_xw weight variable should contain 3,933 observations (or about 7.71% of the total indresp file )where a_indinus_xw=0? I was analyzing a subpopulation of the data, and noticed that the subpopulation # of obs was lower than expected, due to this weight being zero.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your response.</p>