Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382018-01-15T12:17:55ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine 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 #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooledhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6582016-11-17T21:09:30ZMin Zhangmin.zhang-7@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Support team,</p>
<p>I have two questions with weights. Our data is based on a sub-population (respondents whose parents had non-missing interview records on their parents, that is, respondents' grandparents), while BHPS and USoc are pooled together. We are using BHPS wave 1-18, USoc wave 1-5. We have read through both BHPS and USoc user guides and weights-related posts on this forum but could not find the best solution.</p>
<p>Our research is on social class and education.</p>
<p>1. Class:<br />I use non-missing social class variables at the last, or most recent, waves that respondents attended. For example, in the case in which the last wave that a respondent was interviewed was BHPS wave 12, the non-missing social class recode at BHPS wave 12 would be taken as the measure of social class. Say, if the record at BHPS wave 12 is missing but the one at BHPS wave 11 is non-missing, the social class variable at wave 11 would be taken as the measure of social class.</p>
<p>This means that our data is drawn from different waves of BHPS and USoc. Can you please suggest which weights serve the best for our purpose.</p>
<p>2. Education<br />We use the highest educational qualifications that respondents have ever achieved. Which weights should we use in this case?</p>
<p>We incorporated gender, birth cohort, age, race (a roughly binary white vs non-white variable though), regions and data sources (a binary BHPS vs USoc variable) as the control variables in our analyses. We also take into clustered errors using household ID. We wonder whether it is statistically acceptable if there are no perfect weights used in our analyses.</p>
<p>We highly appreciate your supports.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</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 #479 (Closed): Urgent - data accesss support https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4792016-01-06T05:31:37ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>I am looking to download data in a format that I can ideally use in excel. If not, I am willing to download any software which will help me access the data. I am confused by the number of different data files available to download and am unsure which is best for me.</p>
<p>After downloading the British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 data file in tab format I have opened it in excel. However, it is in a format which seems impossible for me to understand.</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if you could provide exact instructions on what file I should download to access the variables I require as follows:</p>
<p>From at least 3 waves or more:</p>
<p>Household makeup / structure / type <br />Household income <br />Household wealth <br />Household financial assets <br />Household housing/property assets</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Chris</p> Support #390 (Closed): how to deal with inapplicable valueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3902015-07-20T14:42:58ZJun LiuJun.Liu@warwcik.ac.uk
<p>Dear support team<br /> a lot of the variables in the Understanding Society dataset has a high percentage of inapplicable values. For example, the highest qualification variable, w_qfhigh, has around 85-90% of inapplicable values. How should I deal with the inapplicable values? Is inapplicable values the same as missing values? why is a variable like the highest qualification has so many inapplicable values? I would assume most of the people in the sample has some kind of education. Any other inputs on the questions will be much appreciated.</p>
<pre><code>Thank you </code></pre>
<pre><code>Jun</code></pre> Support #281 (Closed): Weights for IP5https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2812014-07-04T12:20:09ZHSIN CHENhsinchen.sylvana@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Thanks for previous answers.</p>
<p>However,I still have a problem on design weight for both original sample and refreshment sample.According to previous feedback, it is stated "Essentially, considering the longitudinal structure of the data and recognizing that attrition occurs between waves 1 and 4, we do not provide separate design weight. But if it helps, IP (both original and refreshment) have almost an equal probability sample designs."</p>
<p>In the IP1 data set, the variable "a_psnenip_xd" shows that the design weight is from 1 to 4. So for refreshment sample in IP4, should I use 1 as design weight or other amount(from 1 to 4)? Thank you so much.</p> Support #277 (Closed): Wave 2 Results from Methodological Experimentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2772014-06-30T18:20:03ZHsin Chen
<p>When I was reading "Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 2 Results from Methodological Experiments" I tried to compare the the response in the report with the data set. I have a question about the data. According to the paper, the total sample size for the experiment on interview mode is 2,100. However, I tried to run the data set and filtered out samples who are less than 16, the total sample size was 2,148. I know there were 37 allocation errors happened during interviewing, however, there were still 11 samples not shown in the table. I would like to know whether I missed to filter unqualified sample, if so, what type of sample was been removed, thanks.</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 #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weightshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1272013-02-28T23:58:06ZLaura Kudrna
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Where can I find out which variables were used to construct the survey weights available for Wave 2 of US?</p>
<p>This will be essential information for persuading my colleagues to use them on an imminent analysis.</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Laura</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>