Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382016-01-06T05:31:37ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine 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 #465 (Closed): Immediate - BHPS data access help https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4652015-12-14T16:33:05ZChristopher Boothchristopher.booth@durham.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society User Support,</p>
<p>I have registered for the UK Data Service and acquired BHPS data for my dissertation. However, I have found it difficult to find data on household’s wealth, financial and housing assets and consumption. Looking at the summary table I noticed that waves 5,10 and 15 include information on wealth, assets and debt.</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if you would be able to help me find and access information on the following variables or others of a similar nature 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> Support #411 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic informationhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4112015-09-08T15:30:49ZJaviera Cartagena Fariasjaviera.cartagena-farias@natcen.ac.uk
<p>We are looking at the possibility of using Understanding Society to compare pupils outcomes (intervention v/s comparison groups). We would like to make sure we could request information related to: pupils attainment, Unique Pupil Number (UPN), ethnicity and socio-economic information providing we have a opt-out consent letter from every pupil.<br />Thank you very much in advance</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 #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 #284 (Closed): Ethnic Boost in Innovation Panelhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2842014-07-10T08:11:24ZHSIN CHENhsinchen.sylvana@gmail.com
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Are there boost samples for ethnic in Innovation panel? Since I cannot find the information about it, thank you.<br />Besides, I've checked a_psnenip_xd (cross-sectional person design weight), the value ranged from 1 to 4. However, the frequency table on the website is only 1, I would like to know what make them different, thank you. And since the Innovation Panel sample is a equal probability design, why there are different design weights for individuals. Thank you.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel/dataset-documentation/wave/1/datafile/a_indresp_ip/variable/a_psnenip_xd">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel/dataset-documentation/wave/1/datafile/a_indresp_ip/variable/a_psnenip_xd</a></p> 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 #272 (Closed): Questions about IP1 and IP4.https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2722014-06-20T07:16:03ZHsin Chen
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>My name is Hsin, a postgraduate student in the Univeirsty of Manchester. I used Innovation Panel as my data set for my dissertation, and I have fronted some problems.</p>
<p>One is the missing data. Due to my topic, I need to merge data (1) IP1 and IP2 individual (2) IP4 and IP5 individuals. However, after I proceed the merging, there are 1031 and 637 missing respectively. I also tried to merge only (1) IP1 "full productive interview" individual and IP2 all individual (2) IP4 "full productive interview" and IP5 all indivudals, still, there are 600 and 329 missing relatively. I could not understand the reason why cross wave personal id of respondents in IP1 or IP4 doesn't exist in IP2 or IP5.</p>
<p>Another issue is about "design weight". I could not find the design weight for IP4 refreshment sample.</p>
<p>Thank you for your kindly help.</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 #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>