Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382018-01-09T17:18:44ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine 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 #868 (Closed): wealthassetsanddebthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8682017-10-20T09:47:48ZAnonymous
<p>Dear staff,</p>
<p>Do you have any information on when the next time data on assets and debt will be collected (the "wealthassetsanddebt" section)?</p>
<p>I would be grateful if you could provide any information on the timing of future collection of these variables.</p> Support #750 (Closed): Industry codeshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7502017-03-17T10:02:08ZAina Gallego
<p>Are there cross-walk that map the 1980 and 1992 industry classifications used in the BHPS?</p>
<p>I need to create a variable about the industry in which respondents work that is consistent for the 18 waves of the BHPS. The information is contained in two main variables: jbsic, which uses the UK SIC 1980 classification and is available until 2001 and jbsic92 which uses the UK SIC 1992 classification and is available from 2001 onwards. I would need a cross-walk to map each category of one of the variables to the closest category in the other variable.</p>
<p>I'm sure many users have had similar problems. I would be grateful if you could indicate how to do this.</p>
<p>Thanks!</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 #555 (Closed): Household and individual income componentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5552016-04-27T14:22:33ZAlba Lanaulanaua@cardiff.ac.uk
<p>We are researching changes in household income over time, and are interested in determining which components (labour earnings, benefit income, etc.) are associated with the observed changes.<br />As far as I can see, the "hhresp" dataset contains an aggregate income variable but no income components. I was wondering if there are plans for those to be released?</p>
<p>In the meantime, I was considering using the information available in the "indresp" dataset, there are however some issues that I was hoping you could help me with.</p>
<p>a) w_hhnetinc1 is different from the sum of w_netinc1 for all individuals in the household. I understand this is due to the fact that w_hhnetinc1 includes additional information on proxy and individuals who did not respond to the individual questionnaire. Is that correct? Are there other possible sources of difference?</p>
<p>b) I also computed the sum of the individual income components for the first wave as follows:<br />egen a_totalinc = rowtotal(a_inc1lab a_inc2misc a_inc3prben a_inc5inv a_inc6pen a_inc7sben)</p>
<p>and compared it with a_netinc1. For 46794 cases the variables take the same value, but not for the other 4200 cases. I was wondering whether I am missing some income component? Or is there perhaps imputed income included in w_netinc1 but not in the component variables?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help,</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 #444 (Closed): I need helphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4442015-11-03T16:21:13ZAbdulganiyu Ajani
<p>I am currently using BHPS to do a research, but facing problems merging the waves. I was able to successfully append the needed variables together across the eighteen waves using indresp.dta folders. But the observation reduced tremendously. I came across XWAVEID, XWLSTEN and XWAVEDAT in the documentation. I don't know how and if they are needed to solve the problem Please I need help.</p> Support #373 (Closed): Enquiry on household income data https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3732015-05-04T03:20:18ZAi Yun Taytay_ai_yun@mof.gov.sg
<p>We saw the Understanding Society Design Overview and would like to seek your expertise on some of the queries that we have:</p>
<p>1) Are respondents required to answer questions related to household income in the survey?</p>
<p>2) Does the study track household income across time? If yes, could you share more on the data processing methodology? E.g. How does the study treat the problem of household formation/dissolution? If household A splits into household B and C in year X+1, does the household income figure follows from household A to B or household A toC?</p>
<p>3) We note that it is mentioned that the study is representative of the whole population across time (as a result of births to sample members joining the sample). Would the study be representative of the population if over the years the country has more and more new immigrants? (Note: these new immigrants would not be part of the OSM in wave 1 and will not be related to the original households. As such, they will never be part of the survey sample.)</p> Support #362 (Closed): weights for longitudinal analysishttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3622015-04-27T13:38:08ZAnonymous
<p>Dear Alita Nandi,</p>
<p>I am postgraduate student aat the University of Lund. I am working on my final dissertation and I am using the UKHLS survey. I want to study the so-called Healthy Immigrant Effect which says that immigrants tend to be healthier than native-born when they arrive to the country, but they converge to the health of natives as time passes.</p>
<p>It is the first time that I use the UKHLS survey and I have used the material of the online course, in particular the weighting section. I must admit that everything is really well explained and do files are specially helpful. However, I still have a doubt about which weight to pick for my analysis and I was wondering if you could help me on that.</p>
<p>To first study the inequalitites in health status between immigrants and natives I will use the wave 1. Therefore I think tthat I have to use the weight a_indpxus_xw since I am using adult main and proxy interview data.</p>
<p>To study the "health assymilation effect", i.e: wether immigrants´ health converge to native levels, I plan to run a regression where the dependent variable is the difference in health between wave 4 and wave 1. I will include as explanatory variables country of origin and other control variables for wave 1. Since in this model I will also use data from wave 4 (health status in wave 4) I am guessing that if I use the cross-section weight for wave 1, I won´t be controlling for attrition. Therefore, I am really confused about what weight I should use. I would really appreciate if you could give me any advice about it.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p> Support #347 (Closed): finding open-ended question data from BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3472015-03-02T13:29:49ZAchim Edelmannachim.edelmann@gmail.com
<p>Dear Documentation Team,</p>
<p>I try to locate data from the BHPs but have trouble locating it. Would be<br />great if you could point me into the right direction here.</p>
<p>I am specifically looking for data gathered through the open-ended questions<br />in the BHPs (the non-encoded verbatim record if possible). For example, as<br />far as I known, in years 1997, 2002, and 2007, the BHPs included a question<br />asking respondents sth along the lines of "Would you take a moment to think<br />about what 'quality of life' means to you, and tell me what things you<br />consider are important for your own quality of life?" (see Plagnol & Scott<br />2009, attached) However, I have trouble identifying this variable in the<br />questionnaires and locating the corresponding data in the datasets I could<br />access through the UK dataservice (I assumed it should be in SN: 5151<br />British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009?) I would much<br />appreciate your help here-a small hint might already be enough!-i.e. what<br />variable would this open-question be and, correspondingly, in which dataset<br />could I locate the transcribed answers.</p>
<p>Furthermore, is there an overview of all the open-ended questions that were<br />asked throughout the different waves of the BHPs?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #299 (Closed): UKHLS nurse collected data, sample sizeshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2992014-09-02T14:09:34ZAdam Martin
<p>I am interested in using the height/weight/BMI data in wave 3 of UKHLS however I noticed the sample size is quite a lot smaller than in wave 2 (around 4,800 vs 16,000). I wondered whether further data from the nurse visits is likely to be added to wave 3, or have fewer visits been made than in wave 2?<br />many thanks</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> Support #116 (Closed): height and weight datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1162013-01-29T11:54:05ZAdam Martin
<p>Hi there,<br />I would like to access height and weight data in BHPS and Understanding Society. I can find the data in BHPS (waves N and P) and Understanding Society Wave 1, but not in Wave 2. Is this because it has not been added yet? - since it is no longer self-reported? - I wonder if/when it will be available?<br />thanks</p> Support #27 (Closed): Index Terms for Understsanding Society?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/272012-02-10T14:06:28ZAbita Bhaskarabita@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk
<p>I'm new to the Understanding Society dataset, although I have used the BHPS dataset in the past. I'm wondering if there is a way of finding out exactly which variables are in Understanding Society (similar to the Index Terms on the BHPS website).</p>