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 #796 (Closed): #794 continuedhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7962017-06-14T09:56:48ZJulia Borodinajul1bor35@me.com
<p>Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an age when a respondent is supposed to leave further education while still in it. Is it correct?<br />If it is so, how can I find out the age at which all respondents completed their full-time education. Any help would be appreciated!</p> Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Databasehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/7762017-05-08T10:28:04ZEmily Lowthianlowthianem@Cardiff.ac.uk
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am a Masters student at Cardiff University currently using the Understanding Society (USoc) data for my dissertation.</p>
<p>I was looking at using some FSM variables, however they only seem to exist when USoc has been linked with the National Pupil Database (NPD). I have a few questions if that is ok -<br />1. Is it only Wave 1 that is available for the linkage of USoc and NPD? <br />2. Is the data archive the only way to access this data? <br />3. What is secure access? Is this available to students? <br />4. When will future waves of USoc and NPD linkage be available?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Emily</p> Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Societyhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6942017-01-04T15:41:56ZDebora Pricedebora.price@manchester.ac.uk
<p>Hi, is there, anywhere, a derived variable for 'ever divorced' or 'ever widowed' and ages at last divorce or last widowhood? Or do these need to be derived from the entire data series? I can't help thinking many people must have created these variables even if they are not in the main datasets and am wondering whether this is something I really need to do all over again - or (I am hoping) they are lurking somewhere and I have just missed them, thanks.</p> Support #648 (Closed): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6482016-10-25T09:07:11ZChristoph Kronenberg
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have a question about variables d_depenth1-6, how did you come up with those questions?<br />Other mental well-being/distress questions come from a known measure such as GHQ, SF12 MCS, WEMWBS, etc or ask specifically about whether the person was diagnosed with anxiety/depression. However, these questions appear to be more along the GHQ lines, but without the GHQ-style references to back it up as a valid and useful measure.</p>
<p>Additionally, I found pretty much the same questions in WERS 2011:<br /><a class="external" href="http://nesstar.ukdataservice.ac.uk/webview/index/en/UKDA/About-the-UK-Data-Service-Nesstar-Catalogue.d.55/Research-Datasets.d.56/Workplace-Employment-Relations-Survey.d.57/Workplace-Employee-Relations-Survey-2011.s.7226/Employee-Data.h.1F3/Section-A-About-Your-Job.h.2F3/How-much-of-the-time-has-your-job-made-you-feel-tense-/fVariable/7226_V1161">http://nesstar.ukdataservice.ac.uk/webview/index/en/UKDA/About-the-UK-Data-Service-Nesstar-Catalogue.d.55/Research-Datasets.d.56/Workplace-Employment-Relations-Survey.d.57/Workplace-Employee-Relations-Survey-2011.s.7226/Employee-Data.h.1F3/Section-A-About-Your-Job.h.2F3/How-much-of-the-time-has-your-job-made-you-feel-tense-/fVariable/7226_V1161</a></p>
<p>I really like this questions, but I would be great to give the child a name and reference its parents.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Christoph (UoY)</p> Support #639 (Closed): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondentshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6392016-10-05T13:12:12ZPilar Gonalons Ponspgonalons@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I work on unemployment and I am trying to create a measure that summarizes respondents' yearly labor income. My question is, does the Understanding Society survey include information on labor income for respondents who do not have jobs at the time of the interview? I have reviewed all the income variables and it seems that all labor income variables rely on answers to variables like paygl, for which the universe is restricted to respondents who have a job at the time of the interview. Is there any other labor income variable that I am missing?</p>
<p>Many thanks! Best,</p>
<p>Pilar</p> Support #623 (Closed): Access to datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/6232016-09-05T08:05:08ZThea Elnantheasel@student.sv.uio.no
<p>Dear Understanding Society,</p>
<p>my name is Thea Elnan and I'm a Norwegian postgraduate student at the University of Oslo in Norway. In my master thesis I'm using data from British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which I have already accessed from the ESRC Data Archives. I am specifically interested in the survey questions regarding attitudes towards gender roles.</p>
<p>The British Household panel was taken over by Understanding Society after 2008, and if I have understood it correctly, Understanding Society still runs the panel every year. I looked through the questionnaires at Your website, and found one survey done in 2012 where the same questions on gender roles that I am interested in frequented (coded wOPFAMA, wOPFAMB and so on in BHPS).</p>
<p>Since it would be preferable to merge data from a more recent point in time to my dataset, I am wondering if 1) it is true that you still have (and in 2012 had) the same panel as they used in BHPS, 2) I can access these data from 2012 from Understanding Society, and 3) if it is possible to merge data from BHPS and US on the respondents identification number?</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Thea Storøy Elnan</p>
<p>University of Oslo</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 #434 (Closed): "None of the above" in `w'_qfhighhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4342015-10-16T20:30:13ZYujung Whangyujung.whang@yale.edu
<p>Hi, I have a question about 96 "None of the Above" category in `w'_qfhigh variable (highest educational qualification)<br />I found quite many people chose this category as their answers..</p>
<p>May I consider this category as "Below high school degree or equivalent" ?</p> Support #428 (Closed): Adult SC Questionnaire Wave 2https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4282015-10-05T10:43:11Zafshin zilanawala
<p>hi User support,</p>
<p>i'm using the questions on alcohol drinking from the W2 SC interview. specifically my questions are about Q23 which is labeled as SCAGE1DRINK in the pdf and b_scage1drink in the data file.</p>
<p>1. there is no variable SCEVERDRNK. i've been advised by a colleague that those who are assigned inapplicable or -8 on SCAGE1DRINK are the people who never had an alcoholic drink (as described as Q31 in the questionnaire). is this a correct assumption?</p>
<p>2. assuming #1, i proceed to create a binary variable for those who have never drank (-8's from above) and those who have had a drink. when i weight this variable with b_indscus_xw, then i lose the 'never drinkers' or -8. they do not have a weight value. i was advised from a previous user support question that this is the right weight to use. but now i'm stuck because i lose my 'never drinkers' if the latter is assumed correctly from '-8'. what should i do?</p>
<p>thanks for any help!<br />afshin</p> Support #382 (Closed): *_sex (not *_sex_cr) in egoalt filehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3822015-06-12T12:42:29ZDave Griffithsdavid.griffiths@stir.ac.uk
<p>Hello, I've been looking at gender in the egoalt file and it appears that ego gender is based on *_sex, rather than *_sex_cr.</p>
<p>I've found 54 cases with different *_sex and *_sex_cr values. In all cases, the ego-alt file contains data corresponding to *_sex, not *_sex_cr (thus, the miscoded data, rather than actual gender).</p>
<p>My Stata syntax file spotting this problem is below (inresp gender only shown for years when _sex and _sex_cr are inconsistent).</p>
<p>Dave</p>
<p>global path1 "C:\data\under_society\data\" <br />global path9 "C:\temp\"</p>
<p>foreach wave in a b c d {<br />use pidp `wave'_sex `wave'_sex_cr using ///<br /> $path1\`wave'_indresp.dta, clear<br />drop if `wave'_sex `wave'_sex_cr <br />sort pidp<br />save $path9\sex`wave'.dta, replace<br />}</p>
<p>use $path9\sexa.dta, clear<br />foreach wave in b c d {<br />sort pidp<br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\sex`wave'.dta<br />drop _merge<br />}<br />save $path9\sex_cr.dta, replace</p>
<p>foreach wave in a b c d {<br />use pidp `wave'_esex ///<br /> using $path1\`wave'_egoalt.dta, clear<br />duplicates drop<br />save $path9\ego`wave'.dta, replace<br />}<br />use $path9\egoa.dta, clear<br />foreach wave in b c d {<br />sort pidp <br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\ego`wave'.dta<br />drop _merge<br />}<br />sort pidp<br />merge 1:1 pidp using $path9\sex_cr.dta<br />keep if _merge3<br />list</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 #154 (Closed): '0' weight in BHPShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1542013-05-31T14:26:15ZDavid Baylissdavid.bayliss-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Good afternoon,</p>
<p>I have a question regarding the weight variable xrwtuk1 in the BHPS. For my analysis I have selected cases who have a valid response to my two main vairables (economic status and GHQ-12), and then had a look at the weights. Within the cross-sectional weight variable for the UK (xrwtuk1) I have around 2.5% of cases which are '0' weighted. All of the cases I have selected are full interviews, and the '0' weighted cases have a range of sample origins (67% are OSMs). I have read the weighting section of the user manual but I cannot find a reason that matches the data. Please could you advise me on what may be the cause of the '0' weight?</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />David Bayliss</p>