Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382023-07-10T14:08:37ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #1937 (Resolved): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyphttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/19372023-07-10T14:08:37ZVikram Patil
<p>Hello, <br />My question is about the variable "dweltyp" in the hhsamp files. <br />- Why are so many households reported as "-8" or "inapplicable" from Wave 7 onwards in the Understanding Society (USoc) data? <br />- How is "dweltyp" different from the "hstype" variable that was included in the BHPS?<br />- Why are there no inapplicable responses prior to Wave 7? <br />Thanks!</p> Support #1869 (Resolved): 2021 calendar datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18692023-02-28T10:00:18ZMatthias Pierce
<p>Hi, do you have any further updates on when the 2021 calendar data will be available? Sorry to be persistnent, but we would like this data to complete our analysis!</p>
<p>Thanks</p> Support #1836 (Resolved): 2021 calendar datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18362023-01-09T11:39:56ZMatthias Pierce
<p>Hi, do you have an update on when the 2021 calendar data will be released? <br />Thanks</p> Support #1825 (Resolved): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waveshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18252022-12-06T18:01:17ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the 2011 LSOA file (<a class="external" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7248&type=Data%20catalogue">https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7248&type=Data%20catalogue</a>) apply to the BHPS waves, in the same way that the 2001 LSOA file (<a class="external" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6670&type=Data%20catalogue">https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6670&type=Data%20catalogue</a>) applies to the UKHLS waves of the survey.</p>
<p>I ask because we are only permitted to match one or the other to the Special Licence file, and therefore it is not possible to study the whole panel using the most up-to-date LSOAs.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p> Support #1814 (Resolved): "inapplicable" in sempderived variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/18142022-11-22T13:21:55ZClaire Wu
<p>Dear support team,</p>
<p>I have a question about the "semderived" variable in the Covid-19 study. I intend to create a binary variable that includes people who are in paid employment and people who are not employed. However, I am very confused as to what the "not applicable" category represents in this variable. Are these people not employed?</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help!</p>
<p>Claire</p> Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dvhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/17232022-07-07T08:49:00ZAlbert Wardalbert.ward@politics.ox.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I can't find any information on what exactly 'other qualifications' consists of in your hiqual_dv variable (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/hiqual_dv</a>)</p>
<p>Would you be able to provide a quick explanation or point me in the right direction?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p> Support #1641 (Resolved): 3 critical issues regarding COVID-19 UK Household Longitudinal Datasethttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16412022-01-28T04:24:00ZSeung Un Lee
<p>Dear UCL Institute of Education,</p>
<p>I am Seung Un Lee, currently studying Master's of Urban Economics at the National University of Singapore. I have a few critical issues regarding UK longitudinal studies - Covid19 dataset that your institution collects and provides and I was hoping if you could clarify it. Before that, I want to say thank you on behalf of our research team, with Associate Professor Kwan Ok Lee (profile) and Assistant Professor Michael Mai (profile), as we are using this dataset for our research in finding a correlation between Mental Health and Covid 19 National Lockdown.</p>
<p>The issues are as follows:</p>
<p>First, your team has collected respondents' various long-term health conditions. However, the responses seemed to be incompatible along the waves. I have attached a datasheet of the "Mentioned" response ratio by each wave. As you can see, Wave 2 and Wave 3 are way off the pattern. (The values were extracted from the raw dataset and cross-checked from the CLOSER discovery website.) It seems pretty clear that there is a problem with the values, so is there any reason behind this fluctuation? and how can we alter this value to make it consistent along the waves? Is there any way we can fix it to use it in our research?</p>
<p>Second, our team is using the dataset collected from Wave 1 (April 2020) to Wave 8 (March 2021), but we are hoping if you could clarify the exact date of when the survey started and ended. This is to match the period of National Lockdown that was imposed 3 times, including the most recent one in January, so that we can see how it affected the respondents' condition.</p>
<p>Third, we checked that there are two types of sampling weight, cX_betaindin_xw (cross-sectional) and cX_betaindin_lw (longitudinal). I tried to check the difference but the dictionary doesn't hold much information regarding these two variables. Can you please elaborate? We would be grateful if you could spare your time to give us a reply because the sampling weight issue is also another very important factor for our research and the dataset credibility.</p>
<p>Thank you again so much, and I will be looking forward to receiving any comments from you all! A bit late but, Happy New Year and hope you have a wonderful day :)<br />Sincerely, Seung Un.</p> Support #1600 (Resolved): 'Other' response in hsownd variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/16002021-10-26T11:22:42ZJames Morrison
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am working on a project looking at economic security across different housing tenures. Is there any more information on what kinds of living arrangements are covered in the 'other' response to the hsownd variable. I have consulted the questionnaire but the help section only includes information about shared ownership.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I have been having trouble accessing the support forum via the website and have had to do so via links in emails notifying me of responses to previous queries. I suspect this may be because the link directs users to 'iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support', whereas the forum now seems to be hosted at 'iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support'.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />James</p> Support #1584 (Resolved): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave...https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15842021-09-17T17:25:08ZLaura Joneslaura.jones@nesta.og.uk
<p>Dear support team,<br />I am trying to create a variable measuring length of labour market interruption following childbirth in months.</p>
<p>One important component of this is knowing when maternity leaves end - variable w_matlvendm .<br />However, I find that a large chunk of my sample have w_matlvendm & w_matlvendy listed as inapplicable despite the fact that they have non-missing values on variables w_matlvstm and w_matlvsty (maternity leave start month and year).</p>
<p>On closer inspection I see that these are people who have a value of 3 on variable w_matlv (SPONTANEOUS Currently on maternity/paternity leave) - i.e. they are still on maternity leave at the time of the interview.<br />For some of these people w_jbstat maternity leave and so I am able to trace the end of their leave at the next wave using notempchk, empstendm etc.</p>
<p>However for a good proportion of them w_jbstat paid employment (ft/pt) and so, as far as I can tell there is no way of tracing the date of the end of their leave at the next interview.</p>
<p>Can I ask whether there is something I am missing in terms of finding out the end date of their leave/ when they returned to their jobs? Can you suggest any alternative methods?</p>
<p>I’m also curious as to why in some cases jbstat = paid employment when matlv currently on mat leave, whereas in others jbstat maternity leave.</p>
<p>many thanks in advance,<br />Laura</p> Support #1548 (Resolved): 4-digit-ISCO-08?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/15482021-06-03T13:10:14ZTobias Wolfram
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>First of all, I would like to thank you very much for your outstanding service. Understanding Society is an exceptionally well curated dataset that is a real pleasure to work with. Nevertheless, I am currently facing a bit of a problem. I am interested in (weighted) distributions of various psychological outcomes (cognitive skills, big 5, etc.), granularly broken down by occupational group, as an illustrative supplement to a methodological project I am currently working on. Unfortunately, the freely available version of the dataset only contains condensed occupational classification schemes, such as the three digit version of ISCO-08. Would there be a way to get access to the four digit ISCO codes? If so, how difficult would it be? As I said, ultimately I am not concerned with individual data, but exclusively with weighted parameters on occupational group level.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help<br />Tobias Wolfram</p> Support #1232 (Resolved): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12322019-08-23T12:08:25ZElena Pupazae.c.pupaza@lse.ac.uk
<p>To whom it may concern,</p>
<p>I don't seem to be able to find the 2015 Understanding Society immigrant and ethnic minority boost on the UK Data service as a separate dataset. Is it already merged and available with the main dataset or do I need special licence to access it?</p>
<p>Secondly, I am looking for finer geographical information for the immigrant and ethnic minority boost (ideally at the ward level) . Could you please advice me which of the special licence versions includes this information?</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance!</p> Support #1197 (Resolved): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variablehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11972019-06-11T15:38:51Zfabiana macorfabianamacor@gmail.com
<p>Hi there</p>
<p>I have a query tangentially related to a previous issue (REF 1063) [[<a class="external" href="https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1063">https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1063</a>]], in relation to the jbft_dv.</p>
<p>jbft_dv has the following labels corresponding to 'missing' values (albeit different types of missing):</p>
<p>Label -> code<br />missing -> -9<br />inapplicable -> -8<br />proxy -> -7</p>
<p>The variable note states that "Inapplicable [-8] to proxy respondents due to missing information on overtime, and respondents who do not have a paid job", which I find confusing because there is already a code for proxy respondents [-7]. So, if proxy respondents don't have the information and this is coded as [-7], surely the [-8] code refers only to respondents who do not have a paid job?</p>
<p>Essentially I am trying to see which respondents shift from FT employment (wave 1) to non-employment (wave2), and I would like to double check that 'inapplicable' will capture all those that are not in employment (the variable of interest for wave 2). If this is not possible, how can the 'inapplicable' category be combined?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance for your assistance</p>
<p>Fabiana</p> Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustmenthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9922018-07-01T12:41:43ZAnte Bab2242@cam.ac.uk
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, the derivation of the weighting adjustments for individual-level non-responses includes a logistic regressions as described as follows (p. 72):</p>
<p>"The predictors used in the models include all the predictors used for the household level nonresponse models and individual and household-level variables obtained from the household questionnaire, such as age and gender, marital and employment status, household size and presence of children in the household, as well as household expenditure on food and food outside, consideration of use of environmental energy, among others."</p>
<p>Is there a complete list that shows all the factors used in the regression? I'm asking because I would like to check whether the Big Five personality traits from Wave 3 are included (non-response might well depend on personality traits). I doubt that they are because they were only part of Wave 3 but I would like to double-check. Also, I'm interested whether education is accounted for.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br />Ante</p> Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant) https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9452018-03-25T15:59:24ZNico Ochmannnico.ochmann@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Support Team,</p>
<p>I am looking for the total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant).</p>
<p>I could not find it, and I am not sure if there is information available to derive such a variable.</p>
<p>Your help is much appreciated.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>
<p>Nico</p> Support #877 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8772017-11-10T14:55:16ZNico Ochmannnico.ochmann@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
<p>Dear Peter, <br />I have a few more questions with regard to my original support <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f) (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/758">#758</a>. <br />1. When I generate my new weighting variable, newwgt, 600 observations in my estimation sample are assigned a zero meaning they are dropped. Why do you guys assign zero weights in w_indinus, w_indinub, etc. ? <br />2. The sample mean of my newwgt is 1.1 with a s.d. of 0.58. Does this look reasonable to you as in theory the mean should be 1. <br />3. Does USoc normalize weights so that N observations in weighted data equal N observations in unweighted data? It seems to me that you guys do that. <br />4. Given the normalization, how would I find the number of weighted and unweighted observations with Stata for my estimation sample?</p>