Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382024-03-04T14:30:12ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #2063 (Feedback): List of Validated Measures or Scales used in the Study? https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/20632024-03-04T14:30:12ZLuke DeCoste
<p>Hi, I'm wondering if there is a list of validated measures that are used in the study? Specifically I'm wondering how to identify questions that should be grouped together to produce a specific construct.</p>
<p>e.g. One variable is the 7-item short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS, see Tennant et al., 2007).</p>
<p>Are there other scales that have been assembled intentionally that we can somehow identify? e.g. I'm using a number of variables related to sleep (hours of actual sleep (hrs) ghq: loss of sleep quality of sleep overall cannot get to sleep within 30 mins wake up in the night). Is there research behind the use of these variables that can be found? I have similar questions regarding variables related to sleep, exercise, etc.</p>
<p>I'm wondering where I find a list of scales used in the study.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p> Support #1279 (In Progress): Wave 9 chmain filehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12792019-11-21T15:20:53ZCharlotte Edneyc.edney@lancaster.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've just downloaded wave 9 of Understanding Society to add another wave of child maintenance data (chmain file) to my analysis.<br />I was quite surprised that there are only 456 entries in the i_chmain file, compared with over 3,000 in waves 3, 5 and 7. <br />Do you know why there are so few entries in this wave? <br />I noticed in the questionnaire documentation something written about a script error for some of the variables in the file and am wondering if this has anything to do with it?</p>
<p>Best,<br />Charlotte</p> Support #1227 (In Progress): Family sizehttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/12272019-08-13T10:38:53ZElla Moonan-Howard
<p>To whom it may concern,</p>
<p>I am attempting to generate non-household family size variables for both waves three and six.</p>
<p>I wanted to clarify which variables denote which type of non-residential family member across the waves. In the family life module webpage nrels3 is number of children, nrels4 is number of brothers and sisters, nrels5 is number of grandchildren and nrels6 is number of grandparents - with nrels7 and nrels8 on great grandparents and great grandchildren only being measured at wave 7.</p>
<p>Yet on the details for these variables in wave three, it appears to be different suggesting that in fact, nrels2 is siblings, nrels3 is grandchildren, nrels6 is great grandparents etc.</p>
<p>If you could let me know which is correct, that would be brilliant. Moreover, in either scenario there are types of family member not accounted for in wave three. In the former it is great grandchildren and great grandparents, in the latter it is children. If you could advise me as to potential other variables I could use to account for these gaps that would be incredibly helpful.</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>Ella</p> Support #1167 (In Progress): Linking Understanding Society and HESA data https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/11672019-03-21T10:13:19ZInga Steinberg
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Could you please let me know what the predicted date of completion of the linking of Understanding Society and HESA data is? I am currently writing a proposal for my PhD (I'm in my first year), and want to know if I will be able to use the data for at least one of my papers.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Inga</p> Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weighthttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/10222018-08-20T21:15:06ZCamille Portier
<p>Dear Understanding Society Team,</p>
<p>I am looking at change in health status if individuals accross wave 2 to wave 5. My variable of interest comes from the longitudinal self-completion questionaire therefore I believe the right weight to use for my fixed-effect models is indscus_lw. However, when I want to run my fixed effect model with this pweight, stata tells me that the weight must be constant within pidp. To which values should I therefore set my weight to? What does a indscus_lw=0 mean?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help,</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Camille</p> Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9892018-06-27T12:28:24ZEliud Kibuchi
<p>We are doing some research on the effect of interviewers on the effectiveness of incentives, one of the data sets we are using is the Innovation Panel (Wave 1). It is the sample file which shows the fieldwork outcome for each issued address and has the interviewer ID attached. We have come across a potential problem with your analysis which relates to whether the outcome data is based on the initial (prior to re-issues) or final (after re-issues) outcomes. We think it is the initial outcome but cannot tell from the information provided. Because our analysis uses the experimental design of within-interviewer allocation of the incentive, it is important that our analysis is based on the initial rather than the final outcomes.</p>
<p>I wonder whether a data set with the initial outcome codes is available for Innovation Panel wave 1 and how we can obtain it?</p>
<p>Many thanks, <br />EK</p> Support #985 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-section over all waveshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9852018-06-22T10:51:51ZNhat An Trinh
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Although this issue has already been discussed a couple of times, I would like to address the selection and use of the appropriate weights when pooling across all waves of Understanding Society once again to avoid any mistakes. I'm very much appreciating the guidance that has been provided so far, but haven't found a clear answer to my question and thus be extremely grateful if someone could help me out.</p>
<p>For my analysis of intergenerational social mobility across labour market entry cohorts, I am using all waves including all samples of Understanding Society in a pooled cross-section. Obviously, I have dropped all duplicates as I want to have each observation only once in my dataset and take the first interview in which the individual has indicated both her first occupation and year of leaving school/further education as my observation of interest. In line with [<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>], I have constructed the individual cross-sectional weight as follows:</p>
<p>gen xweight = .</p>
<p>replace xweight = a_indpxus_xw if wave == 1<br />foreach x in b c d e {<br /> replace xweight = `x'_indpxub_xw if inlist(wave,2,3,4,5) <br />}<br />repalce xweight = f_indpxui_xw if wave 6<br />replace xweight = g_indpxui_xw if wave 7</p>
<p>Is this the correct way of selecting the cross-sectional weights? And do I need to do anything else such as rescaling to correctly apply them for my pooled cross-sectional analysis (i.e. calculating social mobility rates and proportions of class of origin and destination by labour market entry cohorts)?</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
<p>Nhat An</p> Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9662018-04-24T15:41:53ZRichard TylerR.P.O.Tyler.837039@swansea.ac.uk
<p>Dear Understanding Society members,</p>
<p>I am contacting you on behalf of the Active Healthy Kids Wales report card expert group <a class="external" href="http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/">http://www.activehealthykidswales.com/</a>.</p>
<p>As the AHK-Wales expert group of academics, educators and allied professionals we are concerned about the health of children in Wales. The AHK-Wales expert group aims to use data on physical activity/inactivity behaviours and influences to advocate for children’s right to play, to be hooked on sport and dance, learn and achieve, and be active and healthy. We are motivated to promote healthy active behaviour and physical literacy in children. Our mission is to produce AHK-Wales Report Cards that provide a clear evidence base on quality indicators related to physical activity that should be used to advocate and influence local, regional and national policies and investments in physical activity for children and young people.</p>
<p>We are currently in the process of assigning grades to the following indicators:<br /><strong><ins>Physical Activity and health behaviours and their outcomes</ins></strong><br />- Sedentary Behaviour<br />- Physical Activity<br />- Active Transport<br />- Organised Sport Participation<br />- Physical Literacy<br />- Physical Fitness</p>
<p><ins><strong>Settings and Influences on Physical Activity and Health</strong></ins><br />- Family and Peer Influence<br />- School<br />- Community and the Built Environment<br />- National Policies and Strategies</p>
<p>I can see that on your website, all data is reported for UK children on the whole, but I am wondering whether you have data specific to children/adults in Wales? Further, if so, is there any way that we could have access to the Welsh data?</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,<br />Richard</p>
<p>Richard Tyler<br />Swan-Linx Research <br />Applied Sports Science Technology and Medicine Research Centre | Canolfan Ymchwil Technoleg Chwaraeon Cymhwysol, Ymarfer a Meddygaeth (A-STEM)<br />College of Engineering | Coleg Peirianneg<br />Bay Campus| Campws y Bae<br />Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe<br />Fabian Way | Ffordd Fabian<br />Swansea | Abertawe<br />Wales | Cymru<br />SA1 8EN<br /><a class="external" href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales">www.swansea.ac.uk/activehealthykidswales</a></p> Support #938 (Resolved): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9382018-03-08T11:13:56ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hello,<br />I am trying to identify the household HEAD variable in the UKLS data. It is coded as "hoh" in the BHPS dataset, I have tried to get search for the UKLS version but I do not seem to be getting it.</p> Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedathttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9122018-02-05T20:13:43ZMichael Baumkautner
<p>Dear User Support</p>
<p>I am trying to understand the identifier variables in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat.</p>
<p>1) Why are there records in xwavedat that have the same pid value?</p>
<p>2) And why do they have different pidp values?</p>
<p>See here:</p>
<p>use pid pidp using data\xwavedat, clear<br />recode pid (-8 = .)<br />keep if !missing(pid)<br />duplicates tag pid, gen(dup)</p>
<p>Thanks for your consideration</p> Support #907 (Resolved): Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9072018-01-29T18:35:40ZOLAYIWOLA OLADIRANo.o.oladiran@pgr.reading.ac.uk
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am trying to merge BHPS to the UKLS data. Using the command below, by the time I get to foreach (looping), it gives me an error message: _""""""invalid 'and'<br /> r(198);""""" <br />What am I doing wrong?</p>
<p>capture mkdir M:\example9data<br />global dir3 "M:\example9data\" <br />log using $dir3\Example9.log, replace<br />foreach w in a b c d e f g h i j {<br /> use pid `w'hid `w'pno `w'hlghq1 `w'jbstat `w'xrwght `w'sex ///<br /> using $dir2/`w'indresp, clear <br /> renpfix `w'<br /> gen wave = strpos("abcdefghijklmnopqr","`w'")<br /> recode jbstat (5=6) (6=7) (7=8) (8=5) if wave==1 <br /> // The coding frame of ajbstat needs to be aligned with that of other <br /> // waves. Best to do this before appending other waves as labels get <br /> // overwritten.<br /> lab var wave "wave of BHPS interview" <br /> sort pid wave<br /> save $dir3/ind_junk`w', replace <br /> }<br />foreach w in k l m n o p q r {<br /> use pid `w'hid `w'pno `w'hlghq1 `w'jbstat `w'xrwght `w'xrwtuk1 `w'sex ///<br /> using $dir2/`w'indresp, clear <br /> renpfix `w'<br /> capture rename id pid<br /> // this line of command is only needed in wave 16 (p) so was not needed <br /> // in the previous loop<br /> gen wave = strpos("abcdefghijklmnopqr","`w'")<br /> lab var wave "wave of BHPS interview" <br /> sort pid wave<br /> save $dir3/ind_junk`w', replace <br /> }</p> Support #905 (Resolved): Overview of variables for Innovation Panelhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/9052018-01-26T09:13:49Zfrancesca salvatifrancesca.salvati.14@ucl.ac.uk
<p>Is there a document available which summarises what information is available in each wave in the Innovation Panel? Something like a continuity index which shows the wave occurrence of each variable. Many thanks for your kind help.</p> 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 #896 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing datahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8962018-01-15T12:16:35ZOlga Maslovskayaom206@soton.ac.uk
<p>I would like to request access to the timing data in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. We would like to analyse length of time respondents take to answer questions. Please let me know what I have to do to obtain access to these data. Many thanks!</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>