Understanding Society User Support: Issueshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/support/favicon.ico?15995719382017-10-09T12:12:23ZUnderstanding Society User Support
Redmine Support #859 (Closed): Adoption status https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8592017-10-09T12:12:23ZAndrew Brown
<p>Hi</p>
<p>I am currently identifying respondents to the youth questionnaire who are adopted (see issue <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/816">#816</a>) - I have noted several inconsistencies with adoption status particularly in wave 2. Specifically some children identified as adopted (i.e. have 0 values in hgbiom & hgbiof and positive values in hgadoptm &/ or hgadoptf and also cross checked with number of natural children/ adopted children in parents' indresp files and some in a_adopt) in wave 2 are identified as natural children in other waves (sometimes multiple waves).</p>
<p>I wonder if there are known issues with the data in wave 2 and if you have any suggestions as to how to identify adopted children with the highest level of confidence.</p>
<p>Kind regards</p>
<p>Andrew</p> Support #847 (Closed): Complex samples suite in SPSShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8472017-09-04T15:52:54ZCarla Ayrton
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am carrying out an analysis of people who's income changed between wave 5 and 6. I have followed the 'Introdution to Understanding Society using SPSS' course but I am not sure how to weight the data for my analysis. I am using the weight f_indpxus_lw but and I have used f_strata and f_psu to account for the complex survey desgin. However in the SPSS complex samples suite I cannot find a way to general medians or quartiles. Can I calculate these using just the longitudinal weight (f_indpxus_lw)? (</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Carla Ayrton</p> Support #845 (Closed): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statisticshttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/8452017-08-29T22:21:47ZAlex Turneralexander.turner@manchester.ac.uk
<p>On your data linkage page (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage</a>) it states that consent for linkage was asked in Waves 1 and 5. I was looking at information from the UK data service (<a class="external" href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053">http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053</a>) and it looks as though this data is not available yet.</p>
<p>Could you let me know when this data is planned to be made available? We are looking to include this information in a grant proposal and the submission date is the end of September.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />Alex</p> Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5602016-05-04T14:23:03ZChrista Hubersc.g.t.m.hubers@uvt.nl
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Just for clarification: is the hgspn variable in BHPS waves 1-18 the same as ppno in UKHLS? It is not exactly clear to me what the difference is between ppno and sppno and which one I should use when comparing BHPS and UKHLS.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br />Christa</p> Support #548 (Closed): Age variables BHPS and UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5482016-04-20T14:31:18ZChrista Hubersc.g.t.m.hubers@uvt.nl
<p>Dear,</p>
<p>I was wondering which age-variables to use in my analyses of both the BHPS and UKHLS data? The BHPS provides age12 and wage (as well as dobm and doby), but these do not seem to be exactly the same as dv_age and and age_cr (and birthy) in the UKHLS data.</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Christa</p> Support #547 (Closed): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5472016-04-20T12:50:46ZChrista Hubersc.g.t.m.hubers@uvt.nl
<p>Dear,</p>
<p>I would like to compare 18-39 year old respondents from BHPS waves 13-17 with those from UKHLS waves 1-5. One of the variables I would like to examine is the socio-economic status (SES) of the respondents' parents. However, it is not very clear to me which indicators I can use for this. I see the UKHLS xwavedat file contains the variables masoc00 and pasoc00, but in how far are these comparable to the BHPS xwavedat variables masoc and pasoc? Can you suggest a measurement of SES that is similar in both the BHPS and UKHLS?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, and best wishes,<br />Christa</p> Support #504 (Closed): Svy Commands on Statahttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/5042016-02-15T15:23:12ZAlex Best
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I am using Wave C in my dissertation and I've read that because Understanding Society's Dataset is so complex, I need to use svy commands on stata to account for this. However, when I do this, I get no standard errors, t values, p values, or confidence intervals. I have used the following command:</p>
<p>svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata)</p>
<p>and then I put svy: reg y x1 x2 <br />However, it doesn't work and I am not sure why. <br />Note: 87 strata omitted because they contain no population members.<br />Note: Missing standard errors because of stratum with single sampling unit.</p>
<p>Does the above mean I need to do this:<br />svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata) singleunit(scaled)<br />then drop alll 87 strata that have been omitted and then do my regressions by putting svy: first??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>Underneath the regression table it says the following:</p> Support #449 (Closed): Sexuality Variable https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4492015-11-16T15:00:43ZAlex Best
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have downloaded understanding society's dataset and have realised the variable c_sexuor which should be in dataset "c_indresp" is not actually there. This document suggests it should be: <a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_indresp/variable/c_sexuor</a></p>
<p>Please could you either send me an updated version of the dataset or let me know why the sexual orientation variable is not in the dataset.</p> Support #422 (Closed): SIC 2007 variables in Wave 3https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/4222015-09-24T13:27:26ZAshwin Kumar
<p>Hi there</p>
<p>I am trying to carry out a set of analyses for specific industry groups but I find that, of the 23,177 sample cases in the c_indresp dataset for Wave 3 who are employees, 17,381 have jbsic07_cc missing. Of these 17,381 cases, 17,270 have jbsic07chk equal to 1 (Yes). According to the questionnaire documentation (<a class="external" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/questionnaire-module/currentemployment_w3">https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/questionnaire-module/currentemployment_w3</a>), this means that their industry classification from a previous wave (ff_JBSIC07) still applies. However this variable doesn't appear to be on the dataset. Is there a derived variable on the dataset that enables me to obtain the industry grouping for all current employment spells, regardless of whether the value has changed since the last wave? If not, is the only way of obtaining an industry classification to cycle through all previous waves picking up previous values for <w>_jbsic07? If I have to do this, do I need to go through all waves of the BHPS or only the waves of Understanding Society. Alternatively, if this derived variable doesn't exist on the Wave 3 data, does it exist on Wave 4 as I could switch my analysis to that wave if helpful.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Ashwin Kumar</p> Support #325 (Closed): stata docile to convert soc00 to isco-88https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3252014-11-20T12:04:47ZAlbert Arcarons
<p>Dear Sir Madam,<br />I was wondering if you could advice me on where I can get a STATA dofile to recode SOC2000 categories (as occupation is coded in UKHLS) into ISCO88 categories.<br />Thank you very much.<br />Best regards,<br />Albert</p> Support #309 (Closed): Unmatched District codes https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/3092014-10-08T08:12:17ZCinzia Rienzo
<p>I am using Understanding society Wave 3, along with the Special License, Local Authority District.<br />I am matching the data with the Census 2011, but there are some Districts in the data that cannot be found in the Census. They are the following:</p>
<p>E06000057<br />E07000240<br />E07000241<br />E07000242<br />E07000243<br />E08000037<br />Do you know by any chance the reason for that?<br />I look forward to hearing from you.<br />Best regards<br />Cinzia</p> Support #298 (Closed): USOC cross-section household weight for BHPS sample: wave 3https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2982014-08-28T16:17:06ZAlex Hurrellalexhurrell1@gmail.com
<p>Hello, this is a follow-up query related to a previous query (<a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: USOC cross-section household weight for BHPS sample: wave 3 (Closed)" href="https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/291">#291</a>).</p>
<p>I need to estimate weighted medians for the BHPS sub-sample in UKHLS wave 3. What are the most appropriate weights to use for this?</p>
<p>Is it valid to use c_hhdenub_xw and c_indpxub_xw, even if I am restricting my analysis to just the BHPS sub-sample?</p>
<p>If not, then what would you advise I should do?</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br />Alex</p> Support #271 (Closed): Where is the Cognitive tests & personality traits wave 3 located?https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2712014-06-17T09:02:56ZAndrew Hindachind@gmail.com
<p>I downloaded the latest copy of wave 1-3 data today and am unable to locate this new data</p> Support #249 (Closed): Merging BHPS and UShttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/2492014-03-17T09:13:54ZAlice Lazzatialice.lazzati@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
<p>My current research project aims at investigating longitudinal change across the BHPS sample and obviously I would love to merge the US data from Wave 2. Just as to confirm, has the numeration in the cross-wave person identifier (pid) been mantained in the Understanding Society variable pidp? This way I could easily merge individual data across the two surveys. Thanks in advance!</p> Support #138 (Closed): Childrenhttps://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1382013-04-11T14:06:31ZDavid Angrave
<p>Is there a variable in both wave 1 and wave 2 that replicates the nch?? variables for children in household variables from the BHPS? I can find similar ones for children above 4 but not under it</p>