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1 Accessing BHPS Data
Practical Sheets for BHPS Data Confrontation Workshop
Essex Summer School
Brendan Halpin
Dept of Sociology
July 2006
University of Limerick
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Accessing BHPS Data and Documentation
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Logging on
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Data access and simple analysis
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Software
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Stata
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SPSS Syntax mode
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Documentation
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Questionnaires
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Cross-file working
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Use SYNTAX in SPSS and Stata!
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Creating crosswave files
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Adding in info from other files
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Aggregating from individual to household level
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Step 1
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Making couple files
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Extra, to think about
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More data manipulation
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Handling wide-format cross-wave data
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Step 1: Make a wide cross-wave file
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Step 2: Use
VECTOR/LOOP
to make summaries
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Step 3: Use
VECTOR/LOOP
to make substantively interesting summaries
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Attrition
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Step 1: Work with a one-step transition
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Step 2: Work with long range transitions
NOTE
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Wide to long and back, and handling spell data
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Translating from wide to long in SPSS
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Analysing long form data
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Moving from long to wide in SPSS
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Exits
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Direct to long format in SPSS
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Handling spell data
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Making calculations
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Cumulating durations
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Duration and individual characteristics
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Counting employment spells
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Survival estimates
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© Brendan T. Halpin
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