Hilda News - 2013

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11 December 2013

New HILDA Discussion Papers are now available online.

DP 1/13 – Wooden - The Measurement of Cognitive Ability in Wave 12 of the HILDA Survey

DP 2/13 – Pudney / Watson - If at First You Don’t Succeed? Fieldwork Effort, Panel Attrition, and Health-Employment Inferences in BHPS and HILDA

Please find the abstracts and download links below.

4 December 2013

Release 12 forms are available

Release 12 of the HILDA data (which includes waves 1 to 12) is now available. If you haven't already ordered data and would like to, please visit our Ordering the Data page.

For individuals whose organisation has an Organisational Licence, please contact your Data Manager to obtain the Release 12 forms. If you are a Data Manager and have not yet obtained the Release 12 Organisational Licence forms, please contact DSS.

18 November 2013

Change in Departmental Name

Further to an email sent to the HILDA email list on 22nd October, we would like to draw your attention to:

(i) the requirement that licensed users acknowledge both the data owners and survey contract managers in any public output that uses the HILDA Survey unit-record data; and

(ii) the fact that the relevant government department has changed its name (to the Department of Social Services - DSS).

The preferred acknowledgement now reads:

‘This paper uses unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA Project was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (Melbourne Institute). The findings and views reported in this paper, however, are those of the author and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute.’

For further details, please see Fact Sheet 8 - How to acknowledge DSS and the relevant Survey Contract Managers in all research material.

5 November 2013

HILDA Release 12 pre-orders & HILDA Training-Panel Data Analysis Techniques with HILDA Examples

Release 12 of the HILDA data (which includes waves 1 to 12) is now available for pre-ordering. The release DVD includes Stata, SAS and SPSS datasets with extensive documentation.

For further information on pre-ordering and the new fact sheets, please see our website : http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/data/

Please note: The “Manual for the Access to and Use of FaHCSIA Longitudinal Survey Datasets” has been superseded by “DSS Fact Sheets”. Please take the time to read these before ordering the data.

Course information

Professor Steve Pudney from the University of Essex will present a 3-day hands-on training course on panel data analysis techniques on 9-11 December 2013 at the University of Melbourne. The course will use examples from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey and will include a hands-on lab session using Stata.

The aims of the course are:

The topics covered include:

Pre-requisites:

Course details:

Location:           University of Melbourne, Parkville (computer lab to be advised)

Date:                  Monday 9 December to Wednesday 11 December 2013
Time:                 9.00am – 5.00pm
Catering:            Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided
Fee:                   $840 ($630 for PhD and Masters Students) GST included

Please register early as places are limited to 38 and are secured on a first come, first served basis. Delegates need to register for and attend all three days.

To register, please complete the training registration form on the HILDA website : http://ecommerce.melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/categories.asp?cID=23&c;=54423

Enquiries regarding the HILDA User Training may be directed to Victoria Lane on 03 8344 2108 or [email protected]. Cancellations within 5 working days prior to the start of the training will not be refunded.

22 October 2013

HILDA Release 12

As you will be aware HILDA 12 is due for release on Wednesday 4 December 2013 and pre-orders will be taken from 4 November 2013.  From that date, new forms for this release will be available for individuals on the HILDA website or for those of you who come under an Organisational Deed of Licence from your Data Manager. 

Please note pre-orders will not be accepted on the current forms.

Current forms can still be used for orders of HILDA 11.

The other news item of interest to users is the Manual for the Access to and Use of FaHCSIA Longitudinal Survey Datasets will be replaced by a series of fact sheets also to be released on 4 November 2013. These will be available on the HILDA website.

8 October 2013

Call for all HILDA Publications for 2013 Annual Report

We are soon to begin preparation of the 2013 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Annual Report.  As is usual practice, we would like to include details of all publications that make use of the HILDA Survey data. We therefore request that you send details of any publications or papers that use the HILDA Survey that are not already included in the HILDA Survey bibliography on our web site.

The bibliography can be accessed on our webpage: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/biblio/ It includes:

Could you please forward any information regarding any of your publications for inclusion in the Annual Report.

Please include:

Finally, a reminder to all data users that a requirement for using the HILDA data is the inclusion of the appropriate acknowledgement and disclaimer in any publications that cite / use the HILDA data.

3 October 2013

Panel Data Analysis Techniques With HILDA Examples

3-day hands-on training course

Course information

Professor Steve Pudney from the University of Essex will present a 3-day course on panel data analysis techniques on 9-11 December 2013 at the University of Melbourne. The course will use examples from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey and will include a hands-on lab session using Stata.

The aims of the course are:

The topics covered include:

Pre-requisites:

Course details

Location:           University of Melbourne, Parkville (computer lab to be advised)

Date:                  Monday 9 December to Wednesday 11 December 2013
Time:                 9.00am – 5.00pm
Catering:            Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided
Fee:                   $840 ($630 for PhD and Masters Students) GST included

For more information and to register, visit http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/training/default.html

17 July 2013

HILDA SURVEY RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Thursday 3 and Friday 4 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne
The program for the HILDA Survey Research Conference is now available on the website and registrations are now open.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the conference is open to all, but should be of special interest to both users of the HILDA Survey data and persons with an interest in the outcomes from longitudinal survey research in the broad fields of economic and social policy.

Registration (Early Bird available until 16 August 2013)
Registration may be made through our online E-Cart with credit card or by downloading the registration form and sending to [email protected] or fax 03 8344 2111. Discounts apply to students. Enquiries may be directed to [email protected] or 03 8344 2151.
Please note: presenters, discussants and chairs in the program do not need to register, but should contact us at [email protected] if they have any queries about the attendance.
The conference dinner will be held at University House @Woodward on the 12 Floor of the Melbourne Law School and is $85.00. Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fraser is our Keynote Speaker at the dinner.

We look forward to your participation in this important event. If you are not able to attend, you are welcome to pass this invitation onto a colleague.

16 May 2013

Our next HILDA user training course, Getting started: Analysing HILDA with Stata, is a hands-on introductory training course. It will be held on Monday 30 September to Wednesday 2 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne and will be presented by Prof. Robert Breunig (Australian National University) and Ms Nicole Watson (University of Melbourne). This is just before the HILDA Survey Research Conference on 3-4 October 2013.

This 3-day training course is designed for people who are interested in using the HILDA Survey data but have had little or no experience with it as yet. It will take a descriptive research question and go through all the steps necessary to answer the question. We will assume participants have relatively little experience in working with large data sets. The training will cover the following topics:

• Accessing the data

• Finding the right data

• Visualising the data

• Merging household and individual data

• Dealing with missing values

• Using imputed values

• Creating analysis variables from HILDA data

• Using weights

• Generating descriptive statistics in the panel context

• Understanding data patterns in the panel context

• Answering the question

While the course will be taught in Stata, we will also provide SAS (and hopefully SPSS) equivalent code to the participants after the course.

Course details

Location:           University of Melbourne (computer lab to be advised)

Date:                  Monday 30 September, Tuesday 1 October and Wednesday 2 October 2013
Time:                 9.15am – 4.00pm
Catering:            Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided
Fee:                   $730 ($550 for PhD and Masters Students) GST included

For more information and to register, visit http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/training/default.html

14 May 2013

HILDA SURVEY NEWS, MAY 2013

2012 Annual Report

The HILDA Survey Annual Report for 2012 is now available, and can be downloaded from:
http://melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/Reports/annual_report.html
If you would like a printed copy you should contact Victoria Lane (HILDA Survey Administration Assistant)

Wave 12 Fieldwork

Fieldwork for wave 12 was completed earlier this year with a total of 17,572 person interviews completed (which compares with 17,612 in wave 11).
The re-interview rate among previous wave respondents in the main sample was 96.2%, the fourth successive year it has exceeded 96%.
Among the new top-up sample a re-interview rate of 92.4% was achieved, which is much greater than the comparable rate achieved in the second wave of the main sample (87%).
We also experienced a small improvement in the response rates for the self-completion questionnaire (SCQ). These were 88.7% and 86.1% of interviewees in the main and top-up samples, respectively. These compare with 87.8% and 85.2% a year earlier.

Wave 13

We also recently completed the Dress Rehearsal stage for wave 13.
Wave 13 will see the repetition of the health module previously administered in wave 9. As part of this module, new content is being included on:

  1. physical activity (using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Short Form);
  2. the measurement of waist circumference; and
  3. sleep (both quantity and quality).

26 March 2013

ANNOUNCEMENT – HILDA SURVEY RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2013 PRIZES

KEY DATES

TRAVEL SUBSIDIES

FURTHER INFORMATION
To get further information regarding this conference,  including the online paper submission process, go to:
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/miaesr/events/conferences/HILDA_2013/conference_HILDA_2013_default.html   

28 February 2013

Our next HILDA user training course, Getting started: Analysing HILDA with Stata, is a hands-on introductory training course. It will be held on Wednesday 3 April to Friday 5 April at the University of New South Wales and will be presented by Prof. Robert Breunig (Australian National University) and myself.

This 3-day training course is designed for people who are interested in using the HILDA Survey data but have had little or no experience with it as yet. It will take a descriptive research question and go through all the steps necessary to answer the question. We will assume participants have relatively little experience in working with large data sets. The training will cover the following topics:

• Accessing the data

• Finding the right data

• Visualising the data

• Merging household and individual data

• Dealing with missing values

• Using imputed values

• Creating analysis variables from HILDA data

• Using weights

• Generating descriptive statistics in the panel context

• Understanding data patterns in the panel context

• Answering the question

While the course will be taught in Stata, both SAS and SPSS equivalent code will be provided to the participants for later use.

Course details
Location:            Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney
Date:                  Wednesday 3 April to Friday 5 April, 2013
Time:                  9.15am – 4.00pm
Catering:            Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided
Fee:                   $730 (inc. GST)

For more information and to register, visit http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/training/default.html

We are thankful to the School of Economics at the Australian School of Business for providing a venue for this course.

11 January 2013

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