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03/24/2025

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223: Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

Thanks Roberto, your response is helpful.
Shuqi SHUQI LYU

03/21/2025

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227: Help needed with individual variable weighting

Will,
I am not sure whether this will help, but our weights should be used separately to analytic weights, or weig... Olena Kaminska

03/20/2025

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222: Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

Hi Roberto!
Thank you very much for your help! This answers my question.
Best,
Jakub Jakub Kowalczyk

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (In Progress): Help needed with individual variable weighting

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12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (In Progress): Help needed with individual variable weighting

Good afternoon everyone,
I hope I'm not repeating a previously discussed question - I have had a look and didn't f... William Pilcher

03/18/2025

01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226: svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for this, how the savings variables are structured is significantly clearer now (and a... Daniel Pinhay

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226 (Feedback): svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
Looking at the questionnaire (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/documentation/main... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/17/2025

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226 (Feedback): svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
I hope you are well. I wanted to ask for some clarification concerni... Daniel Pinhay

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
I still have difficulty in understanding the meaning of "has become owned outright, mortgaged or sha... SHUQI LYU

03/14/2025

10:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi
As I mentioned in my initial reply, to verify the universe/routing specified for the variable,
!clip... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
Thanks for the response, but, the code doesn't completely meet the universe requirement of variable ... SHUQI LYU

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi
The variable helpybuy is asked if the house is owned (outright, mortgaged, or shared ownership) at the... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2225 (Feedback): SF-12 missingness wave 2

Hello Verena,
In Wave 2, an unusually high number of "Don't know" responses were recorded for the question items ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2225 (Feedback): SF-12 missingness wave 2

Hi,
I noticed there is quite a substantial amount of missingness (-9) on the derived SF12 physical and mental comp... Verena Schneider

08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Thanks for the clarification Robert.
Mark Mark Bryan

01:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Hello Mark,
The released variables follow the structure presented in the survey questionnaire. You can refer to t... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223 (Feedback): Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

Hello Shuqi,
The variable npns_dv accounts not only for biological parents but also for step and adoptive parents.... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/13/2025

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Hello Robert
Thanks for the response and code.
In the code, when scsf1 (for example) is reverse coded, a new v... Mark Bryan

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224 (Feedback): SF12 coding

Hello Mark,
The response options for four items (scsf1, scsf5, scsf6a, scsf6b) are reverse-coded so that higher v... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224 (Feedback): SF12 coding

Hi,
I am interested in the coding of the SF12 variables, sf12pcs_dv, sf12mcs_dv and their sub-components.
I un... Mark Bryan

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222 (Feedback): Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

Hello Jakub,

It will depend on the type of analysis you’re conducting. Some variables and information are only av... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2221 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weights for Ethnicity Representation across the 13 waves of the UKHLS

Hello Sebastian
The best way to determine which weight to use is by following the advice in the “Selecting the Cor... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/11/2025

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223: Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

More details of the question:
If a person have none biological/step/adoptive parent (npns_dv==0) in the household,... SHUQI LYU

03/10/2025

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223 (Feedback): Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

Hello, I have a question about variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1.These two variables are about mother not living in the h... SHUQI LYU

03:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222 (Feedback): Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

Hi!
I have merged together the main survey waves from 8 to 14 with the COVID-19 survey waves. However, I am wonder... Jakub Kowalczyk

03/09/2025

06:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2221 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weights for Ethnicity Representation across the 13 waves of the UKHLS

Dear Staff member,
I am reaching out to seek advice on the correct application of weights within the Understanding... Sebastian Ascui

03/07/2025

06:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
I want to add more details about note-3.
I use UKHLS-wave 13 to check the results. Codes are show... SHUQI LYU

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
Thanks for you answer. I want to check whether my understanding of your response is correct.
Ther... SHUQI LYU

08:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216 (Feedback): Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi,
The reason for the difference is that the released data combine ff_hsownd and hsownd into hsownd, whe... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/06/2025

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2220 (Feedback): Dealing with the changing numbers of health conditions

Hello Isaac,
I’m attaching a brief guide about health conditions variables. From Wave 10 onwards, questions were ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2220 (Feedback): Dealing with the changing numbers of health conditions

I am looking at the conditions present in the dataset, generally only considering those with hcond or mhcond. However... Isaac Hance

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218: DWP and HMRC data

Hello David,
You may find the US Geographical Lookup Tables useful for identifying the corresponding matches betwe... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi Roberto,
Many thanks for your response. This is very helpful.
Best wishes,
Verena Verena Schneider

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hello Verena,
In BHPS Wave 11, a substantial new sample was added in Northern Ireland through the Northern Ireland... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi Roberto,
Many thanks. This is very helpful indeed.
I have one more question — in the BHPS lprnt variable, I ... Verena Schneider

03/05/2025

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218: DWP and HMRC data

Of course, another option would be to aggregate (using weighted averages by population) as many (contiguous) local au... David Kong

05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218: DWP and HMRC data

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello David,
>
> The Study includes several variabl... David Kong

08:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218 (Feedback): DWP and HMRC data

Hello David,
The Study includes several variables related to "travel to work." For example: jsmainwktrv – Main mo... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2202 (Feedback): Weight Selection

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08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2219 (Feedback): Household identifier in hhresp datafiles

Hello Milad,
There won’t be a direct match because the household identifier (hidp) is only unique within each wav... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hello Verena,
I’m attaching the syntax file for anychild_dv. This file creates ch1bm_dv and ch1by_dv month and ye... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/04/2025

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2217 (Feedback): Applying for both Special License and Secure Access (SA)?

Hi Eleanor,
Our recommendation is to apply for access to the Secure Access dataset (SN 6676) through the UK Data S... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215: PSU, Strata

Strata is not nested within PSUs. It is also not used as clustering in the design. Of course you could define your cl... Olena Kaminska

01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2219 (Feedback): Household identifier in hhresp datafiles

Hi,
I am doing some panel models at household levels. But in the hhresp spss datafile I cannot match data from dif... Milad Mehdizadeh

03/03/2025

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215: PSU, Strata

Hi again,
I use a Bayesian model so I can include them as random effects, so I can include the PSU as a random eff... Ioannis Rotous

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215: PSU, Strata

Ioannis,
Thank you for your question. The data structure within one wave is PSU, household, person, and in a longi... Olena Kaminska

03/02/2025

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2214 (Feedback): Controlling for Non-Random Attrition Bias with Weights

Understanding Society User Support Team

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215 (In Progress): PSU, Strata

Understanding Society User Support Team

07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2217 (In Progress): Applying for both Special License and Secure Access (SA)?

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212: Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
You're welcome!
Best wishes,
Piotr Understanding Society User Support Team

07:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216 (In Progress): Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218 (Feedback): DWP and HMRC data

Hi all,
I am a postgraduate researcher from America interested in looking at the experiences of people with disabi... David Kong

02/28/2025

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212: Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for your help and the suggestion of using HRPNO instead. It seems to be correct and is... Daniel Pinhay

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2217 (Feedback): Applying for both Special License and Secure Access (SA)?

Good afternoon,
Hoping you are well. I am an accredited researcher with the ONS, working at the University of Oxford... Eleanor Dickens

02/27/2025

02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216 (Feedback): Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hi, I have question about variable helpbuy1, helpbuy2, helpbuy3 in Wave 14 of UKHLS.
My understanding is household... SHUQI LYU

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2214: Controlling for Non-Random Attrition Bias with Weights

Niall,
Thank you for your question. Sounds like you would want to create your own tailored weights. Our course on ... Olena Kaminska

02/26/2025

06:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215 (In Progress): PSU, Strata

I read through the documentation provided in Understanding Society web page for the data design and data collections,... Ioannis Rotous

06:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2214 (Feedback): Controlling for Non-Random Attrition Bias with Weights

I am carrying out an event study project using an unbalanced pooled panel dataset made up of Waves 1-14 of the UKHLS.... Niall Bingham

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi Piotr,
Many thanks for this.
It would be great to get more insight from the anychild_dv code if this can be sh... Verena Schneider

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection

Dear Piotr,
Thank you for your reply. I see some discrepancies between the j_hidp provided within the COVID-19 sur... Laura L

07:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211: Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for the help. I see that the Marital and Cohabitation Histories have been updated, so ... Kimberly McErlean

02/25/2025

05:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection

Hi Laura,
In principle, the Calendar Year datasets are derived from the mainstage data, so you shouldn’t expect an... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/24/2025

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2204 (Resolved): test (genetics)

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04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213 (Feedback): Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi Verena,
The universe shown in the variable search applies only to the most recent wave, i.e., wave 14 at the m... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213 (Feedback): Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi,
I have a few questions regarding the routing of the variables _lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt_ , and their der... Verena Schneider

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2210 (Feedback): Inquiry: Availability of 2010 IMD Quintile Data

Hi Gabriel,
We had to decide on which LSOA to use for the IMDs and we settled on LSOA2011 as that covered the IMDs... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2209: COVID-19 data collection attrition

Thank you very much, this is now clear.
Best regards,
Laura Laura L

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2209 (Feedback): COVID-19 data collection attrition

Hi Laura,
You can use the variable cW_outcome [Outcome of web survey]. Values: 11 Full interview, 12 Partial inter... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211 (Feedback): Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

Understanding Society User Support Team

03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211: Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

Hi Kimberly,
I just wanted to let you know that the updated version of the Marital and Cohabitation Histories will... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212 (Feedback): Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Understanding Society User Support Team

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212: Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
I've checked this, and you're right—the HRPID variable is incorrect in some waves. Before we have a chance... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection

Dear Piotr,
Thank you for your reply. This could be also an option. I was just wondering in principle and more gen... Laura L