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From 10/15/2025 to 11/13/2025

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293: Wages/Pay in Sterling: Thank you Roberto, this is most helpful and appreciated.
Best wishes,
Damien. Damien Cassells
01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293 (Feedback): Wages/Pay in Sterling: Hello Damien,
You may want to look at “paygl”, which refers to gross pay at last payment, or “payu”, which refers ... Understanding Society User Support Team
11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293 (Feedback): Wages/Pay in Sterling: Hi, I am wondering if there is a variable that records respondents pay in £. I note questions on pay periods but have... Damien Cassells
12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292 (Feedback): extract annual data from a UKHLS wave: Hello Raffaele,
I’m sorry to hear you lost the labels when opening the dataset, maybe try again? Sometimes the sof... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289 (Feedback): Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13: Hello Laurence,
A value of 1 indicates respondents who still have the previously reported condition, while 0 refer... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292 (Feedback): extract annual data from a UKHLS wave: Dear Roberto Cavazos,

I am trying to use w_month to extract data regarding the year 2016.
First, as I use ... Raffaele Ciula
09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2291 (In Progress): Sampling and Analytic Weights: 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

02:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2291 (In Progress): Sampling and Analytic Weights: Hi all,
I hope you all are well. I will be using the harmonised BHPS data from 1991 to 2015 for a long panel study... David Kong

06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2290 (Feedback): 2024 Data: Hello Jake,
Wave 15 covers the years 2023–2024 and is scheduled for public release at the end of November or early... Understanding Society User Support Team
05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2290 (Feedback): 2024 Data: Hi,
I am doing some research on the 2024 General Election and wanted to look into using Understanding Society data... Jake Dibden
12:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2288 (Feedback): comparing two single years using Understanding Society: Hello Raffaele,
Access to the data is free of charge as long as you meet the conditions described by the UK Data ... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289 (Feedback): Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13: Dear UKHLS Team,
I am using the hcond variables in Wave 13 to look at whether respondents have certain health condit... Laurence Rowley-Abel

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2288 (Feedback): comparing two single years using Understanding Society: My name is Raffaele Ciula,
some time ago, I asked if I could extract the year 2016 and 2019 from the dataset Under... Raffaele Ciula

09:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154 (Resolved): Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis: Setting this to Resolved, as the same (almost identical) issue was raised in https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/is... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131 (Resolved): i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases: Understanding Society User Support Team
10:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279 (Resolved): inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey: Understanding Society User Support Team

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2276 (Feedback): Use of survey weight severely reducing sample size- longitudinal analysis: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2278 (Feedback): Effect of self-completion weight on weighted count for sample of people who died: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2281 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal analysis - high zero-weighted numbers; and selecting weights: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2284 (Feedback): Chosen longitudinal weight check: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2285 (Feedback): Cross-sectional weights for having a household member interviewed in COVID-19 survey: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2287 (In Progress): ba_xewght not found: Hello,
Please specify the waves of data you are using for the survival analysis. Ideally you should use the longit... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2287 (In Progress): ba_xewght not found: I am using the UKHLS data to do survival analysis. I did not use the BHPS data, and I did not use survey weight. But,... SHUQI LYU

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2285: Cross-sectional weights for having a household member interviewed in COVID-19 survey: Laura,
No, I meant the number of respondents in your model. There will be more respondents that can be in your mod... Olena Kaminska

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2285: Cross-sectional weights for having a household member interviewed in COVID-19 survey: Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your answer.
What do you mean exactly by "with smaller sample size"? Do you... Laura L
11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2285: Cross-sectional weights for having a household member interviewed in COVID-19 survey: Laura,
Thank you for your question. You could use Covid-19 wave 6 weight as a suboptimal weight (with smaller samp... Olena Kaminska

11:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2285 (Feedback): Cross-sectional weights for having a household member interviewed in COVID-19 survey: Dear Olena,
I need to include in my analysis only individuals from wave 6 of the COVID-19 survey who have at least... Laura L

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