Understanding Society User Support

11/23/2012

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #95: Follow up to Variation in responses in British Household Panel & Understanding Society surveys

> Can I check the variable for current job in BHPS, please.
> Ray
The variable names are the same. Please be awar... Redmine Admin

11/22/2012

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #96 (Closed): SN 3954 British Household Panel Survey Combined Work-Life History

Hi,

I would like to know how the Date variable is actually calculated in the SN 3954 British Household Panel Surv... Chris Foster

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #95: Follow up to Variation in responses in British Household Panel & Understanding Society surveys

> In current. Is there a similar distinction in the BHPS between current and last job?
> Ray
Yes, BHPS is the so... Redmine Admin

11/21/2012

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #95 (In Progress): Follow up to Variation in responses in British Household Panel & Understanding Society surveys

Ray,
Are you interested in current (_jbsemp) or last job (_jlsemp)?
Jakob Redmine Admin

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #95 (Closed): Follow up to Variation in responses in British Household Panel & Understanding Society surveys

Many thanks for your suggestion Jakob.
On a related matter, i.e a variation between results
in Understanding Soci... Raymond Storry

11/20/2012

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #94: Children living with both birth parents

Jakob
We have now applied the cross-sectional household weights _hhdenus_xw found on the response file _hhresp and w... Tony Doherty

07:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #88 (Closed): about BHPS

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11/19/2012

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #94: Children living with both birth parents

Tony,
Once you have a produced a household level dataset based on the household grid information on the individual l... Redmine Admin

05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #94: Children living with both birth parents

Jakob
We want to apply the same definitions to our analysis of the data as was applied when the data was first pro... Tony Doherty

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #94 (In Progress): Children living with both birth parents

Dear Tony,
To give you the best possible advice, we would have to know a bit more detail about the definitions you w... Redmine Admin

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #94 (Closed): Children living with both birth parents

I recently made enquiries about data on the percentage of children living with both parents. National data broken do... Tony Doherty

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #93: Significant variation in results running the 'satisfaction with leisure time query in both Understanding Society & British Household panel surveys

Ray,
As a tip: There is a weight for self-completion questions you can use for UKHLS, _indscus_xw (cross-sectional a... Redmine Admin

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #93 (Closed): Significant variation in results running the 'satisfaction with leisure time query in both Understanding Society & British Household panel surveys

Dear Sir,
I am in the process of running a query on ‘satisfaction levels with leisure time’
in both the British H... Raymond Storry

11/16/2012

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #92 (Closed): Origin of deprivation indicators

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05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #91 (Closed): masoc & pasoc

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05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #90 (Closed): Innovation Panel Variables and Wave

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11/11/2012

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #87 (Closed): labor income

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11/05/2012

03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #92 (In Progress): Origin of deprivation indicators

Matt,
The source of the material deprivation questions in the household questionnaire (from matdepa) is the Family R... Redmine Admin

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #90 (In Progress): Innovation Panel Variables and Wave

Alexandru,
The online documentation has something called "Variable occurence", see e.g.
https://www.understanding... Redmine Admin

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #89 (Closed): variable bjBSECT (sector of current job) appears to be corrupt or anomalous with two thirds of employees being coded not applicable. Is there an explanation please?

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09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #82 (Closed): Language of translation

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09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #91 (In Progress): masoc & pasoc

Ben,
There are a couple of things you could do to categorise the family background information.
The simplest would... Redmine Admin

11/04/2012

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #92 (Closed): Origin of deprivation indicators

Hello User Support Service,
I am a student researching youth poverty in Britain using the
Understanding Society s... Matt Ford

11/01/2012

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #91 (Closed): masoc & pasoc

Hi
Do you have some code (preferably in stata) that I could use to collapse SOC90 information into something useful ... Ben Wilson

10/31/2012

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #82: Language of translation

Jakob,
thanks for this detailed explanation. My confusion was based on the fact that there is no variable availabl... Dorothee Schneider

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #90 (Closed): Innovation Panel Variables and Wave

Hello,
I would want to filter variables depending on their presence in certain waves of the innovation panel (e.g.... Alexandru Cernat

10/30/2012

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #86 (Closed): Query re: variables in Wave 1 data set

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03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #83 (Closed): Employment histories

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03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #89 (In Progress): variable bjBSECT (sector of current job) appears to be corrupt or anomalous with two thirds of employees being coded not applicable. Is there an explanation please?

It was a deliberate decision to route some questions on whether people had changed job, but we reversed it at wave 3 ... Redmine Admin

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #89 (Closed): variable bjBSECT (sector of current job) appears to be corrupt or anomalous with two thirds of employees being coded not applicable. Is there an explanation please?

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02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #88: about BHPS

Dear Steve,
> First, for the purpose of my study, I will only include people from Scotland. Could I ask what is th... Redmine Admin

10/29/2012

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #87 (In Progress): labor income

It is an undocumented variable and best ignored.
A couple of links to income variable documentation, which should ... Redmine Admin

11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #81 (Closed): Does Health Visitor data still exist in Understanding Society

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10/26/2012

12:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #88 (Closed): about BHPS

Dear BHPS
I am using BHPS data (wave 13-18) and have some queries.
First, for the purpose of my study, I will o... steve martin