Understanding Society User Support

03/26/2013

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #136 (Closed): Preference over hours worked

Hi,
I am a PhD student working at the University of York. I have been using the BHPS to study working time mismat... David Angrave

03/22/2013

08:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #135 (In Progress): Voluntary work definition

Vita,
The Wave 2 volunteering tool is adapted from the Helping Out survey (see source reference in the questionnaire... Redmine Admin

03/21/2013

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #135 (Closed): Voluntary work definition

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am a PhD student at the University of Birmingham. I am using the Understanding Society Wa... Vita Terry

03/20/2013

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #134: BHPS: employment experience variable

Jakob,
Thank you for your help. I have managed to construct a measure using Halpin's work-life history data and up... John Baxter

03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #134 (In Progress): BHPS: employment experience variable

John,
"Brendan Halpin's work-life history work":http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=3954 might be of in... Redmine Admin

03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #130 (Closed): Jbsec variable in wave 2 - 12 months or 2 months?

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03/19/2013

09:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #134 (Closed): BHPS: employment experience variable

Hi,
I am using the last four waves of the BHPS data (o p q and r) for panel data analysis on Stata. I am mostly us... John Baxter

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #133: Private pension flag

If you look at the "Use" of the variable in the questionnaire, you will see that it is computed on the fly in the Bla... Redmine Admin

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #133 (Closed): Private pension flag

Hi,
I'm looking at the private pension flag in wave 1. The variable's name is call "a_privpen". There are two code... Frank Feng

03/18/2013

07:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #132 (Closed): problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

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02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #132: problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

Many Thanks, Jakob!! This is very helpful. Now I understand.
Best Wishes,
STef Stef Doebler

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #132: problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

As suggested above, I would look at the variables hhorig and racel on XWAVEDAT (you will see that we are close to the... Redmine Admin

01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #132: problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

Dear Jakob, Dear All,
Many thanks for your help. Jakob.
I just have a follow up question: I know that _hhorig (... Stef Doebler

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #132 (In Progress): problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

Stef,
> 1. what does the category ,inapplicable' mean? Who is in that category and why is this category part of th... Redmine Admin

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #129 (Closed): Item origin in Youth self completion data

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05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #126 (Closed): Wave 1 files

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05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #125 (Closed): household income variables in Understanding society

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08:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #131 (In Progress): Geocoded Wave 2 data

Rob,
The Wave 2 LSOA 2001 lookup should be available from UK Data Service (formerly known as ESDS) within a few week... Redmine Admin

03/14/2013

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #132 (Closed): problem obtaining the numbers for each ethnic group in in wave 2

Dear Understanding Society Team,Dear All,
I am trying to with the Understanding Society data wave 2. I am mainly int... Stef Doebler

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #130 (In Progress): Jbsec variable in wave 2 - 12 months or 2 months?

Sagar,
The question wording is what was read out to the respondent, so this is the correct number of months. Thanks ... Redmine Admin

03/11/2013

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #131 (Closed): Geocoded Wave 2 data

Hi, I’m a researcher working with the USoc data, interested in neighbourhood effects. I have been using the (Special ... Robert de Vries

03/08/2013

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #125: household income variables in Understanding society

to answer your follow-up question: we are hoping to catch up with the net total household income part of your request... Redmine Admin

03/07/2013

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #129 (In Progress): Item origin in Youth self completion data

Peter,
BHPS is the source.
We are planning to provide the source info for the youth paper self-completion items on ... Redmine Admin

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #125 (In Progress): household income variables in Understanding society

Leen,
> Could you please inform me when the net total household income (ideally yearly income) will be available i... Redmine Admin

03/06/2013

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #130 (Closed): Jbsec variable in wave 2 - 12 months or 2 months?

I have a query about the jbsec variable in understanding Society. The variable description suggests it is ‘job secur... Sagar Shah

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #128 (Closed): working with England & Wales

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12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #128: working with England & Wales

Thanks! Carolina Carolina Zuccotti

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #128: working with England & Wales

Carolina,
In this situation dropping countries that you don't need or using subpop() are both correct and should g... Olena Kaminska

09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #128: working with England & Wales

Hi Jakob,
Would you then suggest selecting the country with the subpop() option after svy?
Thanks for your respon... Carolina Zuccotti

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #129 (Closed): Item origin in Youth self completion data

I wanted to know if the items in the youth self-completion data a_yphsw "feel about your school work" to a_yphlf "fee... Peter Taylor

03/05/2013

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #128 (In Progress): working with England & Wales

Carolina,
Generally speaking, the weights should adjust different sub samples to UK figures.
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11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #128 (Closed): working with England & Wales

Hello,
I want to work with England and Wales only. Do I need to do any adjustments to the weights?
Or just drop t... Carolina Zuccotti

03/04/2013

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #126: Wave 1 files

Charlie,
I don't seem to be able to reproduce this based on the information you have given me.
An alternative solut... Redmine Admin

08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #124 (Closed): Questionnaire routing of wJBSECT

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08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weights

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03/01/2013

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #127: variables used to construct survey weights

Laura,
The answer to your question is - it depends. Each weight uses different set of variables, but the wave 2 we... Olena Kaminska

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #127: variables used to construct survey weights

Hi Jakob,
Thank you for your reply. I am not seeking advice about whether or not to use survey weights. I have rea... Laura Kudrna

08:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #127 (In Progress): variables used to construct survey weights

Laura,
I wonder whether this is a question about whether or not to use survey weights? The "User Guide":https://www.... Redmine Admin

02/28/2013

11:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #127 (Closed): variables used to construct survey weights

Hello,
Where can I find out which variables were used to construct the survey weights available for Wave 2 of US? ... Laura Kudrna

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #126 (Closed): Wave 1 files

I am analysing data from Wave 1 of Understanding Society (SN6614). There is a file called a_egoalt which defines the ... Charlie Owen

02/27/2013

09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #119: Large values on alcohol consumption variables

A clerical review of the paper self-completion questionnaires has shown that the true values of alcohol units will ha... Redmine Admin