Understanding Society User Support

04/11/2013

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #138 (Closed): Children

Is there a variable in both wave 1 and wave 2 that replicates the nch?? variables for children in household variables... David Angrave

04/09/2013

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #137 (Closed): Weights

Hi,
I'm working with b_indinus_xw as I'm interested in variables from the adult main interview. I'm also using as ... Jennifer Brown

04/03/2013

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #136 (In Progress): Preference over hours worked

David,
We are not planning to carry an item such as BHPS's "wJBHRLK":https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation... Redmine Admin

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #134 (Closed): BHPS: employment experience variable

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10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #133 (Closed): Private pension flag

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10:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #131 (Closed): Geocoded Wave 2 data

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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