Understanding Society User Support

05/10/2013

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #147: What is the difference between a_racel and a_ethnic variables? The classification is the same but you get different numbers for ethnic groups???

The Census 2011 ethnic group question is asked during the personal adult (16+ year olds) interviews, w_racel, but at ... Redmine Admin

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #147 (Closed): What is the difference between a_racel and a_ethnic variables? The classification is the same but you get different numbers for ethnic groups???

Hey!
I am working on Wave-1 and looking into ethnicity. The issue is that whenever for example, I tabulate total %... Sabrina Khan

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #146 (Closed): Possibility of creating duration data using UKHLS

I would like to ask whether it is possible to create a spell dataset using both BHPS and UKHLS. There seems to be no ... Kai Huang

05/09/2013

07:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Giulia,
So far, I have just tried to reproduce the first few lines and there seems to many more that would fit the d... Redmine Admin

05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Hi,
what do you mean for the variable gen1 being the problem? I created this variable to indicate first generation ... Giulia Montresor

04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Born outside UK with both parents born outside UK - from Wave 1, 2 and both.
Looks like your variable gen1 could b... Redmine Admin

09:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Hello,
thank you for the prompt reply. After joining or replacing the variables with the relative feed forward, I a... Giulia Montresor

05/08/2013

07:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Giulia,
We don't allow attachments, but you can copy and paste a table and maybe a snippet of the syntax to illustra... Redmine Admin

07:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145 (Closed): working with two waves and weights

Hello,
I want to use both waves 1-2 of US. In such case I think I need to keep only those individuals that responded... Giulia Montresor

05/07/2013

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #143 (Closed): Derived housing costs variable in BHPS

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09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #144: LSOA file

Carolina,
The LSOA lookup is congruent with A_HHSAMP, the file containing data on all households in the Wave 1 sampl... Redmine Admin

05/06/2013

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #144 (Closed): LSOA file

Hello,
I have accessed the geo-coded information at the LSOA level.
Why are there so many more cases in the a_lsoa_... Carolina Zuccotti

04/30/2013

05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #142 (Closed): where is work experience in the BHPS?

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05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #141 (Closed): Children information

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05:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #138 (Closed): Children

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05:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #137 (Closed): Weights

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04/24/2013

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #142: where is work experience in the BHPS?

For anything published it would be best to contact the authors directly.
You may however find the "Combined Work L... Redmine Admin

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #143: Derived housing costs variable in BHPS

There is an underlying and rising trend in housing owned outright - especially from 2001/02 onwards. See variable, TE... Redmine Admin

04/19/2013

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #143 (Closed): Derived housing costs variable in BHPS

Hi. I have a question about the derived housing costs variable in BHPS Wave R:
The derived variable rxphsg is desc... Robert de Vries

04/18/2013

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #141: Children information

The indall data file contains for each enumerated individual their age and a pointer to co-resident significant other... Gundi Knies

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #141: Children information

Hi Gundi,
Thank you very much for the explanation!
I wonder there is a variable (or index) to identify the chi... Frank Feng

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #141: Children information

Hi Frank
as mentioned in the questionnaire and dataset documentation variables such as a_nnatch, a_nadopt etc were c... Gundi Knies

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #141: Children information

Hi Jakob,
Thank you for the information!
I want to clarify one thing. I find that some of the "a_nnatch" (numb... Frank Feng

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #137: Weights

Jen,
Thanks for the question. As long as you want to infer to the population you must use weights. The value of 0 ... Olena Kaminska

04/17/2013

06:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #142: where is work experience in the BHPS?

Many thanks for your quick response Jakob. My apologies for making my question ambiguous. When I mentioned work exper... James Nield

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #142 (In Progress): where is work experience in the BHPS?

James,
Have a look this variable:
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rindresp9.html#RJBHRL... Redmine Admin

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #136 (Closed): Preference over hours worked

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03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #135 (Closed): Voluntary work definition

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03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #138 (In Progress): Children

please see #141 Redmine Admin

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #139 (Closed): Comparing BHPS and Understanding Society results

Theo,
It is not so easy to give a quick answer to this as it would depend on the study question and the study design... Redmine Admin

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #141 (In Progress): Children information

Frank,
To find out more about the derived variable, have a look at the documentation;
https://www.understandingso... Redmine Admin

04/16/2013

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #142 (Closed): where is work experience in the BHPS?

Hi,
how do I get BHPS data on individual level work experience as appears in studies such as Blundell et al 2005 "... James Nield

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #141 (Closed): Children information

Hi,
I'm looking at the children information of the first wave individual data. But I'm a bit confuse. There are th... Frank Feng

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #140 (Closed): occupational (re)coding

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12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #140: occupational (re)coding

thank you
peter peter tammes

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #140: occupational (re)coding

Peter,
For the first part of the question, please see #104
> The occupations of the father and mother when the re... Redmine Admin

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #140 (Closed): occupational (re)coding

Dear Sir/Madam

We would like to address a few questions regarding the (re)coding of occupations of the respondent... peter tammes

04/12/2013

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #139 (Closed): Comparing BHPS and Understanding Society results

Hi Jacob,
I want to investigate whether differences in results at different time points from some selected BHPS va... Theodore Joloza