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06/07/2013

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #151 (Closed): Unweighted sample sizes among sub-groups

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03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #153: weighting BHPS sample correctly in longitudinal analysis

Dear Robert,
If you are interested in descriptive statistics and your analysis
sample is UKHLS Wave 2 BHPS sample... Redmine Admin

06/06/2013

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #154 (In Progress): '0' weight in BHPS

David, Would like to replicate this - please let us know the exact variable names and wave(s). Jakob Redmine Admin

08:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #155 (In Progress): Number of biological children in the household (nnatch)

Ben,
Please see #141
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12:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #155 (Closed): Number of biological children in the household (nnatch)

Hi there, apologies if this is a known issue (I did search the FAQ & all open and closed issues), but I think I have ... Ben Wilson

06/03/2013

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #150 (Closed): How to combine two waves?

The user guide has examples of some common data handling tasks.
The training course materials here may also be of in... Redmine Admin

05/31/2013

03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #154 (Closed): '0' weight in BHPS

Good afternoon,
I have a question regarding the weight variable xrwtuk1 in the BHPS. For my analysis I have select... David Bayliss

05/30/2013

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #149 (Closed): Detailed description of derived variables

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #146 (Closed): Possibility of creating duration data using UKHLS

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #145 (Closed): working with two waves and weights

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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #152 (Closed): Question about ficode

just to confirm that the data are correct in the latest release. Jakob Redmine Admin

05/29/2013

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #151: Unweighted sample sizes among sub-groups

That seems fine. If you look at the sample origin (w_hhorig), you will find that most with zero weights were from BHP... Redmine Admin

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #152: Question about ficode

Three questions; Are you looking at the INCOME files? Are you looking at the latest release of the data? Are you inte... Redmine Admin

05/28/2013

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #153 (Closed): weighting BHPS sample correctly in longitudinal analysis

Hi, I want to make sure I am using the BHPS longitudinal weights correctly in my analysis. I am analysing respondents... Robert de Vries

05/24/2013

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #152 (Closed): Question about ficode

Hello,
I have a question about the ficode variable in the UKHLS. The codebook says that if a respondent reports r... Sara Watson

05/23/2013

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #151 (Closed): Unweighted sample sizes among sub-groups

Hi,
I've doing some basic cross-sectional analysis of Wave 2 individual-level data. I understand that the appropri... Chris Martin

05/22/2013

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #150: How to combine two waves?

_pidp_ is the unique personal identifier across all waves and be used for merging data on the same individuals from d... Redmine Admin

05/17/2013

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Dear Giulia,
Your problem seem to be less related to weights and more related to the variables you use. b_pacob is... Olena Kaminska

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #150 (Closed): How to combine two waves?

I have been referring to various literature available on how to combine the two waves in USoC and am a bit confused, ... Sabrina Khan

12:38 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???

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12:36 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???

Many thanks, the information provided was very useful :-) Sabrina Khan

08:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #144 (Closed): LSOA file

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08:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #149: Detailed description of derived variables

Let us know if you need some further information on some specific derived variables.
Jakob
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07:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #149: Detailed description of derived variables

Ok, I had seen these individual variable pages but I thought there may be more detail somewhere. Thanks. David Bayliss

05/16/2013

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #149: Detailed description of derived variables

Derived variables have got the suffix, _dv, see e.g.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/... Redmine Admin

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #146: Possibility of creating duration data using UKHLS

We have yet to produce an added-value data set such as JOBHIST. We do however collect data on every spell of employme... Redmine Admin

09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #145: working with two waves and weights

Hello,
I have 8905 observations for gen1 after appending the two indresp files, as I joined b_pacob with its feed... Giulia Montresor

05/15/2013

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #149 (Closed): Detailed description of derived variables

Hi,
Please could you point me in the right direction to find the 'detailed variable view' referred to in documentati... David Bayliss

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #148 (Closed): test

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02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #148 (Closed): test

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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