Understanding Society User Support

08/08/2013

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #182 (Closed): Derived Variable a_hiqual_dv

Hi,
There seems to be no documentation on how the derived variables were compiled and I was wondering if you could t... Madeline Crosswaite

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #181 (Closed): Age for youths in the youth questionnaire

Hi,
I was wondering if there was an easy way to determine the age of the individuals in the youth questionnaire to u... Madeline Crosswaite

08/07/2013

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #180 (Closed): Sports Club membership among Scottish adults

Hi,
I have a query relating to the variable b_club, (sports club membership).
I am wanting to calculate two fi... Chris Martin

08/05/2013

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #179 (Closed): mariatl status change between wave 1 and 2

Dear all,
I want to combine the marital histories from wave 1 and the new events reported in wave 2.
In the seco... Tina Hannemann

08/02/2013

09:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #178 (Closed): Marital Satisfaction Availability in Wave K?

First, I hope this is the appropriate venue for this. I have asked other people and they steered me here.
I’m tryi... Spencer James

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #177 (Closed): SF36 in BHPS and SF12 in UKHLS

I am using UKHLS for its BHPS data along with BHPS. UKHLS has the SF12 health scoring together with the derived PCS a... Emma Salter

07/31/2013

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #176 (Closed): Missing parental data

Hi,
I'm merging data from the USoc Wave 1 youth questionnaire (a_youth) and the Wave 1 adult individual questionna... Sam Baars

07/30/2013

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #159 (Closed): Father's social class

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01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #172 (Closed): racel

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01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #174 (Closed): Understanding "Missing" in IP data

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07/26/2013

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #172: racel

XWAVEDAT holds the last valid response of racel.
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03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #172: racel

I am sorry, I was not clear. I wanted to say that even if you consider the first wave only, xracel has more observati... Giulia Montresor

06:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #175: Over 24K participants seem to have no waves of data

> There is no wave-specific data for participants from 78133491 through ...
Listing *ivfio on XWAVEID I find that ... Redmine Admin

07/25/2013

09:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #175: Over 24K participants seem to have no waves of data

I was able to find wIVFIO. Thank you for pointing that out. However, I'm not sure I understand how a participant coul... Chris Martin

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #175 (In Progress): Over 24K participants seem to have no waves of data

I suggest that you also check the interview outcome variables, wIVFIO and wIVFHO.
You will find responses from BHPS ... Redmine Admin

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #175 (Closed): Over 24K participants seem to have no waves of data

Hello
I'm using BHPS data and I merged xwavedat with xwaveid. Then I merged the resulting file with every wINDRESP f... Chris Martin

07/24/2013

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #173: Understanding "inapplicable"

We will have to get back to you about the BHPS question - meanwhile; UKHLS is another name for _Understanding Society... Redmine Admin

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #172: racel

There are new entrants at Wave 2 and some that have only turned 16 years since the Wave 1 interview, etc.
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05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #171 (Closed): Source: NSFH

Thanks for making us aware of this. The more likely source would be BHPS's
wYPEATN Past week times evening meal w... Redmine Admin

07/22/2013

02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #173: Understanding "inapplicable"

This question was actually concerning the BHPS. I do want to integrate the last two years of Understanding Society da... Chris Martin

07/21/2013

06:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #174: Understanding "Missing" in IP data

System missing are coded to -9 in the data processing and recoded to missing value codes if this can be infered from ... Redmine Admin

06:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #173: Understanding "inapplicable"

If this is a question concerning the UKHLS XWAVEDAT, then this file contains the latest valid response to a given ite... Redmine Admin

07/20/2013

07:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #174 (Closed): Understanding "Missing" in IP data

Hello.
When I read the Understanding Society IP User Guide, it was mentioned that -9 is assigned to data that are ... Vivian So

07/19/2013

10:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #173 (Closed): Understanding "inapplicable"

This is a general question. I've found that "inapplicable" is a common answer to many questions in the xwavedat datas... Chris Martin

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #172: racel

Hello,
I am just using the first wave of Understanding Society and I noticed a difference in the number of observat... Giulia Montresor

07:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #172: racel

racel is only asked of new adult entrants each wave and this information is consolidated together with other stable c... Redmine Admin

07:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #170 (Closed): Unable to access full sample size

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07/18/2013

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #172 (Closed): racel

Hello,
I was thinking I'd better use the ethnicity variable racel for adults of age 16+ from xwavedat instead ind... Giulia Montresor

07/12/2013

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #171 (Closed): Source: NSFH

In the questionnaire (UK Household Longitudinal Study: Mainstage Questionnaire:
Wave 1, v04) i have found a questio... Charlie Owen

07/11/2013

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #170: Unable to access full sample size

The UKDS helpdesk should be able to help you.
help@ukdataservice.ac.uk Redmine Admin

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #170: Unable to access full sample size

I believe I may have identified the problem, the link that claims I am downloading wave 1 and 2 on the UK data servic... Madeline Crosswaite

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #170 (In Progress): Unable to access full sample size

the sample sizes to expect can be gleaned from the tables here:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation... Redmine Admin

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #170 (Closed): Unable to access full sample size

Despite having insured it is the main sample (no the innovation panel) and having downloaded it multiple times (in SP... Madeline Crosswaite

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #155 (Closed): Number of biological children in the household (nnatch)

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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #163 (Closed): OMS movers, not resident in wave 2

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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #166 (Closed): country of birth

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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #168 (Closed): Main survey access

w_gor_dv is the UK Region of the household.
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11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #164 (Closed): ethnicity

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11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #154 (Closed): '0' weight in BHPS

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