Understanding Society User Support

10/22/2013

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #199: health conditions in main adult data set - wave 1 and wave 2

1) That's correct
2) There is no way of knowing whether a Wave 1 respondent still has one of the listed conditions a... Redmine Admin

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #205 (In Progress): Comparable health variables: BHPS-USoc

There is some overlap in the self-reported medical conditions, general health question/satisfaction and the SF12 is a... Redmine Admin

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #217 (Closed): linkage with npd

when will understanding society be linked with npd? which individuals will be linked?
marta de philippis

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #216 (Closed): Why so many deaths in 2000 and 2004?

Hello,
I am just starting to get to grips with the BHPS and I have a question as to why there were so many deaths ... Stephen Clark

10/21/2013

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #214 (Closed): SPSS files and documentation

see #213 Redmine Admin

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #212 (In Progress): Retrieving previous responses to questions asked only once

for this you have have to combine the responses across waves or use the XWAVEDAT file.
Jakob Redmine Admin

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #211 (In Progress): ethid4a and pride4a in wave 2

pride4a is routed partly on (EthId4a = 1|2), so only those responses would have been followed up with the pride4a que... Redmine Admin

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #198 (In Progress): Understanding Societies wave 1: a_lmend

the ‘something else’s might be those people who have separated but not officially divorced – but for them the marriag... Redmine Admin

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #208 (In Progress): move abroad

The interview outcome categories for out-of-scope relate to sample members who have moved to an address outside Great... Redmine Admin

10:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #207 (Closed): income variables

see #206 Redmine Admin

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #203 (Closed): Merging BPHS and US

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10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #202 (Closed): Analysing respondents from a particular year from two waves

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10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #201 (Closed): combining cross-sectional weights from wave 1 and 2

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10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #206: income variables in Understanding Society

The income question are routed on jbhas and jboff (sometimes via jbsemp).
In a small number of cases there seems to... Redmine Admin

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #204 (Closed): Linked administrative data

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09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #188 (Closed): Job satisfaction and promotion variables

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10/18/2013

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #210: Non-resident adult children

Thanks Emma,
I used the lprnt variable from xwavedat, rather than from any specific wave. Does this not contain in... Robert de Vries

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #210: Non-resident adult children

Hi Rob
It looks from the variable info and questionnaire that the question for the lprnt variable was only asked o... Emma Salter

10/16/2013

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #215 (Closed): Recording of deaths to BHPS / US respondents

Could you point me to anywhere in the documentation that describes how the death of a BHPS/US respondent is handled a... John MacInnes

10/15/2013

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #214 (Closed): SPSS files and documentation

I'm new to Understanding Society and this site and am preparing introductory SPSS files and documentation for use in ... John F Hall

10/11/2013

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #212 (Closed): Retrieving previous responses to questions asked only once

I'm doing an undergraduate dissertation using the BHPS data and plan to use waves i through m. Crucially I need to ma... Poppea Daniel

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #211 (Closed): ethid4a and pride4a in wave 2

Good morning,
I am now using wave 2 to construct some new variables in Stata12 for my research. This involves two ... Yinxuan Huang

10/08/2013

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #210 (Closed): Non-resident adult children

Hi, I'm interested in looking at people's transfers to their non-resident adult children. I'm wondering if it is poss... Robert de Vries

10/07/2013

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #209 (Closed): BHPS movers and residential casward

Hi,
I’d be very grateful for some advice please regarding BHPS mover data and Special License casward georeference... Helena Tunstall

01:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #208 (Closed): move abroad

Hello,
I am interested in those individuals who move abroad in wave 2.
I found the variable 'movearea' in the hous... Giulia Montresor

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #207 (Closed): income variables

Hello,
I would like to know what sources of income contain the variables paygu_dv and paynu_dv.
Is it just labor ... Giulia Montresor

10/02/2013

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #203: Merging BPHS and US

You can find out more about the continuation of the BHPS panel within the UKHLS study here;
https://www.understandin... Redmine Admin

08:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #202: Analysing respondents from a particular year from two waves

Gary,
Our data is not designed to the type of analysis you are doing but there is a way around it with a few assum... Olena Kaminska

07:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #201: combining cross-sectional weights from wave 1 and 2

Ferdinand,
The cross-sectional weights are constructed to represent the population at the time of each wave. But f... Olena Kaminska

09/27/2013

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #206 (Closed): income variables in Understanding Society

Hello,
I would like to know what sources of income contain the variables paygu_dv and paynu_dv.
Is it just labor... Giulia Montresor

09/26/2013

10:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #204 (In Progress): Linked administrative data

We have collected consent to administrative health data linkage and our data linkage application is currently being p... Redmine Admin

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #187 (In Progress): NIHPS 2008-09 (SN: 5151) - correct household weighting variable?

the scaling factor you are looking for can be created as f=Pop_NI/Sum(survey weights). You will only find the survey ... Redmine Admin

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #188 (In Progress): Job satisfaction and promotion variables

Original advice has been revised. Redmine Admin

09/24/2013

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #194: Type of postsecondary education attended

Intended university course is asked at IP5-6 in connection with an experiment described in the IP user guide.
We a... Redmine Admin

09/23/2013

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #205 (Closed): Comparable health variables: BHPS-USoc

Good afternoon,
As part of a longitudinal study using the BHPS cohort I am looking for health variables that are c... David Bayliss

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #204 (Closed): Linked administrative data

As regards the linked administrative data (health data is my area of interest), (a) is this linked already and presen... Morag Treanor

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #203 (Closed): Merging BPHS and US

I wish to merge British Household Panel Data with Understanding Society data, (a) is this possible/straightforwa... Morag Treanor