Understanding Society User Support

06/17/2014

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #269: Waves with Height and weight

Thank you Jakob.
Are you able to point me toward the nurse fieldwork document where height and weight would have... Tarra Penney

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #269: Waves with Height and weight

We have so far collected self-reported height and weight of adults at Wave 1 and of 10-15yr olds at Waves 2 and 4. We... Redmine Admin

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #271 (In Progress): Where is the Cognitive tests & personality traits wave 3 located?

The user guide has a section on this that might be of interest.
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10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #271 (Closed): Where is the Cognitive tests & personality traits wave 3 located?

I downloaded the latest copy of wave 1-3 data today and am unable to locate this new data Andrew Hind

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #270: Weighting

Vicky,
Your issue is not with weighting, but rather with the population that you are interested to represent and w... Olena Kaminska

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #264 (In Progress): Data inconsistency - satisfaction with health - c_sclfsat1

Gemma: would it be reasonable to say that there could be a potential issue with the data/coding?
Jakob: The only t... Redmine Admin

06/16/2014

06:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #270 (Closed): Weighting

Hi
I am using the first three waves of US data to look at job loss and associations with mental health and self-ra... Victoria Peacey

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #267: Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

That's great, thank you Jakob. That's all I need.
I do think though that the b_indresp data dictionary should be up... Victoria Peacey

09:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #268: Survey sample

The region variable, GOR (UK Region), is on the main sample and response files, e.g. here;
https://www.understanding... Redmine Admin

06/13/2014

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #269 (Closed): Waves with Height and weight

I am looking for confirmation on the collection of body mass index in US. I have reviewed the questionnaires and nur... Tarra Penney

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #268 (Closed): Survey sample

Would it be possible to tell me what the Welsh sample size is for this survey please?
Rhian Davies

06/10/2014

10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #267: Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

you could search or browse the online documentation pages from around here for variables of interest;
https://www.un... Redmine Admin

10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #267: Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

Thanks Jakob. I've got the self-completion questionnaires. Is there a data dictionary file for the self completion va... Victoria Peacey

06/09/2014

04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #266: Wave 2-3 Biomarkers Release Date

we will update this faq when we have got a date for the release. The samples are still being analysed at the moment.
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01:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #266 (Closed): Wave 2-3 Biomarkers Release Date

Hello,
I'm very interested in the Waves 2-3 Biomarkers dataset containing information derived from blood samples, ... Claryn Kung

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #267: Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

The first couple of waves we used paper questionnaires for the self-completion. You can find these as pdf in the docu... Redmine Admin

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #267: Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

Hello again - my apologies as it appears the variables are in the b_indresp dataset. I was confused because they are ... Victoria Peacey

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #267 (Closed): Self-completion data (adults) from wave 2

Hello, hope you can help. I've downloaded waves 1-3 from the data service in STATA format, but I can't find the varia... Victoria Peacey

06/06/2014

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #260 (Closed): age leaving home

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02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #259 (Closed): Question about individual self comepletion weight in UKHLS Wave 3

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06/05/2014

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #264: Data inconsistency - satisfaction with health - c_sclfsat1

There does seem to be a shift for some categories between Wave 2 and 3 and more so for satisfaction with health than ... Redmine Admin

06/02/2014

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #263 (Closed): Ethnic Boost

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10:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #262 (Closed): Weights

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10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #261 (Closed): Weighting for wave 2

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10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #258 (Closed): High number of 0 weights

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05/30/2014

08:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #257 (Closed): Residential mobility and LSOA codes

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05/29/2014

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #264: Data inconsistency - satisfaction with health - c_sclfsat1

I am unable to attach the document - so here is some additional detail. Please contact me if you would like me to sen... Gemma Archer

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #264: Data inconsistency - satisfaction with health - c_sclfsat1

we haven't allowed attachments so far. The following text formatting tools might be of use; https://www.understanding... Redmine Admin

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #260: age leaving home

> 1) Is the answer option ‘don’t know’ explicitly given TO THE RESPONDENT by the interviewer or is this option only r... Redmine Admin

05/28/2014

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #264 (Closed): Data inconsistency - satisfaction with health - c_sclfsat1

Hi there,
I am working for the Department of Health and am trying to explain why there appears to have been a dro... Gemma Archer

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #259: Question about individual self comepletion weight in UKHLS Wave 3

Thank you for brining our attention to this issue. The issue with the c_indscub_xw weight has been now solved and the... Olena Kaminska

05/22/2014

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #258: High number of 0 weights

Jan,
Thank you for your question. The drop of cases you observe is because with the c_indscus_lw you lose cases fr... Olena Kaminska

05/21/2014

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #257: Residential mobility and LSOA codes

> On the xwhist variable there are quite a lot of cases where a postcode is present at wave 1, then not at wave 2 but... Redmine Admin

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #258: High number of 0 weights

as for #259 we would like a bit of time to get the best possible answer for you.
Jakob Redmine Admin

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #263: Ethnic Boost

please see
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/wave/3/datafile/c_in... Redmine Admin

12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #261: Weighting for wave 2

Fatemeh,
If you are interested to represent population of the UK (or any subgroup) at the time of wave 2, use b_in... Olena Kaminska

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #262: Weights

Maire,
If you are using three waves in one model then use c_indpxub_lw. If you are using each wave separately, the... Olena Kaminska