Understanding Society User Support

11/14/2014

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #322 (In Progress): Net Income measures

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12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #323 (Closed): which weight to use

I am currently working on a publication with a very tight schedule using data from the Understanding Society. The pub... Veronique Siegler

11/13/2014

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #308: Current and past employment and non-employment at UKHLS wave 2

> 1) Whether it is in some way possible to tell whether past 'paid work' spells were employment or self-employment - ... Redmine Admin

11/12/2014

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #319 (In Progress): Merging individual and household data in SPSS

Please provide everything up-front and be specific about variables, files, waves, release date, and software. A few l... Redmine Admin

11/04/2014

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #322 (Closed): Net Income measures

Hi
I noticed in response to Support #285 you mention that net household income for W1-3 should be completed this m... Andy Ross

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #308: Current and past employment and non-employment at UKHLS wave 2

Dear Jakob,
Thank you but I'm still unclear on both of the issues above. I realise that the respondent is sent thr... Amanda Hughes

10:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #317 (Closed): Analysis including Northern Ireland

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10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #317: Analysis including Northern Ireland

Thanks for the advice.
Best wishes,
David David Bayliss

11/03/2014

05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #305: Mixed race sample in wave 1 and 2

> ... could not find a cross-wave version of current marital status (in the XWAVEDAT). I would like to find out if it... Redmine Admin

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #308 (In Progress): Current and past employment and non-employment at UKHLS wave 2

The non-employment status, nextelse, is dealt with in the same loop as the employment status question, nextstat. If t... Redmine Admin

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #307 (Closed): Survey design xwaves

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11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #320: Tracing movers

> IDENTIFYING MOVERS
> 1. For estimating movers while we wait for secure access, the only variable I can find for ... Redmine Admin

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #321 (In Progress): Nurse assessment for Wave 4

Just for Waves 2-3. For background and plans for further development of the health content, please see; https://www.u... Redmine Admin

10/31/2014

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #318: missing standard erroros Wave 3

Dear Alita,
Thank you for your response!
Indeed, that is the problem: strata with single PSU.
Before (i.e. in wave... Carolina Zuccotti

10:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #317: Analysis including Northern Ireland

Hello David,
The appropriate strategy for UK-wide analysis as you describe is to consider the NIHPS to be a single... Peter Lynn

10/30/2014

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #321 (Closed): Nurse assessment for Wave 4

Greetings,
It is not clear to me from the documentation on the website whether Wave 4 included nurse home visits ... Tarra Penney

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #320 (Closed): Tracing movers

Greetings,
We are interested in tracing all participants that have moved house across Waves 1, 2, 3 and the upcom... Tarra Penney

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #319 (Closed): Merging individual and household data in SPSS

I am trying to look at disability onset and offset rates (so if people become or lose their impairments/disability ov... Emine Deviren

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316 (Closed): fibenothr_dv variable

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02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316: fibenothr_dv variable

That's great, many thanks for your help.
Juliet. Juliet Stone

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316: fibenothr_dv variable

It’s the sum of the 36+ benefits on the income file (adjusted for joint receipt). Its monthly.
on behalf of the UK... Redmine Admin

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316: fibenothr_dv variable

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> Just to confirm that the variable will be available for all waves in this year's release toge... Juliet Stone

02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #311 (Closed): Possibility to merge BHPS and Understanding Society

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02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #312 (Closed): Issue with "Self-completion Best Friends module"

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02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #313 (Closed): Linkage between Wave 1, 2 and 3

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02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #314 (Closed): Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

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02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #315 (Closed): Zero values in Cross Sectional adult weights

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01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #318 (In Progress): missing standard erroros Wave 3

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01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #318: missing standard erroros Wave 3

One of the reasons Stata does not produce standard errors when using svyset is that there are strata with only one PS... Alita Nandi

10/28/2014

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #318 (Closed): missing standard erroros Wave 3

Hello,
Some time ago I asked you about weights: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/106
Using t... Carolina Zuccotti

10/25/2014

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #317 (Closed): Analysis including Northern Ireland

Dear support team,
I have a question regarding the different sampling design used in Northern Ireland (NI). I am u... David Bayliss

10/23/2014

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #310 (Closed): RGSC at wave 2

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01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316 (In Progress): fibenothr_dv variable

Just to confirm that the variable will be available for all waves in this year's release together with several new in... Redmine Admin

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #316 (Closed): fibenothr_dv variable

I would like to use the variable fibenothr_dv (total income from benefits and other sources) in my analysis but there... Juliet Stone

10/22/2014

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #310: RGSC at wave 2

Dear Jakob,
OK thanks, that makes sense.
Best wishes,
Amanda Amanda Hughes

10/21/2014

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #307: Survey design xwaves

Daisy,
This all sounds reasonable to me, with one exception. The observations within clusters are not independent.... Peter Lynn

10/17/2014

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #313 (In Progress): Linkage between Wave 1, 2 and 3

Part of this can be attrition, but we continue to follow up original sample members even if we lose contact for a wav... Redmine Admin

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #315 (In Progress): Zero values in Cross Sectional adult weights

see #259 Revision due this November.
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12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #315 (Closed): Zero values in Cross Sectional adult weights

I am using Wave 3 only of Understanding Society, and I am weighting the data using the combined cross sectional adult... Cinzia Rienzo

10/16/2014

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

#257 mentions a move indicator based on postcode changes. The indicator is on the End User Licence (EUL) data (which ... Redmine Admin

10:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

Hi Jakob,
Thank you very much for the explanation!
In terms of the administrative data on the household address... Frank Feng

07:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

There are different approaches to studying moves and which approach to take will depend on the type of question you a... Redmine Admin

08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #296 (Closed): zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

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08:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #306 (Closed): Link with HES data?

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08:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #310: RGSC at wave 2

Employment status is asked in different ways, see e.g. #206 #229. In this case, jbrgsc_dv depends on jbsoc00, which i... Redmine Admin

08:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #311 (In Progress): Possibility to merge BHPS and Understanding Society

There is a section on this in the user guide.
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07:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #312: Issue with "Self-completion Best Friends module"

The variables from this module will be in the revision of Wave 3 expected for release this November.
Jakob Redmine Admin

07:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #302 (Closed): Ethnic group sample sizes in older age-ranges

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