Understanding Society User Support

11/18/2014

09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #309 (In Progress): Unmatched District codes

The source of our data is the ONS Postcode Directory Nov 2013. OSLAUA is related to LAD13 boundaries in England, wher... Redmine Admin

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #322 (Closed): Net Income measures

and here it is;
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2014/11/17/wave-4-data-release-coming-soon
expected releas... Redmine Admin

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