Activity
From 04/18/2015 to 05/17/2015
05/15/2015
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05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #376: Ethnicity and Associated Studies
- Opposed to the Mainstage study, the Innovation Panel does not at present count any ethnic minority boost samples. Ass...
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02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #376 (Closed): Ethnicity and Associated Studies
- I have a question about the Associated Studies aspect of Understanding Society. I understand that the sample availab...
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #377 (Closed): Twins
- I have a general question: does anybody know how many twin pairs (roughly) were identified based on the twins_w4 modu...
05/14/2015
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07:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #371: Weighting for longitudinal youth analysis
- Sorry I misread your question and my advice was more general - about when to use longitudinal weights. You did not fi...
05/13/2015
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- > 1. From the existing database in understanding society, is it possible to get participants' (recruited from boosted...
05/12/2015
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10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #375 (Closed): migrant group related queries
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we are currently thinking of a few studies with recent immigrants and would like to first see what we can do w... -
09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #371: Weighting for longitudinal youth analysis
- Hi Alita,
Sorry I have been unclear - I was aware that I needed to use a longitudinal weight, my query was actually ... -
- You are essentially using response from waves 1 and 3, so the most appropriate weights for you will be longitudinal w...
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- "Note: missing standard error because of stratum with single sampling unit". This happened because you included North...
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- 3. yes
2. you are correct that for your analysis you do not need respondents to respond continuously from waves 1 to... -
- 1) questions on income are asked of all adult respondents. If by using the phrase "required to answer" you meant that...
05/11/2015
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- Table 2 is based on different definitions of what constitutes a “responding” household. The table excludes households...
05/07/2015
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11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #374 (Closed): Response rates in wave 1
- Hello
I have been reading the response rate information in wave 1 in the US user guide. I was wondering how the r...
05/05/2015
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12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju
- Ok, got it. Thanks.
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- XWAVEDAT also consolidates data from the surviving BHPS sample in the study, see e.g. https://www.understandingsociet...
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- Hi Jakob,
Sorry but I am a bit confused. From what I see the file Xwavedat has more information on parental backgrou... -
- The XWAVEDAT file will be in the same folder as the other Understanding Society data files downloaded from UKDS. The ...
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- Hi Jacob,
Thanks for your message. I cannot find the file. Where should it be?
I think, however, that my question i...
05/04/2015
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- Only asked of adults not interviewed before, why the frequencies look sparse for the later waves. The cross-wave file...
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- Please see this FAQ; https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Is_it_possible_to_merge_in...
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04:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #373 (Closed): Enquiry on household income data
- We saw the Understanding Society Design Overview and would like to seek your expertise on some of the queries that we...
05/03/2015
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05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #372 (Closed): Longitudinal weighting
- Hello,
We are using individual level data from BHPS waves G, L and Q, as well as the Understanding Society survey ...
05/01/2015
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- I'm a running an analysis which involves data from wave 1 and wave 3 of the youth self-completion questionnaire. Bth ...
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10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #370 (Closed): Local authorities
- Is it possible to obtain each individual's local authority? Thanks
04/30/2015
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03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #367: Enquiry about class classification, SOC and NS-SEC
- Hi Min,
if the ONS cross-walk tables are only provided for the full NS-SEC, it will be the easiest if you apply to g... -
- Hello,
From what I understood in one of the replies you gave, paju (and maju) were asked only in Wave 1. But then, w... -
11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #368 (Closed): variable "inc1lab" (Wave C)
- I am currently writing my Masters-Thesis about the UK labour market and whether sexual orientation has an impact on v...
04/29/2015
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #357: cluster variable
- Dear Alita, reading the volume A of the BHPS I have noticed that the sample for the BHPS was obtained through a 3 sta...
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09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #367 (Closed): Enquiry about class classification, SOC and NS-SEC
- Dear all, I am trying to examine the class association between parents and children in Understanding society data. Ho...
04/28/2015
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04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #366: Work on attrition and non-response
- Martin,
You are probably aware already of the report I wrote for Eurostat on reducing and controlling attrition bi... -
04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #366 (Closed): Work on attrition and non-response
- I'm a researcher at ONS working on the longitudinal Survey on Living Conditions, used to produce the UK's contributio...
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- I would use *hhnetinc*1. If you have a specific reason to use *hhnetinc3*, you will have to apply for special licence...
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03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #365: Net income variables
- Thank you Gundi, that's helpful. Can I just check (while you're here...) that I've got the right variable? I'm lookin...
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- Hi Tom,
you will be able to do this with Understanding Society, too. Which version of Understanding Society are you ... -
- A set of commonly used derived net income variables were released in Nov 2014 and can be found on the Understanding S...
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- I am trying to look at moves in and out of low income using Understanding Society. I used to be able to do this from ...
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- No change since #306
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01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #364 (Closed): Update on linking Understanding Society to Hospital Episode Statistics
- On your data linkage page (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage) it states that consent for link...
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- There are some para data about the address recorded by the interviewer before any contact attempts, e.g. dweltyp, on ...
04/27/2015
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- Dear Yaojun,
the variable QFHIGH_DV does not consider as many qualifications as HIQUAL_DV. You can see this when you... -
04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #363 (Closed): educational qualification variables
- Dear Sir/Madam,
Could you please advise me whether w_hiqual or w_qfhigh is a better (more accurate) indicator of t... -
- ANS to Q1 ("To first study the inequalities...."): Yes, if you are using information that are available for full and ...
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02:38 PM
Understanding Society User Support
Support #362 (Closed): weights for longitudinal analysis
- Dear Alita Nandi,
I am postgraduate student aat the University of Lund. I am working on my final dissertation and ...
04/26/2015
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10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #361 (Closed): variables about house's type
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I am Maria, a PhD student in Sociology. I am using the Wave 3 of UKHLS. I checked in the indresp and hhresp dat...
04/23/2015
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04/21/2015
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- forwarded to the BHPS team.
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- Dear all,
working on the BHPS I noticed that there is a lot of observation which show annual saving (amount saved ... -
- Response to #5
If you are using 40+ year olds of all the 4 samples taken together then use wLRWTUK1. If the last w... -
- And yes, we used Lavallee's method.
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- 1. These are the variables in the model for households with more than one eligible person (for single-person househol...
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11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #360: Non-response models for Wave 2
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I also have one further question related to the construction of Wave 2 cross sectional weights. Can you pr... -
- Hello,
On page 63 of the User Manual, it says that non-response to Wave 2 (for the construction of individual cro... -
- Dear Dharmi,
We have not yet produced and published standardised longitudinal response rates of the kind that you ...
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