Understanding Society User Support

05/18/2015

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #371: Weighting for longitudinal youth analysis

Ah, yes I see the problem with the youth data set. In that case I might proceed with a cross-sectional weight appropr... Kareena McAloney-Kocaman

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #367 (In Progress): Enquiry about class classification, SOC and NS-SEC

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05/15/2015

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... Redmine Admin

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... Rosalind Willis

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... Fruhling Rijsdijk

05/14/2015

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... Alita Nandi

05/13/2015

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #375: migrant group related queries

> 1. From the existing database in understanding society, is it possible to get participants' (recruited from boosted... Redmine Admin

05/12/2015

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #375 (Closed): migrant group related queries

Hi,
we are currently thinking of a few studies with recent immigrants and would like to first see what we can do w... Ayse Uskul

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 ... Kareena McAloney-Kocaman

12:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #371: Weighting for longitudinal youth analysis

You are essentially using response from waves 1 and 3, so the most appropriate weights for you will be longitudinal w... Alita Nandi

12:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #357: cluster variable

"Note: missing standard error because of stratum with single sampling unit". This happened because you included North... Alita Nandi

12:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #372: Longitudinal weighting

3. yes
2. you are correct that for your analysis you do not need respondents to respond continuously from waves 1 to... Alita Nandi

12:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #373: Enquiry on household income data

1) questions on income are asked of all adult respondents. If by using the phrase "required to answer" you meant that... Alita Nandi

05/11/2015

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #361 (Closed): variables about house's type

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09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #362 (Closed): weights for longitudinal analysis

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09:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #364 (Closed): Update on linking Understanding Society to Hospital Episode Statistics

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09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #366 (Closed): Work on attrition and non-response

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09:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #374: Response rates in wave 1

Table 2 is based on different definitions of what constitutes a “responding” household. The table excludes households... Redmine Admin

05/07/2015

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... Caroline Tait

05/05/2015

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #369 (Closed): missing paju maju

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12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

Ok, got it. Thanks. Carolina Zuccotti

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

XWAVEDAT also consolidates data from the surviving BHPS sample in the study, see e.g. https://www.understandingsociet... Redmine Admin

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

Hi Jakob,
Sorry but I am a bit confused. From what I see the file Xwavedat has more information on parental backgrou... Carolina Zuccotti

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

The XWAVEDAT file will be in the same folder as the other Understanding Society data files downloaded from UKDS. The ... Redmine Admin

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

Hi Jacob,
Thanks for your message. I cannot find the file. Where should it be?
I think, however, that my question i... Carolina Zuccotti

05/04/2015

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #356 (Closed): Longitudinal response rates

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04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #360 (Closed): Non-response models for Wave 2

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03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #369: missing paju maju

Only asked of adults not interviewed before, why the frequencies look sparse for the later waves. The cross-wave file... Redmine Admin

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #370 (In Progress): Local authorities

Please see this FAQ; https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Is_it_possible_to_merge_in... Redmine Admin

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... Ai Yun Tay

05/03/2015

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 ... Ulrike Rauer

05/01/2015

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #371 (Closed): Weighting for longitudinal youth analysis

I'm a running an analysis which involves data from wave 1 and wave 3 of the youth self-completion questionnaire. Bth ... Kareena McAloney-Kocaman

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #370 (Closed): Local authorities

Is it possible to obtain each individual's local authority? Thanks Noah Carl

04/30/2015

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... Gundi Knies

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #369 (Closed): missing paju maju

Hello,
From what I understood in one of the replies you gave, paju (and maju) were asked only in Wave 1. But then, w... Carolina Zuccotti

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... Sabrina Kraus

04/29/2015

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... Elisa Macchi

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... Min Zhang

04/28/2015

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... Peter Lynn

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... Martin Griffiths

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #365: Net income variables

I would use *hhnetinc*1. If you have a specific reason to use *hhnetinc3*, you will have to apply for special licence... Gundi Knies

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... Tom MacInnes

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #365: Net income variables

Hi Tom,
you will be able to do this with Understanding Society, too. Which version of Understanding Society are you ... Gundi Knies

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #365 (In Progress): Net income variables

A set of commonly used derived net income variables were released in Nov 2014 and can be found on the Understanding S... Redmine Admin

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #365 (Closed): Net income variables

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 ... Tom MacInnes

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #363 (Closed): educational qualification variables

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09:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #363 (In Progress): educational qualification variables

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03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #364: Update on linking Understanding Society to Hospital Episode Statistics

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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... Alex Turner

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #362 (In Progress): weights for longitudinal analysis

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09:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #361 (In Progress): variables about house's type

There are some para data about the address recorded by the interviewer before any contact attempts, e.g. dweltyp, on ... Redmine Admin

04/27/2015

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #363: educational qualification variables

Dear Yaojun,
the variable QFHIGH_DV does not consider as many qualifications as HIQUAL_DV. You can see this when you... Gundi Knies

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... Yaojun Li

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #362: weights for longitudinal analysis

ANS to Q1 ("To first study the inequalities...."): Yes, if you are using information that are available for full and ... Alita Nandi

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 ... Anonymous

04/26/2015

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #361 (Closed): variables about house's type

Hi,
I am Maria, a PhD student in Sociology. I am using the Wave 3 of UKHLS. I checked in the indresp and hhresp dat... Maria Katia Orteca

04/23/2015

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #358 (Closed): selfemployed well being

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