Understanding Society User Support

11/10/2015

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #81: Does Health Visitor data still exist in Understanding Society

FYI: There has been a review of the information Understanding Society collects about health, and the lack of informat... Gundi Knies

11/09/2015

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #241 (Closed): c_fiyrinvinc_dv vs c_fiyrdia

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01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #406 (Closed): Calcuation of net income variables

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01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #415 (Closed): Question on household income

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01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #417 (Closed): Choice of income bands in proxy question on annual earnings

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01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #418 (Closed): Understanding Society dataset harmonised with GGP

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #428 (Closed): Adult SC Questionnaire Wave 2

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #430 (Closed): Sample size and weight within blood sample w2

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01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #435 (Closed): Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

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01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #436 (Closed): How to identify the Household Reference Person

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01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #437 (Closed): sample design and community establishments

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01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #440 (Closed): Longitudinal Regression Analysis Weights

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12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #445 (In Progress): Pain and work

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12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #447: Wave 5

We expect the Wave 5 launch the third week of Nov - so very soon.
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11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #447 (Closed): Wave 5

Hello,
Please can you let me know the date of the Wave 5 data release?
Many thanks,
Dharmi Dharmi Kapadia

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #438: Identifying a change in address

I have received the following advice:
You are correct – w_plnowy4 identifies those who moved since the last wave. ... Redmine Admin

11/06/2015

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #446 (Closed): Childcare analysis

Hello,
I would like to use the Understanding Society wave 4 data to assess whether childcare arrangements made to ... Ceri Hughes

07:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

Hi Alita,
thanks for your answer.
It's a pity the duration cannot be inferred. I hope this issue could be conside... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

11/05/2015

05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

Hi Zoe,
No, these questions only refer to whether they were off from work during the week before the interview and... Alita Nandi

11/04/2015

09:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #440: Longitudinal Regression Analysis Weights

That's great thank you! Esther Afolalu

05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #445: Pain and work

Look at the Data Documentation: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation
... Alita Nandi

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #445 (Closed): Pain and work

We are currently looking into a project on pain and work. I saw the following question in the most recent Understandi... Karen Steadman

11/03/2015

07:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #444: I need help

XWAVEID, XWLSTEN and XWAVEDAT: these are individual level files for all individuals ever sampled. The online document... Alita Nandi

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #444 (Feedback): I need help

Hi Abdulganiyu Ajani,
you say you are merging files ... and then that you are appending variables ... this makes it ... Gundi Knies

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #444 (Closed): I need help

I am currently using BHPS to do a research, but facing problems merging the waves. I was able to successfully appen... Abdulganiyu Ajani

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

Hi Alita. Thanks for your answer. Much appreciated.
I did use the variables you mentioned to help me calculate the ... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #443 (Closed): Orgm variables

Hi there,
I want to compare orga and orgm of wave 3 but I can't do this as they are not both representative of the... Olivia D'Lima

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #442: Weight for longitudinal analysis with BHPS Youth dataset

Genevieve,
Thanks for your question. There is no one way of conducting longitudinal analysis of youth data. The ma... Olena Kaminska

11/02/2015

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #442 (Closed): Weight for longitudinal analysis with BHPS Youth dataset

Hello,
What weights should I use when conducting longitudinal analysis with BHPS YOUTH data? Only cross-sectional ... Genevieve Gariepy

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #440: Longitudinal Regression Analysis Weights

Here are the answers to your questions in the order asked. Yes, d_indscus_lw is correct, and a_indscus_xw is correct ... Olena Kaminska

11/01/2015

06:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #440 (Closed): Longitudinal Regression Analysis Weights

Hello. I am working on the understanding society database looking specifically at the self-completion questionnaire d... Esther Afolalu

10/30/2015

06:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #428: Adult SC Questionnaire Wave 2

thanks very much Jakob! i'll look for the data update.
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> Please note that we have no self-c... afshin zilanawala

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #428: Adult SC Questionnaire Wave 2

Please note that we have no self-completion data for observations with missing value codes -7 (proxy respondent) and ... Redmine Admin

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #424 (Closed): Proxies in general, how do they work?

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11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #429 (Closed): Calculation of Benefits Income in BHPS and USoc

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11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #433 (Closed): How can I apply for a special license?

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11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #434 (Closed): "None of the above" in `w'_qfhigh

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10/29/2015

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #438 (Closed): Identifying a change in address

Hello,
I am studying the effects of a reform on rents paid by an household.
I need accurate information on when the... Federico Zilio

10/28/2015

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #437: sample design and community establishments

Phil,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, wave 1 sample excludes people living in communal accommodations. The ex... Olena Kaminska

10:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #437 (Closed): sample design and community establishments

Hello,
I'm trying to establish if residents in communal accommodation are sampled in US. I've read the user guide ... Phil Jones

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

If you follow the Annual Event History then you will be able to identify the exact month since last interview when th... Alita Nandi

10/27/2015

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #406: Calcuation of net income variables

No, housing benefit reported on the income file is included in hhnetinc1 as well as hhnetinc3. On behalf of the team,... Redmine Admin

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #417: Choice of income bands in proxy question on annual earnings

That's a fair question, but unfortunately I have not been able to track down the answer yet. Jakob Redmine Admin

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #417: Choice of income bands in proxy question on annual earnings

Thanks for the update, Jakob. Do you know what criteria the income bands were designed to satisfy? Till Hoffmann

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #417: Choice of income bands in proxy question on annual earnings

The categories used at W1-2 were taken from British Household Panel Survey Wave 18. The categories were redefined at ... Redmine Admin

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #430: Sample size and weight within blood sample w2

Dear Gaelle,
Thank you for your questions. First, we indeed provide blood weight for combined sample of GPS and BH... Olena Kaminska

10/26/2015

08:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #406: Calcuation of net income variables

Thank you, and I presume that the deductions referred to hhnetinc3 do not include housing benefit? Laura Jones

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #406 (In Progress): Calcuation of net income variables

Laura,
Yes, housing benefit reported on the income file is included in hhnetinc1. However no allowance is made in h... Redmine Admin

10/25/2015

08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #406: Calcuation of net income variables

Could I please ask whether housing benefit received by the household goes into hhnetinc1?
many thanks,
Laura Laura Jones

10/23/2015

07:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #432 (Closed): Distributions of NS-SEC variables in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data

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07:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #431 (Closed): Coding of 'missing' in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data of variable 'a_scghq2_dv'

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07:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #427 (Closed): Income variables' descriptive stats on US website do not match my results

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07:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #426 (Closed): Merging youth to family information

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07:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #436: How to identify the Household Reference Person

pls see #290 Redmine Admin

10/22/2015

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #436 (Closed): How to identify the Household Reference Person

Hi there,
I'm using US for a masters project and am trying to select my dataset so that it only includes the househo... Laura Jones

09:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #241: c_fiyrinvinc_dv vs c_fiyrdia

Some are questions and the details can be found in the questionnaire specification and others are derived variables, ... Redmine Admin

09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #406: Calcuation of net income variables

We will be providing more details on the income variables in the user guide to the forthcoming release. Please also n... Redmine Admin

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #415: Question on household income

A part from households with genuinely low incomes some households may be reluctant to report incomes in general. See ... Redmine Admin

10/21/2015

05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #429: Calculation of Benefits Income in BHPS and USoc

The INCOME file stores the multiple reported income sources. In the rare instances where an amount cannot be itemised... Redmine Admin

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

Hi Jakob,
thanks for your answer.
_length of sickness/injury absence in the question "main reason why you were aw... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

08:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #435: Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

> ... length of sickness/injury absence in the question "main reason why you were away from wor?" (variable JBOFFY)
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10/20/2015

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #434: "None of the above" in `w'_qfhigh

We have noted the high proportion of individuals for whom we have ‘none of the above’ replies on the variable `w’_qfh... Redmine Admin

08:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #435 (Closed): Question relating to " main reason respondent was away from work last week?" in the UK HLS

Hi there,
Please, was is the *+length+* of sickness/injury absence in the question "main reason why you were away fr... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

10/19/2015

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #433: How can I apply for a special license?

please see https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Which_variables_are_released_under_Sp... Redmine Admin

10/16/2015

09:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #434 (Closed): "None of the above" in `w'_qfhigh

Hi, I have a question about 96 "None of the Above" category in `w'_qfhigh variable (highest educational qualificati... Yujung Whang

10/14/2015

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #433 (Closed): How can I apply for a special license?

Hi, I would like to apply for a special license as a non-UK user to have access to geographic identifier at the med... Yujung Whang

10/13/2015

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #432 (In Progress): Distributions of NS-SEC variables in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data

Dear Sharon,
we try to assign the most appropriate missing values according to our definitions, i.e. -9 "missing or ... Gundi Knies

04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #432 (Closed): Distributions of NS-SEC variables in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data

I first accessed the Wave 1 dataset around 2012 at which time there was a ‘refusal’ category for the derived variable... Sharon Cruise

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #431: Coding of 'missing' in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data of variable 'a_scghq2_dv'

Dear Sharon,
we try to assign the most appropriate missing values according to our definitions, i.e. -9 "missing or ... Gundi Knies

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #431 (Closed): Coding of 'missing' in earlier and later versions of Wave 1 data of variable 'a_scghq2_dv'

I first accessed the Wave 1 dataset around 2012 at which time there was a ‘missing’ category for the derived variable... Sharon Cruise