Understanding Society User Support

01/04/2016

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #475 (Closed): ECHP-SCPR, ECHP-ONS, and ECHP-NI

I am trying to understand the values of memorig, which codes the subsample in BHPS. I understand the meaning of value... Chris Martin

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #474 (Closed): Large income jump between Wave 18 of BHPS and Wave 2 of UKHLS

Hello
I have merged data from the BHPS with Understanding Society and have an issue with income data. In BHPS, two o... Chris Martin

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #473 (Closed): Zero income from labour but high job satisfaction

There are many cases where income from labor is zero, but the respondent has a high level of job satisfaction. Could ... Chris Martin

02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #461 (Resolved): Was Maternal BMI or Maternal Weigth and Height Data been recorded?

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02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #463 (In Progress): Job History Data

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02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #472 (In Progress): Inapplicable Answers

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02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #472: Inapplicable Answers

Hi Alex,
As you can see from the Universe this was asked only of "proxy respondents" who were in paid work in the ... Alita Nandi

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #471 (In Progress): Weights

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02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #471: Weights

Hi Alex,
Please see "Example 6: Working with weights and complex survey design" of the "Introduction to Understand... Alita Nandi

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #465 (In Progress): Immediate - BHPS data access help

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12/27/2015

06:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #472 (Closed): Inapplicable Answers

Hi,
I looked at the variable c_pjbptft (whether they work full time or part time) in c_indresp (adult self comple... Alex Best

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #471 (Closed): Weights

I am doing cross-sectional analysis of wave 3 (adult self completion questionnaire), so I am aware I need to use the ... Alex Best

12/23/2015

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #449 (Closed): Sexuality Variable

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10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #450 (Closed): subpopulation analysis

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10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #453 (Closed): Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)

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10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #456 (Closed): comparing across waves

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10:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #460 (Closed): Language variables

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10:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #464 (Closed): Local Authority Data

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10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #466 (Closed): Deprivation scores

links should have been prepared. Thanks for making us aware of this problem. Jakob Redmine Admin

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #467 (Closed): Ns-sec/UKborn and religion

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12/22/2015

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #470 (Closed): Benefit Data

Hello,
Can you please tell me what information is collected with regards to benefit payments. Is this a simple ye... megan macpherson

12/21/2015

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)

Thanks Olena, it helps a lot !
Thank you again for the time you take to answer me. I better understand the use of ... Gaelle Albertus

07:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #463: Job History Data

As the reasons for this decision was not dependant on any individual, household or regional characteristics and as th... Alita Nandi

12/20/2015

10:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #469 (In Progress): cross tabulation question

Hi Veronique,
when you look at the online variable level description you will see that _jbnssec_dv is derived from _... Gundi Knies

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #463: Job History Data

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Anuj,
> You will have to create these variables yourself. We do not provide these derived v... Anuj Vithlani

12/19/2015

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #463: Job History Data

Hi Anuj,
You will have to create these variables yourself. We do not provide these derived variables as yet.
Best w... Alita Nandi

12/18/2015

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #469 (Closed): cross tabulation question

When I cross tabulate c_jbnnssec_dv (NS-SEC of current job) with c_jobstat (current employment status) , some people ... Veronique Siegler

12/17/2015

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #463: Job History Data

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Employment histories were collected for the 1-6 month samples in wave 1 and for the remaining 6... Anuj Vithlani

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468: Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Wonderful, many thanks for your response and your help! I am looking forward to analysing the data!
Best wishes,
Ko... Konstantin Käppner

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468 (Closed): Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Erroneously, the documentation from the previous deposit is currently the first part of the ducumentation you find. W... Redmine Admin

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468: Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Dear Jakob,
thank you for the information. I will hence apply for the special license datasets to obtain ward iden... Konstantin Käppner

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #468: Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

The most accurate information that we can offer on location is postcode centroids at a single point in time. This inf... Redmine Admin

10:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #465: Immediate - BHPS data access help

All household level questions are asked in the household questionnaire. You can search for these variables by looking... Alita Nandi

12/16/2015

07:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468: Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Dear Jakob,
many thanks for the swift response. As I said, I think it would be an easier solution if I could obtai... Konstantin Käppner

06:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468 (In Progress): Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Unfortunately, we are not currently able to grant access to Secure Access data to researchers based outside the UK. W... Redmine Admin

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #468 (Closed): Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed

Dear Understanding Society Team mebmers at ISER,
I am currently conducting an analysis of individual voting dynam... Konstantin Käppner

07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #464: Local Authority Data

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

12/15/2015

07:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)

Dear Gaelle,
First, let me answer a question whether you need weights. You don’t need weights if you want to talk ... Olena Kaminska

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #467: Ns-sec/UKborn and religion

"Whether current job NS-SEC is given by c_j1soc10_cc (NS-SEC 10) or c_j1soc00_cc (NS-SEC 2000)?"
These do not ref... Alita Nandi

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #467: Ns-sec/UKborn and religion

ukborn (and other iniital conditions questions) are asked only when first interviewed so they will have a lot of miss... Alita Nandi

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #467 (Closed): Ns-sec/UKborn and religion

Please could you just clarify(apologies unfamilar with running these in Understanding society and a colleague has que... angela potter-collins

08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #466: Deprivation scores

Thanks for letting us know. The new link is:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Is... Redmine Admin

12/14/2015

08:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #466 (Closed): Deprivation scores

My enquiry is about IMD/Carstairs scores. As I understand they are not included in the data but should be linked to g... Johanna Jokio

05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #450 (In Progress): subpopulation analysis

All our weights are designed for analysis of the whole population on any population subgroup. Apologies for taking a ... Redmine Admin

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #465 (Closed): Immediate - BHPS data access help

Dear Understanding Society User Support,
I have registered for the UK Data Service and acquired BHPS data for my d... Christopher Booth

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #464 (Closed): Local Authority Data

Hello,
I am looking to use the Understanding Society data for a project I am involved in. I wondered if the data ... megan macpherson

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #461: Was Maternal BMI or Maternal Weigth and Height Data been recorded?

Please take a look at the variable description in the Online Documentation for the frequency distribution of response... Alita Nandi

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #463: Job History Data

Employment histories were collected for the 1-6 month samples in wave 1 and for the remaining 6-24 month samples in w... Alita Nandi

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #460: Language variables

>Can I clarify that there is no question asking if the respondents speaks a language other than English at home?
YES... Alita Nandi

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #449: Sexuality Variable

Hi Alex,
Proxy interview: When a person is unable to give an interview, in some cases, their spouse or adult child... Alita Nandi

07:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)

Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for your helpful response.
I already read the User guide of both main stage and nurse h... Gaelle Albertus

12/09/2015

07:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #452 (Closed): identifying same-sex (female-female)partner

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07:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #454 (Closed): BHPS hhch12 variable in INDRESP files

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07:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #457 (Closed): ethnicity

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07:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #458 (Closed): country of birth and derived variable UK born

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07:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #459 (Closed): derived variable for total number of children

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07:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462 (Closed): Longitudinal weights

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05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

Thanks Olena- this is a great help.
I think the most suitable solution is to continue to just use the longitudina... Rory Coulter

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

Rory,
Cross-sectional weights will be wrong in this situation simply because you can't observe a move in a cross-s... Olena Kaminska

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

Thanks Olena, this helps a lot.
Just one (hopefully final) clarification regarding pooled analysis. If I were to f... Rory Coulter

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

To answer your questions:
1. Yes, and this is a safe option;
2. Pooled analysis is a good option if you want to rep... Olena Kaminska

05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #463 (Closed): Job History Data

I've looked at both the BHPS and UKHLS data. Am I correct in saying that BHPS has job history data whilst the UKHLS d... Anuj Vithlani

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #449: Sexuality Variable

Thank you!
I was just wondering how do I find out what the "proxy" answers refer to? I assume proxy means other pe... Alex Best

12/08/2015

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
Many thanks for the very quick reply and advice. I can see that just using the wave 1 weight is not eno... Rory Coulter

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #462: Longitudinal weights

Rory,
You can't use different longitudinal weights for different people in the same analysis - such analysis will ... Olena Kaminska

10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #462 (Closed): Longitudinal weights

Hi,
I'm conducting a longitudinal analysis of waves 1-5 using the GPS and EMB samples and have a quick question ab... Rory Coulter

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #456: comparing across waves

Thanks Olena.
I realize that if I pool data I would need to have "individuals x wave" as unit of analyses, which mi... Carolina Zuccotti

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #455 (Closed): Residential mobility indicators

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10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #455: Residential mobility indicators

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> xwhist is under development and did not make it into the latest release. You are advised to a... Rory Coulter

12/07/2015

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)

Dear Gaelle,
Indeed, you are right in thinking that generally for most of the studies all people who provide infor... Olena Kaminska