Understanding Society User Support

03/16/2016

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #515 (Closed): Matching pid across waves

Victoria Nolan

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #512 (Closed): Accessing the linked NPD dataset

Victoria Nolan

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513 (Closed): e_indscus_lw

Victoria Nolan

10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #530 (Resolved): Proxy interview rules

Dear Pauline,
I have consulted with our survey manager, who has provided the following response:
On Understandi... Victoria Nolan

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #530 (Closed): Proxy interview rules

I work at ONS on the Labour Force Survey

I was just wondering if you could provide me with some details on how yo... Pauline Beck

03/15/2016

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents

Hi Zoe,
I am not sure what your question is. Could you please let us know the name of variable you are looking for... Alita Nandi

02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents

Hi Alita,
Thank you for that. Is there a way to create a subsample which would control all the youth 10-15? I trie... zoe young

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Thanks, It has been a great help indeed.
Ujjwal Ujjwal Kumar Das

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Use w_hiqual_dv.
Read about it in the online documentation.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation... Alita Nandi

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #527 (Closed): HoH

In BHPS there was an identifier for head of household (*HOH) in the individual file. Is there an identifier for head ... declan french

03/14/2016

07:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Hi, Thanks for this clarification. Any suggestions how I can incorporate the initial academic qualification for those... Ujjwal Kumar Das

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Hello Ujjwal,
You are correct the BHPS respondents were not asked the initial conditions questions and so this der... Alita Nandi

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #525 (Closed): Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Dear all,
After combining wave 2-5 of Understanding Society (US) the -8 (inapplicable)responses of the variable w... Ujjwal Kumar Das

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents

No, you don't need secure access to get information about children in the households. But note children under the age... Alita Nandi

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #526 (Closed): Identifying Child Respondents

Hi I am trying to identify the child respondents throughout the waves. I want to examine who is in care and who is n... zoe young

03/11/2016

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #524 (Closed): Geographical identifiers

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a restricted dataset that contained information on which county (ceremonial or me... Luke Munford

03/10/2016

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #522: ukborn?

Sorry the note about this variable in the online documentation was wrong. It mentioned that the variable used informa... Alita Nandi

03/09/2016

05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #522: ukborn?

This question is asked of adults (16+) as part of the adult individual questionnaire. It is asked the first time some... Alita Nandi

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #522: ukborn?

Victoria,
To clarify, my intention is a longitudinal analysis over several waves of BHPS and US, and I would like t... david rhodes

08:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #522 (In Progress): ukborn?

Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria.
... Victoria Nolan

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #523 (Resolved): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire

Dear Carys,
There are some sections of the questionnaire which are licensed from a third party – the SF12 battery ... Victoria Nolan

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #523 (In Progress): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire

Dear Carys,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria
O... Victoria Nolan

03/08/2016

11:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #523 (Closed): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire

Can you please advise whether it is possible to use certain items from the BHPS questionnaire to comprise part of a n... Carys Chainey

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #522 (Closed): ukborn?

Where is this variable located please? in BHPS it's in xwavedat, and your guidance says for US it's in indall, but I ... david rhodes

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #506 (Closed): weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

Victoria Nolan

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Victoria Nolan

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #507 (Closed): 'inapplicable' on newborn.dta

Victoria Nolan

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #510 (Closed): Phenotype variables availablit Genetic data application

Victoria Nolan

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #508 (Closed): BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

Victoria Nolan

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #509 (Closed): Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves

Victoria Nolan

03/07/2016

10:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #520: Variable Value : Unapplicable

Not everyone gets asked every question. They only get asked the questions that are relevant to them. For example, a p... Alita Nandi

07:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicable

Hello,
For a lot of variables in the survey, there is a value 'inapplicable' for the majority of them. Can you ple... claudia cuchi

10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Till,
Thank you. With regard to people who completed self-completion questionnaire but have 0 weights: this issue ... Olena Kaminska

03/03/2016

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #514 (Closed): BHPS wave O proxy and or phone data

Alita Nandi

03/02/2016

08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #515: Matching pid across waves

Hello Christopher,
I have just replicated what you have done and I found 10,514 individuals in both waves J and O.... Alita Nandi

08:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #515 (Closed): Matching pid across waves

I have merged whhresp and windresp files using a m:1 match as you mentioned before. However, when matching pid betwee... Christopher Booth

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #514: BHPS wave O proxy and or phone data

Apologies, I have re-merged my data and resolved the issue
Thanks Christopher Booth

03/01/2016

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #512 (Resolved): Accessing the linked NPD dataset

Dear Rachel,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We have checked with the UK Data Service and unfortun... Victoria Nolan

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Thanks for replying, Olena. I appreciate your help! Orla McBride

09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Orla,
For most of longitudinal analysis one can use only full data, i.e. only people who have responded in all wav... Olena Kaminska

02/29/2016

07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #514 (Closed): BHPS wave O proxy and or phone data

Hi there,
I am looking at wave O, specifically files ohhresp and oindresp. However, for variables osvack, onvestk,... Christopher Booth

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Thanks for the help. Sorry but I need to clarify. No I am interested in longitudinal analysis - I want to model cha... Orla McBride

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Orla,
0-weight indicates skipping the whole self-completion questionnaire, not a few questions within. From your c... Olena Kaminska

10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Thanks Olena.
A few more queries (if I may). I'm trying to analyse data from individuals from the self-completion... Orla McBride

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #513: e_indscus_lw

Orla,
For most of the 0-cases in lw sc weight there is at least one missing response to self-completion questionna... Olena Kaminska

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #504 (Closed): Svy Commands on Stata

Victoria Nolan

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #500 (Closed): ever had/fathered children

Victoria Nolan

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #499 (Closed): Blood pressure feedback

Victoria Nolan

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #495 (Closed): ethnicity

Victoria Nolan

02/26/2016

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #513 (Closed): e_indscus_lw

Hello,
I'm trying to use this longitudinal weight variable for analyzing data across waves 2-5 from the self-compl... Orla McBride

02/25/2016

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #512 (In Progress): Accessing the linked NPD dataset

Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are looking into this and will get back to you as soon as we can.
... Victoria Nolan

02/24/2016

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #512 (Closed): Accessing the linked NPD dataset

Good afternoon,
I work at the Office for National Statistics on Children's well-being. The Understanding Society dat... Rachel Beardsmore

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #506: weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

Very helpful - thanks a lot! Orla McBride

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #506: weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

There is almost unlimited number of sets of weights we could provide. Yet providing w2+ longitudinal sc weights can b... Olena Kaminska

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #506: weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

Great thanks. I'm not using data from W1 for that reason. I thought the BHPS would be included in the longitudinal ... Orla McBride

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #506: weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

Yes, the variables are correct. Note, the BHPS sample will be excluded (as it is not in wave 1 of UKHLS). But you sti... Olena Kaminska

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

thanks - no I had an earlier version of Wave 2 that I downloaded in 2014. I'll download the most recent file.
Orla McBride

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Hello Orla,
The variable b_sceverdrnk is available in b_indresp. Are you looking at the latest version of this fil... Alita Nandi

02/23/2016

08:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Hello,
I was wondering if there is a variable SCEVERDRNK available for Wave 2? I can't seem to see it in the Stat... Orla McBride

02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #499 (Resolved): Blood pressure feedback

Dear Will,
After further investigation we have established that the nurse protocol is correct (feedback is based o... Victoria Nolan

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #507: 'inapplicable' on newborn.dta

Hi Laia,
This question was asked of female respondents where the newborn child lives with the parent. Most of the ... Alita Nandi

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #510 (Resolved): Phenotype variables availablit Genetic data application

Dear Tenghao,
Many thanks for your enquiry. For this, you would need to apply via the METADAC for genetics data co... Victoria Nolan

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #508: BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

Although issue 509 is about understanding society (ukhls) - the file structures for the two surveys are almost identi... Alita Nandi

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #508: BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

I am not sure why you cannot find pid but here are two possible reasons:
(1) In the BHPS all variables are lower c... Alita Nandi

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #509: Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves

The reason for this difference is that in the second method you are only selecting individual adult respondents from ... Alita Nandi

02/22/2016

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #510 (Closed): Phenotype variables availablit Genetic data application

Hi,
We are a research group planning to carry out a GWAS project and would like to apply for the genetic data of U... Tenghao Zheng

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Dear Olena and Alita,
Thank you for the updates. I will omit these cases for now.
It also appears that there a... Till Hoffmann

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #509 (Closed): Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves

Hello,
Please could you let me know if the following way is valid for merging household data into individual files. ... Dharmi Kapadia

02/21/2016

10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #508 (Closed): BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves

Hi,
I am looking to analyse a number of variables such as income, wealth and consumption across waves and to see h... Christopher Booth

02/19/2016

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #507 (Closed): 'inapplicable' on newborn.dta

Dear UKHLS team,
The variables on the newborn dataset have a large amount of missing data coded as 'inapplicable' ... Laia Becares

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #506 (Closed): weights and design variables query Waves 2-5

Hello,
I was wondering if you could answer a question I have about weights and psu/strata variables for analysing ... Orla McBride

02/18/2016

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #502 (Closed): Weights to use to analyse year-to-year transitions within waves 1-5

Victoria Nolan

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #492 (Closed): Identifying HRP in UndSoc - comparable with BHPS HRP

Victoria Nolan

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #487 (Closed): Understanding Society variable: change jobs

Victoria Nolan

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #497 (Closed): NPD linkage to Primary/Secondary SEN type?

Victoria Nolan

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #493 (Closed): Difference in response 3 and 4 for solar questions

Victoria Nolan

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #496 (Closed): Clarification Query - Understanding Society linked NPD, and Understanding Society with School Codes

Victoria Nolan

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #499: Blood pressure feedback

Dear Will,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this.... we have been investigating the issue, and un... Victoria Nolan

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #495: ethnicity

Hi Alita

Thanks.

White British is accurate and most suitable to use apart from when using data from Northern... Victoria Nolan

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #505 (Closed): Cross Sectional weights (xrwght/xrwtuk1) and job history files. [BHPS]

Victoria Nolan

02/17/2016

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #505: Cross Sectional weights (xrwght/xrwtuk1) and job history files. [BHPS]

Hello again,
Apologies for the confusing query above. I made a small (read: stupid) mistake, confusing "append" wi... Ivan Privalko

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #505 (Closed): Cross Sectional weights (xrwght/xrwtuk1) and job history files. [BHPS]

Hi all,
I'm using the BHPS dataset (w1-w18) to look at the impact of job changes. Using the job history files, I c... Ivan Privalko

02/16/2016

06:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Hi Till,
You are correct. There are a handful of cases for whom SCAC shos that they "refused self-completion" or "... Alita Nandi

12:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Dear Till,
Thank you for letting us know. You are right that the 6 cases mentioned should have 0 cross-sectional s... Olena Kaminska

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #500: ever had/fathered children

Hi Charlie,
This question is only asked of those who report NO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN in the household. Given that ch... Alita Nandi

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #495: ethnicity

Hi Angela,
Thanks for highlighting this issue.
We are in the process of updating the cateogry labels in the onl... Alita Nandi

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #489: HRP

Thank you for your suggestion to also seek out the 2001/2011 Census supporting material for a definition of the HRP c... Gundi Knies

08:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #504: Svy Commands on Stata

Hello Alex,
Yes use:
svyset c_psu [pweight=c_indscub_xw], strata(c_strata) singleunit(scaled)
svy: reg y x1 x2
... Alita Nandi