Understanding Society User Support

03/23/2016

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #533 (Feedback): Using the ego_alt datafile

Dear Zoe,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
You should use the relationship_dv variable – this corrects a couple of... Victoria Nolan

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #535: Creating duration of marriage variable

Dear Harini,
One possibility is that the cases that you have cited dropped out of the panel before 2008 and the st... Victoria Nolan

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #535: Creating duration of marriage variable

Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your help - the dataset you have guided me towards is exactly what I need. I ... Harini Annadanam

03/22/2016

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #525 (Closed): Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #522 (Closed): ukborn?

Victoria Nolan

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #523 (Closed): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire

Victoria Nolan

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicable

Victoria Nolan

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #503 (Closed): Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?

Victoria Nolan

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #535 (Feedback): Creating duration of marriage variable

Dear Harini,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please could I direct you to the following datas... Victoria Nolan

03/21/2016

06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #534: Using data for fertility factor study

Dear Victoria,

Thank you for the directions! I am now applying for UK Data Archive username and password.

Bes... Mikael Haggstrom

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #534 (Resolved): Using data for fertility factor study

Dear Mikael,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Understanding Society data are accessible from the UK Data Service -... Victoria Nolan

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #532 (Feedback): what is the head of household variable

Dear Audrina,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of iden... Victoria Nolan

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #527 (Feedback): HoH

Dear Declan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of ident... Victoria Nolan

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #535 (Closed): Creating duration of marriage variable

I am trying to create a variable denoting duration of current marriage (years). The only wave with information on yea... Harini Annadanam

03/19/2016

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #534 (Closed): Using data for fertility factor study

Dear Sirs,
I work as a physician in Sweden, but I am now interested in the impact of various individual characteri... Mikael Haggstrom

03/18/2016

06:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #533 (Closed): Using the ego_alt datafile

I am trying to examine people who have experienced care. I have attached an excel sheet containing the frequencies f... zoe young

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #532 (Closed): what is the head of household variable

I'm trying to identify the variable of the head of household to be combined with the head data from BHPS. BHPS has th... audrina li

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents

Hi Alita,
I'm sorry for my poorly worded question. I believe that at the present time you have answered this query... zoe young

03/17/2016

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #524 (Feedback): Geographical identifiers

Dear Luke,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The ONS provides the following lookup table between LAD and county:
ht... Victoria Nolan

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #531 (In Progress): Context of blood sampling

Dear Gaelle,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I am just following this up with collegaues and will get back to you as... Victoria Nolan

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #531 (Closed): Context of blood sampling

Hi,
I am working on the Nurse Health Assessment database (nurse and blood) combined to the full main interview. I ... Gaelle Albertus

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