Understanding Society User Support

04/15/2016

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

I am sorry Zoe we are not allowed to send these data directly. You should be able to do this appending without using ... Alita Nandi

01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Alita
I have already changed the macro to say indall as instructed in the documents to merge multiple files
Is... zoe young

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hello Zoe,
The macro ukhlscombine allows you to combine different wave indresp files. You are using indall files. ... Alita Nandi

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Alia,
I have tried throughout the night and I still get an error message when I run the syntax, however the files... zoe young

04/14/2016

06:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Alita,
I am having trouble running the macro. I keep getting line 45 REN Var - Undefined variable name. I have ... zoe young

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

It has now been uploaded and you will find it in the online Moodle course "Introduction to Understanding Society Usin... Alita Nandi

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Gundi,
Can you please tell me where I can get UKHLScombine.sps?
thanks
Zoe zoe young

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #545: I would like data for C-reactive protein

Just to add:
If you go to the Understanding Society website and use the search function, you can get to any variab... Victoria Nolan

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #545 (Resolved): I would like data for C-reactive protein

Dear Gemma,
The C-Reactive protein data can be found in the nurse health assessment data (collected at waves 2 and... Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #545 (Closed): I would like data for C-reactive protein

Hello,
I would like to access the data for C-reactive protein as I wish to look at its association with job charac... Gemma Daly

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #539 (Resolved): matlv: Had period of maternity/paternity leave

Dear Muzhi,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This may have been done to reflect maternity and paternity leave rules a... Victoria Nolan

04/13/2016

09:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality

Hi,
I'm using the British Household Panel data 1991-2007 in my master thesis. I'm especially interested in the sur... Thea Elnan

04/12/2016

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537 (In Progress): Merged File Request

Hi Zoe,
you are right; it is very difficult to explain all this in text. The process of identifying those in care/fo... Gundi Knies

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #543 (Resolved): household income

Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
hhnetinc1 does not include additional deductions from income over and... Victoria Nolan

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #543 (Closed): household income

The on-line documentation says that hhnetinc1 is the monthly total household net income - no deductions; and that fih... david rhodes

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #542 (Feedback): Partner Relationship Quality Measure

Dear Meg,
Many thanks for your enquiry. These questions were taken from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) - unfort... Victoria Nolan

04/11/2016

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #542 (Closed): Partner Relationship Quality Measure

Hello,
I am enquiring about the questions relating to partner relationship quality as part of the adult self-compl... Meg Stapleton

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #541 (Closed): Health conditions module

Who is asked about their health (Hcond) please?
The questionnaire indicates that -8=n/a, but the data records 80%+ ... david rhodes

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #538: missing proxy interviews in wave 1

Thanks for identifying these cases. xwaveid is the file that provides interview outcomes for all waves. So, I identif... Alita Nandi

04/07/2016

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #539 (Closed): matlv: Had period of maternity/paternity leave

I have just checked the questionnaire for waves involved and noticed this question is only asked when:
If (ff_ivlolw... Muzhi ZHOU

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Alita,
I have further examined the EGOALT file and believe that I can not use this file for the intended purpose.... zoe young

04/06/2016

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Thank you for the above information. I have examined the EGOALT and I have a question regarding pidp and apidp varia... zoe young

04/04/2016

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #538 (Closed): missing proxy interviews in wave 1

Hi, I have been using UKHLS dataset, and I found a few (six cases I found) proxy interview information is missing in ... Yujung Whang

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #534 (Closed): Using data for fertility factor study

Victoria Nolan

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #532 (Closed): what is the head of household variable

Victoria Nolan

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #527 (Closed): HoH

Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #526 (Closed): Identifying Child Respondents

Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #524 (Closed): Geographical identifiers

Victoria Nolan

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #530 (Closed): Proxy interview rules

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03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

About whether you should use lvag14 or relationship_dv - depends on who you are analysing. relationship_dv tells you ... Alita Nandi

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi alita,
I am trying to examine those who experienced care versus those who have not by examining educational attai... zoe young

08:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Zoe,
Which software are you using for Data Management? We offer guides to merging data files across many waves ... Alita Nandi

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #531 (Feedback): Context of blood sampling

Dear Gaelle,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this. We have gone back to the ... Victoria Nolan

03/29/2016

05:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537 (Closed): Merged File Request

I am wondering if there is a merger file or a way to obtain a merged file for waves 1-5 including the files _egoalt a... zoe young

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?

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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