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From 03/25/2016 to 04/23/2016

04/23/2016

07:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita,
Thank you for you help.
zoe
zoe young

04/22/2016

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #549: self employment
The variable w_Jb2pay_dv relates to second job, not self-employment, and it is monthly gross income.
Best wishes,...
Alita Nandi
02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #543: household income
1. For net income for BHPS please take a look at the net income files also available from the UKDA Study Number 3909
...
Alita Nandi
11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #543: household income
I think I need to compute equivalent variables to netinc1 and hhnetinc1 with the BHPS - can you clarify what '31 rent... david rhodes

04/21/2016

10:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #550 (Resolved): Interview date
Hi,
I am wondering how interview dates came about mainly in the BHPS, but also US.
How much control over interv...
Christoph Kronenberg
12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #548 (Feedback): Age variables BHPS and UKHLS
Hi Christa,
the variables wage in the BHPS and w_dvage in the UKHLS report the respondent's age at the time of the i...
Gundi Knies
11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #549 (Resolved): self employment
Is e_jb2pay_dv a gross figure - it doesn't say on your web, as neither does it in the datafile, p90 of the user guide... david rhodes
09:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #546 (Feedback): What is the cost for businesses to access the Understanding Society data
Dear Samantha,
Information about commercial use of Understanding Society data can be found on the UK Data Service ...
Victoria Nolan

04/20/2016

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #548 (Resolved): Age variables BHPS and UKHLS
Dear,
I was wondering which age-variables to use in my analyses of both the BHPS and UKHLS data? The BHPS provides...
Christa Hubers
02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #547 (Resolved): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS
Dear Christa,
masoc and pasoc on the BHPS data file XWAVEDAT report the 3-digit SOC 1990. The corresponding variable...
Gundi Knies
01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #547 (Resolved): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS
Dear,
I would like to compare 18-39 year old respondents from BHPS waves 13-17 with those from UKHLS waves 1-5. On...
Christa Hubers
09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #511 (In Progress): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
Dear Orla,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are just consulting with colleagues on this and will get backto you as...
Victoria Nolan
07:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request
Dear Zoe,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gener...
Alita Nandi

04/19/2016

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request
Dear Zoe,
Many thanks for your email.
The status of all posts is changed to public after we have verified that ...
Victoria Nolan
03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #546 (Resolved): What is the cost for businesses to access the Understanding Society data
The business I work for would like to access the survey data - what is the cost to businesses to access the date and ... Samantha Scotland
03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #543: household income
Thank you. Could you confirm that BHPS does not have an equivalent variable - it appears that the household level var... david rhodes
02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #541: Health conditions module
This doesn't appear to be the case with the health questions in BHPS - HLPRBA to HLPRBM, as these appear (by the lack... david rhodes
10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #541: Health conditions module
Thank you. As there do not appear to be these health questions in the xwave data compiled for all respondents, does t... david rhodes
09:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #541 (Feedback): Health conditions module
Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - I was consulting with c...
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #533 (Closed): Using the ego_alt datafile
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #535 (Closed): Creating duration of marriage variable
Victoria Nolan
09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #531 (Closed): Context of blood sampling
Victoria Nolan

04/18/2016

09:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Gundi
Re your message:
I am not familiar with SPSS but I have written Stata code to identify all those respond...
zoe young
01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita,
I am having trouble still with the merge. I have been able to do the merge for a and b but when i try to ...
zoe young
02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
hello,
I just wanted to follow-up on my earlier question relating to variable SCEVERDRNK (Wave 2). I've downloaded...
Orla McBride

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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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
Victoria Nolan
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 (Resolved): 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
 

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