Understanding Society User Support

05/12/2016

07:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #564 (Closed): Is there an Opportunity to get the BHPS Waves 1-18 and BHPS data that's integrated in UKHLS as one big dataset?

Hey,
If I understood coorectly, the BHPS got completely integrated into UKHLS. So that the variables and questionair... Leolo Vogt

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel

Hi,
I'm wondering which are the most appropriate weights for my analysis. I'm analysing employment transitions betwe... Libby Webb

02:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554: Special license data for non-UK issues

Hi Moyin,
Apologies for the delay. Please find attached details of the 2a/2b classificaitons for BHPS and UKHLS.
... Victoria Nolan

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #557 (Resolved): hscost mgold

Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in responding. We do not currently provide a summary measure of housing/mortga... Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your follow-up. My colleague Olena, who is responsible for weighting, is currently on le... Victoria Nolan

05/11/2016

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for posting as an attachment! I have read the worksheets on weight... Dan Brown

05/10/2016

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Hi Emily,
"ret'ing" stands for "retiring" and "ret'd" for "retired". If you cross-tabulate astat with the variable l... Gundi Knies

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561 (In Progress): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please have a look at the worksheets on weighting i... Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561 (Closed): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Hi all!
My questions are in the attached pdf file. Thanks very much for your help!
Cheers,
Dan Dan Brown

04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #541 (Closed): Health conditions module

Victoria Nolan

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components

Victoria Nolan

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #550 (Closed): Interview date

Victoria Nolan

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data

Victoria Nolan

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation

Victoria Nolan

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality

Victoria Nolan

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #549 (Closed): self employment

Victoria Nolan

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #543 (Closed): household income

Victoria Nolan

05/06/2016

05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Note that 959 persons had left both boxes of Q23 blank (so -9 was coded) but had filled in b_scfalcdrnk categories 1-... Alita Nandi

05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

B_SCEVERDRNK was mislabelled: 1 means they ticked the "Have never had an alcoholic drink" box. We will revise it. Tha... Alita Nandi

05/04/2016

11:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Thanks for letting us know that m_rename is not available in the Moodle course. It has now been uploaded. Check the f... Alita Nandi

06:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Gundi,
can you please post the m_rename.sps macro for exercise 8? i am reworking through the exercises.
than... zoe young

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537 (Resolved): Merged File Request

Further to my last post, it has puzzled me why your interpretation of Stata code does not yield the same number of in... Gundi Knies

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #560 (Resolved): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS

Hi Christa,
when you are unsure about which relationships are covered in a variable pointing to a significant other ... Gundi Knies

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS

Hello,
Just for clarification: is the hgspn variable in BHPS waves 1-18 the same as ppno in UKHLS? It is not exact... Christa Hubers

05/03/2016

07:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi Zoe,
as we have said before, it is bejond the remit of this support forum to work through individual user's code ... Gundi Knies

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #556 (In Progress): Death in BHPS and US

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #548 (Closed): Age variables BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #547 (Closed): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

04/29/2016

06:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554: Special license data for non-UK issues

Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your reply. I read through the links you gave me, I still have 3 more quest... audrina li

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537: Merged File Request

Hi
I have managed to finally perform steps 1 and 2. In case other people read this feed you need to:
ADD FILES for... zoe young

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each i... Emily Murray

04/28/2016

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold

Is it correct that to obtain the original purchase price and the amount borrowed at purchase for mortgagors it is nec... david rhodes

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554 (Feedback): Special license data for non-UK issues

Dear Moyin,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the broken link, we will get this fixed.
Medium level g... Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #541 (Resolved): Health conditions module

Victoria Nolan

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #555 (Feedback): Household and individual income components

Dear Alba,
The great majority of differences are proxy cases for which we do include the component values in the d... Victoria Nolan

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each individual can have mor... Alita Nandi

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Additionally:
In the BHPS, as in UKHLS, you can also identify deceased respondents using "wivfio" variable in "winds... Alita Nandi

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #556: Death in BHPS and US

Emily,
There is a cross-wave variable indicating final known status of respondents: it is astat in xwlsten.dta dat... Olena Kaminska

09:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #550: Interview date

Great, thanks Victoria! Christoph Kronenberg

08:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #550: Interview date

Hi Christoph,
In the BHPS, the respondent never reports the date of interview, it’s always done by the interviewer... Victoria Nolan

04/27/2016

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #550: Interview date

Thanks Vicotria,
that is helpful, as a follow up:
At least in the BHPS (haven't checked US yet) there are vars wh... Christoph Kronenberg

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #556 (Closed): Death in BHPS and US

How can I determine whether an individual in BHPS has died at following waves, including during their time in Underst... Emily Murray

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components

We are researching changes in household income over time, and are interested in determining which components (labour ... Alba Lanau

04/26/2016

07:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #553: Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data

Hi Vanessa,
further to Victoria's response, I am now uploading the code that we run to create a proxy for the Unders... Gundi Knies

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #553 (In Progress): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data

Hi Vanessa,
Many thanks for your enquiry and for transferring it to the user support forum.
Please can I refer ... Victoria Nolan

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data

Dear Victoria,
I noted that you responded to a colleague’s question on this matter, but provided the solution via... vanessa gash

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554 (Closed): Special license data for non-UK issues

Hi there,
I'm a PhD student from the U.S.. I'm working with my professors on a social exclusion project that co... audrina li

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

Hi Alita,
I have been trying to do the steps Gundi mentioned was done in stata in spss. Is there a possibility of g... zoe young

04/25/2016

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #551 (Resolved): Hiqual_dv derivation

Victoria Nolan

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #551: Hiqual_dv derivation

Hi Emily,
we are aware that there are, unfortunately, problems with the correct display of some of the variable note... Gundi Knies

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation

I am looking for information about how the hiqual_dv variable is derived. I have found on the website the following i... Emily McDool

10:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #550 (Feedback): Interview date

Dear Christoph,
Advance letters are sent to adults living in households that we are issuing to field. The advance ... Victoria Nolan

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #545 (Closed): I would like data for C-reactive protein

Victoria Nolan

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #539 (Closed): matlv: Had period of maternity/paternity leave

Victoria Nolan

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #542 (Closed): Partner Relationship Quality Measure

Victoria Nolan

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #544 (Feedback): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality

Dear Thea,
Many thanks for your enquiry and I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
These questions are... Victoria Nolan

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 (Closed): 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 (Closed): 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

04/20/2016

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #548 (Closed): 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 (Closed): 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 #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