Understanding Society User Support

06/14/2016

02:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #581 (Closed): bensta_tfalimony variables

Dear Support,
We have received a query from one of our data users regarding the recording of maintenance/alimony p... Deborah Wiltshire

06/13/2016

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565 (In Progress): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Victoria Nolan

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Hi Alita,
Sorry to bother you again, but I have a follow up question relating to this thread from before:
I am ... Dan Brown

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Victoria Nolan

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

06/11/2016

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #579 (In Progress): attrition question

Assuming you are Stata, some common minor mistakes that could have led to this problem:
(i) You coded the dummy var... Alita Nandi

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #579 (Closed): attrition question

Hi I have merged 3 variables from wave3 to wave 5 they are : c_cgwri_dv, c_cgvfc_dv, and c_cgna_dv. I want to obtain... zoe young

06/08/2016

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #575 (Resolved): Institutional accommodation definition

Dear Galit,
there are no exclusions of any type of institution. Interviews may take place in student halls, hospit... Gundi Knies

01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #578 (Feedback): physical activity data

Dear Christine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This would be covered in wave 5 via the Leisure, Culture and Sport m... Victoria Nolan

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #571: routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Zoe,
the next release is planned for end of November 2016. We publish the latest plans here
https://www.underst... Gundi Knies

06/07/2016

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #578 (Closed): physical activity data

I see that you have collected data for ‘type of exercise or sport’ for youth. Could you please tell me if anything li... christine roberts

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #571: routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Gundi,
Thanks for your reply.
Do you know shen is the next data release schedule for? Zoe Oldfield

06/06/2016

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #574 (In Progress): Labour income variables

Dear Catherine,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Total labour income is the sum of income as an employee, income f... Victoria Nolan

09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #567 (Closed): Household Income vs. Housing costs

Victoria Nolan

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #572 (Closed): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #561 (Closed): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Victoria Nolan

06/05/2016

08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition

I am looking for the definitions used for institution (type of dwelling) and for the categories of institutional acco... Galit Gordoni

06/04/2016

08:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables

Hi,
I am doing some research which involves looking at wages. In the data for the variable "total monthly labour ... Catherine Taylor

06/03/2016

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Megan,
1. Parental education was asked of the first 6 months sample (that is a quarter of the UKHLS sample) in ... Alita Nandi

01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #573 (In Progress): citizenship in BHPS

The individual cross-wave identifier is PID. You can use that to attach these variables to all waves.
Alternative... Alita Nandi

06/02/2016

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #568 (Closed): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents

Victoria Nolan

06/01/2016

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #571 (Feedback): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Dear Zoe,
further to my previous reply, I can now confirm that there has been a data processing error in Wave 2. The... Gundi Knies

05/31/2016

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health

Victoria Nolan

03:17 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?

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #556 (Closed): Death in BHPS and US

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554 (Closed): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #554 (Resolved): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

05/30/2016

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS

Hi there
I am looking for a variable Nationality / Citizenship in the BHPS.
So far I only found Country Born or ... Matthias Buser

05/27/2016

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #567: Household Income vs. Housing costs

Hi Emily,
sorry this took a bit longer to reply.
We have checked with experts on income and expenditure data to s... Gundi Knies

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #547: Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS

Dear Victoria,
Many thanks for your reply. I have noticed that there are a lot of missing values on the PASOC vari... Christa Hubers

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Alita,

Thanks for your quick response.

I understand that this question would not be asked of children 11-1... Megan Scott

05/25/2016

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Great!
FYI you won't find any information about derived variables / weights in the questionnaire because these var... Gundi Knies

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Gundi
Sorry, that’s me using the wrong terminology! I meant the PDF of the questionnaire that is downloaded wit... Rachel Sumner

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #572 (In Progress): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Rachel,
I am not sure what you mean by the "codebook"?
Have you tried the online dataset documentation? The vari... Gundi Knies

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #572 (Closed): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi
I'm struggling to work with the above two variables. Their difference is not delineated in the code book/docume... Rachel Sumner

05/24/2016

01:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #538 (In Progress): missing proxy interviews in wave 1

Alita Nandi

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #563 (In Progress): Weights when using the youth panel

Alita Nandi

01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Alita Nandi

10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dan,
1) xtreg assumes you have clustering / nesting (this does not include psu - some nesting related to analysis)... Olena Kaminska

05/23/2016

07:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

And thanks Alita - have found and read that example!
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> The training manual t... Dan Brown

07:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
I have two follow up questions:
1) You say 'basically you will have at leas... Dan Brown

05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Hello Dan,
The training manual that Olena has asked you to look at to deal with single unit PSUs, is Example 6 of ... Alita Nandi

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #561: Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Dan,
Thanks for your questions.
To start with the issues with weights and strata+psu are separate and are not re... Olena Kaminska

06:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #568 (In Progress): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents

Hi Marianne,
there are different ways of doing this.
One option is to start off with the data file XWAVEDAT. It in... Gundi Knies

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #571 (In Progress): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Zoe,
on your query regarding a_jbhad. In Wave 1 JBHAD had the following routing:
if (JBHAS = 2 and JBOFF = 2)
... Gundi Knies

05/21/2016

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #571 (Resolved): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi,
I am trying to work out the routing for some of the employment variables and for some variables, the routing i... Zoe Oldfield

05/20/2016

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #569 (In Progress): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file

Hi Paulino,
Thanks for letting us know. We are looking into this.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #569 (Closed): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file

Hello,
In the file a_natchild the variable a_childno records every child listed by a given adult. However, some of... Paulino Font Gilabert

01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #570 (In Progress): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Meg,
This file includes every person who has ever been part of a sampled and enumerated household. Which means ... Alita Nandi

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi,
I am using the xwavedat file to match stable characteristics of individuals in the main survey, but I noticed ... Megan Scott

05/19/2016

10:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #568 (Closed): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents

Hi, I'm hoping someone could offer some guidance.
I'm currently working with the BHPS and trying to see the effect... marianne walker

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #563: Weights when using the youth panel

Libby,
Thank you for your question. You situation is complex and unique and we do not have the weight that will ta... Olena Kaminska

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #566 (In Progress): Data on children's mental health

Yes, there is information on 10-15 yaer olds' SDQ scores (see the youth quesionnaires), their self-reported ethnic gr... Alita Nandi

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #564 (Feedback): Is there an Opportunity to get the BHPS Waves 1-18 and BHPS data that's integrated in UKHLS as one big dataset?

Hi Leolo,
we do not provide a combined BHPS/Understanding Society, but the BHPS member’s pid is included in the Unde... Gundi Knies

08:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #567 (Closed): Household Income vs. Housing costs

I am trying to derive a measure of the % of household income that is spent on housing. I am using gross household in... Emily Murray

05/17/2016

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2

Victoria Nolan

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #537 (Closed): Merged File Request

Victoria Nolan

05/16/2016

10:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health

Dear Understanding Society,
I wanted to ask about the process of applying to access the data for a research proje... Sophie Epstein

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

I have previously asked ISER for the meaning of the alwstat codes in the egoalt file, but did so via email (not on th... Dan Brown