Understanding Society User Support

07/13/2016

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #602 (Closed): BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp

The Understanding Society file b_indresp.dta appears to have 12036 individuals that originate from the BHPS (via hhor... Michael Nolan

10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #601 (Closed): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile

Hello,
In the wave 2 data file b_indresp there is no cross-sectional weight [b_ind5mus_xw]. Only the longitudinal we... Renee Luthra

09:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

I suggest you use W_indin01_lw. This is a longitudinal weight but it also represents the cross-sectional population. ... Olena Kaminska

08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #599 (Feedback): highest educational level

Dear Sait,
Producing educational outcome in ISCED or Casmin scales is not something that we currently do - it is h... Victoria Nolan

07/12/2016

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for the quick response.
However we are still a little unsure how to proceed. We ... Sait Bayrakdar

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #600 (Closed): qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, first of all thank you very much for dealing with my inquiry. My question concerns qualoc ... Nico Ochmann

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #596 (Feedback): employment spells

Dear Pilar,
You could have a look at the BHPS employment spell data reports as examples of how this can be done.
... Victoria Nolan

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #599 (In Progress): highest educational level

Dear Sait,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies that your previous post had been overlooked.
We are just... Victoria Nolan

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #599 (Closed): highest educational level

Hi,
I posted this issue previously, but I believe I made a mistake and flagged it as private. So I am report it ag... Sait Bayrakdar

07/11/2016

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #598 (Feedback): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

For how to scale the 'ub' weight please see our reply to issue #228.
Olena Olena Kaminska

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

Thanks for your question. Yes, we do not provide separate cross-sectional weights for separate samples simply because... Olena Kaminska

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #598 (Closed): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

Hi,
I am working on an analysis which follows BHPS 2001 sample into Understanding Society (without including the U... Sait Bayrakdar

01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #587: Education category "Other school cert"

Hi Rachel,
Apologies for the delay - we have been looking into this, hopefully the information below will help.
... Victoria Nolan

12:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #591 (Closed): Downloaded waves 1-7

Victoria Nolan

12:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #581: bensta_tfalimony variables

Hi Debs,
Just checking if we can close this issue, or if you are still discussing it with the data user?
Thanks... Victoria Nolan

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #590 (Closed): guests staying with the household

Victoria Nolan

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #583 (Closed): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Victoria Nolan

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #588 (Closed): Locating Data

Victoria Nolan

12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #592 (Feedback): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey

Victoria Nolan

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #592: Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey

Tom,
Indeed, you are one of our users who use an unusual combination of waves and questionnaires. We don't provide... Olena Kaminska

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #585: Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

Dear Sanne,
As HIDP are not consistent across waves you cannot use that to directly identify individuals in Wave 1... Alita Nandi

07/08/2016

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #597 (Closed): some incorrect value lables - wave 5

Hi!
The scwhoru* variables in wave 5 have strange value labels with @ inside, for instance:
1 @bvery important@b... Renee Luthra

07/07/2016

05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #596 (Closed): employment spells

Hi,
I am preparing employment spells data using the Understanding Society survey. I have successfully obtained mos... Pilar Gonalons Pons

07/06/2016

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00

Hi,
For yasoc00 (and yasoc90/yasoc10), what occupation would you like to do, there are zero 'don't know' responses... Megan Scott

07/05/2016

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #587: Education category "Other school cert"

Hi Rachel,
Many thanks for your follow-up email on this:
_Thanks very much for your response. This has clarifie... Victoria Nolan

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #586 (Closed): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Victoria Nolan

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society

Victoria Nolan

07/03/2016

05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #591 (In Progress): Downloaded waves 1-7

Hello Gemma,
As you have mentioned 1-7 waves of data, I am guessing that you have downloaded Innovation Panel data... Alita Nandi

06/30/2016

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #592: Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey

Dear Tomos,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to my colleague Olena who will look into it and res... Victoria Nolan

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #592 (Closed): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey

Dear Understanding Society.
I'm having trouble working out which survey weights to use for my empirical analysis.
... Tomos Robinson

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #590 (Feedback): guests staying with the household

Dear Sait,
No, we do not interview guests and other people who are in the household just for a short period. There... Victoria Nolan

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #587 (Feedback): Education category "Other school cert"

Dear Rachel,
Taking a look at the questionnaire, the response option this category relates to is “Other school (in... Victoria Nolan

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #581 (Feedback): bensta_tfalimony variables

Hi Debs,
Sorry again for the delay, we have been trying to get to the bottom of what the issue is. Jon has provide... Victoria Nolan

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #583: BHPS merging job history and interview data

Dear Victoria,
This is clarifying. I have checked the age distribution of those not matched to job history record... Pilar Gonalons Pons

06/29/2016

05:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #591 (Closed): Downloaded waves 1-7

Hello,
I'm pretty sure ive downloaded waves 1-7. However, when i open the file it doesn't seem to say which wave i... Gemma Daly

06/28/2016

08:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #590 (Closed): guests staying with the household

Hi,
I have looked into the data documentation but did not see any explanation on the following issue. Does Unders... Sait Bayrakdar

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #583 (Feedback): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Dear Pilar,
We have now finished looking into this and can offer the following advice:
We think that there are tw... Victoria Nolan

06/27/2016

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #579 (Closed): attrition question

Victoria Nolan

03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #583: BHPS merging job history and interview data

Dear Pilar,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this - we are still investigating. One question -... Victoria Nolan

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #588: Locating Data

Dear Grace,
ONS use the standard end-user licence version of Understanding Society, so that is what you should be ac... Gundi Knies

06/26/2016

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #588 (Closed): Locating Data

Hi,
I have been awarded a scholarship from the University of Sheffield to do a short research project on Well-bei... Grace Wallace

06/24/2016

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #586 (In Progress): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society

Hi Sait,
All existing BHPS members in Understanding Society will have their original PID. But new entrants who joi... Alita Nandi

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #586 (Closed): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society

Hi,
I am working on the attrition in BHPS and UKHLS.
I realised some cases in UKHLS (around 400 in each wave) ... Sait Bayrakdar

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #587 (Closed): Education category "Other school cert"

Hi
From Wave 2 variables qfhigh/nqfhigh there is an option "Other school cert". At what academic level would this ... Rachel Sumner

09:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #585: Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

Dear Alita,
Thanks for your response. I understand that because of changes in household composition household ide... Sanne Velthuis

03:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #585 (In Progress): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

Household Identifiers, W_HIDP are unique within a wave but not across wave. the individual identifier PIDP is unique ... Alita Nandi

06/23/2016

06:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #585 (Closed): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

I have a question relating to respondents living in households which were contacted by an interviewer but with whom n... Sanne Velthuis

03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

yes.
Alita Nandi

01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your reply. So I think that I need to use the egoalt file, because I want to consider only ch... Dan Brown

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Following up on point 4 above - As children of OSM fathers or TSM mothers are not OSMs, their newborns will not have ... Alita Nandi

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #584 (Feedback): New births in understanding society

Victoria Nolan

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #584: New births in understanding society

Hi Emma,
please take a look at table 66 in the Understanding Society Quality Profile. It reports, among other stats,... Gundi Knies

12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #578 (Closed): physical activity data

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #571 (Closed): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Victoria Nolan

06/22/2016

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society

I would like to know how many new births there are for the sample, in each wave. Emma Tominey

06/21/2016

08:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #581 (In Progress): bensta_tfalimony variables

Hi Debs,
Just to let you know we are looking into this - I have passed it on to Nick and hopefully will get a resp... Victoria Nolan

06/20/2016

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #583 (In Progress): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Dear Pilar,
Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it here and will get back to you as soon as we can.... Victoria Nolan

06/18/2016

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #583 (Closed): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Reposting because I am not sure my previous post is public/can be seen
Hi,
I am using the BHPS and merging job ... Pilar Gonalons Pons