Understanding Society User Support

08/23/2016

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #621: Weights - biomarker data

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply. I will be using the blood data too. Will using the indbdub_xw weight also take int... Claire Niedzwiedz

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #621: Weights - biomarker data

Hi Claire,
If you are using only nurse information with mainstage (but not information from blood) use indnsub_xw ... Olena Kaminska

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #621 (Closed): Weights - biomarker data

Hi,
I am hoping to use the biomarker data (and associated nurse data) from the GPS and BHPS samples and their longi... Claire Niedzwiedz

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #620 (Closed): Interviewer paradata

I would like to examine the interviewer paradata from the Understanding Society surveys.
I understand that the re... Mollie Bourne

08/17/2016

02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #619 (Closed): Cost of obtaining the data at Local Authority level

I work as a researcher at Centre for Cities and we're interested in using data from Understanding Society in one of o... Maire Williams

08/16/2016

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #618: W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?

Hello Gundi,
These details are very helpful, thank you. Due to these limitations we've decided against constructi... Dan Philo

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #616 (Feedback): LSOA Data in Understanding Society Survey

Dear Karyn,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
The data are not robust at the LSOA level. We have no more than a han... Victoria Nolan

08/15/2016

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #602 (Closed): BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp

Victoria Nolan

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #597 (Closed): some incorrect value lables - wave 5

Victoria Nolan

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #613 (Closed): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?

Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #610 (Closed): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size

Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #608 (Closed): Housing benefits' variable: coding

Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #605 (Closed): IMD

Victoria Nolan

03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #618: W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?

Hi Dan,
we cannot comment on which is "the best way" to derive your desired indicator seeing as that is something on... Gundi Knies

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #618 (Closed): W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?

Hi,
I am after a W5 derived variable giving ns-sec for all respondents, including retired people and other 'econo... Dan Philo

08/11/2016

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #617: "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

Helena Retamal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to know if the the individual interview outcome with code 9 (Lost CAPI... Helena Retamal

02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #617: "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

Just one more thing... if these cases answered, were they proxy interviews or full interviews? Thanks!! Helena Retamal

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #617 (Closed): "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

Hello,
I need to know if the the individual interview outcome with code 9 (Lost CAPI intvw) is a complete intervi... Helena Retamal

08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #611: longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Dear Olena,
Sorry for this late reply. Thanks a lot for your advice.
Best regards,
Rita Rita Bussi

08/10/2016

02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #538 (Closed): missing proxy interviews in wave 1

Victoria Nolan

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Victoria Nolan

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #600 (Closed): qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not

Victoria Nolan

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #596 (Closed): employment spells

Dear Pilar,
I will close this issue now but please do get in touch if you have further queries.
Best wishes, Vi... Victoria Nolan

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #615: Derived variables

You're right... just me being an idiot then. Sorry.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Hannah Hannah Fountain

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #615: Derived variables

it looks like you included " " in the search term. Have you tried searching for just the following: *_dv Gundi Knies

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #615: Derived variables

Chrome.
Screenshots attached...
Hannah Fountain

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #615: Derived variables

Hi Hannah,
searching for *_dv does work fine in my Internet browser, see jpeg attached. I am not sure why it does no... Gundi Knies

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #615: Derived variables

Thank you for your quick reply.
The tip about the dv files being at the end is useful, thanks, though I was ideally ... Hannah Fountain

08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #615 (Feedback): Derived variables

Hi Hannah,
to find derived variables that end on "dv", try looking for "*_dv", or to find pointers look for "*pno"... Gundi Knies

11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #616 (Closed): LSOA Data in Understanding Society Survey

Dear USS Team,
I wish to develop indicates of social cohesion at the small are level, preferably the LSOA level. If ... Karyn Morrissey

08/09/2016

10:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #615 (Closed): Derived variables

Hi. Is there anywhere I can see a list of derived variables and their definitions? I'm search across the site and in ... Hannah Fountain

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #614 (Feedback): Occupation codes

Hi Emma,
we do not (yet) have plans to code occupations held in W1-W3 to SOC 2010, and, as you say, there is to our ... Gundi Knies

08/04/2016

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #614 (Closed): Occupation codes

Hi there,
I am re-posting this as I think I somehow marked it as "private" last time - apologies for any duplicati... Emma Gorman

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it on to the data management team and also include this issue on ... Alita Nandi

07:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #613: how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?

Hello Nico,
It is difficult to give a general answer to your question. If you are then interested in doing longitu... Alita Nandi

08/03/2016

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #613: how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?

Dear Alita,
thank you so much for your fast reply, of course I appreciate that very much.
What you write above cl... Nico Ochmann

08:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #613 (In Progress): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?

The fieldwork period for each wave stretches over two years. While the aim is to interview everyone one year apart, t... Alita Nandi

08:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #597 (In Progress): some incorrect value lables - wave 5

Hi Renee,
Thanks for highlighting these issues.
1. We will aim to improve the labels in future releases
2. In ... Alita Nandi

08/02/2016

09:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #613 (Closed): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?

Hi everybody,
I have a quick question concerning the time dimension of the panel data set when using Understandin... Nico Ochmann

09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #611 (Feedback): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Victoria Nolan

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #611: longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Rita,
Very good question. In both situations you should use longitudinal weights. This is because people who were ... Olena Kaminska

08/01/2016

10:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #610 (Feedback): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size

Dear Carla,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Yes, educational data (English National Pupil Datab... Victoria Nolan

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #608 (Feedback): Housing benefits' variable: coding

Dear Maria,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your query, we have been looking into it here.
About 90% o... Victoria Nolan

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #611 (In Progress): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Victoria Nolan

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #601 (Closed): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile

Victoria Nolan

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #605: IMD

Hi Emily,
sorry for causing a confusion by mistyping: you do have access to LSOA 2011 not 2001. Whichever version yo... Gundi Knies

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #607 (Closed): File name issue for my Stata do file

Victoria Nolan

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #609 (Closed): Missing Variable: jbsoc00, jbsoc90

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #606 (Closed): Employment status for waves 2 & 3

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #598 (Closed): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00

Victoria Nolan

07/29/2016

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights

Hello,
I'm using W1-W5 and keeping all individuals aged less than 30 in W1 that are present in all the 5 waves (ba... Rita Bussi

07/28/2016

06:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp

Thanks very much for this - which has (of course) solved the problem. I can see that the information to remove my dif... Michael Nolan

07/26/2016

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #601 (Resolved): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile

Victoria Nolan

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile

thanks! Renee Luthra

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile

Renee,
The questionnaire by mistake was not asked to TSMs in wave 2. For this reason cross-sectional analysis woul... Olena Kaminska

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #600: qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not

Dear Nico,
From onwards Wave 2, only new entrants or those who have never been interviewed are asked the highest e... Alita Nandi

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp

Hello,
PIDP are cross-wave unique individual identifiers for UKHLS. To allow matching of the BHPS sample members i... Alita Nandi

07/25/2016

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #596: employment spells

Dear Pilar,
Do let me know if you would like me to put you in touch with my colleague Nicole about discussing this... Victoria Nolan

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #599 (Closed): highest educational level

This has been followed up independently by Karon, hence closing this issue. Victoria Nolan

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #592 (Closed): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey

Victoria Nolan

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #587 (Closed): Education category "Other school cert"

Victoria Nolan

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #585 (Closed): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

Victoria Nolan

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #581 (Closed): bensta_tfalimony variables

Victoria Nolan

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #605: IMD

Hi Gundi,
Thankyou for your help so far.
I will look into using the Townsend deprivation score as this could b... Emily McDool

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #610 (Closed): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size

Having looked over your website, it would seem that there is a wide range of family characteristics as well as inform... Carla Cebula