Understanding Society User Support

09/06/2016

04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #625 (Closed): PLBORND district of birth in BHPS

I am enquiring about the variable PLBORND that was available in the BHPS. It lists the districts of birth of each ind... Mirko Moro

09/05/2016

11:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #624 (Closed): Income Data

Hi,
i'm studying the self-employment in the the UK. I'm interested in the transitions of employment. I need the... Italo Franca

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #623 (Feedback): Access to data

Hi Thea,
yes, the continuing BHPS sample is incorporated in the Understanding Society study from wave 2 onward. All ... Gundi Knies

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #623 (Closed): Access to data

Dear Understanding Society,

my name is Thea Elnan and I'm a Norwegian postgraduate student at the University ... Thea Elnan

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #622 (In Progress): hcost, hsyr04, mgold, mgtype

Dear David,
apologies for the delay in getting back to you (as indicated on the noticeboard this is a busy period fo... Gundi Knies

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #617 (Closed): "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

Victoria Nolan

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #620 (Closed): Interviewer paradata

Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #621 (Closed): Weights - biomarker data

Victoria Nolan

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #619 (Closed): Cost of obtaining the data at Local Authority level

Victoria Nolan

08/30/2016

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #622 (Closed): hcost, hsyr04, mgold, mgtype

Please could you advise what the situation is with these variables. In BHPS they (or their equivalents) were initiall... david rhodes

08/29/2016

08:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #617: "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

Thank you very much! Helena Retamal

08/26/2016

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #620: Interviewer paradata

Dear Mollie,
we have different types of interviewer paradata. From what you write I assume you are after interview... Gundi Knies

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #617 (In Progress): "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio

E_IVFIO=9 cases
Our data team has investigated and this is their response: Our understanding is that “CAPI LOST” m... Alita Nandi

08/25/2016

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #621: Weights - biomarker data

Hi Olena,
Many thanks for answering.
Best wishes,
Claire
Claire Niedzwiedz

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #621 (Feedback): Weights - biomarker data

Victoria Nolan

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #619 (Resolved): Cost of obtaining the data at Local Authority level

Dear Maire,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Details about charges can be found here:
https://www.ukdataservice.ac.u... Victoria Nolan

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #618 (Closed): W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?

Victoria Nolan

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #616 (Closed): LSOA Data in Understanding Society Survey

Victoria Nolan

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #615 (Closed): Derived variables

Victoria Nolan

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #614 (Closed): Occupation codes

Victoria Nolan

08/24/2016

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #621: Weights - biomarker data

Yes, that's right.
The indbdub_xw weight is designed for the analysis of blood information together with wave 2 and... Olena Kaminska

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