Understanding Society User Support

10/10/2016

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #642 (Closed): LAD Codes

Dear everyone
We are currently working on a project about EU Citizens voting rights in England on local level. 199... Matthias Buser

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #639 (Feedback): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondents

Dear Pilar,
If a person was not in paid employment (as an employee or self-employed) in the week before the interv... Victoria Nolan

06:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #641: a_emplstat

You are correct. In Wave 5, information about the job was not collected. E_EMPSTAT includes employment status of each... Alita Nandi

10/07/2016

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #641: a_emplstat

Alita Nandi wrote:
> The survey sample was interviewed over a course of 24 months. The employment history was asked ... Valeria Milani

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #641 (In Progress): a_emplstat

The survey sample was interviewed over a course of 24 months. The employment history was asked of the first six month... Alita Nandi

01:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #641 (Closed): a_emplstat

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a Phd student from Southampton University, I would like to use the section of Understanding ... Valeria Milani

03:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #640 (In Progress): Citizenship in BHPS

Dear Matthias,
As XEAVEDAT includes everyone ever enumerated in the BHPS, it means it also includes children who are... Alita Nandi

10/06/2016

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #640 (Closed): Citizenship in BHPS

Hi there

In the BHPS XWAVEDAT dataset BHPS reports the variable citzn1 (citizenship first mentioned) over all 18 ... Matthias Buser

10/05/2016

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #639 (In Progress): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondents

Dear Pilar,
Many thanks for submitting your enquiry. You have submitted it three times however, so I will delete t... Victoria Nolan

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #639 (Closed): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondents

Hello,
I work on unemployment and I am trying to create a measure that summarizes respondents' yearly labor in... Pilar Gonalons Pons

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #635 (Feedback): Environmental behaviour questions, Wave 4

Dear Alex,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
In general, the environmental behaviour questions were adapted/ derive... Victoria Nolan

10/04/2016

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #629: Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

We are finalising the process and will contact you very soon.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #631 (Feedback): Rents in Understanding Society

Dear Maria,
We just want to confirm that:
(i) you are using the variable, w_origadd, to identify whether the resp... Victoria Nolan

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #636 (In Progress): Inclusion of BHPS and Ethnic Minority boost samples,

Hi Ben,
You want to know whether you should include the EMB and BHPS samples along with the General Population Sam... Alita Nandi

10/03/2016

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #636 (Closed): Inclusion of BHPS and Ethnic Minority boost samples,

Good afternoon,
I am undertaking a cross-sectional analysis of a restricted sample from Understanding Society, nam... Ben Clark

09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #635 (Closed): Environmental behaviour questions, Wave 4

To whom it may concern

I am a researcher broadly interested in environmental behaviour survey instruments and I h... Alex Gnanapragasam

09/29/2016

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #630 (In Progress): weight with fixed-effects

Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I have passed your... Victoria Nolan

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #629: Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

Dear Alita,
I just wanted to check in to see whether it was still possible to use this dataset before it is releas... Riley Taiji

09/26/2016

01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #633 (In Progress): EM boost data -- released at same time?

Yes, this November Wave 1-6 data release will include data from the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample as always.
The Et... Alita Nandi

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #633 (Closed): EM boost data -- released at same time?

Hi -- does the data from the EM boost sample get released at the same time as the data for the main sample? When the... David Bartram

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #628 (Closed): BHPS - isced variable

Victoria Nolan

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #623 (Closed): Access to data

Victoria Nolan

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #627 (Closed): isco 88

Victoria Nolan

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #625 (Closed): PLBORND district of birth in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #624 (Closed): Income Data

Victoria Nolan

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #622 (Closed): hcost, hsyr04, mgold, mgtype

Victoria Nolan

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #632 (Feedback): Does Special License Access include geocoded data on LSOA/MSOA level?

Dear Tina,
Yes, LSOA and MSOA are available under special licence from the UK Data Service, but only to researcher... Victoria Nolan

09/23/2016

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #632 (Closed): Does Special License Access include geocoded data on LSOA/MSOA level?

Dear UnS Support team,
I used the Special License Access data for Understanding Society before but only on the Loc... Tina Hannemann

09/22/2016

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #631 (Closed): Rents in Understanding Society

I am using the Secure version of Understanding Society and I have realised that the rent variable (w_rent) is somehow... Maria Sanchez-Vidal

09/20/2016

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #630 (Closed): weight with fixed-effects

Hello,
I want to study the relationship between subjective well-being and labour market situation.
I want to use ... Carolina Zuccotti

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #629: Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your note. This file sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I would be ve... Riley Taiji

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #629: Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

Dear Riley,
We have produced a marriage and cohabitation history file based on Understanding Society Waves 1-5. We... Alita Nandi

09/19/2016

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #629 (Closed): Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

Hello,
I am currently working on a project where the dependent variable(s) will be several measures of partnership... Riley Taiji

09/15/2016

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #628 (Feedback): BHPS - isced variable

Dear Sait,
The code to derive ISCED on the BHPS is available online:
http://www.dames.org.uk/workshops/stir09/do... Victoria Nolan

09/13/2016

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #628 (Closed): BHPS - isced variable

Hi,
I aim to create ISCED (education) variable for Understanding Society to use together with the BHPS ISCED varia... Sait Bayrakdar

10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #627 (Feedback): isco 88

Hi Sait
the four digit version of ISCO88 is only available in the Special Licence version of the data. The data can ... Gundi Knies

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #625 (In Progress): PLBORND district of birth in BHPS

Hi Mirko,
first, the good news is that the names recorded in PLBORN (BHPS) and PLBORNUK (UKHLS) refer to places that... Gundi Knies