Understanding Society User Support

11/11/2016

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #656 (In Progress): Own first job

Dear Emma,
the question regarding the first job is part of the initial conditions module and not asked of everybody.... Gundi Knies

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #656 (Closed): Own first job

Hi there,
I would like to ask about the own first job question: x_j1soc10
I see there is a large proportion of... Emma Gorman

11/10/2016

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #655 (Feedback): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household

Hi Megan,
the variables mnpid and fnpid refer to the natural mother/father’s PIDP in the UKHLS. That PIDP may change... Gundi Knies

11/09/2016

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #652 (Closed): Crp Biormarker

Victoria Nolan

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #642 (Closed): LAD Codes

Victoria Nolan

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #653 (Feedback): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS

Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Q1. We are not aware of any such user groups. In the future we will ... Victoria Nolan

11/08/2016

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #654: Wave 6 Release Date

Information about data releases are posted here:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/data-releases Alita Nandi

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #654: Wave 6 Release Date

24th November Alita Nandi

11/04/2016

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household

Hi,
I am using BHPS together with UKHLS and I am trying to match children and young people to their parents in th... Megan Scott

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #654 (Closed): Wave 6 Release Date

Hello,
Please can you tell me when Wave 6 will be released?
Thanks,
Dharmi Dharmi Kapadia

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #648: how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?

Thanks for the useful reply!
Cheers,
Christoph Christoph Kronenberg

11/03/2016

06:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #650: anwstat

If the whole household drops out of the survey and so we do not know whether they are still living together then beca... Alita Nandi

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #650 (In Progress): anwstat

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

06:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #648: how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?

See the Quality Profile (pg 79) for information on the source of these questions.
https://www.understandingsociety.... Alita Nandi

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #648 (In Progress): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?

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

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #642 (Feedback): LAD Codes

Dear Matthias,
Apologies, again, for the long delay in getting back to you. This is a complex issue - my collegaue... Victoria Nolan

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #649 (Closed): Personal Health Insurance

Victoria Nolan

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #645 (Closed): lifetime depression diagnosis rates

Victoria Nolan

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #630 (Closed): weight with fixed-effects

Victoria Nolan

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #646 (Closed): Forms for Special Access Data

Victoria Nolan

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643 (Closed): Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #644 (Closed): Households Below Average Income

Victoria Nolan

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #651: tnc variable

Thank you very much. This helps a lot!
Best, Sait
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Sait,
> the zero category also capt... Sait Bayrakdar

11/02/2016

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #653 (Closed): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS

Hello,
1. I am an R user and wondered whether there are any online courses/discussion groups (Understanding Society... Glenna Nightingale

11/01/2016

09:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #651 (Feedback): tnc variable

Hi Sait,
the zero category also captures cases for whom the call record was lost. We will add a note to this effect ... Gundi Knies

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #651 (Closed): tnc variable

Hi when I tabulate tnc (the number of calls from callrec dataset by ivfio and ivhio, I see that some a big portion of... Sait Bayrakdar

09:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #652: Crp Biormarker

Thank you very much for this. It was really helpful.
Dora. Theodora Kokosi

09:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #652 (Feedback): Crp Biormarker

Dear Theodora,
the data file contains the variable "wave"; it assumes a value of 2 if the information relating to ... Gundi Knies

08:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #652 (Closed): Crp Biormarker

Hello,
I would like to know if there is any specific indicator that shows us which wave the biomarkers are obtaine... Theodora Kokosi

10/28/2016

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #650 (Closed): anwstat

Hi,
I try to understanding the share of the individuals who move away from their parents in the following wave. I ... Sait Bayrakdar

10/27/2016

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #639 (Closed): labor income for unemployed/inactive respondents

Victoria Nolan

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #641 (Closed): a_emplstat

Victoria Nolan

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #640 (Closed): Citizenship in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #635 (Closed): Environmental behaviour questions, Wave 4

Victoria Nolan

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #631 (Closed): Rents in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #649 (Feedback): Personal Health Insurance

Dear Raquel,
I can confirm that we do not collect information about health insurance in Understanding Society, and... Victoria Nolan

10/25/2016

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #649 (Closed): Personal Health Insurance

I’m writing you to confirm that you dropped the personal health insurance variable (or any linkage to it) from the Un... Raquel Oliveira

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #648 (Closed): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?

Hi,
I have a question about variables d_depenth1-6, how did you come up with those questions?
Other mental well-b... Christoph Kronenberg

10/24/2016

10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #645: lifetime depression diagnosis rates

Dear Dan,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this. The team here has been investigating.
The ... Victoria Nolan

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #630 (Resolved): weight with fixed-effects

Victoria Nolan

09:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #630: weight with fixed-effects

Many thanks Peter.
In the meantime, I got in contact with another researcher who had posted a similar question, and ... Carolina Zuccotti

10/21/2016

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #630: weight with fixed-effects

Carolina,
Firstly, apologies for the slow reply. One half of the weighting team had just started maternity leave w... Peter Lynn

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #646: Forms for Special Access Data

Hi Tomos,
how to get hold of Special license data is described here https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-... Gundi Knies

10/20/2016

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #646 (Closed): Forms for Special Access Data

Hello.
I apologise if this is a stupid question, but how do I actually find the forms to send to the UK Data Archi... Tomos Robinson

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #642 (In Progress): LAD Codes

Dear Matthais,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this. We are just investigati... Victoria Nolan

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Gundi.
Yes, I think since talking to you I've realised my plan of having a similar dataset to yours was a bit a... Tomos Robinson

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Tom,
Sorry if I have been unclear. I said you'd need to make amends in response to your proposal to also use MSOA... Gundi Knies

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Gundi.
I've just consulted the Geographical Accessibility user guide, and found two of the 'local labour market... Tomos Robinson

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Tomos,
if you want both LSOA codes and Geogrphical Accessibility data, you will need to put both of them into the... Gundi Knies

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Gundi.
Thank you so much for your detailed reply!
I think the most appropriate way forward for me is to appl... Tomos Robinson

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Tomos,
there are restrictions on accessing special licence data in combination, see the data access strategy (fol... Gundi Knies

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #643 (In Progress): Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Gundi.
I was wondering if there was any update on this?
Best wishes,
Tomos Tomos Robinson

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #644 (Feedback): Households Below Average Income

Dear Emily,
We don’t provide that variable, but you could construct any poverty measure that you need using the ho... Victoria Nolan

10/19/2016

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #645 (In Progress): lifetime depression diagnosis rates

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your query - I have passed this on to our health and biomarkers team and they are lookin... Victoria Nolan

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #642: LAD Codes

* Best for is would be, if we can get access to the 4 digit LAD Codes that were up-to-date in 1992, in 1993, in 1994.... Matthias Buser

10/18/2016

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #645 (Closed): lifetime depression diagnosis rates

Hi,
I'm working with Understanding Society (US) and am somewhat confused by the lifetime depression diagnosis rate... Dan Howdon

10/17/2016

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Gundi.
Thank you for your quick reply, I realise now I wasn't very clear in my previous message!
For context... Tomos Robinson

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #644 (Closed): Households Below Average Income

Is there a variable in Understanding Society which says whether a household is below median average income for that y... Emily Murray

10/14/2016

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643: Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Hi Tomos
from your question it is not clear whether you want to use the data that Alexander Plum and I used for the ... Gundi Knies

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #643 (Closed): Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society

Dear Understanding Society.
I'm interested in accessing local labour market statistics, and linking them to Unders... Tomos Robinson

10/13/2016

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #629 (Closed): Understanding Society Marital and Cohabitation Histories

Dear Riley,
I'm going to close this forum post now as this is being taken forward by my colleague Alita outside th... Victoria Nolan

03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #569 (Closed): Repeated child identifer for a given adult in a_natchild file

This has now been resolved outside the forum. Victoria Nolan

02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #636 (Closed): Inclusion of BHPS and Ethnic Minority boost samples,

Victoria Nolan

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #633 (Closed): EM boost data -- released at same time?

Victoria Nolan

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #632 (Closed): Does Special License Access include geocoded data on LSOA/MSOA level?

Victoria Nolan