Understanding Society User Support

12/08/2016

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

Glenna,
I think that using the cross-sectional weight for either t or t-1 is reasonable (but not a mixture of them... Peter Lynn

10:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #679 (In Progress): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I will pass this on to our weighting team for a reply.
Best wishes,... Victoria Nolan

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

I have used the cross sectional weight at wave t-1 as the weight for each individual row. I have used the weights for... Glenna Nightingale

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

Hello,
I am modelling data from both the UKHLS and BHPS and my dataset is constructed so that I can compare pairs of... Glenna Nightingale

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data

Victoria Nolan

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #660 (Closed): Private Education Variable?

Victoria Nolan

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Thank you very much, we wanted to make sure that release date would stay the same for the following waves.
Best wi... Al Lo

08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Dear Al,
We release our data annually in November each year. We have just released wave 6 (https://www.understandi... Victoria Nolan

09:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable

Hi,
I'm working with W1-6 of UKHLS and have noticed that in W6 there are 4656 cases where fimngrs_dv==-9. Accordin... Rory Coulter

12/07/2016

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Dear Victoria,
Thank you very much, that's very helpful.
Do you have information on when data from Waves 9 and ... Al Lo

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #677: Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC

That should say CAMSIS linking file, which is found here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/CAMSIS/occunits/distribution... Megan Scott

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC

Hi,
I would like to recode the yasoc00 and ypsoc00 variables, which use SOC2000 from UKHLS to RGSC categories, an... Megan Scott

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #673 (Feedback): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy

Dear Naz,
Please see the following Stata code:
gen occ_dummy=(<your occupation variable>==<values of whichever ... Victoria Nolan

12/06/2016

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Kenisha,
Create a data set consisting of wave 1 respondents aged 10 or 11 and a 0/1 indicator of whether or not th... Peter Lynn

09:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #674: Family Structure

Thank you Gundi.
I will try that.
Best,
Kenisha K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

08:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates

Victoria Nolan

08:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #663 (Closed): Weighting

Victoria Nolan

08:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #659 (Closed): Data linkage

Victoria Nolan

12/05/2016

07:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #674 (Feedback): Family Structure

Hi Kenisha,
you may want to look at derived variables in the following files: _indall, _child, _egoalt.
The first t... Gundi Knies

06:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Dear Peter,
Yes, it was my plan to assess if youth reporting of happiness changed between the wave 1 and wave 5.
C... K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

12/02/2016

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Hello,
1) If your units of analysis are the children, and you are treating the parental characteristics as attribu... Peter Lynn

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #675 (In Progress): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Dear Kenisha,
I have added Peter Lynn as a watcher for this post and he will be able to get back to you about your... Victoria Nolan

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Dear support team,
I have another query regarding the use of weights in the youth data.
I am looking at reported h... K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

06:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure

Dear Support team,
I am interested to examine the relationship between family structures and a range of youth outco... K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

12/01/2016

04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #665: Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables

Dear James,
Just to add, you could also look at:
Scott JL and Chaudhary C (2003) Beating the odds: youth and fa... Victoria Nolan

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy

I would like to generate a ındustry and occupational dummy.
would you tell me process step by step.

many than... nazire begen

09:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #672 (Feedback): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Dear Al,
Many thanks for your query.
Unfortunately we don't yet have information about expected sample sizes in... Victoria Nolan

07:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Hi,
Is there information available on expected sample sizes for households in Scotland for Waves 9 and 10?
Man... Al Lo

11/30/2016

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #666 (Feedback): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household

Dear Nico,
the gender of all children enumerated in the household is included in the following files: _indall, _chil... Gundi Knies

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society

Hi King Fok,
you are right, these questions draw on information collected during the last (full adult) interview wit... Gundi Knies

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #665 (Feedback): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables

Dear James,
There has been some research on bullying:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/search?a=Di... Victoria Nolan

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data

Victoria Nolan

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #669 (Feedback): Assistance with income variable

Dear Katrina,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user guide, plea... Victoria Nolan

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #667 (Resolved): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis

Victoria Nolan

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #670 (Feedback): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys

Victoria Nolan

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #670: weighting for youths moving to adult surveys

Jane,
All 16/17 year-olds, when they first complete the main (adult) interview receive the adult longitudinal weig... Peter Lynn

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #670 (In Progress): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys

Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your message - I will assign this to Peter for a reply.
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys

Many thanks for previous advice on how to construct longitudinal weights for linking youth self-completion datasets. ... Jane Lakey

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #671 (Feedback): Nurse Survey Data

Dear Dan,
Nurse data were only collected at waves 2 and 3 of Understanding Society.
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data

Hi there,
I am trying to download the data from the Nurse Health Assessment for Wave's 1, 4 and 5. I can only find... Dan Barraclough

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #668: Weights

sorry, meant to say f_indinui_xw! Peter Lynn

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #668: Weights

Tess,
We took the decision to discontinue producing an adult self-completion cross-sectional weight, given that th... Peter Lynn

08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #668 (In Progress): Weights

Dear Tess,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed this on to my colleague and we will reswpond as soon as pos... Victoria Nolan

11/29/2016

08:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Dear Peter,
Many thanks for your suggestions. They are very helpful. I apologize for my late reply. I spent a few ... Min Zhang

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable

Hello,

I was wondering if you could help me with a query I have about your Wave 6 income data.

We are wishing... Katrina Morrison

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #668 (Closed): Weights

I am looking for the cross sectional adult self-completion weight (var - e_indscub_xw on wave e), however it doesn’t ... Tess Carter

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #667: how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis

Jane,
The best way would be to start with the wave 2 cross-sectional weight and then make an adjustment to it, to ... Peter Lynn

08:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #667 (In Progress): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis

Dear Jane,
I've passed on your query to Peter and he will reply shortly.
Best wishes, Victoria Victoria Nolan

11/28/2016

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis

This is a further question for Peter Lynn, following on from his response to my previous question.
I am doing an l... Jane Lakey

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society

Dear King Fok,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will respond to you as soon as we can. Please note our 10 working-... Victoria Nolan

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #660 (In Progress): Private Education Variable?

This was asked of adult respondents about their children (4-15 year old) but not of the adult respondents themselves.... Alita Nandi

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #658 (Feedback): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Victoria Nolan

11/27/2016

08:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am trying to find the gender of the children in a given household.
The children ... Nico Ochmann

11/25/2016

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables

Hi all
I'm using the understanding society variables: ypfght (fights); ypvand (vandalises); ypshop (shoplifts) and ... James Oswald

12:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society

I just went back to the questionnaire of wave 2 of Understanding Society and I just want to confirm that the wording ... King Fok

12:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society

Hi, my current research requires me to create a measure of proportion of household joblessness a respondent experienc... King Fok

11/24/2016

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

So, take for example your analysis based on all respondents who have at least one interview at which they were aged o... Peter Lynn

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #662 (Feedback): Households: Geographical Coordinates

Dear Christian,
These are also available for BHPS from wave 1 (1991) onwards. Please see: https://discover.ukdatas... Victoria Nolan

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #663 (Feedback): Weighting

Victoria Nolan

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #663: Weighting

Jane,
There are no longitudinal weights for the youth self-completion, primarily because this instrument on its ow... Peter Lynn

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #663 (In Progress): Weighting

Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
Be... Victoria Nolan

12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #663 (Closed): Weighting

Please could you let me know if there are longitudinal weights available for the youth self-completion questionnaires? Jane Lakey

11/23/2016

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates

Dear Understanding Society Team,
(This is not really an "issue", but I hope I can post my question here as well.)
... Christian Krekel

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #659 (Feedback): Data linkage

Dear Nic,
While we have obtained consent from participants to link to HES data, the Understanding Society team has... Victoria Nolan

11/22/2016

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Hello Peter,
Many thanks for your reply.
1. Yes the analysis units are the respondents.
2. Sorry that I did... Min Zhang

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Hi. Could you clarify:
1. I understand the analysis units are the "respondents", yes? (the information about the ... Peter Lynn

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658 (In Progress): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Dear Min,
Many thanks for your enquiry - it has been passed on to our weighting team who will respond as soon as p... Victoria Nolan

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #657 (In Progress): NPD SDS data

Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Ideally, you mention upfront all Understanding Society data that you ... Victoria Nolan

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #656 (Closed): Own first job

Victoria Nolan

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household

Victoria Nolan

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #653 (Closed): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS

Victoria Nolan

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #651 (Closed): tnc variable

Victoria Nolan

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #654 (Closed): Wave 6 Release Date

Victoria Nolan

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #650 (Feedback): anwstat

Victoria Nolan

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

Victoria Nolan

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #660 (Closed): Private Education Variable?

To whom it may concern,
I am currently in the process of writing my dissertation on the impact of private educatio... Kasperi Lewis

11/18/2016

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #659 (Closed): Data linkage

Hi,
I was just wondering whether it's possible at present to link Understanding Society data with Hospital Episode... Nic Murray

11/17/2016

09:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

I am sorry that I forgot to mention our data structure which may further complicate the questions regarding weights. ... Min Zhang

09:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Dear Support team,
I have two questions with weights. Our data is based on a sub-population (respondents whose par... Min Zhang

11/16/2016

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data

Hello
I have recently received access to the NPD-Und soc linked data on the SDS.
I have looked at the data and... Emily McDool

11/14/2016

09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #650: anwstat

Thank you very much for your reply.
Just to be on the safe side then, I would like to ask whether this statement i... Sait Bayrakdar