Understanding Society User Support

01/02/2017

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #690 (Closed): Cohabitation history

Dear all,
I am dealing with the cohabitation histories of UKHLS (first wave) and the spells of cohabitation withi... Lydia Palumbo

12/22/2016

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets

Hi, we are trying to derive a longitudinal weight for linked youth datasets, following guidance given by Peter Lynn p... Jane Lakey

12/21/2016

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references

Dear US user support team,
I am using the secure access releases of BHPS (6340) and US (6670) to track the origina... Sam Wilding

12/19/2016

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #687 (Closed): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`

Conditioning on the variable `wJBSTATT` (https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rindresp18.html#... Till Hoffmann

12/16/2016

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS

My research topic is about the labour force participation, and so I collected some dataset from BHPS dataset, I have ... suleyman bolat

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #685 (Feedback): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3

Hi King Fok,
that's almost correct. To be precise: there are two different versions of the socio-economic classifica... Gundi Knies

02:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #685: jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3

Update: upon further investigation, the consistency is in naming conventions. In earlier waves, this variable is name... King Fok

01:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3

Just want to report that the variable jbsic07 is missing for wave 3 of Understanding Society but according to the onl... King Fok

12/15/2016

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #681 (Feedback): Variable construction: employment duration

Hi,
to learn more about the meaning of variables it is best to look at the questionnaire, which has the question wor... Gundi Knies

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10

Victoria Nolan

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy

Victoria Nolan

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics

Victoria Nolan

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure

Victoria Nolan

12/14/2016

03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #680: Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test

Dear Heinrich,
Just to follow up on the cognitive ability query, if it's ok I will email you directly about this s... Victoria Nolan

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #679 (Feedback): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

Victoria Nolan

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #683 (Feedback): Weights for combined measures and data files

Victoria Nolan

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #684 (Feedback): Survey question - people to rely on

Dear Amanda,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The questions that you are referring to come from the ‘Self-completion ... Victoria Nolan

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Hi Peter
Thanks for your reply and for the link to the weighting document.
I am a bit confused about the way tha... Megan Scott

12/13/2016

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #683: Weights for combined measures and data files

Hi,
Guidance on what weights to use when you are combining data from different files is given at the start of sect... Peter Lynn

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #683 (In Progress): Weights for combined measures and data files

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

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files

Hi all,
I am using data from wave 2 & 3 from the main respondent's interview, the household data file and the heal... Theodora Kokosi

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Min,
Apologies for the slow reply.
1. You should not need to do any further scaling, as each weight is independ... Peter Lynn

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on

Hi,

I am trying to measure change in social capital as a result of taking part in a sport.

I have been told t... Amanda Seims

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Meg,
(1) For pooled cross-sectional (CS) analysis, you should use the CS weight from each respective wave. Each se... Peter Lynn

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #682 (In Progress): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Dear Megan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I will pass this on to our weighting team who will be able to respond.
... Victoria Nolan

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Hi,
I am using a combined dataset of the youth panel and main adult survey for BHPS 1-18 and UKHLS 2-6.
My units... Megan Scott

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #681: Variable construction: employment duration

I saw that there are some variables like this one: Pos. = 1515 Variable = b_nmpsp_dv Variable label = No. employmen... Italo Franca

12/12/2016

09:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration

Hi,
I want to create a variable using wave 2 of Understanding Society: the time that a person is in the curren... Italo Franca

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #680 (Feedback): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test

Dear Heinrich,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed on your questions about the cognitive ability measures ... Victoria Nolan

09:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test

Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to ask you the following questions concerning variables in wave 3 of Understanding... Heinrich Kögel

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables

Victoria Nolan

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household

Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable

Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis

Victoria Nolan

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys

Victoria Nolan

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #668 (Closed): Weights

Victoria Nolan

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