Understanding Society User Support

01/10/2017

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #698 (Closed): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records

When merging wave 6 individual respondents(all f_indresp records) to wave 6 houshold respondents (all f_hhresp record... FRANCESCA ZANTOMIO

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #697 (Closed): LDA sample

I have a question on LDA sample (low density area non-white background sample). I found many extra 5 min questions ... Yujung Whang

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #677 (Feedback): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC

Hi Megan,
sorry for the delay in response. All our code to derive socio-economic classifications relies on SOC 2000.... Gundi Knies

01/06/2017

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #696 (Closed): New wave of biomarker data

Dear all,
Do you know when we'll have another wave of biomarker data?
Thank you for your support.
Best wish... Miguel Ramos

01/05/2017

01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #691 (Closed): Merge BHPS file before analysis for BHPS dataset

Dear Dr. Bolat,
I assume this is a duplicate of your earlier issue to which we responded yesterday?
We provide ... Victoria Nolan

01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693 (Feedback): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear Sabine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Unfortunately it won’t be possible until wave 9 of Understanding Societ... Victoria Nolan

08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #689 (Feedback): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets

Victoria Nolan

08:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #682 (Feedback): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

08:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #688 (In Progress): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references

Dear Sam,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I have passed this on to the team who are looking into it for you.
Bes... Victoria Nolan

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #687 (In Progress): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`

Dear Till,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies for our delay in responding over the holiday break. I have ... Victoria Nolan

01/04/2017

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #695 (Closed): NWSTAT_BHPS

Dear all,
I am currently dealing with the variable `w'NWSTAT of BHPS. In UKHLS, I have the possibility of understa... Valeria Milani

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #689: Weighting on youth self-completion datasets

Jane,
It looks to me that the weight is present for 95% of respondents. Specifically, b_ythscus_xw is missing for ... Peter Lynn

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #689 (In Progress): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets

Dear Jane - many thanks for your query and for bearing with us over the Christmas holiday period. I have passed on yo... Victoria Nolan

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Meg,
merge and append should achieve the same thing.
Whether you want to scale depends a bit on what, conceptua... Peter Lynn

03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society

Hi, is there, anywhere, a derived variable for 'ever divorced' or 'ever widowed' and ages at last divorce or last wid... Debora Price

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #686 (Feedback): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS

Dear Dr. Bolat,
We provide online training to use the BHPS with Stata. This provides an overview of the survey, th... Victoria Nolan

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3

Victoria Nolan

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on

Victoria Nolan

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files

Victoria Nolan

01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration

Victoria Nolan

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test

Victoria Nolan

01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS

Victoria Nolan

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled

Victoria Nolan

01/03/2017

07:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693 (Closed): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear support team,
I am working on a German-British comparison. Therefore I need comparable information on ISCED. ... Sabine Hübgen

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #692 (Closed): merging _indresp and _child across all waves

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hope this question is USoc-specific enough to post it here. With Stata, I would like... Nico Ochmann

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #691 (Closed): Merge BHPS file before analysis for BHPS dataset

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

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