Understanding Society User Support

01/12/2017

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Josh,
>
> We also use SF12v2. We do the scoring here ourselves, and have not found i... Josh Turner

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #699 (Feedback): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Dear Josh,
We also use SF12v2. We do the scoring here ourselves, and have not found it problematic.
Best wishes... Victoria Nolan

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear Victoria,
sorry for the late response. I am working on a German-British comparison of lone mothers' poverty r... Sabine Hübgen

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear Sabine,
Just following up on this - let us know if we can help with any further advice. We would be happy to ... Victoria Nolan

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS

Victoria Nolan

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #696 (Feedback): New wave of biomarker data

Dear Miguel,
We do not currently have any firm plans for another wave of biomarker collection.
Please keep an ... Victoria Nolan

01/11/2017

08:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves

Thank you very much once again!
Just as a note, it seems to me that I need to merge these two files using PIDP an... Nico Ochmann

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #692 (In Progress): merging _indresp and _child across all waves

Dear Nico,
The pidp in w_child file is the pidp of the child (< 16 year olds). The pidp in w_indresp is the pidp o... Alita Nandi

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #694: "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society

Hi Alita
Thank you, that's very helpful to know.
Are you able to give me an indication of when those might be avai... Debora Price

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #694 (In Progress): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society

Hello Debora,
These are currently not available. We are in the process of producing partnership history files and ... Alita Nandi

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #650: anwstat

If the Ego is in a responding household next wave but the alter is not, then they are necessarily in different househ... Alita Nandi

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #690 (In Progress): Cohabitation history

Hi Lydia,
Yes you are correct in assuming that cohabitation spells with end month and year = -8 are ongoing cohabi... Alita Nandi

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #695 (In Progress): NWSTAT_BHPS

Hello Lydia,
This category means the the Ego/Alter are in different households in the next wave and both household... Alita Nandi

08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #699 (Closed): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

I’m a researcher working on a longitudinal questionnaire study and are very interested in including the SF-12 in our ... Josh Turner

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