Understanding Society User Support

02/01/2017

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702: Date of birth of first child

Great - thank you for your help, Victoria!
Best wishes,
Jenny Jenny Shen

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #702: Date of birth of first child

Dear Jenny,
No, there is no way of picking up these cases for children born after the participant joined the panel... Victoria Nolan

11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #714 (Closed): Missing values

Hello, I kindly have a specific question related to the "inapplicable" category within the missing values. Let me ple... Luca Bernardi

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #713 (Feedback): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5

Victoria Nolan

09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #713: Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5

Jane,
Always use the "ub" weights (not "us") for longitudinal analysis starting at wave 2, otherwise the BHPS samp... Peter Lynn

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #713 (In Progress): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5

Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your query, which has been passed on to the weighting team to look into.
Best wishes... Victoria Nolan

01/31/2017

11:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702: Date of birth of first child

Hi Victoria,
Yes! This helps a lot. Thank you so much!
I have a follow-up question: using the household grid in... Jenny Shen

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #702 (Feedback): Date of birth of first child

Dear Jenny,
I'm sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this for you.
There are a number of differe... Victoria Nolan

07:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #713 (Closed): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5

Hi, I just wanted to clarify which weight I should use for a longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5 please, in or... Jane Lakey

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data

Dear Hong,
These variables are available in a_indresp and d_indresp files as these were asked in Waves 1 and 4. Pl... Alita Nandi

09:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable

Victoria Nolan

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #712 (Feedback): Attrition Rate

Dear Stuart,
Attrition rates/ wave-on-wave response rates can be found in the Understanding Society Quality Profil... Victoria Nolan

01/30/2017

11:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello Hong,
>
> All responses from adult respondents including proxy and self-completion are... Hong Eng Goh

07:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #711 (In Progress): Adult Self Completion Data

Hello Hong,
All responses from adult respondents including proxy and self-completion are included in the INDRESP f... Alita Nandi

06:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves

A quick look at your syntax suggests that you have only matched with fathers and so are missing all children living i... Alita Nandi

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #710 (In Progress): variable `w'lcoh

Hi Lydia,
In Understanding Society Wave 1, all adult respondents were asked this question.
In Understanding Socie... Alita Nandi

06:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #706 (In Progress): Religious sample across all waves

Hi Andrew,
You will first have to pick up this variable from every wave, merge those files together and then creat... Alita Nandi

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #712 (Closed): Attrition Rate

I would like to know, as far as possible, the attrition rate of the Understanding Society panel. Ideally, it would be... Stuart Fox

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #707: Scottish datazones in SN7248

Dear Victoria,
Thank you for responding so quickly and clarifying this for me.
Best wishes
Rory
Victoria N... Rory Coulter

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #707 (Feedback): Scottish datazones in SN7248

Dear Rory,
Thank you for your query and for pointing out that SN7248 (LSOA 2011 Special Licence) does not contain ... Victoria Nolan

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #709 (Feedback): how to match spouses across waves

Dear Nico,
We offer an online training course via Moodle which will copefully help with your query:
https://www.u... Victoria Nolan

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #700 (Closed): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Victoria Nolan

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #698 (Closed): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records

Victoria Nolan

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #697 (Closed): LDA sample

Victoria Nolan

01/29/2017

11:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data

I would appreciate your advice. Hong Eng Goh

11:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #711 (Closed): Adult Self Completion Data

I have downloaded the data from UK Data Service, however, the data from the adult self completion section are missing. Hong Eng Goh

01/28/2017

07:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh

Dear UKHLS/BHPS users,
I am uncertain on the meaning of the inapplicable variable in the variable `w'lcoh (presen... Lydia Palumbo

01/27/2017

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves

Hi,
I would like to match partners for a given wave and ideally across waves.
There is _ppid, the cross wave pe... Nico Ochmann

09:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #708 (Feedback): Youth response rates

Hi Rebecca,
all information collected in the youth questionnaires is stored in the data file _youth. And each data ... Gundi Knies

09:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates

I’m looking at the understanding society data for youths in 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2013/14. Could you tell me how many ... Rebecca Cox

01/26/2017

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705: Emigration Status

Thanks a lot !! This is really helpful !
Yujung Yujung Whang

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705 (Feedback): Emigration Status

Hi Yujung,
It just depends what the interviewer can find out on the door-step. It’s easier with split-off househol... Victoria Nolan

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705: Emigration Status

Thanks very much for your kind explanation.
In fact, I have a follow-up question on this issue.
How do the in... Yujung Whang

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Sadly not. But I could copy and paste a list of variables from our syntax files if you let me know which longitudinal... Peter Lynn

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Dear Peter,
Thanks for your advice and apologies for not getting back to you sooner. What you suggest is very help... Agnes Norris Keiller

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

Victoria Nolan

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693 (Closed): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references

Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #701 (Closed): plbornc_all missing labels

Victoria Nolan

02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702: Date of birth of first child

Thank you for the update Victoria. I was wondering if the team has made any progress regarding my inquiry?
Best w... Jenny Shen

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248

Dear Support Team,
I'm currently working with the latest six wave version of Understanding Society and have a spec... Rory Coulter

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #678: fimngrs_dv variable

Dear Victoria
Thanks for your reply. Your explanation makes sense and is very helpful.
Best wishes,
Rory
V... Rory Coulter

01/25/2017

05:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves

Hi
I am looking to see the politics module questions broken down by religion (x_oprlg1) across all 6 waves. Howeve... Andrew Barclay

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705 (In Progress): Emigration Status

Hello Yujung,
There are no specific questions asked of ethnic minorities about whether they have left the country.... Alita Nandi

01/24/2017

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #704 (Feedback): output area cods and names

Hi Glenna,
we checked the UKHLS OAC 2011 data and they appear to use the correct OAC 2011 code frame. Are the odd co... Gundi Knies

01/23/2017

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #678 (Feedback): fimngrs_dv variable

Dear Rory,
Again, apologies for the delay in responding to this.
The reason is that those 4656 cases are the n... Victoria Nolan

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves

Dear Dr Nandi,
I do have a short follow up question before you close this one. In the cild file I have 90,000 obs... Nico Ochmann

12:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Thank you Peter -- that's a very helpful response.
David Bartram

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705 (Closed): Emigration Status

Hi, I have a question about emigration of panel sample members.
I was looking for a variable that might give i... Yujung Whang

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #704 (Closed): output area cods and names

I am analysing BHPS and UKHLS data and am using the ONS output area classifications as a variable in my analyses.
I'... Glenna Nightingale

01/20/2017

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #678 (In Progress): fimngrs_dv variable

Dear Rory,
I'm very sorry for the delay in replying to this message. We are looking into this issue and should be ... Victoria Nolan

01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #698 (Feedback): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records

Hi Francesca,
there were always some individuals for whom we do not have a household interview. Until Wave 6 this wa... Gundi Knies

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #697 (Feedback): LDA sample

Hi Yujung,
the LDA indicator refers a characteristic of the neighbourhood in which households lived in wave 1 (propo... Gundi Knies

01/19/2017

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702 (In Progress): Date of birth of first child

Dear Jenny,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
Be... Victoria Nolan

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #698 (In Progress): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records

Dear Francesca,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
... Victoria Nolan

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #697 (In Progress): LDA sample

Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
B... Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Hi.
I think the best way to do this would be to start with the year X weight, derived as in our note on pooling, a... Peter Lynn

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #700 (Feedback): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Victoria Nolan

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Hello David.
To my mind the best solution would be for you to use a_indinus_xw as a base weight and then multiply ... Peter Lynn

02:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Yes, version 2.
>
> Victoria.
Thanks Victoria
Kind regards, Josh Josh Turner

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Hi Josh,
Yes, version 2.
Victoria. Victoria Nolan

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #696 (Closed): New wave of biomarker data

Victoria Nolan

01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #650 (Closed): anwstat

Victoria Nolan

01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #690 (Closed): Cohabitation history

Victoria Nolan

01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #695 (Closed): NWSTAT_BHPS

Victoria Nolan

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC

Victoria Nolan

01/18/2017

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear Victoria,
thank you for your help. It would be really helpful to get in touch with this colleague of yours wh... Sabine Hübgen

01/17/2017

07:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702: Date of birth of first child

Hi - just to rephrase a little (in case the above was too detailed):
I am trying to identify if/when someone in th... Jenny Shen

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED

Dear Sabine,
Deriving measures of educational qualifications that map onto the ISCED framework is not currently po... Victoria Nolan

01/16/2017

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #688 (Feedback): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references

Dear Sam,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you while we have been looking into this.
On balance we wo... Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703 (In Progress): Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Dear Agnes,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed it on to our weighting team who will look into it and resp... Victoria Nolan

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703 (Closed): Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Hi,
I'm working on a project that examines changes in individual incomes over different periods of years.
I'm ... Agnes Norris Keiller

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #687: Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`

Dear Victoria,
Thanks very much for the update!
Till Till Hoffmann

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #687 (Feedback): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`

Dear Till,
I'm sorry for the delay in responding to you about this query.
This issue arises from some errors in... Victoria Nolan

10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves

You can either
(i) do the merge exercise separately for each wave, save the final file as a wave specific file and t... Alita Nandi

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #701 (In Progress): plbornc_all missing labels

Hello,
In Wave 6: Portugal = 28 & 312, Brazil = 29 & 142
In Waves 1-5: Portugal = 312, Brazil = 142
In future ... Alita Nandi

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> We took the code from: Ware, J.E., Kosinski, M., Turner-Bowker, D.M. and Ga... Josh Turner

10:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12

Hi Josh,
We took the code from: Ware, J.E., Kosinski, M., Turner-Bowker, D.M. and Gandek, B. (2001), How to Score... Victoria Nolan

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets

Victoria Nolan

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

09:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #700 (In Progress): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Dear David,
Many thanks for your query. I have passed this on to our weighting team who will look into it for you.... Victoria Nolan

01/13/2017

11:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child

Hi,
I am trying to identify if/when someone in the BHPS gives birth to their first child (during the panel). I am ... Jenny Shen

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #701 (Closed): plbornc_all missing labels

I found the value label for "plbornc_all" variable is not complete.
Value 28 and 29 are not labelled both in the d... Yujung Whang

01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Correction -- the mean of f_indinus_lw for the sub-sample is 1.0347, not 0.7254. (I had been including the zero valu... David Bartram

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #700 (Closed): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples

Some questions re longitudinal weights. Having read “Weighting Strategy for Understanding Society”, I gather that ab... David Bartram

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