Understanding Society User Support

03/03/2017

07:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #737 (Closed): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society

Hello
I'm a researcher at the University of Sheffield currently working on fuel poverty suffered by people with lear... Bernard Stafford

03/02/2017

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #734 (In Progress): Participant move between waves 2 and 3

Dear Leanne,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we c... Victoria Nolan

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733 (In Progress): Identifying residential movers

Dear Rory,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can... Victoria Nolan

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Thanks for the clarification Peter - much appreciated. That answers all my questions! Thanks again for being so swi... Mark Fransham

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Most of these (4,656) are the IEMB sample, who by definition do not have any of the "ub" weights. The other 15 are od... Peter Lynn

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Thanks for the quick response Peter - much appreciated. I've downloaded the data and 4,671 of the rows in the weight... Mark Fransham

11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Dear Mark,
We decided to discontinue indscub_xw, but following various enquiries from users we have subsequently p... Peter Lynn

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #736 (In Progress): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Dear Mark,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you sh... Victoria Nolan

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search

Victoria Nolan

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items

Victoria Nolan

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #730 (In Progress): ff_newimm

Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... Victoria Nolan

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #729 (In Progress): modetype variable

Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... Victoria Nolan

10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #728 (In Progress): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6

Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as we ... Victoria Nolan

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #732 (Feedback): Net income variables

Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately this report won't be available until after our next data release (which will be in Nove... Victoria Nolan

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #735 (In Progress): Weighting reducing sample numbers

Dear Kirsty,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you ... Victoria Nolan

03/01/2017

10:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #736 (Closed): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Hi there,
I've been working with the 'satisfaction' questions from the adult self-completion questionnaire, lookin... Mark Fransham

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #735 (Closed): Weighting reducing sample numbers

Hi,
As advised in the user guide, if you want to generalise to the UK population then weighting should be applied.... Kirsty Tiernan

02/28/2017

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3

Dear technical support team,
I would like to enquire about identifying if participants have moved location in th... Leanne Harris

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733 (Closed): Identifying residential movers

Dear Support Team,
I am working on a project where we would like to identify people who change address over any di... Rory Coulter

09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #732 (Closed): Net income variables

The wave 1-6 user guide says that there is a technical working paper under preparation that will provide details of t... Andrew Aitken

02/27/2017

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Dear Victoria,
Let me be clearer!

1)I am not English-native, so I am not aware very carefully of the British q... Lydia Palumbo

11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #724 (Feedback): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Dear Lydia,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
For your first question, I think that the definiti... Victoria Nolan

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723 (In Progress): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

Victoria Nolan

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

Many thanks for the reply. I have a couple of follow-up questions re point (1):
1) May I just clarify that there i... David Hussey

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #723 (Closed): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

Victoria Nolan

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #731: De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived

Dear Kirsty,
these variables are "derived variables" - indicated by the _dv suffix - and as such not asked in the qu... Gundi Knies

09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #731 (Closed): De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived

Hi,
I hope you are well.
I am doing a project from using your Wave 5, Individual Adult Interview Data e_indresp... Kirsty Tiernan

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #725 (Feedback): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples

Dear Lindsay,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
A couple of things we can point out -
If you ... Victoria Nolan

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #727 (Closed): Follow up moved out participants

Victoria Nolan

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #722 (Closed): end date of union and how the union ended

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #714 (Closed): Missing values

Victoria Nolan

02/23/2017

07:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #730 (Closed): ff_newimm

Hi, I wonder if there is a typo for the universe of "ethid4a" variable in wave 5.
The online documentation says th... Yujung Whang

06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #729 (Closed): modetype variable

Hi,
I am looking for "modetype" variable from the dataset but I could not find where the variable is stored at.... Yujung Whang

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6

Hi,
I am just starting to work with the new wave 6 data (having previously worked with waves 1-5 in a panel study)... Dan Brown

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #719 (Resolved): Online variable search

Dear Libby,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you while we were looking into this. We discovered that there w... Victoria Nolan

02/22/2017

10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #715 (Feedback): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Dear Ben,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you, while we have been looking into this.
Re: Missing val... Victoria Nolan

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #727: Follow up moved out participants

Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Emily,
> the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website a... Emily Lowthian

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #727 (Feedback): Follow up moved out participants

Hi Emily,
the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website and the UKDS data series ... Gundi Knies

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #727 (Closed): Follow up moved out participants

I am looking into using your dataset (waves 1 – 6, end user license version) however, I am slightly confused how you ... Emily Lowthian

02/21/2017

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #726 (Feedback): Matdep items

Hi Nick,
yes, that seems to be a glitsh in the online dataset documentation. The variables are definitely included... Gundi Knies

02/20/2017

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #720 (Closed): GPS & BHPS sample

Victoria Nolan

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #722: end date of union and how the union ended

Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your response. I indeed refer to the family data produced by Pronzato, and I w... Sait Bayrakdar

08:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items

Browsing your website, the matdep items a-c in wave 1 are shown as ‘special licence version’ only, but I don’t think ... Nick Bailey

02/17/2017

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #725 (Closed): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples

Dear Understanding Society team,
My colleague and I have recently started working with the nurse and biomarker dat... Lindsay Richards

02/16/2017

06:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #722 (In Progress): end date of union and how the union ended

Hello Sait,
There is no BHPS file called fertility.dta. My guess is that you are referring to the file family.dta.... Alita Nandi

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #721 (Resolved): ladistc variable missing in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #716 (Closed): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset

Victoria Nolan

09:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #704 (Closed): output area cods and names

Victoria Nolan

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #717 (Closed): Deriving hourly wage variable

Victoria Nolan

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #719 (In Progress): Online variable search

Dear Libby,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best... Victoria Nolan

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #724 (In Progress): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best... Victoria Nolan

09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #714 (Feedback): Missing values

Dear Luca,
There should not be many inapplicables for the hcond variables in wave one. The inapplicables resulting... Victoria Nolan

02/15/2017

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #724 (Closed): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Dear UKHLS and BHPS users,
I have a question regarding the recoding of the variables on education in both
BHPS ... Lydia Palumbo

02/14/2017

10:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

David,
Re. point 1), this all looks broadly fine to me. The only caveat is that the two sets of weights for the di... Peter Lynn

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723 (In Progress): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

Assigned to Peter. Victoria Nolan

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723 (Resolved): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

I have a couple more very small queries following on from our analysis; these are mainly for re-assurance that we’ve ... David Hussey

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #722 (Closed): end date of union and how the union ended

Hi,
I have a question about the Family histories data of BHPS (fertility.dta).
When I crosstab end1 (the reaso... Sait Bayrakdar

02/13/2017

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #718 (Closed): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #713 (Closed): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5

Victoria Nolan

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #711 (Closed): Adult Self Completion Data

Victoria Nolan

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #712 (Closed): Attrition Rate

Victoria Nolan

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #692 (Closed): merging _indresp and _child across all waves

Victoria Nolan

02/10/2017

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Dear Victoria,
Thanks for providing me the link for these two variables. I understand their meanings well now.
... Tenghao Zheng

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #720 (Feedback): GPS & BHPS sample

Thanks for clarifying.
Table 21 reports the response rates, including non-response (household refusal etc.). The in... Gundi Knies

11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #720: GPS & BHPS sample

Hi Gundi,
thank you for your reply. I am looking at this version of data: UKDA-6614-spss w. 1-5. The manual I am a... Theodora Kokosi

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #721 (Feedback): ladistc variable missing in BHPS

Dear King Fok,
you are right - access restrictions apply in this case and there are some differences between the BHP... Gundi Knies

03:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS

According to the online documentation at https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave1/avars4.html, the ... King Fok

02/09/2017

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Dear Tenghao,
I'm very sorry about the confusion here, and many thanks for clarifying, that was very helpful.
H... Victoria Nolan

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your quick response.
We have applied the GWAS data (only genetic data) from the Euro... Tenghao Zheng

09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #718 (Feedback): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Dear Tenghao,
We are slightly confused about the dataset(s) that you are using, and were hoping you could clarify.... Victoria Nolan

02/08/2017

05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #720: GPS & BHPS sample

Hi Theodora,
can you be more specific please. Which two pieces of information are you comparing exactly? And which v... Gundi Knies

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #720 (Closed): GPS & BHPS sample

Dear all,
I would like to ask what is the sample size of the respondents in wave 2 and wave 3 (the productive case... Theodora Kokosi

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search

Hi,
I’ve just realised that the variable search on the Understanding Society website is case sensitive. When I searc... Libby Webb

03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset

Hi Peter

Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply. What you suggest makes perfect sense. Yes I did wo... Matt Barnes

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset

Matt,
I suggest a different approach. Let me first describe the approach and then explain why.
Start with the s... Peter Lynn

09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #716 (In Progress): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset

Dear Matt,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I have passed it on to our weighting team.
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Hi,
Sorry again for the delayed response - I was finalising exactly what sort of analysis I will be undertaking. If ... Agnes Norris Keiller

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703 (Feedback): Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Dear Agnes,
Just checking if we can help you any further with this query?
Many thanks. Victoria Nolan

01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #704: output area cods and names

Dear Gundi and Victoria,
Thanks very much for your response.
I checked my dataset and the odd codes only show up fo... Glenna Nightingale

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #704: output area cods and names

Hi Glenna,
Just checking if there's anything more we can help you with on this query?
Many thanks, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #718 (In Progress): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Dear Tenghao,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Be... Victoria Nolan

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #718 (Closed): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"

Hi,
I am now working on GWAS data of understanding society cohort, and would like to add age as a covariate in ass... Tenghao Zheng

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #715 (In Progress): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Dear Ben,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best w... Victoria Nolan

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #714 (In Progress): Missing values

Dear Luca,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best ... Victoria Nolan

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #717 (Feedback): Deriving hourly wage variable

Dear Nia,
Unfdortunately we do not provide that conversion with our data, but there should be plenty of online res... Victoria Nolan

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child

Victoria Nolan

09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh

Victoria Nolan

09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves

Victoria Nolan

09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248

Victoria Nolan

09:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves

Victoria Nolan

09:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates

Victoria Nolan

02/07/2017

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #717 (Closed): Deriving hourly wage variable

I am currently writing my dissertation on the Impact of Obesity on Wages in the UK Labour Market using Waves 2 and 3.... nia kennedy

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #716 (Closed): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset

I’m exploring the wellbeing of secondary school children with a Special Educational Need (SEN) using the linked Under... Matt Barnes

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #715: Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa... Ben Clark

02/06/2017

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa... Ben Clark

02/02/2017

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705: Emigration Status

Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
You mentioned that the conjecture... Yujung Whang

12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705: Emigration Status

Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
(1)
I am using a special license... Yujung Whang