Understanding Society User Support

03/21/2017

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #753 (Feedback): Temporary Accommodation

Dear Helen,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
1 – we would include respondents in these types of accommodation, tha... Victoria Nolan

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #753 (Closed): Temporary Accommodation

Hi there! I'm trying to understand whether the survey tracks temporary accomodation, and if so where I could find thi... Helen Robb

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #752: Weights

Thank you Peter.
It would be really useful to have the weights earlier please, since I am putting together some fi... Nicola Spencer Godfrey

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #752: Weights

Nicola,
Yes, we can supply the weight. However, it will be included in an update to the data that will be released... Peter Lynn

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #752 (Closed): Weights

Hello,
I notice from a previous posting on the User Support site (#736), that the weight f_indscub_xw for the adul... Nicola Spencer Godfrey

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #735: Weighting reducing sample numbers

Kirsty,
Sorry for slow reply. The provision of weights requires the ability to estimate probabilities of continuin... Peter Lynn

03/20/2017

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #748 (Feedback): GHQ-12 results

Dear Gillian,
it appears you are comparing results published using GHQ-12 caseness scores with results using GQH-12 ... Gundi Knies

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #751 (In Progress): Confusing data on rjbstat

Hi Julia,
we cannot reproduce your analysis data set from the description you have sent. We can only recommend that ... Gundi Knies

03/18/2017

08:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #751 (Closed): Confusing data on rjbstat

Dear Support Team,
I'm having a problem interpreting the Stata output attached.
I am working with a merged file (Wa... Julia Borodina

03/17/2017

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #750 (Closed): Industry codes

Are there cross-walk that map the 1980 and 1992 industry classifications used in the BHPS?
I need to create a vari... Aina Gallego

08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #749 (In Progress): w_scparoutint

Dear Ian,
thank you for making us aware of this dicrepancy. We have not concluded our investigation but there appear... Gundi Knies

08:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #739 (Resolved): Proxy variables

Yes, you arrived at the correct conclusion! Information from the proxy informant about the proxy respondent is alread... Gundi Knies

03/16/2017

05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739: Proxy variables

Hi Gundi,
Yes, I think you have clarified this issue for me. At first I thought that those cells labeled 'proxy' cou... Julia Borodina

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #739: Proxy variables

Hi Julia,
we have not heard back from you. Did you manage to link information for the person providing the proxy int... Gundi Knies

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #749 (Closed): w_scparoutint

The question "Do you and your partner engage in outside interests together?" has 6 valid answers ('never' to 'all the... Ian Alcock

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #748 (Closed): GHQ-12 results

I am trying to make some comparisons across data for the GHQ-12 (including publications using the previous BHPS) and ... Gillian Bentley

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #694: "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society

We are very sorry for the delay in responding to this.
We are aiming to provide these in the separate partnership... Alita Nandi

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #705: Emigration Status

Dear Yujung,
We apologise for the delay in responding.
The file you should look at is W_INDSAMP. This file incl... Alita Nandi

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #746: Household relatives

Dear Gundi,
thank you very much for your prompt reply. I will have a look on what you suggested and hopefully will... Theodora Kokosi

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #746 (In Progress): Household relatives

Hi Dora,
there is no specific variable reporting this at the household level. But there is an entire dataset that st... Gundi Knies

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #746 (Closed): Household relatives

Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is any variable that tell us in which households there are relatives and wh... Theodora Kokosi

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #742 (In Progress): Income

Dear Gloria,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have paassed this on to our income team who are looking into it for y... Victoria Nolan

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

Victoria Nolan

11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #729 (Closed): modetype variable

Victoria Nolan

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3

Victoria Nolan

11:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #737 (Closed): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6

Victoria Nolan

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #715: Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Dear Ben,
Could I please just check whether you still need our help with this issue? If you could provide some mor... Victoria Nolan

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Dear Victoria,
Thank you for your reply. I hadn't noticed the ff_allmoved indicator, so this is very helpful.
H... Rory Coulter

03/15/2017

09:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #743: Education Information

Hi Yigit,
the linkage process in this area has not advanced as much as other data linkage projects (such as linkage ... Gundi Knies

03/14/2017

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #745: Interviewer number query

Update:
I've had a look at the h_intnum variable on the h_indresp_ip data and this is "inapplicable" for 2267 out ... Jonathan Burton

09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #745 (Closed): Interviewer number query

Hi,
I received this (below) - I can look into it, but wanted to post it here in case it's come up before (I did a... Jonathan Burton

03/13/2017

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #743: Education Information

Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Yes, I'll wait for it. Do you think it would take more than a year?
--Yigit Yigit Aydede

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #743 (Feedback): Education Information

Hi Yigit,
we collect some information about the highest educational qualification (the information is stored in the ... Gundi Knies

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #744: geographical data linkage

Emily Midouhas wrote:
> I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is f... Gundi Knies

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage

I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is for having geographical da... Emily Midouhas

03/11/2017

06:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #743 (Closed): Education Information

Hi,
I am new and trying to get used to Innovation Panel. I've read the manual and checked all the variables avail... Yigit Aydede

03/10/2017

07:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #742 (Closed): Income

I need to build a gross annual labor income variable and a gross weekly labor income variable. These should be compar... gloria gennaro

03/09/2017

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #730 (Closed): ff_newimm

Victoria Nolan

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #736 (Closed): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6

Victoria Nolan

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #732 (Closed): Net income variables

Victoria Nolan

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #731 (Closed): De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived

Victoria Nolan

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #725 (Closed): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples

Victoria Nolan

11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Thank you for your answer, Victoria. Always very precise.
Yes, that would be helpful.
Best,
Lydia Lydia Palumbo

03/07/2017

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #729: modetype variable

Thanks for the clarification !!
Best,
Yujung Yujung Whang

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #729: modetype variable

Dear Yujung,
The description of the universe for the variable ethid4a on the online documentation does not need to... Victoria Nolan

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733 (Feedback): Identifying residential movers

Dear Rory,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at the... Victoria Nolan

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #734 (Feedback): Participant move between waves 2 and 3

DEar Leanne,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at t... Victoria Nolan

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #741: data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise

I meant cognitive ability module. (not cognitive development module). Gundi Knies

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #741 (Feedback): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise

Hi Michaela,
all questions asked in the interview are included in the questionnaire which we make available online ... Gundi Knies

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise

Hi,
I would like to use data on cognitive abilities. Questions should be included in W3 and should be in the c_indre... Michela Vecchi

03/06/2017

05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

David,
1. n_ythscub_xw exists from wave 3 onwards, but not for wave 2.
2. I don't know the answer and I am conc... Peter Lynn

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739: Proxy variables

Julia Borodina wrote:
> Dear Gundi,
> Thanks a lot for the answer! I'd also like to find out how I can link the a... Gundi Knies

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739: Proxy variables

There will be an indicator variable in the data that tells you the person number of the person providing the proxy re... Gundi Knies

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739: Proxy variables

Hi Julia,
not all questions are addressed to all people during the interview, and in the data we use negative values... Gundi Knies

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739 (Closed): Proxy variables

Dear Support Team,
I am going to write a bachelor thesis using Understanding society and I would like to know how ... Julia Borodina

01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #730: ff_newimm

Thank you very much for this clarification. This really helps understanding better the codebook and the dataset.
B... Yujung Whang

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #730 (Feedback): ff_newimm

Dear Yujung,
There is no typo. The ff type variables are ones that are fed forward (ff) into a subsequent wave to ... Victoria Nolan

01:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #729: modetype variable

Hi, many thanks for the clarification.
Then I'm afraid some of the descriptions on the universe of the variables o... Yujung Whang

09:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #729 (Feedback): modetype variable

Dear Yujung,
Modetype is only available in wave 6 in the hhresp, indall and child data files as f_modetype and is ... Victoria Nolan

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #737 (Feedback): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society

Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your message.
We cannot create these cross tabulations, this is something you wou... Victoria Nolan

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)

Dear Lydia,
Re: point 1, I think it is the other way around - there is a BHPS ISCED classification already, but th... Victoria Nolan

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #728 (Feedback): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6

Dear Dan,
Apologies for the delay while we were looking into this.
The reason that these variables are not incl... Victoria Nolan

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