Understanding Society User Support

04/18/2017

06:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #767: Work experience in UKHLS

Yes, you are correct. The start date of the current employment status is asked every wave (w_jbbgd w_jbbgm w_jbbgy in... Alita Nandi

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #763: question about b_mever and b_mvyr

Thanks for the clarification Alita!
Best wishes,
Carolina Carolina Zuccotti

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #763: question about b_mever and b_mvyr

Hi Carolina,
These happen when the person was interviewed by proxy in the last wave. The "never interviewed/new en... Alita Nandi

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions

Thanks for highlighting this issue. The online documentation will be updated to reflect these value labels. Alita Nandi

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions

Hello Laura,
Here is the value label for nvestbrt1-3, 97
-8 "inapplicable" -9 "missing" -7 "proxy respondent" /... Alita Nandi

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #760: Number of sibling pairs with genetic data

Just to add - if you have further queries, our genetics and biomarkers team may be able to help: genetics@understandi... Victoria Nolan

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #760 (Feedback): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data

Dear Gibran,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you about this, due to holiday commitments over the e... Victoria Nolan

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #768 (Closed): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?

Hi,
I was wondering if there is anticipated completion date of the Wave 4 to National Pupil Database linkage?
... Nick Garnett

04/13/2017

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #767: Work experience in UKHLS

Dear Victoria,
many thanks for your quick and detailed answer! This is already very helpful.
What you describe ab... Sabine Hübgen

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #767 (Feedback): Work experience in UKHLS

Dear Sabine,
I'm not sure exactly which variables you're trying to use, but below is some essential information fo... Victoria Nolan

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #756 (Closed): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society

Victoria Nolan

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #763 (In Progress): question about b_mever and b_mvyr

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

02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #764 (In Progress): Reward variables

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

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #766 (In Progress): USoc wave 4 investment questions

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

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #762 (In Progress): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?

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

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years

Agnes,
The attached extract from our weighting programmes shows the input variables for the models for each of the... Peter Lynn

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #752: Weights

Nicola,
I'm so sorry. For some reason the system did not notify me of your reply so I've only just seen this! The ... Peter Lynn

04/12/2017

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733 (Closed): Identifying residential movers

Victoria Nolan

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #757 (Closed): Young mothers data

Victoria Nolan

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #759 (Closed): SF-12

Victoria Nolan

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #767 (Closed): Work experience in UKHLS

Dear support team,
I have a question regarding work experience in UKHLS.
I try to generate a work experience va... Sabine Hübgen

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #766 (Closed): USoc wave 4 investment questions

Hi

I have a specific question about the investment data in the USoc wave 4 household file:

The variables d_n... Laura Gardiner

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #765 (Feedback): Pay variables for Immigrant and ethnic minority boost

Dear Steve,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
We don’t currently produce derived income variables for the IEMB - ou... Victoria Nolan

08:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #765 (Closed): Pay variables for Immigrant and ethnic minority boost

If there a reason why the variables for monthly labour income are not present for the IEMB, even though there is data... Stephen McKay

04/11/2017

07:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #494 (Feedback): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis

Victoria Nolan

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #494: Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis

Carolina,
For this kind of data I see no conceptual logic in pooling the waves for cross-sectional analysis. You c... Peter Lynn

06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #764 (Closed): Reward variables

Hi, my name is Roxana and I am a Management PhD researcher currently working on a project in the area of employee wor... Roxana Corduneanu

04/10/2017

06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #494: Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis

Hello,
From what I understand, I cannot use this syntax to pool waves 2 and 4 (which are the ones that have gender ... Carolina Zuccotti

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #755 (Closed): non-coresident adult children

Victoria Nolan

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #761 (Feedback): Why monthly gross income is negative?

Dear Ujjwal Kumar Das,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user gu... Victoria Nolan

01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #763 (Closed): question about b_mever and b_mvyr

Hello,
From my understanding, b_mvever and b_mvyr refer to new entrants only; however, some people who have data on ... Carolina Zuccotti

04/08/2017

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #762 (Closed): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?

Hello,
I am a bit puzzled with the parental information contained in the indresp file and in the xwavedat file.
T... Carolina Zuccotti

04/07/2017

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #761: Why monthly gross income is negative?

> I can see for many, individual monthly gross income is negative which is unusual.
> Variable | Obs ... Ujjwal Kumar Das

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #761 (Closed): Why monthly gross income is negative?

I can see for many, individual monthly gross income is negative which is unusual.
a_fimngrs_dv | 50,994 14... Ujjwal Kumar Das

04/06/2017

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #756 (Feedback): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society

Dear Johannes,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
The following paper summarises the provenance of... Victoria Nolan

04/05/2017

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #760 (In Progress): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data

Dear Gibran,
Many thanks for your enquiry. It has been passed on to our genetics and biomarkers team, who will be ... Victoria Nolan

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #687 (Closed): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`

Dear Till,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you - unfortunately we have been unable to identify a s... Victoria Nolan

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #750 (Closed): Industry codes

Victoria Nolan

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #754 (Closed): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv

Victoria Nolan

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #742 (Closed): Income

Victoria Nolan

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #753 (Closed): Temporary Accommodation

Victoria Nolan

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #749 (Closed): w_scparoutint

Victoria Nolan

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #751 (Closed): Confusing data on rjbstat

Victoria Nolan

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #748 (Closed): GHQ-12 results

Victoria Nolan

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #735 (Closed): Weighting reducing sample numbers

Victoria Nolan

04/04/2017

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Thanks Victoria. I think that clears things up for now.
Best wishes
Rory Rory Coulter

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Hi Rory,
It was not always the case that the ONSPD for the closest point to each survey sweep was used to assign s... Victoria Nolan

08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Dear Victoria
Thanks for your very detailed response to my questions.
From what you say, I agree that the only... Rory Coulter

04/03/2017

07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #757 (Feedback): Young mothers data

Hi Marsha,
Understanding Society data are made available through the UK Data Service and can be downloaded from thei... Gundi Knies

06:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #759 (Feedback): SF-12

Hi Maria,
in Wave 1 the SF12 was carried in the face-to-face (f2f) questionnaire but it was decided that it should b... Gundi Knies

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #760 (Closed): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data

Hi I'm trying to find out how many pairs of siblings exist where both individuals have genotype data. Is this (or an ... Gibran Hemani

03/31/2017

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #759 (Closed): SF-12

Hello,
I wonder why SF-12 variables are available twice in Waves 2 to 5: as usual variables and as self-completion. ... Maria Pavlova

03/30/2017

09:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #758 (In Progress): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Dear Nico,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I am passing it on to our weighting team to look into.
Best wishes, Vi... Victoria Nolan

03/29/2017

06:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Hi there,
I am running hourly wage (constructed with w_paygu_dv) on a number of regressors in a pooled cross-sect... Nico Ochmann

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Dear Rory,
Just a brief update:
We can now confirm that the BHPS individual level variable wMOVEST was compute... Victoria Nolan

08:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #733: Identifying residential movers

Dear Rory,
Sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this.
We have tried to respond as far as possibl... Victoria Nolan

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #757 (Closed): Young mothers data

Hello
I am interested in using Understanding Society data to explore data around teenage and young mothers. More s... Marsha Wood

08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #756 (Closed): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society

Hi, my name is Johannes Bennetzen and I am looking through the cognitive ability measures in understand society. As f... Johannes Emil Bennetzen

03/28/2017

07:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #755 (In Progress): non-coresident adult children

Dear Jingyi
there are different ways to identify the gender of respondent's non co-resident children, and which way ... Gundi Knies

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #739 (Closed): Proxy variables

Victoria Nolan

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #705 (Closed): Emigration Status

Victoria Nolan

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #746 (Closed): Household relatives

Victoria Nolan

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release

Victoria Nolan

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #743 (Closed): Education Information

Victoria Nolan

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage

Victoria Nolan

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise

Victoria Nolan

03/23/2017

07:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #755 (Closed): non-coresident adult children

Dear Support team,
I have a question about Understanding Society, I would be appreciated if you can give me some a... Jingyi Wang

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #750 (Feedback): Industry codes

Dear Aina,
to our knowledge there is no exact mapping of SIC 1980 to SIC 1992. In some waves of the BHPS responses w... Gundi Knies

03/22/2017

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #754: Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv

Thank you very much.
Best, Sait Sait Bayrakdar

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #754 (Feedback): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv

Dear Sait,
you are right. the label was misleading. The variable is derived from JBNSSEC_DV, which in turn is derive... Gundi Knies

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #754 (Closed): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv

Hi,
I try to make use of jbnnsec3_dv variable. According to the value labels, three categories are (1) management ... Sait Bayrakdar

11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #742 (Feedback): Income

Dear Gloria,
The Understanding Society measure of labour income is a current measure. It asks for the “usual” amou... Victoria Nolan

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