Understanding Society User Support

06/01/2017

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Hi Peter,
thanks a lot for your reply. I pooled the data for all six waves and added for each record a wave variabl... Nico Ochmann

05/30/2017

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #789 (In Progress): Identifying UK citizens

Dear Marceline,
You are correct respondents born in the UK are not asked the citizenship questions. But as anyone ... Alita Nandi

05/26/2017

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Nico,
When you pool the data, let's assume you add to each record a variable, wave, to indicate from which wave th... Peter Lynn

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #789 (Closed): Identifying UK citizens

Hello,
I am trying to identify UK citizens in this dataset for my research. However, the nationality of the parti... Marceline Noumoe Feze

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #773: Is information on day of birth available as a variable?

Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
>
> Many thanks for your enquiry. For exact date of birth you would need ... Sebastian Barfort

05/25/2017

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #786 (In Progress): gender of non-coresident adult children

Hello Jingyi,
The file A_INDALL includes basic biographical info about all individuals in the households, that is,... Alita Nandi

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Glad we could help!
Gundi Gundi Knies

10:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Dear Gundi, I think I have got the information - hrpno defines which pno is the household reference.
Thanks for y... Ujjwal Kumar Das

10:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #788 (Feedback): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables

Hi John,
these questions are asked only of people who agreed to a self-completion and who are not currently co-habit... Gundi Knies

05/24/2017

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Hi Ujjwal,
we cannot provide feedback on assumptions you want to make in your analysis. Acceptability of assumptions... Gundi Knies

05/22/2017

09:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Ujjwal Kumar Das wrote:
> Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume househ... Ujjwal Kumar Das

09:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume household reference person (hrpno)... Ujjwal Kumar Das

05/19/2017

11:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #788 (Closed): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables

There are two Tables I've derived from Wave 6 of Understanding Society from which I wish to draw some conclusions -... John Haskey

05/18/2017

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #776 (Feedback): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database

Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
FSM is linked from the NPD data and not available on Understanding So... Victoria Nolan

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey

Dear Ujjwal,
if you are interested in the household reference person, there are two derived variables in the Underst... Gundi Knies

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #787 (Feedback): Household head in understanding society survey

Dear Ujjwal,
There is no comparative variable (to HOH in BHPS) in Understanding Society. HOH was used in the BHPS ... Victoria Nolan

10:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #781 (Feedback): Data on couple finances

Dear Charlotte,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Is there any reason you are interested in the IP data? As the sam... Victoria Nolan

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #774 (Closed): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Thanks for letting us know, best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

10:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Good morning,
Everything is good. We were just using the wrong pid variable. Thank you so much for your time.
Kin... Sonia Turrero

09:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #774 (Feedback): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Dear Sonia,
We'd just like to check whether there's anything else we can help you with, before closing this issue ... Victoria Nolan

05/17/2017

09:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787 (Closed): Household head in understanding society survey

Dear forum,
I understand, BHPS, Indall module has a variable HOH - which helps identify conventional head in a ho... Ujjwal Kumar Das

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #784 (Feedback): self-completion questionnaires

Dear Daniele,
Self-completion questionnaires – the adult self-completion section would have been completed at the ... Victoria Nolan

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #782 (Feedback): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis

Dear Orla,
Unfortunately this is not possible at present via the publications search on the UKHLS website.
Best... Victoria Nolan

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #778 (Closed): Funding

Victoria Nolan

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #773 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?

Victoria Nolan

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #771 (Closed): Interviewers' observations about the household

Victoria Nolan

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #772 (Closed): training interviewers to make observations

Victoria Nolan

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #770 (Closed): Social background indicators/ parents education level

Victoria Nolan

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #769 (Closed): number of siblings ever had

Victoria Nolan

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #779: BHPS file KLIFEMST

Many thanks for your follow-up question, which I will add here (and close the new issue):
Many thanks! Just to cla... Victoria Nolan

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #777 (Feedback): Clarifications

Victoria Nolan

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #777: Clarifications

Dear Niamh,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.
1. The mainstage user guide provides these ... Victoria Nolan

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #775 (Feedback): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999

Dear Fiona,
Apologies for the delay, while we have been looking into this.
Those individuals with a nurse id =9... Victoria Nolan

05/16/2017

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #786 (Closed): gender of non-coresident adult children

Dear Support team,
I tried the ways you suggest me in #755. Through using the variables from fertility module in w... Jingyi Wang

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

Ok, that makes sense.
I did want to include waves 1,2,4 and 6 to look at different time points of traumatic event... Emily Lowthian

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

The choice of weights depends on the set of analysis units that you want to include in the analysis, i.e. the definit... Peter Lynn

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

I will be controlling for age, yes.
Ok that makes sense - although, it does specify that weights using wave 1 dat... Emily Lowthian

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

OK, so let's assume the unit of analysis is the child and your outcome measures will come from wave 6. This seems sen... Peter Lynn

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

Hi Peter,
Thank you for getting back to me so soon, much appreciated.
Ok - I will admit here that I am a 1+3 ... Emily Lowthian

12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

Hi Emily,
I doubt that there exists a weight that is perfect for your analysis, but there may be a reasonable solu... Peter Lynn

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #785 (Closed): Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

Hi there,
I have read the user guide 1-6 section on weighting (pages 56 - 83), however I am still slightly lost i... Emily Lowthian

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #784 (Closed): self-completion questionnaires

Hi,
my name is Daniele Guariso and I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Sussex. For my research I am... Daniele Guariso

05/12/2017

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #782 (Closed): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis

Hello,
I was wondering if there any way of identifying from the website (or other source) all the research publica... Orla McBride

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #781 (Closed): Data on couple finances

Hi- apologies for bothering you, but I am currently researching couple finances and have found the variables wealthas... Charlotte Bendall

05/10/2017

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #779 (Feedback): BHPS file KLIFEMST

Dear Julia,
The variable kleslen shows the length of each spell. So creating a variable for total work experience... Victoria Nolan

05/09/2017

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #779 (Closed): BHPS file KLIFEMST

Dear Support Team,
I'm currently looking for a variable that could proxy an individual's working experience. I found... Julia Borodina

11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #778: Funding

Victoria
Thanks for the very prompt reply and for all your help
Best wishes
Gary GARY ADAMSON

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #778 (Feedback): Funding

Dear Gary,
Understanding Society data are available via the UK Data Service. https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/... Victoria Nolan

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #775 (In Progress): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999

Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This is something we are going to investigate here with our health and b... Victoria Nolan

05/08/2017

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #778 (Closed): Funding

We’re considering submitting a research proposal to the ESRC SDAI, with the intention of using the Understanding Soci... GARY ADAMSON

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #777 (Closed): Clarifications

Dear Madam/Sir
I would like to enquire about the US survey. I have been exploring the website but would like clari... Niamh Shortt

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database

Hi there,
I am a Masters student at Cardiff University currently using the Understanding Society (USoc) data for ... Emily Lowthian

05/06/2017

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #775 (Feedback): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999

Dear Understanding Society Team,
In the nurse visit file for wave 2 individuals, b_indsamp_ns, there are 3827 reco... Fiona Pashazadeh

05/04/2017

08:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Hi Sonia,
my log file shows two diffrent data merges: once using indall and once using indresp. Both show that there... Gundi Knies

06:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Good afternoon, thank you for your answer,
we are using the files Xindresp, may they be different than Xindall in th... Sonia Turrero

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #774 (In Progress): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Hi Sonia,
in general terms, I cannot confirm your finding that none of the BHPS members in Wave 14-18 are included i... Gundi Knies

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #774 (Closed): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata

Good morning,
we are working on our Master project using BHPS panel data, and we wanted to add the Understanding Soc... Sonia Turrero

05/03/2017

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #764 (Closed): Reward variables

Victoria Nolan

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #773 (Feedback): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?

Dear Sebastian,
Many thanks for your enquiry. For exact date of birth you would need to apply for access to Unders... Victoria Nolan

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #773 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?

Hi Understanding Society,
I have downloaded the Understanding Society: Waves 1-6, 2009-2015 and also the British H... Sebastian Barfort