Understanding Society User Support

07/03/2017

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #804 (Feedback): Missing Value Analysis

Dear Daniel,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide ge... Victoria Nolan

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #801 (Feedback): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall

Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry - you have indeed highlighted an error, which will be resolved in our nex... Victoria Nolan

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #807 (Feedback): special licence variable

Dear Victoria,
This variable is only available in the Special License version of the Waves 1-6 Understanding Socie... Victoria Nolan

02:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #808 (Closed): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion

Hi
When comparing the variable b_ff_oprlg with information merged in directly from Wave 1 using variable a_oprlg -... Andy Ross

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #795 (Closed): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society

Victoria Nolan

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #797 (Closed): Youth Database - All waves

Victoria Nolan

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #793 (Closed): Merging Household response data and Individual response data

Victoria Nolan

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #796 (Closed): #794 continued

Victoria Nolan

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #794 (Closed): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

Victoria Nolan

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #781 (Closed): Data on couple finances

Victoria Nolan

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #802 (Feedback): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv

Dear Nico,
Unfortunately this variable does not exist.
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

06/30/2017

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #807 (Closed): special licence variable

Hello,
I would like to use the variable plbornc_all for my analysis. How may I request it?
Many thanks,
Victoria victoria donnaloja

07:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #806 (Closed): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

Dear Support Team,
I am interested in matching respondents who have a child/children living in the household at wav... K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

06/29/2017

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #805: YPSOC in BHPS

Wave 17 (2007) has the SOC2000 coding but waves 12 (2002) and 13 (2003) are missing it.
Thanks
Meg Megan Scott

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPS

Hi,
I am still using the YPSOC variable from the Youth modules in BHPS but I noticed that it is only coded using ... Megan Scott

06/28/2017

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #804 (Closed): Missing Value Analysis

I'm currently attempting missing value analysis of merged data which comprises HHRESP and INDRESP data from waves 1 -... Daniel Okoli

06/27/2017

06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Hi Alita,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Ok that's perfect I can definitely use that then - I will ju... Emily Lowthian

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

FNSPID and MNSPID are the PIDP of the father and mother not PID (even though the variable name as PID instead of PIDP... Alita Nandi

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Hi Alita,
Thank you for your detailed reply. I completely understand and I am sorry to have burdened you with all ... Emily Lowthian

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Hello Emily
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gen... Alita Nandi

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #798 (In Progress): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta

Hello
This file contains one row for each source of income for each person. This variable shows the total income f... Alita Nandi

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #803: Tracking parental death

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAM... Emily Lowthian

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #803 (In Progress): Tracking parental death

Alita Nandi

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #803: Tracking parental death

Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAMP file of the wave aft... Alita Nandi

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #799 (In Progress): Parent sample for research project

>> Parents
This will have to be constructed from either W_INDALL or W_EGOALT files
>> Parents with a child aged 1... Alita Nandi

06/26/2017

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #803 (Closed): Tracking parental death

Hi there,
I'm looking to create a variable of parental death. However, I am having trouble of finding cases where... Emily Lowthian

12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #802 (Closed): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv

Hello,
I would like to construct hourly wages with w_paygu_dv and w_jbhrs/w_jshrs for the employed and self-employe... Nico Ochmann

06/25/2017

07:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #801 (Closed): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall

Hello,
I would like to use pidp for the household reference person in data file c_indall, but it seems that the va... Fiona Steele

06/22/2017

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #800: Net Income

Rafael Vassiliou wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
At the moment I work on my dissertation based on the impact of minimu... Rafael Vassiliou

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #800 (Closed): Net Income

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol. At the moment I work on my dissertation ... Rafael Vassiliou

06/20/2017

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #795 (Feedback): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society

Dear Damian,
Understanding Society contains some useful information on savings behaviour, although the detail is n... Victoria Nolan

06/19/2017

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #799 (Closed): Parent sample for research project

Hello,
I was wondering if you might be able to help me. I am trying to get a better understanding of the responde... Daniel Breslin

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Hi Alita,
Thank you for getting back to me.
My apologies but I realised that I did not need to merge these in... Emily Lowthian

06/17/2017

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792 (In Progress): Merging datasets

Hello Emily,
Each row in INDSAMP is uniquely identified by PIDP and D_FINLOC
Each row in INDALL is uniquely ident... Alita Nandi

06/16/2017

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #798 (Closed): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta

In the data file a_income_protect.dta, what is the format of the data for the variable a_frmnthimp.dv? I am asking th... Myera Rashid

06/15/2017

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #797 (In Progress): Youth Database - All waves

Hi Lena,
there are no particular skip patterns other than the ones indicated in the youth questionnaire (which you h... Gundi Knies

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #797 (Closed): Youth Database - All waves

I am currently working with understanding society youth database. I have a question about question 29: Q29: Would yo... Lena Hassani Nezhad

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

Hi Julia,
sorry. I seem to have overlooked your follow-up question here when replying to your follow-up question #79... Gundi Knies

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Victoria Nolan

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #790 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?

Victoria Nolan

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #791 (Closed): Lone Parents

Victoria Nolan

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #779 (Closed): BHPS file KLIFEMST

Victoria Nolan

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #789 (Closed): Identifying UK citizens

Victoria Nolan

06/14/2017

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #796: #794 continued

Hi Julia,
no problem, we are here to help. To understand better why some of the people with "degrees" have no inform... Gundi Knies

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #796: #794 continued

Those people have to be those that never entered further education but why do some of them have a degree or other hig... Julia Borodina

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #796: #794 continued

Thanks again! I'm sorry for so many questions but I really find some data confusing. Could you please clarify who can... Julia Borodina

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #796: #794 continued

The questions that were asked are listed in the wave-specific questionnaires. SCEND is school leaving age; FEEND is f... Gundi Knies

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #796: #794 continued

Thanks! And what'a the difference in the definition of further and full-time education in your dataset? I mean can I ... Julia Borodina

11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #796 (In Progress): #794 continued

FEEND on XWAVEDAT reports the age at which the respondent ended further education. There is also a variable SCEND whi... Gundi Knies

10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #796 (Closed): #794 continued

Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an age when a respondent is supposed to leave further education while... Julia Borodina

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

Also you meantioned that 'inapplicable' means that question wasn't asked by design. Could you please clarify why so m... Julia Borodina

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

copying over content from #796
Follow-up question (J Borodina)
Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an... Gundi Knies

06/13/2017

09:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Thanks a lot Peter!
I appreciate your help and expertise very much.
Have a great week.
Nico Ochmann

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #794 (In Progress): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

Hi Julia,
generally, the meaning of missing values is consistent across all variables. -9 means the information has ... Gundi Knies

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #794 (Closed): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat

Dear Support team,
Could you please clarify the difference between 'inapplicable' and 'missing' in 'further educatio... Julia Borodina

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #793 (In Progress): Merging Household response data and Individual response data

Hi Daniel,
I am not sure which tutorial on UoE you are following but if you look at the Understanding Society online... Gundi Knies

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #795 (Closed): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society

Afternoon
We are looking to assess the extent to which consumers are saving. As part of the research, we are look... Damian Finlayson

06/12/2017

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #793 (Closed): Merging Household response data and Individual response data

I have recently been preparing data for analysis in SPSS and I've successfully merged 6 waves of INDRESP data, after ... Daniel Okoli

06/07/2017

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #790: Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?

Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
>
> We do not currently provide a BHPS equivalent file. We will note the... Sebastian Barfort

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #790 (Feedback): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?

Dear Sebastian,
We do not currently provide a BHPS equivalent file. We will note the request and consider whether... Victoria Nolan

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #762 (Closed): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?

Dear Carolina,
Further to your separate correspondence with us, we are now closing this issue, as it has been reso... Victoria Nolan

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Looks fine! Peter Lynn

04:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #791: Lone Parents

Sorry - I meant the longitudinal weight e_psnenub_lw~=0
Gundi Knies

04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #791 (Feedback): Lone Parents

Hi Helen,
I am assuming you are working with the e_indall file and that you are looking for dependent children who l... Gundi Knies

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #779: BHPS file KLIFEMST

Dear Julia,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your follow-up question.
Yes , their work experience would... Victoria Nolan

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #775: Nurse interviewer ID number 9999

Dear Fiona,
We will have to take this query back to the fieldwork agency that originally conducted the interviews.... Victoria Nolan

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #788 (Closed): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables

Victoria Nolan

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #786 (Closed): gender of non-coresident adult children

Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #787 (Closed): Household head in understanding society survey

Victoria Nolan

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database

Victoria Nolan

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #781: Data on couple finances

Dear Charlotte,
Just checking whether there is anything more we can help you with on this? We are happy to discuss... Victoria Nolan

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #784 (Closed): self-completion questionnaires

Victoria Nolan

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #782 (Closed): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis

Victoria Nolan

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #777 (Closed): Clarifications

Victoria Nolan

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #785 (Closed): Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset

Victoria Nolan

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #768 (Closed): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?

Victoria Nolan

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Stata code:
use d_indresp, clear
sort pidp
describe
save "H:\My Documents\SSRM\Dissertation\Data\Work... Emily Lowthian

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792 (Closed): Merging datasets

Hi there,
My name is Emily - I am a MSc student, currently working on a dissertation looking at how socioeconomic... Emily Lowthian

06/05/2017

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #791 (Closed): Lone Parents

Hi there,
I've been working in Wave 5 of Understanding society, and trying to understand how many HHs have one ad... Helen Robb

03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #790 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?

Hi Understanding Society,
I have asked before whether date of birth was available as a variable in Understanding ... Sebastian Barfort

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #775: Nurse interviewer ID number 9999

Dear Victoria.
Thank you for your reply. I am interested in the criteria for assigning the nurse ID 9999 and in pa... Fiona Pashazadeh