Understanding Society User Support

07/06/2017

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

Understood. Thank you Alita.
Best,
Kenisha K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

But in that case while you can find information about the two non-resident parents in Wave C, you will not be able to... Alita Nandi

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

I see what you mean.
In Wave 3, any person who has a child <18, whose other parent is not co-resident and not dece... Alita Nandi

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #805 (Feedback): YPSOC in BHPS

Dear Megan,
We had a policy in BHPS of continuing to code to the original SOC classification, in this case SOC1990... Victoria Nolan

07/05/2017

10:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

Dear Alita,
If I understand you correctly, using a_egoalt I will have information on whether a respondent lives in ... K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #810 (In Progress): Data and merge with BHPS

Hello Jyang,
There are different measures of subjective wellbeing in Understanding Society: Life satisfaction, GHQ... Alita Nandi

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #810 (Closed): Data and merge with BHPS

Dear Sir or Madam,
I don’t have access to Understanding Society data now and so was wondering if I can ask a coupl... J Zhong

07/04/2017

06:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #806 (In Progress): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

Hello Kenisha,
Using a_egoalt, you will be able to identify if a person is living in a household with his/her natu... Alita Nandi

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #809 (Closed): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc

I want to know the method for deriving the Big5 components you have calculated. The brief explanation provided talks... Tim Hinks

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