Understanding Society User Support

07/19/2017

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #811 (Feedback): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion

Hi Emily,
This means that the participant had coded “Never” at Q44 (YPDKLM) but had then put something into Q45, i... Stephanie Auty

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #811: Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

09:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #811 (In Progress): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion

Stephanie Auty

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #808 (Resolved): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion

Stephanie Auty

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #808: b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion

No problem - many thanks Victoria
All best
Andy Andy Ross

12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #814 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

Stephanie Auty

10:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

That's great. Thank you very much for your help!
Kind regards,
Eleonora Eleonora Iob

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #812 (Feedback): BHPS TTWA codes

Stephanie Auty

10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #812: BHPS TTWA codes

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The first page of the User Guide, as you have pointed out, is incorrect... Stephanie Auty

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #812: BHPS TTWA codes

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

09:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #812 (In Progress): BHPS TTWA codes

Stephanie Auty

07/18/2017

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

Yes. As described in the User Guide, the longitudinal weights are defined for sample members who participated in *all... Peter Lynn

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

Hello Peter,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm using f_indnsub_lw as I have data from the nurse and adult main ... Eleonora Iob

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

I would have thought that the longitudinal weight should be perfectly appropriate for this case, e.g. f_indinub_lw or... Peter Lynn

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #814 (Closed): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

Dear UKHLS User Support team,
I'm conducting a latent growth curve analysis using waves 2-6 in R. The dataset is ... Eleonora Iob

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #809 (In Progress): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc

Hi Tim,
sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Each of the 5 trait scores is derived from the responses to t... Gundi Knies

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #792: Merging datasets

Hello Emily,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
You should remove the finloc=0 cases at the beginning, that is fi... Alita Nandi

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #813 (Feedback): Match of sex across waves

Dear Michael,
We are aware of some inconsistencies in sex (and age) recorded in the data. As with all data collect... Victoria Nolan

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #808 (Feedback): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion

Dear Andy,
Apologies for the delay - we would recommend using a_oprlg.
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #806 (Closed): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT

Victoria Nolan

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #810 (Closed): Data and merge with BHPS

Victoria Nolan

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #804 (Closed): Missing Value Analysis

Victoria Nolan

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #801 (Closed): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall

Victoria Nolan

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #807 (Closed): special licence variable

Victoria Nolan

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #802 (Closed): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv

Victoria Nolan

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #803 (Closed): Tracking parental death

Victoria Nolan

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #800 (Feedback): Net Income

Dear Rafael,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Unfortunately we have not included individual net ... Victoria Nolan

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #799 (Feedback): Parent sample for research project

Dear Daniel,
Apologies for not assigning this back to you. We hope this helps,
Best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #798 (Closed): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta

Victoria Nolan

07/17/2017

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #813 (Closed): Match of sex across waves

Is there a source of definitive information about the gender of individuals from the BHPS part of Understanding Socie... Michael Nolan

07/13/2017

07:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #812 (Closed): BHPS TTWA codes

In the user guide for the BHPS' TTWA identifiers it says "Travel-to-work areas are as defined in 1998 and are based o... Steven Ram

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #811 (Closed): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion

Hi USoc,
Thank you for all of the previous help you have kindly offered.
I am just looking at the variables I... Emily Lowthian

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