Understanding Society User Support

08/03/2017

06:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #829 (Closed): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f

Dear Alita,
I have been using the qualoc variable for the different waves. However, I am curious about the derive... Nico Ochmann

08/01/2017

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #826 (Feedback): transformed HH income measure?

Stephanie Auty

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #826: transformed HH income measure?

Dear Seok Woo Kwon,
We do not include an adjustment factor for comparability purposes across time. It should be s... Stephanie Auty

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #800 (Resolved): Net Income

Stephanie Auty

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #799 (Resolved): Parent sample for research project

Stephanie Auty

07/31/2017

11:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Dear Peter,
Thank you for the reply. Currently, we're not conducting longitudinal analysis. Maybe I have confused ... Sook Kim

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #827 (In Progress): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

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

11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #827 (Closed): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Hi,
What is the definition used for the derived lone parent flag "nonepar_dv"?
I've been unable to find this i... Oliver Southwick

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #818: Exact numbers of children

Dear Elisa,
If you already have access to the data, you can look at the variable w_birthy on the w_indall record. ... Stephanie Auty

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #826 (In Progress): transformed HH income measure?

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

07/30/2017

11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #821: Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

Hello Charlotte,
1. Data management issue
From your description below it is not clear what data management step... Alita Nandi

07/28/2017

07:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #826 (Closed): transformed HH income measure?

Does anyone have suggestions on how to make household incomes comparable across years in the BHPS survey? Is there a ... Seok Woo Kwon

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

Thanks Peter for your clarification.
So data about the referendum will be published after W8 fieldwork, guess it w... Christoph Thewes

12:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

Christoph,
The question is asked only in wave 8. Wave 8 fieldwork started in January 2016, so this means that the ... Peter Lynn

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Hello,
For analysis A, if you are using data from 1991-2015, you should use f_indin91.lw.
For B, if you are usi... Peter Lynn

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #825 (In Progress): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

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

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #825 (Closed): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Our team is analysing gender pay gap using BHPS samples. We require two separate weights, A and B, and we exclude Nor... Sook Kim

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #823: BHPS Weights

Liviu,
Your question is clear. The BHPS longitudinal weights are indeed designed for analysis of sample members wh... Peter Lynn

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #824 (In Progress): Question on individual saving

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

07/27/2017

07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #824 (Closed): Question on individual saving

Dear Support Team,
I am using the US wave 4 to analyze households' saving decisions. I am looking at the questions... Lucyna Gornicka

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #819 (Feedback): Gender identity

Dear Manuela,
Whilst we do not currently carry question items about gender identity, it is an area that is schedul... Stephanie Auty

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #823 (In Progress): BHPS Weights

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

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #822 (In Progress): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

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

07/26/2017

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #823 (Closed): BHPS Weights

Ispoke briefly on the phone to one of your IESR colleagues about getting some information about weights in the BHPS. ... Liviu Nafornita

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #822 (Closed): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

I wonder why the question if someone thinks UK should remain/leave the EU is not asked in W7, but next year in W8?
... Christoph Thewes

07/25/2017

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #809 (Feedback): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc

Stephanie Auty

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #820: Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

Olly,
Yes, if your regression uses variables from two consecutive waves (even if it is only the dependent variable... Peter Lynn

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #820 (In Progress): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

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

10:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #820 (Closed): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

I am performing a regression analysis, assessing which characteristics in one wave influence outcomes in the next
... Oliver Southwick

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #821 (In Progress): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

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

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #821 (Closed): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

Hi,
I've been using Understanding Society data to look at parental separation and have been trying to match child... Charlotte Edney

07/24/2017

09:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Hi Stephanie
Thanks for your swift and detailed reply (I hope this is the proper way to reply!).
I will try the mer... Andrew Brown

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #816 (Feedback): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Hi Andrew,
We are aware of some inconsistencies in relationships recorded in the data. As with all data collection... Stephanie Auty

04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #814 (Closed): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset

Peter Lynn

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #819 (In Progress): Gender identity

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

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #819 (Closed): Gender identity

Is there information about participants' gender identity (not sex, thys beyond the male vs. female binary) in any of ... Manuela Barreto

10:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #817 (Feedback): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable

Hello Daniel,
Yes, the order of questions in the questionnaire corresponds to the order in which they were asked.
... Stephanie Auty

07/21/2017

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #818 (In Progress): Exact numbers of children

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

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #818 (Closed): Exact numbers of children

Dear team of the support service,
for a research project at the Lifbi(Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajector... Elisa Himbert

07/20/2017

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #816 (In Progress): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Stephanie Auty

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

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

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #816 (Closed): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Hi
I'm currently trying to identify respondents to the Youth questionnaire who are adopted, across all waves. I woul... Andrew Brown

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #817 (In Progress): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable

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

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #817 (Closed): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable

Hello
I'm using the innovation panel for my masters dissertation. Currently i'm looking at the satisfaction varia... Daniel Malocco

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