Understanding Society User Support

09/07/2017

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #850 (In Progress): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

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

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #850 (Closed): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Hello Understanding Society team,
I am working on a project in which (amongst other variables) we are using parent... Emma Bridger

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845: Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

Dear Alex,
I'm sorry to say we do not have a ballpark date. Progress has been halted on so many occasions, often a... Stephanie Auty

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845: Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexander Turner <alexander.turner@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Sep 5... Stephanie Auty

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848 (Feedback): Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Stephanie Auty

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Dear Luca,
In Wave 1 respondents were asked to report whether they’d ever been diagnosed with clinical depression ... Stephanie Auty

09/06/2017

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847: Complex samples suite in SPSS

Peter Lynn wrote:
> I can confirm that, if you are using variables that are collected in both the individual and pro... Carla Ayrton

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Hello Peter,
what I do now, I take the HHORIG variable and drop subsamples 2,4,5, and 6 and then use the GOR vari... Nico Ochmann

09/05/2017

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845 (Feedback): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

Dear Alex,
NHS digital has a large backlog of applications for data and so we are still waiting for ours to be pro... Stephanie Auty

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842: Marital status variable - mlstat

Hi Charlotte,
There are two sources of information which you need to combine to answer your question. First, there... Stephanie Auty

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #841 (Feedback): Genetics and diagnosis data

Stephanie Auty

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #835 (Resolved): Individuals falling out of the survey

Stephanie Auty

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #833 (Resolved): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Stephanie Auty

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #827 (Resolved): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Stephanie Auty

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #826 (Closed): transformed HH income measure?

Stephanie Auty

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #825 (Feedback): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Stephanie Auty

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #818 (Resolved): Exact numbers of children

Stephanie Auty

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #849 (In Progress): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

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

09/04/2017

07:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #849 (Closed): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Dear Sir/Madam,
Hi, I have a question on the universe of indall files. To investigate the reason for sample attr... Yujung Whang

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847: Complex samples suite in SPSS

I can confirm that, if you are using variables that are collected in both the individual and proxy interview, f_indpx... Peter Lynn

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847 (In Progress): Complex samples suite in SPSS

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

04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847 (Closed): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Hello,
I am carrying out an analysis of people who's income changed between wave 5 and 6. I have followed the 'Int... Carla Ayrton

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848 (In Progress): Clinical Depression H_COND variables

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

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848 (Closed): Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Dear Support group,
I am measuring clinical depression and I would kindly need your advice on a couple of question... Luca Bernardi

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

First, no! You should still use weights, even if restricting the analysis to England only. There are big differences ... Peter Lynn

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #843 (Resolved): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Stephanie Auty

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #843: w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Dear Stephanie,
I appreciate your reply and your comments on my imputation method. That is a valid point, I might... Nico Ochmann

09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #843 (Feedback): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Dear Nico,
We have noticed a couple of typos in the syntax above. The second section of the code should have been:... Stephanie Auty

08/30/2017

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Dear Ray,
One solution to this would be to code everyone who was not asked at waves 1-5 (i.e. -8, inapplicable) as... Stephanie Auty

09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #834 (Resolved): Existence of siblings

Stephanie Auty

09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #832 (Resolved): age and ethnicity of participants

Stephanie Auty

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #831 (Resolved): Care recipient

Stephanie Auty

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #824 (Resolved): Question on individual saving

Stephanie Auty

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #823 (Resolved): BHPS Weights

Stephanie Auty

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #821 (Resolved): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

Stephanie Auty

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #820 (Resolved): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

Stephanie Auty

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #819 (Closed): Gender identity

Stephanie Auty

09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #817 (Closed): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable

Stephanie Auty

09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #816 (Resolved): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Stephanie Auty

09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #813 (Closed): Match of sex across waves

Stephanie Auty

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #812 (Closed): BHPS TTWA codes

Stephanie Auty

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #811 (Closed): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion

Stephanie Auty

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #809 (Closed): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc

Stephanie Auty

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #792 (Closed): Merging datasets

Stephanie Auty

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #846 (In Progress): BHPS job history file

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

09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #845 (In Progress): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

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

08/29/2017

11:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #846 (Closed): BHPS job history file

Hi, I was looking into job history file (JOBHIST) for BHPS. I was wondering why so many respondents in the main indiv... Yujung Whang

11:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845 (Closed): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

On your data linkage page (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage) it states that consent for link... Alex Turner

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844 (In Progress): BHPS inverview translation

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

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844 (Closed): BHPS inverview translation

Hi, I was looking for whether any BHPS interview was translated in any other language than english. I found the varia... Yujung Whang

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842: Marital status variable - mlstat

Hi,
Thanks a lot. Could I also ask if there is such a variable for the number of biological children an individual... Charlotte Edney

08/27/2017

06:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #843: w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Dear Alita,
thank you very much for your reply.
In order to learn, I would like to share with you how I have do... Nico Ochmann

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #843 (In Progress): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Hello Nico,
This was asked:
In Wave 1 - Everyone
In Wave 5 - Only those in the EMBoost, GP Comparison or LDA s... Alita Nandi

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842 (In Progress): Marital status variable - mlstat

Hello Charlotte,
Yes, it is w_mastat_dv (w = a...f)
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainst... Alita Nandi

08/26/2017

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #843 (Closed): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Dear Alita,
if I understand the variable description correctly, englang is unfortunately not part of xwavedat. Wh... Nico Ochmann

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Dear Peter,
now this reply helps a lot. I have decided to restrict my sample to England only. This should be the ... Nico Ochmann

08/25/2017

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842 (Closed): Marital status variable - mlstat

Hi,
I am using the individual response data with all waves pooled together. I'm trying to get an idea of individu... Charlotte Edney

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Is there anyway I get comparable bases between W1-5 and W6 on the bendis question Ray Storry

08/24/2017

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839 (Feedback): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Nico,
I think the time variable might cause you problems. The weight should be fine for a genuine cross-sectional ... Peter Lynn

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #829 (Resolved): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f

Alita Nandi

10:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #838: dietary fat intake

Questions were asked about selected broad food groups, the only one relating to fat is type of milk, asked at Waves 2... Alita Nandi

10:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #840 (Resolved): Labels on service use

User has communicated that this issue has been resolved. Alita Nandi

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #841: Genetics and diagnosis data

To know about diagnosed conditions please look at the health condition questions, but dementia is not one of them. W_... Alita Nandi

08/22/2017

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #838 (In Progress): dietary fat intake

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

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Hello Ray,
The filtering of this question BENDIS was changed in Wave 6 as you can check from the questionnaire. As... Alita Nandi

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #841 (In Progress): Genetics and diagnosis data

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

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #841 (Closed): Genetics and diagnosis data

Please can you tell me if people were asked about their medical diagnoses? This does not seem to be the case based on... Naaheed Mukadam

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #840 (In Progress): Labels on service use

Hello Ray,
Thanks for pointing out this issue. This will be taken care of in the future.
The label for 7 is "c... Alita Nandi

08/21/2017

12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #840 (Closed): Labels on service use

The labels in W4 and W6 for opserv variables have 'completely dissatisfied- for both values 1 and 7 Ray Storry

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #839 (Closed): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Dear Peter,
sorry to bother you again, but we had that exchange in support #758.
I have been implementing your ... Nico Ochmann

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #829: What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f

Many thanks, Alita did contact me and the issue has been settled. Nico Ochmann

09:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #838 (Closed): dietary fat intake

Dear Understanding Society Team
For a sensitivity analyses we require information on dietary fat intake in order t... Karoline Kuchenbaecker

08/18/2017

04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #827: Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Dear Oliver,
Apologies, I seem to have posted the wrong link. Please try https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/do... Stephanie Auty

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #833: How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Dear Peter,
You are correct in your second assumption. On the first assumption, the variables for self-employment... Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #826 (Resolved): transformed HH income measure?

Stephanie Auty

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #818 (Feedback): Exact numbers of children

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #800 (Closed): Net Income

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #799 (Closed): Parent sample for research project

Stephanie Auty

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837 (In Progress): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

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

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837 (Closed): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

I have been running a query vis a cross-tabulation between _ff_bentype09 BY w_bendis8 filtering on w_ff_bentype09 = 0... Ray Storry

08/17/2017

11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #835: Individuals falling out of the survey

Olly,
Just to add to this.... outcome codes (w_ivfio and w_ivfho) for all individuals from whom we attempted to c... Peter Lynn

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general population

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ray Storry <raystorry@incomesdataresearch.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2... Peter Lynn

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #836: Weighting for general population

Ray,
Apologies, where I wrote "(base in table)", I meant "(cell count in table)".
Peter
Peter Lynn

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #836: Weighting for general population

Hello Ray,
Yes, all weights are designed for estimation of ratio estimates (proportions, means, regression coeffic... Peter Lynn

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Sook,
Apologies if i had misunderstood. Yes, if your analysis uses only variables from wave 6, then a cross-secti... Peter Lynn

09:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #822 (Closed): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

Peter Lynn

09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?

To be clear, the question 'Eumem' is included in the self-completion of all wave 8 interviews, involving fieldwork fr... Peter Lynn

08/16/2017

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #833: How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Dear Stephanie
Many thanks for your fast response, it is very helpful. Just to check I've understood two points co... Peter Spittal

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #836 (In Progress): Weighting for general population

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

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #835 (Feedback): Individuals falling out of the survey

Hi Olly,
Whether members of couples who split are followed depends on their status as Original Sample Members (OSM... Stephanie Auty

08/15/2017

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general population

I have run a query on persons employed who expect to move in the next year Yes/No. I have weighted the data in Wave ... Ray Storry

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #833 (Feedback): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Dear Peter,
The calculation of this variable is basically the same that of the BHPS equivalent (except that self-... Stephanie Auty

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #834 (Feedback): Existence of siblings

Hi Lea,
This question is part of the Family Networks module. As you can see in the long term content plan (https:/... Stephanie Auty

08/11/2017

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #835 (In Progress): Individuals falling out of the survey

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

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #835 (Closed): Individuals falling out of the survey

Hi,
Are there resources on individuals who fall out of the survey? (i.e. are missing in one wave)
In particular... Oliver Southwick

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #834 (In Progress): Existence of siblings

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

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #834 (Closed): Existence of siblings

Hi,
I am interested in whether respondents in Understanding Society have siblings. I am not interested in the numbe... Lea Samek

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #827: Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Thanks Stephen,
I can't find this documentation for nonepar_dv
Does the documentation cover how the variable is... Oliver Southwick

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #823 (Feedback): BHPS Weights

Stephanie Auty

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #820 (Feedback): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

Stephanie Auty

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #819 (Resolved): Gender identity

Stephanie Auty

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #831: Care recipient

Thank you. That was very helpful. Lea Samek

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #809 (Resolved): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc

Stephanie Auty

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #832 (Feedback): age and ethnicity of participants

Dear Naaheed,
You can find the frequencies by age group in 5 year intervals for the most recent wave at:
https://... Stephanie Auty

09:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #833 (In Progress): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

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

08/10/2017

09:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #833 (Closed): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

I was wondering if you could provide some guidance on how the derived monthly labour income variable in UKHLS (w_fiml... Peter Spittal

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #831 (Feedback): Care recipient

Hi Lea,
The variables which state which of the household members are cared for by the respondent are w_aidhua1-w_a... Stephanie Auty

08/09/2017

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #832 (In Progress): age and ethnicity of participants

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

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #832 (Closed): age and ethnicity of participants

I would like to carry out some research on dementia across different ethnic groups. I cannot find information on the ... Naaheed Mukadam

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #824 (Feedback): Question on individual saving

Dear Lucyna,
The question aims to exclude mortgage payments. Mortgage payments wouldn’t usually be considered as s... Stephanie Auty