Understanding Society User Support

10/05/2017

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858: Date of Birth variables

Good evening. Any news on the progress of my request? Elena Pupaza

10/02/2017

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #850 (Resolved): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Stephanie Auty

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #849 (In Progress): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847 (Resolved): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #846 (Resolved): BHPS job history file

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839 (Resolved): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Stephanie Auty

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #838 (Resolved): dietary fat intake

Stephanie Auty

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837 (Resolved): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Stephanie Auty

09/29/2017

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854 (Feedback): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Stephanie Auty

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854: Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Dear Helena,
You will not need to pool the race data yourself, as the information is already collated in f_racel_d... Stephanie Auty

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #851: Components of net monthly income

Dear Olly,
The values should add up correctly subject to a bit of rounding error (maximum value 1.25p), but it doe... Stephanie Auty

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #855 (Feedback): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

Dear Min,
Thank you, we are aware of this problem and it is on the list of issues to deal with.
For the moment,... Stephanie Auty

12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #857: Merging datasets

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for confirming the identifier, which will help me for future analysis as well.... Nasima Akhter

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #857 (Feedback): Merging datasets

Dear Nasima,
You are correct that pidp is the unique identifier for respondents, but the race variable is already ... Stephanie Auty

09/28/2017

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858 (In Progress): Date of Birth 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

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858 (Closed): Date of Birth variables

Hi! I am trying to merge the Understanding Society data with another data-set on pensionable age, based on the date o... Elena Pupaza

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #857 (In Progress): Merging datasets

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

10:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #857: Merging datasets

Hello,
I have now found the 'racel_dv' variable in the 'xwavedat' data file and that the variable 'pidp' = cross-wav... Nasima Akhter

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #857 (Closed): Merging datasets

Hello, I plan to analyse the Understanding society wave 5 data (e_indresp) and need to add the 'racel_dv' variable av... Nasima Akhter

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #856 (In Progress): how to deal with contradictory records

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

10:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #856 (Closed): how to deal with contradictory records

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am writing to seek your suggestions about contradictory data.
The first ex... Min Zhang

09/25/2017

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #855 (In Progress): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

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

09/22/2017

09:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #855 (Closed): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

Dear USoc team,
I have a question with drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion. The variable value lab... Min Zhang

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845 (Resolved): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

Stephanie Auty

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844 (Resolved): BHPS inverview translation

Stephanie Auty

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

Stephanie Auty

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842 (Feedback): Marital status variable - mlstat

Stephanie Auty

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #841 (Resolved): Genetics and diagnosis data

Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #835 (Closed): Individuals falling out of the survey

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #833 (Closed): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #827 (Closed): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #825 (Resolved): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Stephanie Auty

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #818 (Closed): Exact numbers of children

Stephanie Auty

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854: Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

UPDATE- I have just read through the Ethnicity Research User Guide and found that the ethnic group question is asked ... Helena Dare-Edwards

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854 (In Progress): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

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

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Hi,
I am trying to put together profile data for respondents with dependent children involved in wave 6 (using the... Helena Dare-Edwards

09/20/2017

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #852: Empstat / employment history

Sorry - just to add to my previous question.
Aside from having never left FT education or a having proxy responden... Emily McDool

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #853 (In Progress): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

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

09/19/2017

10:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #853 (Closed): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Hi
I am interested in analysing responses the self esteem measure from the Youth self-completion questionnaire used ... Andrew Brown

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #852 (In Progress): Empstat / employment history

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

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #852 (Closed): Empstat / employment history

Hello
I am interested in looking at employment histories for respondents. I understand that around 1/4 of the samp... Emily McDool

09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #851 (In Progress): Components of net monthly income

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

09/18/2017

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #851 (Closed): Components of net monthly income

Hi,
I have noticed some cases of individuals where the components of net monthly income (e.g. labour income, socia... Oliver Southwick

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Email received from user:
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Peter,
thank you very much for your patience throughout... Stephanie Auty

09/17/2017

08:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #849: universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Hi, Thank you for your kind reply.
I have checked xwaveid data to see if interview outcome was recorded for every ... Yujung Whang

09/15/2017

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Nico,
The non-response pattern in your analysis data will be very different from that in a truly longitudinal (bal... Peter Lynn

09/14/2017

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837 (Feedback): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Stephanie Auty

05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #834 (Closed): Existence of siblings

Stephanie Auty

05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #832 (Closed): age and ethnicity of participants

Stephanie Auty

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #831 (Closed): Care recipient

Stephanie Auty

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #824 (Closed): Question on individual saving

Stephanie Auty

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #823 (Closed): BHPS Weights

Stephanie Auty

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #821 (Closed): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

Stephanie Auty

05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #820 (Closed): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

Stephanie Auty

05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #816 (Closed): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Stephanie Auty

05:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #850 (Feedback): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Dear Emma,
First I want to confirm that I understand how you are combining the data from waves 1 and 2. a_paedqf a... Stephanie Auty

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #847 (Feedback): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Dear Carla,
I can confirm that you need to account for the complex survey design using f_strata and f_psu as well ... Stephanie Auty

09/13/2017

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #846 (Feedback): BHPS job history file

Dear Yujung Whang,
The Job History file is only for those respondents who have changed jobs in the last year – so ... Stephanie Auty

09/12/2017

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

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From: Bernardi, Luca <lb350@leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:50... Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #849 (Feedback): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Dear Yujung Whang,
The w_indall files contain everybody who is enumerated in a responding household in that wave, ... Stephanie Auty

09/11/2017

10:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #840 (Closed): Labels on service use

Stephanie Auty

10:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #838 (Feedback): dietary fat intake

Stephanie Auty

10:57 AM 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

Stephanie Auty

09/08/2017

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844 (Feedback): BHPS inverview translation

Stephanie Auty

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844: BHPS inverview translation

Dear Yujung Whang,
The BHPS was translated, but only into Welsh. In some cases an interpreter was used. The follow... Stephanie Auty