Understanding Society User Support

10/17/2017

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #866 (In Progress): Stratification information

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

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #866 (Closed): Stratification information

Dear all,
I am analysing the data in STATA using the svyset command where I need to use the strata variable you pr... Theodora Kokosi

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #865 (In Progress): Change in question on occupation in Questionnaire in 2005 and 2006

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

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #865 (Closed): Change in question on occupation in Questionnaire in 2005 and 2006

Hello,
Question E5 on the BHPS questionnaire for 2005 seems to be different from that in 2006. Do the cross section... Glenna Nightingale

10/16/2017

05:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858: Date of Birth variables

Dear Elena,
Please just apply directly to UKDS.
Here is the link to the UKDS Helpdesk webpage: https://www.ukda... Stephanie Auty

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #857 (Resolved): Merging datasets

Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #855 (Resolved): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #854 (Resolved): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Stephanie Auty

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #853 (Feedback): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Stephanie Auty

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #853: Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Dear Andrew,
The version we are using was carried forwards from the BHPS and we have been using this version since... Stephanie Auty

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #851 (Feedback): Components of net monthly income

Stephanie Auty

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #850 (Closed): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Stephanie Auty

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #847 (Closed): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Stephanie Auty

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #846 (Closed): BHPS job history file

Stephanie Auty

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #845 (Closed): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

Stephanie Auty

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #844 (Closed): BHPS inverview translation

Stephanie Auty

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #842 (Resolved): Marital status variable - mlstat

Stephanie Auty

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #841 (Closed): Genetics and diagnosis data

Stephanie Auty

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #839 (Closed): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Stephanie Auty

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #838 (Closed): dietary fat intake

Stephanie Auty

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #837 (Closed): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Stephanie Auty

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #825 (Closed): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Stephanie Auty

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #864 (In Progress): filterring

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

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #864 (Closed): filterring

I would like to ask how individuals were assigned to “inapplicable” category (-8) for the Political engagement module... Olga Maslovskaya

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #863 (In Progress): People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK

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

10/12/2017

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #863 (Closed): People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK

Hi there,
I'm trying to get a percentage for the number of 0-3 year-olds, 4-11 yrs, 12-16 yrs, 17-25 yrs, 26-35 y... Charlotte Pierzchniak

10/11/2017

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #862 (In Progress): interviewer identification numbers

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

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #862 (Closed): interviewer identification numbers

Hello,
I'm wondering if interviewers retain their same identification numbers across waves in the Innovation Panel S... Dana Garbarski

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #861 (In Progress): number of questions respondents are 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

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #861 (Closed): number of questions respondents are asked

Related to my last query, how do you recommend calculating the total number of questions that a respondent was asked?... Dana Garbarski

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #860 (In Progress): Length of time for interview

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

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #860 (Closed): Length of time for interview

Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to best calculate the length of time for individual interviews in wave 8. It lo... Dana Garbarski

10/10/2017

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #856 (Feedback): how to deal with contradictory records

Dear Min,
In the first case, it is possible that some of these respondents gained their degree through distance le... Stephanie Auty

10/09/2017

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858: Date of Birth variables

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for this information. I will start my application for the Secure Access data. Do I need ... Elena Pupaza

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #858 (Feedback): Date of Birth variables

Dear Elena,
Month of birth is available on Special Licence, but date of birth is only available by Secure Access. ... Stephanie Auty

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #849: universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Dear Yujung,
Apologies for this delayed response. We had a problem with receiving notifications of forum updates o... Stephanie Auty

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #859 (In Progress): Adoption status

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

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #859 (Closed): Adoption status

Hi
I am currently identifying respondents to the youth questionnaire who are adopted (see issue #816) - I have not... Andrew Brown

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #853: Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Hi
I was wondering if there is an update available on this issue?
Kind regards
Andrew Andrew Brown

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

From: Bernardi, Luca (Dr.) [mailto:lb388@leicester.ac.uk]
Sent: 04 October 2017 14:23
To: Auty, Stephanie
Subject... Stephanie Auty

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Dear Luca,

These are valid questions. It would be helpful if you could post your reply on the User Forum (https:/... Stephanie Auty

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

From: Bernardi, Luca [mailto:lb350@leicester.ac.uk]
Sent: 08 September 2017 10:05
To: Auty, Stephanie
Subject: Un... Stephanie Auty

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