Understanding Society User Support

02/26/2018

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #929: Youth SDQ Scores Wave 7 Incorrect

This is the case for many of the youth questions and should be noted in the user guide or related documentation. Cara Booker

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #929: Youth SDQ Scores Wave 7 Incorrect

In wave 7 there is an extra code to many of the variables, 9 which is 'incorrect answer'. I think this is the source ... Cara Booker

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #929 (Resolved): Youth SDQ Scores Wave 7 Incorrect

Hi,
The scores for the SDQ total difficulties and subscale scorees in wave 7 are incorrect. At first glance it loo... Cara Booker

02/25/2018

08:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #928 (Resolved): Merging Youth.

Hi,
I am attempting to merge the youth data from waves 1, 3 and 5. Is it satisfactory to merge these waves of data... Vicky Thompson

02/23/2018

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #926 (Resolved): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC

Hi,
I am exploring the educational variable hiqual_dv in usoc and I have a question with regard to the category 'o... Rossella Icardi

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #925 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis

Hi,
I am currently working with the long file using BHPS and USOC data (waves 1-25) and I am struggling to understan... Rossella Icardi

02/21/2018

05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924: Derivation of Fed Forward Values

Hi Gundi,
That is helpful, thank you.
Am I right in saying the variables are calculated as I thought above (dat... Liam Wright

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924 (Feedback): Derivation of Fed Forward Values

Hi Liam,
the variables starting with the _ff_ prefix are not technically derived variables. They report the value of... Gundi Knies

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924: Derivation of Fed Forward Values

Hello,
I am interesting in using data from the Annual History Module from Waves 2-7 in Understanding Society. I'm ... Liam Wright

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924 (Resolved): Derivation of Fed Forward Values

Hello,
I am interesting in using data from the Annual History Module from Waves 2-7 in Understanding Society. I'm ... Liam Wright

02/20/2018

07:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #922 (Feedback): Question on the disability module (_disdif1 … _disdif1)

Hello Harry,
The way to figure this out is to go to the questionnaires from the different Waves, search for this v... Alita Nandi

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #922 (Resolved): Question on the disability module (_disdif1 … _disdif1)

It's not clear to me if a subject is asked the below question (on the disability module) only upon entering the surve... Harry Hill

02/15/2018

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920 (Feedback): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design

Alita Nandi

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920: Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design

Ngaire,
If I understand correctly, you are carrying out two separate cross-sectional analyses, one for 1991 and on... Peter Lynn

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920 (In Progress): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design

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

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920 (Resolved): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design

Hello,
I'm comparing the financial confidence (variable 'finnow') of people aged 70-79 between 1991 (BHPS) and 201... Ngaire Coombs

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #914 (Closed): end dates of individual interview for IP W9

Request withdrawn by user Alita Nandi

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921 (In Progress): Council tax variable

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

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921 (Resolved): Council tax variable

Hi,
I have the special licence data for USoc and harmonised BHPS. I was sure that before there was a variable call... Tom Waters

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918 (In Progress): lnprnt - number of children ever had

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

02/14/2018

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #919 (Feedback): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(g)

Peter Lynn

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #919: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(g)

Nico,
By "current wave" I meant wave 1 in the case of the wave 1 sample, wave 2 for the wave 2 sample, etc. So, fo... Peter Lynn

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #919 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(g)

Dear Peter,
I have a quick follow-up question with regard to my past issue #839. You wrote the following below:
A ... Nico Ochmann

02/13/2018

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #916: Two questions about weights

Thanks Olena - very helpful.
Tom Tom Waters

02:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #918 (Resolved): lnprnt - number of children ever had

Hi,
I am working specifically with the original BHPS sample (hhorig==3) across combined waves 1-25. My question re... Alice Campbell

02/12/2018

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #884 (Resolved): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visits

Alita Nandi

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #881 (Resolved): weighting values of zero

Alita Nandi

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #880 (Resolved): Genetic data linked to NPD

Alita Nandi

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #874 (Resolved): try to link the birthweight to each child

Alita Nandi

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #723 (Resolved): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights

Alita Nandi

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #913 (Feedback): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions

Alita Nandi

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #890 (Resolved): SDQ variables

Alita Nandi

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #904 (Resolved): Educational atttainment waves 20-25 - BHPS sample

Alita Nandi

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #903 (Resolved): Education variable hiqual_dv in BHPS and USOC

Alita Nandi

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #902 (Resolved): Life history questions in USOC (and BHPS)

Alita Nandi

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #901 (Resolved): Question by an Msc student

Alita Nandi

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #899 (Resolved): introduction to understanding society Example 3

Alita Nandi

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #898 (Resolved): Pay data - include or exclude overtime payment?

Alita Nandi

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #897 (Resolved): device used data in Wave 7

Alita Nandi

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #896 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing data

Alita Nandi

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #892 (Resolved): Wave 7 Variables: nutrition_w7, scawembs_w7 and exercise_7

Alita Nandi

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #891 (Resolved): Matching f_fihhmnnet1_dv to previously used f_hhnetinc1

Alita Nandi

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #895 (Resolved): data release mental health and social media

Alita Nandi

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #900: BHPS

Dear Maria,
Dave Mare's files are available at the UKDS: https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7821&t... Alita Nandi

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #916 (Feedback): Two questions about weights

Alita Nandi

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #916: Two questions about weights

Tom,
Thank you for your question.
All our derivation of weights is explained in the Understanding Society User ... Olena Kaminska

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #916 (Resolved): Two questions about weights

Hi,
I have two questions about weights that perhaps you can help me with.
First, the documentation states that ... Tom Waters

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #912 (Feedback): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat

Hello Michael,
Thank you for identifying these cases. You are correct there are 11 pids with 2 observations. We ha... Alita Nandi

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917 (Feedback): how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Alita Nandi

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

In this latest release xwavedat includes BHPS cases as well. If you look at the hhorig for these cases you will see t... Alita Nandi

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917 (Resolved): how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Dear Alita,
this seems an obvious procedure, but I obtain a fairly high number of non-matches (60,792), which kin... Nico Ochmann

02/09/2018

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #915 (Feedback): sf1 and scsf1 understanding

Hi Oliver,
to reconstruct the inapplicable codes in specific waves and variables you need to check the questionnaire... Gundi Knies

01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #915 (Resolved): sf1 and scsf1 understanding

Hi, could you please explain the difference between sf1 and scsf1. My understandng is that sf1 was asked face to face... Oliver Lester

02/08/2018

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #914 (Closed): end dates of individual interview for IP W9

I have noticed that in i_indresp_ip there are the following variables available:
Individual interview start time (... Olga Maslovskaya

02/06/2018

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #913 (Resolved): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions

Gundi Knies

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #913: Understanding Society - Housing Conditions

Hi Eva,
one way to find out whether a BHPS variable is also included in the Understanding Society questionnaire is t... Gundi Knies

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #913 (Resolved): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions

Dear all,
the BHPS survey included 11 questions about housing conditions.
br_hsprbg - Shortage of space
br_hrp... Eva Gottges

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #902: Life history questions in USOC (and BHPS)

(this issue was raised and responded to elsewhere, the correspondence is being logged here) Alita Nandi

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #902 (Feedback): Life history questions in USOC (and BHPS)

Initial response from survey team:
In the first wave we identify a new entrant (and for all adult respondents in ... Alita Nandi

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #887 (Resolved): Treatment of student sample members

Alita Nandi

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907 (Resolved): Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

Alita Nandi

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #907: Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

No worries! These things happen... Glad that the issue has been resolved.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Feedback): Request

Alita Nandi

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (In Progress): Request

Alita Nandi

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #908: Request

We are producing a marital and cohabitation event history file for Understanding Society where we are including the B... Alita Nandi

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #909 (Feedback): Combining Datasets

Alita Nandi

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #909 (In Progress): Combining Datasets

There is an online training course on the Introduction to Understanding Society which, in addition to instructing on ... Alita Nandi

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910 (Feedback): How to download NPD linked UKHLS

Alita Nandi

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910 (In Progress): How to download NPD linked UKHLS

Alita Nandi

12:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS

(as this is identical to issue #911 that you have raised I will delete post #911.)
Alita Nandi

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS

This dataset is available for download from the UKDS website under their Secure Data Access license.
https://discov... Alita Nandi

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #906 (Feedback): Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants

Hi Nico,
The issue that you have raised is valid. Your method of checking is sensible. In wave 1, non-UK born (a_u... Alita Nandi

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #905 (Feedback): Overview of variables for Innovation Panel

The best way to see a list of variables in each wave of IP is by looking at the data documentation.
https://www.und... Alita Nandi

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #896: Understanding Society Wave 7 timing data

Request withdrawn by user so issue is being closed. Alita Nandi

02/05/2018

08:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat

Dear User Support
I am trying to understand the identifier variables in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat.
1)... Michael Baumkautner

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLS

Hello,
I am not able to download the National Pupil Database from the Uk Data website.Is there any additional formal... nirosha elsem varghese

02/04/2018

10:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #904: Educational atttainment waves 20-25 - BHPS sample

Perfect - thank you!! Alice Campbell

02/01/2018

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907: Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

Thank you Altida,
The problem was with me. The dofile I was using (the one we received from the workshop) had the va... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

01/31/2018

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #909 (Resolved): Combining Datasets

I was hoping to use the Understanding Society Dataset for my dissertation on the motherhood wage gap. This requires v... Jessica MacCormick

01/30/2018

05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907: Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

Hello, I just ran the following code and did not get an error message. How did you specify the globals dir2 and dir3?... Alita Nandi

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907: Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

That is the message I am getting (attached)
OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
> I am acuta... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907: Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

Thank you for your reply.
I am acutally using the do file you gave us at the training in Essex in November (Example... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #907 (In Progress): Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

If you have copied this code from the worksheets, then due to formatting issues, the ` which you need to specify the ... Alita Nandi

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Resolved): Request

Hi,
I'm starting to use the British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histor... Charlotte Edney

01/29/2018

06:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #907 (Resolved): Error message (invalid 'and') while trying to loop

Hi,
I am trying to merge BHPS to the UKLS data. Using the command below, by the time I get to foreach (looping), ... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #906 (Resolved): Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants

Dear support-team,
I am wondering about the qfhigh_dv variable and immigrants who got their degree outside the UK... Nico Ochmann