Understanding Society User Support

03/28/2018

03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937: Merge children to parents

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks a lot that is very useful. We converted children into wide format and then matched them with t... Karl Overdick

03/27/2018

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #946 (Resolved): hiqual_dv values

Hello,
I am preparing a datafile and have noticed that the frequencies I obtain when tabulating the hiqual_dv vari... Rory Coulter

03/25/2018

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #945: total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

My apologies, I must be blind. I did find a_nrelsw12, c_nrels2, e_nrels2, and g_nrels4.
I guess my follow-up ques... Nico Ochmann

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

Dear Support Team,
I am looking for the total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant).
... Nico Ochmann

03/23/2018

08:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #943 (Feedback): g_indresp - exercise variable

Dear Emma,
The variables you are looking at for time spent exercising, g_vwhrs, g_vwmin, g_mwhrs and g_mwmin, are ... Stephanie Auty

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #939 (Feedback): Northern Irish Sample

Dear Tara,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The description on the UKDS site is out of date and we wi... Stephanie Auty

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #944 (In Progress): Lowest level reliability with spatial 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

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #944 (Resolved): Lowest level reliability with spatial data

I am currently supervising a PhD student who is very interested in exploring the environmental influences on individu... Paul Downward

03/22/2018

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had

Dear Alita,
I am looking at the number of children a women had. For that purpose, I am very interested in the cod... Nico Ochmann

03/21/2018

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #943 (In Progress): g_indresp - exercise 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

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #943 (Resolved): g_indresp - exercise variable

Good afternoon,
I'm hoping to use US to look at the correlations between mood and exercise for different cohorts ... Emma Cook

03/20/2018

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders

nevermind. I couldn't delete this comment but i figured out my problem G F

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders

Thanks for the feedback. I tried out this variable, unfortunately, it didn't work for a panel I'm constructing. When ... G F

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #942 (Feedback): Net income of multiple job holders

Stephanie Auty

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders

Dear G F,
The following variables should help:
w_j2pay_dv is gross pay in second job (see questionnaire for cla... Stephanie Auty

09:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #942 (In Progress): Net income of multiple job holders

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

01:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #942 (Resolved): Net income of multiple job holders

I'm a researcher doing a project on income of single vs. multiple job holders in the Understanding Society dataset an... G F

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937 (Feedback): Merge children to parents

Dear Karl,
You will need to merge this data using the parent identifiers in the child's record. If you are only in... Stephanie Auty

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #941 (Feedback): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007

Dear Amin,
We don't hold this information, but I have found this page on the ONS website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/m... Stephanie Auty

03/14/2018

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #941 (In Progress): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007

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

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007

Dear Understanding Societ team,
I am looking for a concordance from the SIC 1980 used in the BHPS to more recent i... Amin Oueslati

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Alita,
you are fantastic, thanks for clearing that up.
Have a great day.
Nico Nico Ochmann

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Hi Nico,
Your code is fine and the data is fine.
As you know XWAVEDAT includes everyone who has ever been enume... Alita Nandi

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Hi Alita,
thank you very much for working on this issue now.
Here we go:
tab hhorig if _wemerge_2==2
Sam... Nico Ochmann

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Hi Nico,
Could you please provide the frequency distribution of HHORIG for _m==2 cases?
Thanks,
Alita Alita Nandi

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Dear Alita,
I have notified you a few weeks ago, but my reply might have gone missing. At any rate, No this is no... Nico Ochmann

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #932: Weighting

Wonderful, thanks. Elena Cora Magrini

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #932: Weighting

Elena,
Yes this is correct. With one exception: the weight should be from the last wave in your analysis - so if y... Olena Kaminska

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #932: Weighting

Hi Olena,
Again, thanks for your help. One last clarification.
I am using longitudinal data from wave a to f.... Elena Cora Magrini

09:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #932: Weighting

Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your help.
Elena Elena Cora Magrini

08:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #918 (Feedback): lnprnt - number of children ever had

Hello Alice,
No. While the routing into LNPRNT is different in the BHPS and Understanding Society, LNPRNT is asked... Alita Nandi

03/13/2018

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #926: Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC

Many thanks Stephanie,
Rossella Rossella Icardi

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #928: Merging Youth.

Vicky,
This is a response with regard to weighting. I am not sure about how you are doing your analysis.
If you a... Olena Kaminska

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #928: Merging Youth.

Dear Vicky,
Apologies for the delay in responding.
There is infomation regarding choosing a weight in the Mains... Stephanie Auty

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #939 (In Progress): Northern Irish Sample

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

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #939 (Resolved): Northern Irish Sample

Hello
I am currently looking at wellbeing inequality in Northern Ireland in conjunction with national, political a... Tara McNeill

03/12/2018

04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #938: Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data

Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Olayiwola,
>
> We don't have this variable in UKHLS, and the closest alternative is ... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #938 (Feedback): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data

Dear Olayiwola,
We don't have this variable in UKHLS, and the closest alternative is to use w_hrpid which is the H... Stephanie Auty

03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934 (Feedback): Household representative person

Hi Martin,
I can see these variables in the latest version of the data, in the datafiles w_indresp, w_indall and w... Stephanie Auty

03/09/2018

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #938 (In Progress): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS 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

03/08/2018

11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #938 (Resolved): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data

Hello,
I am trying to identify the household HEAD variable in the UKLS data. It is coded as "hoh" in the BHPS datase... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #936: Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample

Many thanks, that's really helpful of you. Best wishes, Gill Gill Weston

03/07/2018

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #886 (Closed): Zero weights and statistical power

Stephanie Auty

05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #884 (Closed): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visits

Stephanie Auty

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #926 (Feedback): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC

Dear Rossella,
You can find more detailed qualification responses in the variable w_qfhigh_dv, which w_hiqual_dv i... Stephanie Auty

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #883 (Closed): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #881 (Closed): weighting values of zero

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #880 (Closed): Genetic data linked to NPD

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #878 (Closed): employment histories

Stephanie Auty

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #874 (Closed): try to link the birthweight to each child

Stephanie Auty

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934: Household representative person

We have deleted issue #935 because it is a duplicate of this one. Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934 (In Progress): Household representative person

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

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937 (In Progress): Merge children to 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

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937 (Resolved): Merge children to parents

I would like to add children data from child in the parent rows. However, I haven't found a suitable identifier for t... Karl Overdick

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #936 (Feedback): Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample

Stephanie Auty

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #936: Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample

Gill,
If your longitudinal analysis starts at w18 of BHPS you need to use BHPS-related weight, in this situation '... Olena Kaminska

02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #933 (Feedback): urban rural info for BHPS

Stephanie Auty

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #925: Weights for longitudinal analysis

Rossella,
Thanks for the clarification. If you are doing a longitudinal analysis you need just one weight - the we... Olena Kaminska

08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #921: Council tax variable

Thanks Alita. Yes I found those... so there is no 'amount of council tax paid' variable for BHPS?
Thanks for the p... Tom Waters

03/06/2018

11:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #936 (Resolved): Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample

Dear User Support
Please may I check with you whether I'm selecting the correct weight to use:
I'm undertaking ... Gill Weston

05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #925: Weights for longitudinal analysis

Dear Olena,
thanks for the response. Let me clarify something, I am doing a longitudinal analysis using waves 1991... Rossella Icardi

08:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #925 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal analysis

Alita Nandi

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934 (Resolved): Household representative person

In the dataset documentation (I am using wave 'd') reference is made to two fields d_hrpno and d_hrpid on the d_indre... Martin Burgess

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #930: BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?

Dear Sian,
information about height and weight is collected in a paper-and-pencil interview which children/adolescen... Gundi Knies

08:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #932 (Feedback): Weighting

Alita Nandi

08:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #921: Council tax variable

Sorry Tom, I did not realise you were asking about the BHPS files. This variable is only available in the UKHLS files... Alita Nandi

03/05/2018

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #932: Weighting

Dear Elena,
Thank you for your question. Sample design of UKHLS is not simple random sample, and nonresponse at wa... Olena Kaminska

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #925: Weights for longitudinal analysis

Rossella,
Thank you for your question. Indeed the choice of weights depends on the type of analysis you are doing.... Olena Kaminska

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921: Council tax variable

Hi Alita.
Yes I have the special licence version.
Tom Tom Waters

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #921: Council tax variable

This is only available in the Special License Version. Have you downloaded that?
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #921: Council tax variable

Thanks Alita. I still cannot find a council tax variable in the harmonised BHPS, however. Has that been removed?
T... Tom Waters

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #933: urban rural info for BHPS

Hello Sait,
This variable is not available in the UKHLS-BHPS harmonised datafiles. The BHPS harmonisation user gui... Alita Nandi

03/02/2018

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #933 (Resolved): urban rural info for BHPS

Hi,
I am sorry if the answer is obvious but I just cannot find it. Is there a urban_dv equivalent for BHPS data? I... Sait Bayrakdar

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921 (Feedback): Council tax variable

The variable name has been changed to w_ficountax_dv. Please see page 99 of the user guide:
https://www.understandin... Alita Nandi

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #932 (In Progress): Weighting

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

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #932 (Resolved): Weighting

Hi,
I am using data from different waves to see how job status changes over time (will be mostly working with var... Elena Cora Magrini

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #928: Merging Youth.

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response. I will merge the waves via the pidp. I had noticed there were some issues wit... Vicky Thompson

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #931 (Feedback): twins

Dear Valentina,
Thanks for your query. Our data team has checked and the data is correct. There are few twins sinc... Alita Nandi

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #931 (Resolved): twins

I would like to know how I can identify respondents'children that are twins. I used the variable twinconf in wave 4-7... Valentina Tocchioni

03/01/2018

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #929 (Resolved): Youth SDQ Scores Wave 7 Incorrect

Hello Cara,
As Gundi has responded to you directly I am changing the status as resolved. But if you have further q... Alita Nandi

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #930 (In Progress): BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?

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

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #928 (Feedback): Merging Youth.

Hello Vicky,
Yes, it is ok to merge the data using PIDP. There is a known issue with SDQ scores due to a new missi... Alita Nandi

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #926 (In Progress): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC

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

10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #925 (In Progress): Weights for longitudinal analysis

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

02/27/2018

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #930 (Resolved): BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?

Good afternoon,
I've come across something strange with the BMI data in the youth panel (available in waves b, d a... Sian Hughes