Activity
From 03/17/2018 to 04/15/2018
04/13/2018
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06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (Feedback): Neighbourhood data
- Dear Dora,
we do indeed have plenty of other information about neighbourhoods! We also collect information about nei... -
04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (In Progress): Neighbourhood data
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12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (Resolved): Neighbourhood data
- Dear all,
I would like to ask whether there are *any* neighbourhood data available apart from the self-reported qu... -
- Dear Liam,
Apologies, you're right - the status and assignee were not updated so we didn't see your response to #9... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #958 (Resolved): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.
- In wave 6 of the innovation panel, there were a series of risk questions added to the survey.
See this paper for a... -
01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Dear Alita,
I believe I spotted yet another issue here in the context of generating the number of children ever b... -
- Dear Alita,
please no hurry, I just want to write this because I want to have it out there. I am trying to find t...
04/12/2018
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- Dear Alita,
my work is under way, I do have one question before I dive into it. You write above that a_natchild h... -
01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (Resolved): Annual History Routing
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I've posted this in another issue (#924), but am not sure whether the status will change so you will be made a... -
- Hi,
Just writing to see if there was an answer to this?
I'm currently trying to derive consistent work-life his...
04/11/2018
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #956 (Resolved): Height and weight in wave 18
- Hi,
I am using the harmonised Understanding Society/BHPS data, where I have found height and weight information of...
04/10/2018
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- Dear Simone,
The error on g_frjtpn will not have affected either of these variables.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Au... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income
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I am using individual level net monthly income (w_fimnnet_dv) and am looking at the different income componen... -
- Dear Thiemo,
We do not release the free-text responses as it’s possible they would include something disclosive ab... -
01:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units
- (As another thought: since the DrinkFreq (g_auditc3) categories are measured in proportions of a year - it may be bet...
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10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #947 (Feedback): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- In Wave 1, a_natchild will have birth year information for all children ever born to the respondent. After Wave 1, w_...
04/09/2018
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #954 (Resolved): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures
- I am analysing data from the Understanding society Nurse Health assessment. To evaluate kidney function I aim to use ...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953 (Resolved): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
- Dear all,
I am looking for a variable indicating whether respondents intent to leave/quit their job.
Does UKHLS c... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/08/2018
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11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #952 (Resolved): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- Hi,
A few days ago I received an email from Graham Jolliffe about an error of the variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint...
04/07/2018
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- Dear USoc Team,
My research is examining the impact of alcohol consumption on individual earnings.
With regards...
04/05/2018
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- Dear Rory,
Yes, this is because we have re-released the data but the online documentation is not yet updated.
B... -
- Dear Nirosha,
Please contact the UKDS helpdesk if you believe you are receiving this message in error:
https://ww... -
- From: NIROSHA ELSEM VARGHESE [mailto:nirosha.varghese@phd.unibocconi.it]
Sent: 06 February 2018 12:27
To: usersupp... -
01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
- Unfortunately, subtracting 21000000 from all eligible (not missing, -9/-1) h_intnum in the wave 8 household data from...
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- Jonathan Burton wrote:
> You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are abov... -
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12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
- i_intnum in i_indresp_ip is not correct at all – this will be addressed at IP10 release
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You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are above 42000000. This will br...-
- Hi,
I am raising this on behalf of Dana Garbarski who contacted me directly - dgarbarski@luc.edu
It's a follow ... -
- Dear Danilo,
If you read the questionnaire as above, you will see question 27 contains the SDQ variables, and they... -
- From: danilo di emidio [mailto:danilo_di_emidio@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 February 2018 18:16
To: usersupport@understa... -
- From: Paul Downward [mailto:P.Downward@lboro.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 April 2018 11:52
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... -
- From: Tara McNeill [mailto:tara.mcneill7@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 March 2018 16:00
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... -
- From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 14 February 2018 12:24
To: usersupport@understandi... -
- From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 February 2018 11:47
To: usersupport@understandi... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/04/2018
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- Hello,
I'm trying to figure out whether there is a variable that gives the total length of time in which an individu... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #948 (Resolved): Impevents question transcripts
- Dear USOC support team,
I am looking to see if its possible to access the transcribed data for the following quest... -
- Hi Alice,
In the BHPS, everyone was asked about all natural children (co-resident or non-resident) in Wave B for t...
04/03/2018
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- Hi Alice,
I have asked our BHPS experts to answer your question.
In the meantime you could take a look at the ... -
- Hi Nico,
1. Good idea to include ceasarian birth - thanks for spotting that.
2. The number of pregout variables d... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Hi Alita,
this is my last question for you for a while, promised. I would like to get your general take on it tho... -
- Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help.
I think I can do it now.
Best wishes.
Nico -
- Dear Nico,
The variables you have found give the number of siblings the respondent is not living with, so you will... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #944: Lowest level reliability with spatial data
- Dear Paul,
Thank you for your question. If you mean a unit of analysis - there isn't any restriction. You can use ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
03/31/2018
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04:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hi Alita,
Thank you so much for the information and code.
I am utilising the original BHPS sample (hhorig==3) a...
03/28/2018
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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...
03/27/2018
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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...
03/25/2018
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- My apologies, I must be blind. I did find a_nrelsw12, c_nrels2, e_nrels2, and g_nrels4.
I guess my follow-up ques... -
- Dear Support Team,
I am looking for the total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant).
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03/23/2018
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- Dear Emma,
The variables you are looking at for time spent exercising, g_vwhrs, g_vwmin, g_mwhrs and g_mwmin, are ... -
- Dear Tara,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The description on the UKDS site is out of date and we wi... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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...
03/22/2018
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- Dear Alita,
I am looking at the number of children a women had. For that purpose, I am very interested in the cod...
03/21/2018
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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 ...
03/20/2018
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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
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- Thanks for the feedback. I tried out this variable, unfortunately, it didn't work for a panel I'm constructing. When ...
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- Dear G F,
The following variables should help:
w_j2pay_dv is gross pay in second job (see questionnaire for cla... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- I'm a researcher doing a project on income of single vs. multiple job holders in the Understanding Society dataset an...
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- Dear Karl,
You will need to merge this data using the parent identifiers in the child's record. If you are only in... -
- Dear Amin,
We don't hold this information, but I have found this page on the ONS website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/m...
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