Understanding Society User Support

04/27/2018

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968: Wording of Annual History Questions

Thanks, Stephanie.
Just to add to this, I'm interested in how the following fed forward variables are calculated: ... Liam Wright

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (In Progress): Wording of Annual History Questions

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

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #966 (In Progress): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales 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

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Thank you! Do you know when the IP10 release will be? I am in need of the end times for the Wave 8 data rather immedi... Dana Garbarski

04/25/2018

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (Resolved): Wording of Annual History Questions

*Hi,
I've also raised this issue in #957, but am not sure how to change assignee and not sure if you will get it.*... Liam Wright

04/24/2018

04:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data

Dear Understanding Society members,
I am contacting you on behalf of the Active Healthy Kids Wales report card exp... Richard Tyler

04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for the information. I'd rather not exclude these participants as, though they are small in n... Liam Wright

01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962: NPD Organisation linking

Dear Stephanie,
Great, that answers my question, thanks very much for your help.
Best regards,
Liam Liam Wren-Lewis

04/23/2018

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962 (Feedback): NPD Organisation linking

Dear Liam,
Yes, you will be able to use the linked NPD data to obtain primary school for groups (a) and (b) as lae... Stephanie Auty

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924 (Resolved): Derivation of Fed Forward Values

This issue continues in #957. Stephanie Auty

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (Feedback): Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
There is indeed a small group of people that are sent through two bits of routing that are almost alway... Stephanie Auty

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949 (Feedback): Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Dear Dana,
The variables for end time at Wave 8 will be included in the IP10 release, as will start and end times ... Stephanie Auty

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #965 (Feedback): Sample weights

Stephanie Auty

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #965: Sample weights

Jason,
Thanks for your question. The best weights for you are: for cross-sectional analysis it is g_indinui_xw (th... Olena Kaminska

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #963 (Feedback): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights

Stephanie Auty

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #963: Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights

Amy,
Yes, the reason is that there is no one person that will be in your analysis as we interview youth between 10-1... Olena Kaminska

04/21/2018

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Dear Alita,
first of all, thank you very much for your helpful code. I ran it and it works. And I did append the ... Nico Ochmann

04/20/2018

10:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units

Thank you! This is just the response I needed. jason morgan

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951 (Feedback): Deriving alcohol consumption units

Dear Jason,

In most cases during self-completion questions only one question is shown at once, and since g_auditc... Stephanie Auty

10:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #965: Sample weights

Thank you so much!!!
(This left me with just 2 options and both produced almost identical results so I am going wi... jason morgan

04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #965: Sample weights

Dear Jason,
I'm not sure if Olena will see this in time to answer you before the weekend, so I wanted to provide a... Stephanie Auty

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #965 (In Progress): Sample weights

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

08:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #965 (Resolved): Sample weights

Dear USoc Team,
Slightly more urgently than my previous question (I have reconciled it now) I was wondering what p... jason morgan

04/19/2018

05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #963 (In Progress): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights

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

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights

Dear US support,
I want to use wave 1-7 youth data in a longitudinal analysis. I can, however, only find cross-se... Amy Orben

05:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962 (In Progress): NPD Organisation linking

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

11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #962 (Resolved): NPD Organisation linking

Dear Understanding Society,
I would like to link as many people as possible in the Understanding Society survey to... Liam Wren-Lewis

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #961 (In Progress): Number of years in education and individual 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

04/18/2018

03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #960: pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows

That helps a lot.
Thank you so much for your help!
Best regards,
Gabriele Gabriele Dente

09:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #960: pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows

Hello Gabriele,
The row in indresp is uniquely identified by pid/pidp but the rows in files income & jobhist are u... Alita Nandi

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Dear Nico,
Sorry, yes you are right.
1. birthyear of co-resident children can be identified using A_INDALL and ... Alita Nandi

04/17/2018

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #961 (Resolved): Number of years in education and individual income

I am currently writing my dissertation on the impact of occupation on the self-rated health outcomes of British worke... Paul Jones

04/16/2018

08:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953: Variable on intention to quit/leave current job

Dear Stephanie
thank you for your reply and for sending the link. Much appreciated.
This variable may be an adequat... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953 (Feedback): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job

Dear Zoé,
We do not have exactly that question, but you may find some of the questions asked in the Work Condition... Stephanie Auty

05:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Dear Dana,
Interview start time and interview end time are available in w_indresp_ip in Waves 7 and 9, with the fo... Stephanie Auty

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #960 (In Progress): pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows

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

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #960 (Resolved): pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows

Greetings,
I'm trying to use the BHPS armonised files, and wanted to merge files in the same waves (I need to merg... Gabriele Dente

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #958 (Feedback): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.

Dear Joe,
Do you mean the Time and risk preference module, questions listed here?
https://www.understandingsociet... Stephanie Auty

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #956 (Feedback): Height and weight in wave 18

Dear Lana,
The height and weight questions you can see on the questionnaire for Wave B18 are part of the youth que... Stephanie Auty

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (Feedback): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income

Dear Anisa,
There are two parts to answer to this.
Firstly, the data are collected at the individual level but ... Stephanie Auty

03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #954 (Feedback): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures

Dear Dr Per-Ola Sundin,
The water percentage was collected and can be found with the variable name wtpc. The other... Stephanie Auty

04/13/2018

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... Gundi Knies

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (In Progress): Neighbourhood data

Stephanie Auty

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... Theodora Kokosi

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (In Progress): Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
Apologies, you're right - the status and assignee were not updated so we didn't see your response to #9... Stephanie Auty

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #958 (In Progress): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.

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

12:18 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... Joe Gladstone

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... Nico Ochmann

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

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... Nico Ochmann

04/12/2018

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Dear Alita,
my work is under way, I do have one question before I dive into it. You write above that a_natchild h... Nico Ochmann

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (Resolved): Annual History Routing

Hi,
I've posted this in another issue (#924), but am not sure whether the status will change so you will be made a... Liam Wright

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #924: Derivation of Fed Forward Values

Hi,
Just writing to see if there was an answer to this?
I'm currently trying to derive consistent work-life his... Liam Wright

04/11/2018

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #956 (In Progress): Height and weight in wave 18

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

02:31 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... Lana Krehic

04/10/2018

09:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #952 (Feedback): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income

Dear Simone,
The error on g_frjtpn will not have affected either of these variables.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Au... Stephanie Auty

09:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (In Progress): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit 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

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income

Hi,
I am using individual level net monthly income (w_fimnnet_dv) and am looking at the different income componen... Anisa Butt

08:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #948: Impevents question transcripts

Dear Thiemo,
We do not release the free-text responses as it’s possible they would include something disclosive ab... Stephanie Auty

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... jason morgan

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_... Alita Nandi

04/09/2018

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #954 (In Progress): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures

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

03:01 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 ... Per-Ola Sundin

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953 (In Progress): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job

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

01:30 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... Ourega-Zoe Ejebu

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #952: variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_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

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #952 (In Progress): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income

Stephanie Auty

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #951 (In Progress): Deriving alcohol consumption units

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

04/08/2018

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... Simone Angioloni

04/07/2018

11:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units

Dear USoc Team,
My research is examining the impact of alcohol consumption on individual earnings.
With regards... jason morgan

04/05/2018

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #946 (Feedback): hiqual_dv values

Dear Rory,
Yes, this is because we have re-released the data but the online documentation is not yet updated.
B... Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS

Dear Nirosha,
Please contact the UKDS helpdesk if you believe you are receiving this message in error:
https://ww... Stephanie Auty

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS

From: NIROSHA ELSEM VARGHESE [mailto:nirosha.varghese@phd.unibocconi.it]
Sent: 06 February 2018 12:27
To: usersupp... Stephanie Auty

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... Dana Garbarski

01:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers

Jonathan Burton wrote:
> You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are abov... Dana Garbarski

12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950 (Feedback): IP8 interviewer numbers

Stephanie Auty

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 Jonathan Burton

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers

You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are above 42000000. This will br... Jonathan Burton

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #950 (Resolved): IP8 interviewer numbers

Hi,
I am raising this on behalf of Dana Garbarski who contacted me directly - dgarbarski@luc.edu
It's a follow ... Jonathan Burton

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #895: data release mental health and social media

Dear Danilo,
If you read the questionnaire as above, you will see question 27 contains the SDQ variables, and they... Stephanie Auty

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #895: data release mental health and social media

From: danilo di emidio [mailto:danilo_di_emidio@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 February 2018 18:16
To: usersupport@understa... Stephanie Auty

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #944 (Resolved): Lowest level reliability with spatial data

From: Paul Downward [mailto:P.Downward@lboro.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 April 2018 11:52
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... Stephanie Auty

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #939 (Resolved): Northern Irish Sample

From: Tara McNeill [mailto:tara.mcneill7@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 March 2018 16:00
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... Stephanie Auty

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #919 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(g)

From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 14 February 2018 12:24
To: usersupport@understandi... Stephanie Auty

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #906: Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants

From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 February 2018 11:47
To: usersupport@understandi... Stephanie Auty

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #949 (In Progress): Total length of interview time for individual interviews

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

04/04/2018

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949 (Resolved): Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Hello,
I'm trying to figure out whether there is a variable that gives the total length of time in which an individu... Dana Garbarski

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #948 (In Progress): Impevents question transcripts

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

10:32 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... Thiemo Fetzer

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had

Hi Alice,
In the BHPS, everyone was asked about all natural children (co-resident or non-resident) in Wave B for t... Alita Nandi

04/03/2018

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had

Hi Alice,
I have asked our BHPS experts to answer your question.
In the meantime you could take a look at the ... Alita Nandi

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had

Hi Nico,
1. Good idea to include ceasarian birth - thanks for spotting that.
2. The number of pregout variables d... Alita Nandi

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947 (In Progress): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

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 #947 (Resolved): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Hi Alita,
this is my last question for you for a while, promised. I would like to get your general take on it tho... Nico Ochmann

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #945: total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help.
I think I can do it now.
Best wishes.
Nico Nico Ochmann

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #945 (Feedback): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

Dear Nico,
The variables you have found give the number of siblings the respondent is not living with, so you will... Stephanie Auty

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #945 (In Progress): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

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

11:38 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 ... Olena Kaminska

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #946 (In Progress): hiqual_dv values

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

03/31/2018

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... Alice Campbell