Understanding Society User Support

05/16/2018

05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #976: Month of birth

Dear Stephanie,
Oh, I should have spotted that, sorry! Thanks for the response.
Best wishes,
Liam Liam Wright

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #976 (Feedback): Month of birth

Dear Liam,
We don't have a variable for school year, but month of birth is available on Special Licence, so you wo... Stephanie Auty

02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (In Progress): Wording of Annual History Questions

Stephanie Auty

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968: Wording of Annual History Questions

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for taking the time to respond but you haven’t answered the questions I asked. I would ... Liam Wright

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #975: Health condition variables in GPS

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for your reply. Although I always read the universe of the questions, this is ... Theodora Kokosi

05/15/2018

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974: self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

Dear Dana,
No, it wasn't asked in IP9, along with the rest of the SF-12 module.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty -... Stephanie Auty

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #975 (Feedback): Health condition variables in GPS

Dear Theodora,
Yes, the questions are asked of different respondents, and you can see who was asked by looking at ... Stephanie Auty

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #973 (Feedback): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)

Dear Philipp,
We have checked the original data and there are no problems, and the data are consistent within inst... Stephanie Auty

04:15 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,
you have been once again of tremendous help.
This is what I am looking for.
Thank you very mu... Nico Ochmann

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #948 (Feedback): Impevents question transcripts

Dear Thiemo,
At the moment there are no plans to code the responses to these questions in Waves 6 and 7.
Best w... Stephanie Auty

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #972 (Feedback): Merging house price data with panel BHPS

Dear Oluwaseun Fajana,
Your datafile shows that the region variable is missing so please try creating it again.
... Stephanie Auty

05/14/2018

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949 (Resolved): Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Stephanie Auty

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #976 (In Progress): Month of birth

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

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #975: Health condition variables in GPS

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

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #975 (In Progress): Health condition variables in GPS

Stephanie Auty

05/12/2018

06:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #976 (Resolved): Month of birth

Hi,
I'm creating activity histories for participants using Understanding Society data. To do this, I would like to... Liam Wright

05/11/2018

05:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Hi Nico,
The INDALL file includes everyone in the household. So, birthy can range from early 20th century. The cod... Alita Nandi

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Dana - Are you ok with us contacting with you via the email address you have provided when y... Dana Garbarski

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Hi Dana - Are you ok with us contacting with you via the email address you have provided when you signed up for this ... Alita Nandi

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #975 (Resolved): Health condition variables in GPS

Dear all,
I would like to ask what is the difference in the health condition variables in the main respondents fil... Theodora Kokosi

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #959: Neighbourhood data

Dear Gundi,
Thank you very much for your reply. This is really helpful.
Best wishes,
Dora Theodora Kokosi

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #971: Merging Parents with SDQ

Hi Gundi,
Thank you so much for your reply. It is wonderfully clear and incredibly informative. It is greatly app... Vicky Thompson

05/10/2018

05:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971: Merging Parents with SDQ

Hi Vicky,
generally, if you want to attach the child's information to the mother's record in indresp, the typical st... Gundi Knies

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971: Merging Parents with SDQ

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your response. When merging the PSDQ with the SDQ data - the w_mnpid or w_fnpid doesnt ma... Vicky Thompson

12:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971 (Feedback): Merging Parents with SDQ

Dear Vicky,
Yes, using w_mnpid and w_fnpid from the youth dataset would be an option to add youth sdq to the paren... Stephanie Auty

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969: Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

Perfect, thanks Stephanie, I followed this approach and it worked perfectly. Twylla Dillion

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #969 (Feedback): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

Stephanie Auty

11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #969: Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

Dear Twylla,
The aggregate scores are calculated by reverse coding the appropriate variables (scptrt5a1, scptrt5c2... Stephanie Auty

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974: self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Dana,
>
> The self-completion module of the SF-12 was not asked at IP9 (but as you s... Dana Garbarski

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974 (Feedback): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

Dear Dana,
The self-completion module of the SF-12 was not asked at IP9 (but as you say, SF1 was asked of proxy re... Stephanie Auty

09:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #974 (In Progress): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

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

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Dana,
>
> Apologies for the delayed response. IP10 release is scheduled for 29th Jun... Dana Garbarski

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Thank you. Is there any way I could get a pre-release version of just the end times for the wave 8 data for analysis?... Dana Garbarski

09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews

Dear Dana,
Apologies for the delayed response. IP10 release is scheduled for 29th June.
Best wishes,
Stephanie... Stephanie Auty

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #970 (Feedback): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24

Dear Kirsty,
Understanding Society is a longitudinal study where the fieldwork for each wave takes two years. The ... Stephanie Auty

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #961 (Feedback): Number of years in education and individual income

Dear Paul,
The income values in w_paygu_dv are valid, and should only be excluded if they are causing problems in ... Stephanie Auty

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (Feedback): Wording of Annual History Questions

Dear Liam,
In general, it seems useful to stress that for much of the annual employment history module, there are ... Stephanie Auty

05/09/2018

09:39 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,
thanks again for your kind reply. As to step 2, that is clear now, thanks a lot. With regard to the I... Nico Ochmann

08:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Hi Nico,
In the first step when you are extracting the child's pidp and their parents's pidp (mnpid, fnpid) from I... Alita Nandi

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974 (Resolved): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

Hello,
I don't see self-rated health ("in general would you say your health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or ... Dana Garbarski

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #973 (In Progress): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)

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

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #973 (Resolved): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)

To whom it may concern,
I am working with the BHPS data and came across what might be a data error. Very briefly put... Philipp Rehm

05/04/2018

10:25 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,
this is what I thought, that I now have the birthyear of the parents. What I do need, if you are so k... Nico Ochmann

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #972 (In Progress): Merging house price data with panel BHPS

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

03:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #972 (Resolved): Merging house price data with panel BHPS

Hi Stephanie
I have merged individual level data on the BHPS across waves and am having difficulty merging with th... Oluwaseun Fajana

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #971 (In Progress): Merging Parents with SDQ

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

05/03/2018

06:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971 (Resolved): Merging Parents with SDQ

Hi,
I was wondering if I could get some clarification. I am wanting to merge parenting styles data with the SDQ d... Vicky Thompson

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #970 (In Progress): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24

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

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #970 (Resolved): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24

I am currently writing a systematic review looking at time-trends in the prevalence of mental health difficulties in ... Kirsty Labuschagne

12:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Hi Nico,
In the resulting files w_paernts there are 5 variables: pidp of the child (pidp), the mother and father p... Alita Nandi

05/02/2018

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969 (In Progress): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

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

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969: Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

A little extra info:
The previous answer given for a similar question, directing to the online documentation does no... Twylla Dillion

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969 (Resolved): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

Hello, The methodology used to score the big 5 personality scores in UKHLS is not clear. Due the nature of the scorin... Twylla Dillion

04/30/2018

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #961: Number of years in education and individual income

Dear Paul,
There is no official way to create years of education in Understanding Society. The reason is probably ... Stephanie Auty

04/28/2018

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #966 (Feedback): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data

Dear Richard,
The data includes respondents from all four countries of the UK, and you can use the variable w_coun... Stephanie Auty

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