Understanding Society User Support

06/06/2018

11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #980: parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Thanks Stephanie,
I have a quick update to this. I found the syntax Alita Nandy helpfully uploaded (https://discov... Robert de Vries

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #980 (In Progress): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

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

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #981 (Resolved): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Dear all,
I need to compute design weights solely based on the selection probability for the IP9.
For this purpo... Sina Chen

06/05/2018

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #980 (Resolved): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Hi,
I'm currently working with Wave R of the BHPS, and I have a query about missingness in the parental occupation... Robert de Vries

06/01/2018

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #979 (In Progress): Country of Birth - Special Licence

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

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #979: Country of Birth - Special Licence

Simone Angioloni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem to identify the country of birth for a quite large number of o... Simone Angioloni

05/31/2018

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #979 (Resolved): Country of Birth - Special Licence

Hi,
I have a problem to identify the country of birth for a quite large number of observations from wave 2 to wave... Simone Angioloni

05/30/2018

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #978 (In Progress): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"

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

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #978 (Resolved): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"

Dear all,
I am a new user of understanding society, so pls apologize if my question is quite basic.
I am trying t... Eduwin Pakpahan

05/29/2018

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (Feedback): Wording of Annual History Questions

Dear Liam,
You can see the wording of the questions on the questionnaires, here: https://www.understandingsociety.... Stephanie Auty

05/23/2018

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962: NPD Organisation linking

Dear Liam,
As access to the data is controlled by UKDS rather than us, they would be the best people to answer thi... Stephanie Auty

05/22/2018

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962: NPD Organisation linking

Dear Stephanie,
A quick follow-up on this. You mention that access to this data would have to be through the secu... Liam Wren-Lewis

05/21/2018

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #977: Merging a_child with a_indresp

Hi Gundi,
That post has explained the mechanics of what I need to do precisely, thank you!
Best wishes,
Jess... Jesse Shipp

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #977 (Feedback): Merging a_child with a_indresp

Hi Jesse,
please take a look at my response to https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/971 -- it explains how yo... Gundi Knies

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #977 (Resolved): Merging a_child with a_indresp

Hi,
I'm Jesse, a PhD researcher based at the University of Southampton currently using USoc as part of a mixed-met... Jesse Shipp

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