Activity
From 06/15/2018 to 07/14/2018
07/13/2018
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09:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1000 (Feedback): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
- Dear Amy,
The value 9 is a code for "invalid answer" and should be recoded to missing for analysis. In the next re... -
- Dear Luke,
These variables are available in the SL version of the files, available here: https://discover.ukdatase...
07/12/2018
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- Dear Nhlanhla Ndebele,
Apologies for the delayed response.
At the beginning of Wave 6 there was an error in the... -
- Note: this issue was continued into #968.
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- Dear Cristina,
These are codes for Northern Ireland. Looking at the ONS documentation the values changed from the ... -
- Dear Yaroslava,
As the long file format you create in the first three steps above will have more than one observat... -
- 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...
07/11/2018
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12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001 (Resolved): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
- I currently carrying out an analysis where I am looking only at people coded 'OSM' at wave 1 who participated in wave...
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09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
- Dear US Team,
I am working with the life satisfaction (hsw, hsc, hlf, hap, hfr, hfm) and self-esteem (estk, estj, ...
07/10/2018
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04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
- Dear Olena,
I appreciate your patience in this matter. Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,
Ante -
03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
- Ante,
Yes, the easiest way is a) - the weight will automatically select the correct IDs - just by using the weight... -
- Dear Olena,
Thanks for your comment.
I agree that the subpopulation should be compared with population excludin... -
- Ante,
Your problem is not weights but as far as I understand your suggested analysis violates iid assumption - bec... -
02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing
- Following on from Liam's query:
For respondents who go through both empchk==2 and notempck==2 loops, which one of... -
- Dear Stephanie
Thank you for that. Could you give me some more information on the methods used to select the eight...
07/09/2018
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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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05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #998 (Resolved): Finding Medication types
- Hello,
I am working with the biomarker and nurse health assessment data for waves 2 and 3 of understanding society... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/07/2018
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09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #997 (Resolved): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
- Dear office,
could I ask a question about the variable ''drinking'', which means the consumption of alcohol? It be...
07/06/2018
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- Dear Amanda,
The IEMB respondents joined the survey at Wave 6, so the responses for this question at Wave 6 will b... -
- Dear Giorgio,
Have you read the section of the User Guide on following rules (Section 2.2.6)? In some cases we wil... -
- Dear Natalie,
We did not have space for all 18 items in Buckner’s paper, but given he suggests the measures load o...
07/05/2018
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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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04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0
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There are some LAD identifies starting with "N0" in waves 6 and 7 of the special licence data 6666. The doc... -
- 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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11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #995 (Resolved): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
- I am interested in examining trends in job satisfaction over time using data from all Waves of Understanding Society....
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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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10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #994 (Resolved): Info on household variables
- I am Giorgio Piccitto, an Italian young research (University of Bologna). I am interested in using the data of 'Under...
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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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09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #993 (Resolved): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
- Hello,
I am using the Harmonised BHP and Understanding Society dataset to evaluate the impact of raising the minim...
07/04/2018
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- Dear Olena,
I have a follow-up question.
If I choose d_indscus_lw to compare the sub-sample with the original sa...
07/03/2018
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- Dear Olena,
This helps. Thank you very much for your support.
Best regards,
Ante
07/02/2018
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- Dear EK,
Have you had a look at the callrec data file? This has a variable (a_issueno) which identifies the initia... -
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- Ante,
We are aware of the importance of the list of variables for all the weights models. We do not have these cur... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/01/2018
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- Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, th...
06/29/2018
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- Dear Lydia,
The value 3 in these questions is labelled "doesn't apply" in the datasets and the questionnaire. This... -
09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #991: Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha
- Thank you for your answer.
It is related to the waves of BHPS (from the 8th on) and the 6th of UKHLS.
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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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- Dear US User Support,
I have a minor question on the recode of jbxpcha and jblkcha questions, but, since I am dea...
06/27/2018
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- Dear Richard,
You are correct, our fieldwork agency should have recoded these responses for Northern Ireland and d... -
04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #980: parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r
- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks very much for the detailed response - that clears that up!
Cheers,
Rob -
- Dear Rob,
There are a variety of reasons for these missing values as follows:
As you say, some are rising 16s w... -
- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your fast clarification.
Best regards,
Ante -
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- Ante,
Yes, you should use the longitudinal weight for wave 4, and the choice of d_indscus_lw is correct.
Olena -
- 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...
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- At waves 1, 3 and 6 the variables w_scopngbha, w_scopngbhb, w_scopngbhc, w_scopngbhd, w_scopngbhe, w_scopngbhf, w_sco...
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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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01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing
- We are doing some research on the effect of interviewers on the effectiveness of incentives, one of the data sets we ...
06/26/2018
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- Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to compare the means of several variables of a sub-sample (e.g. income, education)...
06/25/2018
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02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves
- Great, thank you very much, Olena! This is indeed very helpful.
Nhat An -
- Nhat An,
Thanks. Yes, your selection of weights looks fine. Ideally you would want to scale your weights such that... -
- Dear Olena,
Yes, you are right: for each individual information is only taken from one wave and each individual on... -
- Dear Nhat An,
Thank you for your question. You suggest that it is a pooled cross-sectional analysis, yet you menti...
06/22/2018
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- Dear Rob,
Apologies for the delay in response. We are still investigating some of these cases and should be back w... -
- Dear Haydn,
The IEMB sample had a slightly different questionnaire in Wave 6, so some questions were asked of just... -
- 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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07:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #986 (Resolved): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise
- I am working with the Wave 6 Indresp file using Stata. I have limited the sample to respondents who have a paid job r...
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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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- Hello,
Although this issue has already been discussed a couple of times, I would like to address the selection and...
06/21/2018
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- Dear Simone,
Please note that this problem was corrected from Wave 3 onwards, so those entering the adult survey f...
06/20/2018
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- Dear Simone,
Apologies for the delay in response.
I have investigated these cases, and the majority of these re...
06/19/2018
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- Dear Richard,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are currently in communication with our fieldwork a... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
06/18/2018
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12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #984 (Resolved): Variables Only Available in IEMB
- HI
A number of variables I need for some work I'm doing using Understanding Society Wave 6 are flagged as "Only Av...
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