Understanding Society User Support

07/30/2018

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1010 (Feedback): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?

Dear Nico,
There are no cognition tests in Wave 9, but there are some in the Youth questionnaire at Wave 10, in th... Stephanie Auty

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Dear Luis,
BHPS ended in 2008 and the last interview was the 18th wave of BHPS. The interviews were conducted most... Stephanie Auty

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008 (Feedback): Creating longitudinal weights

Stephanie Auty

12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights

Joseph,
If you design your own nonresponse correction I would expect the 'weights' to look different to ours but i... Olena Kaminska

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Dear Natalie,
Here is a response from the team involved in this part of the questionnaire:
These questions were c... Stephanie Auty

07/27/2018

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006 (Feedback): Variable livepar

Stephanie Auty

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006: Variable livepar

Dear Lydia,
w_livpar is calculated from the relationship grid during the interview, and is then used during the in... Stephanie Auty

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011 (In Progress): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

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

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1010 (In Progress): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?

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

01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1009 (In Progress): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

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

07/26/2018

08:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011 (Resolved): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Hello Alita,
hope you are fine. I do have a question with regard to merging the above files. It is my understandi... Nico Ochmann

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1010 (Resolved): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?

Hello user support,
I am hoping to get data on cognition for the subsample introduced in wave 6 (IEMB). For that ... Nico Ochmann

07/25/2018

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1009 (Resolved): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

I am using the f_paygu_dv variable in my analysis but struggling to find details of how it was derived. The user guid... Nhlanhla Ndebele

06:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #986: Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for that, it has clarified my query.
Regards,
Nhlanhla Nhlanhla Ndebele

07/24/2018

01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (Feedback): Annual History Routing

Dear Katy,
We have now been able to check what happens in the case you mention. In the case that EmpChk and NotEmp... Stephanie Auty

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008: Creating 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

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008 (Resolved): Creating longitudinal weights

I'm doing analysis using harmonised BHPS and USoc to look at the impact of tax / benefit policy over several years. I... Joseph Woods

07/23/2018

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (In Progress): Annual History Routing

Dear Katy,
On order to check this for up to Wave 6 we have to load the old scripts. Unfortunately we are having a ... Stephanie Auty

12:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005 (Feedback): Parents-children dyads

Dear Giorgio,
To solve this problem, you can split the file into male and female respondents. Then use the male fi... Stephanie Auty

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007 (In Progress): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

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

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007 (Resolved): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Dear,
I am reading your documentation about the Harmonised US-BHPS data (https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cata... Luis Valenzuela

07/21/2018

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #998: Finding Medication types

Thanks for providing this information. As a follow up is there also data available on other healthcare utilisation, e... Luke Barry

07/20/2018

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006 (In Progress): Variable livepar

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

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006 (Resolved): Variable livepar

Dear US support,
I am trying to understand whether respondents are living with their parents or not in a file whi... Lydia Palumbo

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005 (In Progress): Parents-children dyads

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

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005: Parents-children dyads

Sorry, I attach the two tables (the first what we have, the second what we want) because they came up not well-align... Giorgio Piccitto

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005 (Resolved): Parents-children dyads

Dear all,
I would like to know your advise about the following issue:
I need to create dyads for each parents-ch... Giorgio Piccitto

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004 (Feedback): Ammendment

Stephanie Auty

07/19/2018

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004: Ammendment

Hello Rita,
The files you have downloaded include wave specific files. If you want to do cross-sectional analysis ... Alita Nandi

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004 (In Progress): Ammendment

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

02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004 (Resolved): Ammendment

Hello,
I applied and obtained the panel data set. However, I need the cross sectional data set (due to the higher ... Rita Pereira

07/18/2018

09:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002 (Feedback): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS

Dear Lydia,
The straightforward answer is that it was much more difficult to get all household members to cooperat... Stephanie Auty

05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002: Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS

The variable which I am mostly concerned about is the one regarding savings (b`w'_save and `w'_save).
It presents qu... Lydia Palumbo

07/17/2018

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1003 (Feedback): Id Pno

Dear Giorgio,
The pno has no meaning, it is just how the household members happen to be listed. To find out about ... Stephanie Auty

10:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1003 (In Progress): Id Pno

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

07/16/2018

07:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1003 (Resolved): Id Pno

Dear Users,
I would like to know your advise on how identifying the progressive number of each member of household ... Giorgio Piccitto

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #997 (Feedback): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?

Dear Yuting,
Alcohol consumption was not addressed in BHPS, so the only questions we have involving alcohol are wL... Stephanie Auty

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002 (In Progress): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS

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

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002 (Resolved): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS

Dear US help forum,
I merged the files of BHPS and UKHLS. When I did my computations, I noticed that there is an ... Lydia Palumbo

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001 (Feedback): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7

Stephanie Auty

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001: Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7

Natalie,
Yes, the choice of the weight is correct and it should come from wave 7. By the way the weight will autom... Olena Kaminska

07/13/2018

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... Stephanie Auty

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #998 (Feedback): Finding Medication types

Dear Luke,
These variables are available in the SL version of the files, available here: https://discover.ukdatase... Stephanie Auty

07/12/2018

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #986 (Feedback): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise

Dear Nhlanhla Ndebele,
Apologies for the delayed response.
At the beginning of Wave 6 there was an error in the... Stephanie Auty

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing

Note: this issue was continued into #968. Stephanie Auty

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (Feedback): LAD identifiers starting with N0

Dear Cristina,
These are codes for Northern Ireland. Looking at the ONS documentation the values changed from the ... Stephanie Auty

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #993 (Feedback): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys

Dear Yaroslava,
As the long file format you create in the first three steps above will have more than one observat... Stephanie Auty

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001: Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7

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

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1000 (In Progress): Irregular responses in Well-being 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

07/11/2018

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... Natalie Bennett

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, ... Amy Orben

07/10/2018

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 Ante B

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... Olena Kaminska

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

Dear Olena,
Thanks for your comment.
I agree that the subpopulation should be compared with population excludin... Ante B

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

Ante,
Your problem is not weights but as far as I understand your suggested analysis violates iid assumption - bec... Olena Kaminska

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... Katy Morris

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Dear Stephanie
Thank you for that. Could you give me some more information on the methods used to select the eight... Natalie Bennett

07/09/2018

06:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #998 (In Progress): Finding Medication types

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

05:31 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... Luke Barry

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #997 (In Progress): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the 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

07/07/2018

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... Yuting Deng

07/06/2018

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #995 (Feedback): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6

Dear Amanda,
The IEMB respondents joined the survey at Wave 6, so the responses for this question at Wave 6 will b... Stephanie Auty

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #994 (Feedback): Info on household variables

Dear Giorgio,
Have you read the section of the User Guide on following rules (Section 2.2.6)? In some cases we wil... Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #990 (Feedback): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Dear Natalie,
We did not have space for all 18 items in Buckner’s paper, but given he suggests the measures load o... Stephanie Auty

07/05/2018

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (In Progress): LAD identifiers starting with N0

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

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0

Hello,
There are some LAD identifies starting with "N0" in waves 6 and 7 of the special licence data 6666. The doc... Cristina Sechel

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #995 (In Progress): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6

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

11:52 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.... Amanda Sheely

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #994 (In Progress): Info on household variables

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

10:09 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... Giorgio Piccitto

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #993 (In Progress): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys

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

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... Yaroslava Zemlyanska

07/04/2018

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

Dear Olena,
I have a follow-up question.
If I choose d_indscus_lw to compare the sub-sample with the original sa... Ante B

07/03/2018

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Dear Olena,
This helps. Thank you very much for your support.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

07/02/2018

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #989 (Feedback): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing

Dear EK,
Have you had a look at the callrec data file? This has a variable (a_issueno) which identifies the initia... Stephanie Auty

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #992 (Feedback): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Stephanie Auty

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Ante,
We are aware of the importance of the list of variables for all the weights models. We do not have these cur... Olena Kaminska

10:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

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

07/01/2018

01:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, th... Ante B