Understanding Society User Support

09/02/2018

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1030 (Resolved): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA

Dear office,
Since I am using the BHPS 18waves for my research: how the socioeconomics status affect the self-asse... Yuting Deng

08/31/2018

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1028: BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''

Hello,
You can look for the variables available in the BHPS waves 1-18 here: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/doc... Alita Nandi

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1028 (Resolved): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''

Dear BHPS office,
Since i am using the BHPS wave1-wave18 datasets for my research, and i need to find some health-... Yuting Deng

08/28/2018

05:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1027 (In Progress): Pregnancy status

Hello Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... Alita Nandi

05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1026 (In Progress): Personality composite scores

Hello Y Hu,
No factor analysis was not used. The standard approach of measuring the Big 5 personality traits based... Alita Nandi

09:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

Dear Stephanie
Many thanks for your help - I'll go ahead with those weights.
Kind regards
Rachel Rachel Bennett

08/27/2018

02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1027 (Resolved): Pregnancy status

Dear User Support,
I am trying to identify women who were pregnant at the time of the interview. I could find a u... Lydia Palumbo

08/24/2018

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1026 (Resolved): Personality composite scores

We are looking to use some of the personality measures for our analysis; and it would be really useful to know how th... Y Hu

08/23/2018

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022: Longitudinal weight

Hi Camille,
The longitudinal weights for people who only appear in waves 3 & 4 (or 2 & 4, or 2& 3 etc) will be zer... Alita Nandi

08/22/2018

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1013 (Feedback): Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

Dear Rachel,
A reply from the Weighting team:
Yes, the weight you suggest is the best suboptimal wieght so you s... Stephanie Auty

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Thank you Stephanie, that guide is very helpful. For the moment I've resolved the issue, so do not need further help ... Luis Valenzuela

08/21/2018

06:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022: Longitudinal weight

Thank you very much for your help Alita.
Concerning people that do not appear in wave 5 but that are here in wave 2 ... Camille Portier

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022 (Feedback): Longitudinal weight

Take the longitudinal weight from the last wave, Wave 5, in your case and assign that to all previous waves for each ... Alita Nandi

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022: Longitudinal weight

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

06:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1020 (Feedback): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)

Dear Robin,
To identify a respondent's partner at Wave 1 you can use the variable a_ppid, which contains their par... Stephanie Auty

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019 (Feedback): Zero longitudinal weights

Alita Nandi

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019: Zero longitudinal weights

Longitudinal weights for any wave are non-zero for OSMs (core sample members) who have been continuously interviewed ... Alita Nandi

03:28 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

Stephanie Auty

03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1010 (Resolved): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?

Stephanie Auty

08/20/2018

10:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight

Dear Understanding Society Team,
I am looking at change in health status if individuals accross wave 2 to wave 5. ... Camille Portier

05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

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

08/19/2018

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Dear Understanding Society Team,
I'm running an analysis at the household level with averaged individual-level att... Ante B

08/16/2018

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1020 (In Progress): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)

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

04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1020 (Resolved): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)

I've only just started to try and get my head wrapped around all the files in the SN 5151 and SN 6614 datasets.
It l... Robin Kramer

03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019: Zero longitudinal weights

Dear Alejandra,
Our Weighting team are currently on annual leave so I will provide a brief answer and they can add... Stephanie Auty

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019 (In Progress): Zero 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

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1018 (Feedback): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland

Dear Tara,
The religion questions are asked of everyone in Waves 1, 4 and 8, and of new entrants in the waves betw... Stephanie Auty

08/15/2018

09:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019 (Resolved): Zero longitudinal weights

I want to know the reason behind longitudinal weights equal to zero for some individuals. Thank you. Alejandra Villasenor

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017 (Feedback): Creating synthetic households

Stephanie Auty

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1015 (Feedback): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)

Stephanie Auty

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1012 (Feedback): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

Stephanie Auty

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007 (Feedback): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Stephanie Auty

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1018 (In Progress): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland

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

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1018 (Resolved): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland

Good afternoon,
I am working with the Northern Irish sample of Understanding Society and my analysis centers aroun... Tara McNeill

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1009: Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for the response, it is very helpful.
Regards,
Nhlanhla Nhlanhla Ndebele

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1009 (Feedback): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

Dear Nhlanhla,
Apologies for the delay. Here is a response from our Income team:
Paygu_dv is derived as “Gross ... Stephanie Auty

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights

Apologies for the delayed response. Our Weighting team are currently all on annual leave and will respond when they r... Stephanie Auty

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

Apologies for the delayed response. Our Weighting team are currently all on annual leave and will respond when they r... Stephanie Auty

08/14/2018

06:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Dear Luis,
This is not a sampling dip as the sample is not drawn each year, it is just a longer time between inter... Stephanie Auty

05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006 (Resolved): Variable livepar

Stephanie Auty

05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005 (Resolved): Parents-children dyads

Stephanie Auty

05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004 (Resolved): Ammendment

Stephanie Auty

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1003 (Resolved): Id Pno

Stephanie Auty

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002 (Resolved): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001 (Resolved): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7

Stephanie Auty

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being questions

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #997 (Resolved): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #995 (Resolved): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #994 (Resolved): Info on household variables

Stephanie Auty

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #993 (Resolved): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys

Stephanie Auty

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Stephanie Auty

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #991 (Resolved): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha

Stephanie Auty

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #987 (Resolved): Weighting of sub-sample

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #986 (Resolved): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #984 (Resolved): Variables Only Available in IEMB

Stephanie Auty

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #982 (Resolved): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society

Stephanie Auty

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #981 (Resolved): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Stephanie Auty

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #980 (Resolved): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Stephanie Auty

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #979 (Resolved): Country of Birth - Special Licence

Stephanie Auty

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #978 (Resolved): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"

Stephanie Auty

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #977 (Resolved): Merging a_child with a_indresp

Stephanie Auty

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #976 (Resolved): Month of birth

Stephanie Auty

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #975 (Resolved): Health condition variables in GPS

Stephanie Auty

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974 (Resolved): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel

Stephanie Auty

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #973 (Resolved): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)

Stephanie Auty

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #972 (Resolved): Merging house price data with panel BHPS

Stephanie Auty

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971 (Resolved): Merging Parents with SDQ

Stephanie Auty

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #970 (Resolved): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24

Stephanie Auty

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969 (Resolved): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores

Stephanie Auty

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (Resolved): Wording of Annual History Questions

Stephanie Auty

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data

Stephanie Auty

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #965 (Resolved): Sample weights

Stephanie Auty

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights

Stephanie Auty

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962 (Resolved): NPD Organisation linking

Stephanie Auty

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #961 (Resolved): Number of years in education and individual income

Stephanie Auty

04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #960 (Resolved): pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows

Stephanie Auty

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918 (Resolved): lnprnt - number of children ever had

Stephanie Auty

04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (Resolved): Neighbourhood data

Stephanie Auty

04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #958 (Resolved): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.

Stephanie Auty

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #956 (Resolved): Height and weight in wave 18

Stephanie Auty

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income

Stephanie Auty

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #954 (Resolved): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures

Stephanie Auty

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953 (Resolved): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job

Stephanie Auty

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #952 (Resolved): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income

Stephanie Auty

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950 (Resolved): IP8 interviewer numbers

This issue was resolved in the IP10 data release. Stephanie Auty

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #948 (Resolved): Impevents question transcripts

Stephanie Auty

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #947 (Resolved): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent

Stephanie Auty

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #946 (Resolved): hiqual_dv values

Stephanie Auty

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)

Stephanie Auty

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #943 (Resolved): g_indresp - exercise variable

Stephanie Auty

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #942 (Resolved): Net income of multiple job holders

Stephanie Auty

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007

Stephanie Auty

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #938 (Resolved): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data

Stephanie Auty

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937 (Resolved): Merge children to parents

Stephanie Auty

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #936 (Resolved): Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934 (Resolved): Household representative person

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #933 (Resolved): urban rural info for BHPS

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #932 (Resolved): Weighting

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #931 (Resolved): twins

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #930 (Resolved): BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?

Stephanie Auty

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #928 (Resolved): Merging Youth.

Stephanie Auty

04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #926 (Resolved): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC

Stephanie Auty

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #925 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis

Stephanie Auty

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #922 (Resolved): Question on the disability module (_disdif1 … _disdif1)

Stephanie Auty

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921 (Resolved): Council tax variable

Stephanie Auty

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920 (Resolved): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design

Stephanie Auty

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #917 (Resolved): how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves

Stephanie Auty

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #916 (Resolved): Two questions about weights

Stephanie Auty

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #915 (Resolved): sf1 and scsf1 understanding

Stephanie Auty

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #913 (Resolved): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions

Stephanie Auty

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat

Stephanie Auty

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #909 (Resolved): Combining Datasets

Stephanie Auty

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Resolved): Request

Stephanie Auty

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #906 (Resolved): Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants

Stephanie Auty

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #905 (Resolved): Overview of variables for Innovation Panel

Stephanie Auty

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #900 (Resolved): BHPS

Stephanie Auty

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #998: Finding Medication types

Dear Luke,
We apologise for the delay in responding. We don't have GP attendance or other health care usage data. ... Alita Nandi

08/13/2018

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Hello Natalie,
For a research project I am working on with co-authors from UEA, we looked at this module of questi... Alita Nandi

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017: Creating synthetic households

The age of every member of a household can be found in each wave specific household enumeration file called w_indall.... Alita Nandi

05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1015: Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)

Hello Darya,
We have created this variable (ch1bm_dv and ch1by_dv) and it is available in xwavedat file. Please no... Alita Nandi

08/08/2018

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017 (In Progress): Creating synthetic households

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

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017 (Resolved): Creating synthetic households

I am trying to create synthetic households by LSOA for the UK population for health modelling. I have data on househo... Andrew Ibbetson

08/07/2018

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
We have the following answers to your questions:
nxtst: if both conditions are true, the wording is,... Stephanie Auty

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011 (Feedback): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Stephanie Auty

08/06/2018

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

I see - yes, in that case ignore step2 Alita Nandi

06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Hi,
I appreciate your interest.
I want to generate hundreds of local districts fixed effects to control for loc... Nico Ochmann

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Why do you need the district codes if you are not going to match district level information? Are you planning to prod... Alita Nandi

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Dear Alita,
no worries about the delay, I had a number of other things to do anyhow. At any rate, I do not have s... Nico Ochmann

11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Hi Nico,
I am very sorry for the delay in responding. So, your objective is to have an individual level dataset in... Alita Nandi

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Stephanie,
Great. Thanks for this.
Best wishes,
Liam Liam Wright

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
Apologies for the confusion between question routing and the question wording which depends on previous... Stephanie Auty

04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1015 (In Progress): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & 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

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1015 (Resolved): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)

Hello,
I am trying to create a dataset with women who were emloyed in the year when their first biological child was... Darya Vanchugova

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968: Wording of Annual History Questions

Dear Liam,
I'll reply on issue #957 to keep all the answers together.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understand... Stephanie Auty

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1012: Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

Hello Felippe,
Thanks!
The ethnic group information is collected only once for each adult (16+), the first tim... Alita Nandi

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1012 (In Progress): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

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

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment 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

08/04/2018

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Thanks Stephanie.
So, to put it differently, whereas in BHPS waves pretty much align with years (e.g. in a panel d... Luis Valenzuela