Activity
From 08/14/2018 to 09/12/2018
09/12/2018
- 01:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049 (In Progress): Scottish Education Data Linkage
- 12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049 (Resolved): Scottish Education Data Linkage
- Dear Support Team,
I was wondering when the linked UKHLS - Scottish Education Data might be released/available for... - 12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021 (Feedback): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
- 12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
- Dear Ante,
1) You can use household weight if you have information for everyone in the household (if the informati... - 12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047 (Feedback): Weights
- 11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047: Weights
- Yulia,
We do not provide longitudinal weights for youth self-completion because there is no child that participate... - 11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
- Joe,
I see the problem you are facing and I see the reasoning behind it. I will make two further suggestions:
1. ...
09/11/2018
- 05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1027 (Feedback): Pregnancy status
- Dear Lydia,
There is a variable available in Waves 14 and 16 of BHPS, bw_hlpreg, which you could use, but there ar... - 04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Dear Joseph,
I just wanted to add that we run a training course here at Essex and online, which could be helpful f... - 02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Thank you Gundi,
I will let you know how I get on with the merging, your input and explanations have been invaluab... - 01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Why not just try and see! If it does not work out as a 1:1 match, it may be useful to think again about which variabl...
- 01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Dear Gundi,
Thank you again for all your help in this matter, my research question is based on a child-mother-fath... - 01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi Joseph,
to decide which cases to keep you need to understand who the mismatches on _mnpid on b_youth and pidp on ... - 12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi Gundi,
I also had a question about the ethnic minority boost sample, how would one go about removing this samp... - 12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi Gundi,
Thank you for the explanation, I believe i have now been able to merge the data successfully using the f... - 11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Joseph,
that is fine - the data structure is a bit complex.
Remember, that your dataset is now at the level of a... - 10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi Gundi,
I tried renaming the variables, but seem to come out with the same outcome. Please see below the code I ... - 09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi Joseph,
the suggestion is to rename all child-level variables of interest, including the child's pidp, so they ar... - 09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Dear Gundi,
Thank you for the speedy response, following the instructions I tried to merge the data, but I am unsu... - 09:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044 (Feedback): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Dear Joseph,
please see this query. It has a step-by-step guide on how to link info child records with their mother'... - 04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1046 (Feedback): Wave 8
- Dear Per-Ola,
Yes, the Wave 8 data is still scheduled for release in November.
Best wishes,
Stephanie - 01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1046 (Resolved): Wave 8
- Could you please inform me whether wave 8 will be released i november as planned?
Yours sincerely
Per-Ola Sundin - 04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1030 (Feedback): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA
- Dear Yuting,
It seems that your question relates to how to build your analysis model. Our remit at the User Forum ... - 01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights
- Dear Support Team,
I am emailing you because I am trying to understand how the weights should be applied for my fi... - 11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1043 (In Progress): Seaming effects
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1042 (In Progress): usage of social welfare services
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038 (In Progress): Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/10/2018
- 11:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044 (Resolved): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
- Hi,
I am very new to Stata and I have been trying without success to merge young children to their parents using i... - 02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1043 (Resolved): Seaming effects
- Dear US Support,
I noticed that there are often "seaming effects"
when merging BHPS and UKHLS. For instance, thi... - 12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1042 (Resolved): usage of social welfare services
- Hi,
Please see the link below: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentatio...
09/07/2018
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #218 (In Progress): Use of health and welfare services in USoC
- 03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #218: Use of health and welfare services in USoC
- Hi, I have the same concerns. Do you get any answer about it?
- 11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038 (Resolved): Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
- Dear support team, I am interested in net worth which I derive from the variables savings, investments, debts (bhps w...
- 11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
- Dear Ante,
Apologies for the slow response to this issue. Our weighting team have been on annual leave and will re...
09/03/2018
- 05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1030 (In Progress): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1026 (Feedback): Personality composite scores
- 11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1028 (Feedback): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''
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...
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... - 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-...
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 ... - 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... - 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
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...
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...
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...
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... - 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 ...
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 ... - 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 ...
- 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...
- 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... - 05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019 (Feedback): Zero longitudinal weights
- 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 ...
- 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
- 03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1010 (Resolved): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?
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. ... - 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...
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...
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...
- 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... - 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... - 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...
- 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...
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.
- 03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017 (Feedback): Creating synthetic households
- 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)
- 03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1012 (Feedback): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves
- 03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007 (Feedback): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
- 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...
- 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... - 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 - 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 ... - 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...
- 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...
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... - 05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1006 (Resolved): Variable livepar
- 05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1005 (Resolved): Parents-children dyads
- 05:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1004 (Resolved): Ammendment
- 05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1003 (Resolved): Id Pno
- 05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1002 (Resolved): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
- 05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1001 (Resolved): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
- 05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
- 05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #997 (Resolved): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
- 05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0
- 05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #995 (Resolved): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
- 05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #994 (Resolved): Info on household variables
- 05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #993 (Resolved): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
- 05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment
- 05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #991 (Resolved): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha
- 05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing
- 05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #987 (Resolved): Weighting of sub-sample
- 05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #986 (Resolved): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise
- 05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #984 (Resolved): Variables Only Available in IEMB
- 05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #982 (Resolved): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society
- 05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #981 (Resolved): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings
- 05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #980 (Resolved): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r
- 05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #979 (Resolved): Country of Birth - Special Licence
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #978 (Resolved): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #977 (Resolved): Merging a_child with a_indresp
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #976 (Resolved): Month of birth
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #975 (Resolved): Health condition variables in GPS
- 05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #974 (Resolved): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel
- 05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #973 (Resolved): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)
- 05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #972 (Resolved): Merging house price data with panel BHPS
- 05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #971 (Resolved): Merging Parents with SDQ
- 05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #970 (Resolved): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24
- 05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #969 (Resolved): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores
- 05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #968 (Resolved): Wording of Annual History Questions
- 05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data
- 05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #965 (Resolved): Sample weights
- 05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights
- 05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #962 (Resolved): NPD Organisation linking
- 04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #961 (Resolved): Number of years in education and individual income
- 04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #960 (Resolved): pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows
- 04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #918 (Resolved): lnprnt - number of children ever had
- 04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #959 (Resolved): Neighbourhood data
- 04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #958 (Resolved): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.
- 04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #956 (Resolved): Height and weight in wave 18
- 04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income
- 04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #954 (Resolved): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures
- 04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #953 (Resolved): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
- 04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #952 (Resolved): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- 04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #950 (Resolved): IP8 interviewer numbers
- This issue was resolved in the IP10 data release.
- 04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #948 (Resolved): Impevents question transcripts
- 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
- 04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #946 (Resolved): hiqual_dv values
- 04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- 04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #943 (Resolved): g_indresp - exercise variable
- 04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #942 (Resolved): Net income of multiple job holders
- 04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007
- 04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #938 (Resolved): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data
- 04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #937 (Resolved): Merge children to parents
- 04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #936 (Resolved): Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample
- 04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #934 (Resolved): Household representative person
- 04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #933 (Resolved): urban rural info for BHPS
- 04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #932 (Resolved): Weighting
- 04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #931 (Resolved): twins
- 04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #930 (Resolved): BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?
- 04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #928 (Resolved): Merging Youth.
- 04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #926 (Resolved): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC
- 04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #925 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis
- 04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #922 (Resolved): Question on the disability module (_disdif1 … _disdif1)
- 04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #921 (Resolved): Council tax variable
- 04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #920 (Resolved): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design
- 04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #917 (Resolved): how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- 04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #916 (Resolved): Two questions about weights
- 04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #915 (Resolved): sf1 and scsf1 understanding
- 04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #913 (Resolved): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions
- 04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat
- 04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLS
- 04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #909 (Resolved): Combining Datasets
- 04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Resolved): Request
- 04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #906 (Resolved): Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants
- 04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #905 (Resolved): Overview of variables for Innovation Panel
- 04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #900 (Resolved): BHPS
- 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. ...
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