Understanding Society User Support

09/14/2018

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049: Scottish Education Data Linkage

That's great, thanks very much for the update. Best, Sarah Sarah Stopforth

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049 (Feedback): Scottish Education Data Linkage

Dear Sarah,
Our current estimate for this data being made available is in 3-4 months' time. Please be aware that s... Stephanie Auty

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1042 (Feedback): usage of social welfare services

Dear Yanan,
The page you linked to shows that these variables were not collected in Understanding Society. There a... Stephanie Auty

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #218 (Resolved): Use of health and welfare services in USoC

Dear Yanan,
As the answer to this question has changed since it was asked, I will reply on your new post, issue #1... Stephanie Auty

09/13/2018

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Dear Olena,
Thank you for the clarification.
I have one more question related to weights. In the User Manual it... Ante B

09/12/2018

01:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049 (In Progress): Scottish Education Data Linkage

Stephanie Auty

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... Sarah Stopforth

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021 (Feedback): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Stephanie Auty

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... Olena Kaminska

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047 (Feedback): Weights

Stephanie Auty

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... Olena Kaminska

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. ... Olena Kaminska

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Joseph Williams

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... Gundi Knies

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... Joseph Williams

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 ... Gundi Knies

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... Joseph Williams

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... Joseph Williams

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... Gundi Knies

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 ... Joseph Williams

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... Gundi Knies

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... Joseph Williams

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'... Gundi Knies

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 Stephanie Auty

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 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 ... Stephanie Auty

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... Yuliya Kazakova

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Joseph Williams

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... Lydia Palumbo

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... Yanan Zhang

09/07/2018

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #218 (In Progress): Use of health and welfare services in USoC

Stephanie Auty

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? Yanan Zhang

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... Nora Müller

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1026 (Feedback): Personality composite scores

Stephanie Auty

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1028 (Feedback): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''

Stephanie Auty

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