Understanding Society User Support

10/02/2018

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062: Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Dear Stephanie,
That was very helpful thanks you. I just had a quick follow up in relation to the income variable,... Luke Barry

10/01/2018

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1068 (Feedback): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets

Stephanie Auty

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1068: Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets

Dear Bere,
The variable w_sexuor records the respondent's sexual orientation. It was asked of all adults who agree... Stephanie Auty

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units

Dear Jason,
Just to follow up on this, we have now been able to load the scripts and see what the respondents see ... Stephanie Auty

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1067 (Feedback): Strengths and Difficulties variable

Dear Suzi,
There was a data error in these variables in data released in November 2017 (see #890). This has been c... Stephanie Auty

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1064 (Feedback): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society

Dear Jan,
You can see on this page which lower level geographies are available, scroll down to GN 33428 Understand... Stephanie Auty

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1063 (Feedback): Employment variables

Dear Amie,
These variables don't match because they are based on different parts of the questionnaire where people... Stephanie Auty

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062 (Feedback): Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Dear Luke,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It looks like this documentation is out of date and these... Stephanie Auty

12:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1043 (Feedback): Seaming effects

Dear Lydia,
Below is a response from our Income team. If you would like to discuss this further please let us know... Stephanie Auty

09/29/2018

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1066: Weights for Waves 3 and 6

Dear Olena,
Thank you so much for getting back to us so quickly and for pointing us in the right direction.
Luca Luca Bernardi

09/27/2018

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1068 (In Progress): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets

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

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1068 (Resolved): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets

Myself and a colleague plan analysing the Survey's sexuality data. We aim to explore how sexuality is linked to healt... Bere Mahoney

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1067 (In Progress): Strengths and Difficulties 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

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1067 (Resolved): Strengths and Difficulties variable

I am currently trying to run some analysis using the SDQ total difficulties score (ypsdqtd_dv). According to the stre... Suzi Robertson

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1066 (Feedback): Weights for Waves 3 and 6

Stephanie Auty

12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1066: Weights for Waves 3 and 6

Luca,
The weight you suggested would be correct, but the weight f_indinub_lw will give you higher sample size - so... Olena Kaminska

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1066 (Resolved): Weights for Waves 3 and 6

Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
We are using data from adult main interviews from Waves 3 and 6. We are e... Luca Bernardi

09/25/2018

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1064 (In Progress): Including local level identifiers in 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... Stephanie Auty

11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1063 (In Progress): Employment 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

09/24/2018

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1064 (Resolved): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society

Would it be possible to have local level geographical identifiers, such as ward, postcode sector or SMOA, included in... Jan Janmaat

09/23/2018

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1063 (Resolved): Employment variables

Hello
I've noticed that employment status of some variables in the Main survey don't match. For instance, EMPLOY, ... Armine Ghazaryan

09/20/2018

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062 (In Progress): Income in Nurse Health Assessment

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

06:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062 (Resolved): Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Hello,
I am working with the Nurse Health Assessment data and in the 'Guide to Nurse Health Assessment' PDF on pag... Luke Barry

10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

Dear Nora,
It would be helpful to have some more information if possible to try to find what you are looking for. ... Stephanie Auty

09/19/2018

04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1060 (Feedback): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

Stephanie Auty

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1060: Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

Pierre,
All our weights are designed to represent the population. By using the weights your results become represe... Olena Kaminska

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1060: Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

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

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1059 (Feedback): the variable in BHPS "drinking"

Dear Yuting,
As my colleague suggested on your previous issue #1028, you can look for variables in the online docu... Stephanie Auty

09/18/2018

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1060 (Resolved): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

Hi,
I am trying to use the BHPS sample to undertake longitudinal analysis on employment questions. To weight the d... Pierre Baustert

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1042: usage of social welfare services

Hi Stephanie!
Thank you ever so much for your help. These information are very helpful.
All my best wishes,
... Yanan Zhang

09/17/2018

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1059 (Resolved): the variable in BHPS "drinking"

Dear Office,
I want to use the variable like "smoking", "drinking" for measure a person's health-related behaviour... Yuting Deng

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