Understanding Society User Support

10/28/2018

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (Feedback): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Dear Dora,
The w_youth files contain the mother's ID in the variables w_mnpid (for natural mothers) and w_mnspid (... Stephanie Auty

10/26/2018

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (In Progress): House details in youth or adult datasets

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

02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (Resolved): House details in youth or adult datasets

Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is any info about whether respondents have access to a private garden and/o... Theodora Kokosi

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (In Progress): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

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

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081 (Resolved): Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info

Dear all,
I would like to merge data from the "indresp" file into the youth file. Which would be the best way to d... Theodora Kokosi

10/24/2018

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079: How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Thanks a lot. I will have a look. Best wishes. Nico Nico Ochmann

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (Feedback): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Dear Nico,
You can use a similar strategy to the one you discussed with Alita in #692. If the child still lives in... Stephanie Auty

10/23/2018

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080: Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Great, that answers my question. Thank you.
Regards,
Lewis Lewis Anderson

10/22/2018

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change

Thank you for your answer.
So, this means that, in *both the surveys*, I am allowed to know only the changes betw... Lydia Palumbo

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (Feedback): Marital change

Dear Lydia,
Although a harmonised marital status variable has not yet been created, you can use the variables bw_m... Stephanie Auty

05:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077: Variable on country of birth

Thank you for your answer. I am using ukborn. What do you mean by those who have never given a full interview? I cros... Lydia Palumbo

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (Feedback): Variable on country of birth

Dear Lydia,
You don't say which data file or variable you are using. Is it plbornc in xwavedat? This question is o... Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080 (Feedback): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Lewis,
With "svyset psu ..." you have indeed already specified PSUs to be the clusters. This will give you unbiase... Peter Lynn

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080: Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

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

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (In Progress): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

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

10/21/2018

06:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your clarifications.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1080 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Dear Support Team,
This can be seen as a follow-up to #758, which presents a similar problem.
I am trying to ex... Lewis Anderson

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1079 (Resolved): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Dear Alita,
I would like to have some labor market outcome information of children whose parents participated in ... Nico Ochmann

10/18/2018

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (Feedback): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Stephanie Auty

10/17/2018

09:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (In Progress): Marital change

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

06:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital change

Dear User Support Forum,
sorry for the second raised issue in one day, but I am revising my work so far.
I am cu... Lydia Palumbo

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

My suggestion to you would be to use W_XXXXXub_lw weight from the last wave that you have observation for any one per... Olena Kaminska

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Are you thinking to represent people or events?
We want to represent people Liat Raz-Yurovich

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Are you thinking to represent people or events? Olena Kaminska

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (In Progress): Weights in an unbalanced panel

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

09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1075 (Resolved): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Hello,
We have a question regarding the appropriate weights to apply when analyzing combined files from BHPS and Und... Liat Raz-Yurovich

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (In Progress): Variable on country of birth

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

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (Resolved): Variable on country of birth

Dear Help Forum,
I am including in my model the status of foreigner as a control and I noticed that there are man... Lydia Palumbo

10/15/2018

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Ante,
Yes, your understanding is correct. And the sampling error refers to the point that there is a small chance ... Olena Kaminska

10/12/2018

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1062: Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Dear Luke,
Negative income values are due to self-employment loss.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1060 (Resolved): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1059 (Resolved): the variable in BHPS "drinking"

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1049 (Resolved): Scottish Education Data Linkage

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1046 (Resolved): Wave 8

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1044 (Resolved): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery

Stephanie Auty

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1042 (Resolved): usage of social welfare services

Stephanie Auty

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1030 (Resolved): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA

Stephanie Auty

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1028 (Resolved): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''

Stephanie Auty

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1027 (Resolved): Pregnancy status

Stephanie Auty

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1026 (Resolved): Personality composite scores

Stephanie Auty

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight

Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1020 (Resolved): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)

Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1019 (Resolved): Zero longitudinal weights

Stephanie Auty

02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1018 (Resolved): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland

Stephanie Auty

02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1017 (Resolved): Creating synthetic households

Stephanie Auty

02:36 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)

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1013 (Resolved): Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1012 (Resolved): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1009 (Resolved): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #998 (Resolved): Finding Medication types

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1008 (Resolved): Creating longitudinal weights

Stephanie Auty

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1007 (Resolved): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Stephanie Auty

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #990 (Resolved): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Stephanie Auty

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #957 (Resolved): Annual History Routing

Stephanie Auty

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

From: Müller, Nora
To: Auty, Stephanie
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #1038] Imputatio... Stephanie Auty

02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

Von: Auty, Stephanie [mailto:usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk]
An: Müller, Nora
Betreff: RE: [Understanding S... Stephanie Auty

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

From: Müller, Nora
To: usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Su... Stephanie Auty

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