Activity
From 01/11/2019 to 02/09/2019
02/08/2019
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02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1136: IVSTAT2
- Thank you!
Luckily, I was able to sort it out.
I thought it was referred to the respondent file (indresp) and di... -
12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1136 (Feedback): IVSTAT2
- Dear Lydia,
What information are you looking for from these variables? If it is first wave enumerated or first wav... -
- Dear Camille,
Some of the values of fihhmnnet1_dv may be negative, but I do not see any missing values in the data... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1132: Non-biological children in cohabitation
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Ashley,
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> The questions on which the data in the files you mention are asked of th... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
02/06/2019
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04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1128: How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
- Dear Stephanie,
I do have a follow-up question. An easy one I must admit, but I could not find anything in the us... -
12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1139 (Resolved): Polytechnic vs university degree
- We would like to use the Understanding Society data to study educational choices in the UK population.
As you pro...
02/05/2019
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08:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1138 (Resolved): fihhmnnet1_dv
- Hi,
I have noticed this variable is missing for some household for wave 1 to wave 8. However I do not manage to kno... -
03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1137 (Resolved): Field of Study Variable
- Hi,
I have noticed that Understanding Society does not contain a variable capturing what field/subject people hav...
02/04/2019
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- Dear Frida,
The Northern Ireland sample are part of the first year of fieldwork and so they were almost all interv... -
- Dear Luke,
What kind of inequality are you interested in? Many aspects of inequality can be investigated through t... -
- Dear Ashley,
The questions on which the data in the files you mention are asked of those respondents who identify ...
02/03/2019
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- Dear Stephanie,
thanks for your help once again. I will have a look.
Best wishes.
Nico
02/01/2019
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- Dear Rui,
The fieldwork agency changed between IP6 and IP7 and as a result in IP6 respondents entered a number fro... -
- Dear Barbara,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your question.
You are correct that the date of the end ... -
- Dear Lydia,
There are no missing values in w_fimnlabgrs_dv in the UKHLS datasets because any missing data is imput...
01/31/2019
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- Dear Nico,
Before that line of code (i.e., bysort hidp partnum: drop if (sex==1 & _n==2) | (sex==1 & _n==1)), you ...
01/29/2019
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05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
- Frida,
Yes, I can assure you that you can represent Northern Ireland as an individual country using our weights.
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02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
- Hi Olena,
Thank you for this. However, I am still wondering whether I can use the weights to represent Northern I...
01/28/2019
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- Frida,
Yes, this is correct. Since 2001 we had 3 boosts: GPS+EMBOOST in 2007-2008, and IEMB in 2013-2014. For thes... -
- Hi Olena,
I am still slightly confused whether the w_indin01_lw weights are the correct weights for analysing the ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/25/2019
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- Frida,
Yes sorry, w_indin01_lw is good if you are using information from the main questionnaire.
Olena
01/24/2019
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- Hi Olena,
I am sorry, slightly confused as can’t find the w_indall01_lw variable in any of the waves. However, I ... -
- Frida,
Can you tell me which type of analysis you are using? If you are looking at people longitudinally you will ...
01/23/2019
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- Dear UKHLS User Support, could you please clarify how to harmonize the variable ivstat2 across the waves of BHPS (fro...
01/22/2019
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- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I am still struggling to figure out what weights to use, with ... -
- Dear Craig,
This variable will be corrected and included in the next data release.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
01/21/2019
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- Dear Rafael,
Yes, that's right, this variable was not part of the questionnaire from Wave 4 onwards.
Best wishe... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/17/2019
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- Dear Frida,
UKHLS weights make any subgroup representative, including Northern Ireland. So, just use the weights p... -
- Hi,
I am using the BHPS/UKHLS harmonised data for Northern Ireland longitudinally. What are the appropriate weigh... -
- Hi,
When analysing the data for Northern Ireland in wave 8, it is clear that for the Vote8 variable 2392 of the r... -
11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?
- Hello,
I am working with waves 2 and 3 of understanding society and I was wondering if there is any information on...
01/16/2019
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- Dear UKHLS support,
Apologies for the multiple posts.
I would like to know if in the retrospective files rega... -
10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1130: risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7
- Please disregard my +second+ point. I've now realized the DOPSERT data have only been collected in wave 7.
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- Dear Sir/Madam,
I am computing test-retest correlations to assess the temporal stability of risk preference using... -
- Dear UKHLS User Support,
I am currently trying to compile complete relationship histories for individuals using th...
01/15/2019
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear UKHLS User Support,
it is quite surprising for me to notice that the missing values (as proxy) of the harmoni...
01/14/2019
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear Stephanie, it is me again. I need your help with the following. I try to match husbands and wives (spouses) in U...
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- Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help, your step descriptions were very detailed and I think I unders... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1127 (Resolved): Determing end date of cohabitation spell
- Dear supporter,
In our research, we are trying to compute a variable for duration (in months) since end of cohabitin... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/13/2019
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09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1126 (Resolved): Who owns vehicle
- Dear All
I see the Understand Society waves 4 to 7 do not have the variable 'x_carown' (who owns vehicle). Is it t...
01/11/2019
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- Dora,
It is hard to judge what goes wrong from your description - the issue could be in many places.
I have ju... -
- Hello,
sorry for jumping into this discussion.
I just would like to know if the following of university student...
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