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From 05/26/2019 to 06/24/2019
06/24/2019
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02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204: UKHLS zero weight in panel data
- Hello,
Don't worry about zero values of weights - as long as you use weights and adjust for clustering and stratif... -
09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203: Net Income Variable in BHPS
- But please note the Jenkins et al net income files only produced net household labour income and not individual level...
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- bW_fimnlabgrs_dv is gross labour income.
bw_fimnlabgrs_dv in the harmonised files is the same as bw_fimnl in the s...
06/23/2019
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03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
- Thank you very much, Alita.
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- The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p... -
- 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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- The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p...
06/20/2019
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- Sarah,
I suggest that you use proportions, and not frequencies, that SPSS gives you. If you need to get population... -
11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- I am using SPSS. Does this change anything that you have responded above in terms of error message and weighting vari...
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- Sarah,
I was referring to the syntax in Stata, for example svy command and pw=n_indpxui_xw within this command. Is... -
- Hi Olena
I am using n_indpxui_xw using the h_indresp database (individuals and proxies) looking at England geograph...
06/19/2019
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- Sarah,
Which syntax are you using? Our weights are not frequency weights so please do not use fweights command. Ou...
06/18/2019
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11:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204 (Resolved): UKHLS zero weight in panel data
- Hello. I'd like some advice about weighting variable. I'm using UKHLS waves 1 through 7, individual data.
When I ran... -
- Hi Olena
when I apply the weight, shouldn't expect the counts to shift and the frequencies to be higher? They do n... -
- Sarah,
Yes, definitely.
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- Hi Olena
I'm applying this weight to analysis conducted on data that respondents are resident in England only. Is ... -
- Dear Sarah,
Yes, this message is correct but you don't need to worry about it. Understanding Society has a much mo... -
02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203 (Resolved): Net Income Variable in BHPS
- Hi,
I was wondering whether the derived labour income variable bW_fimnlabgrs_dv in the BHPS data (not UKHLS) measure...
06/17/2019
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04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1202 (Feedback): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
- Dear Jingjing Wang,
Do you mean that more people dropped out of the Survey between Waves 1 and 4 than between Wave... -
01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
- Why lost to follow between wave1 & wave4 is much higher than between wave4 & wave7?
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- Dear Jingjing Wang,
We have detailed information about the hcond questions in our FAQ here: https://www.understand... -
- Question in related to participants' response for chronic conditions: Although the same questions were asked in wave ...
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- Dear Chloe,
The results are the same using pweight.
Could you let me know the results of my previous suggestion... -
07:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1200: Wave 4 Famsup variable
- Hi Stephanie,
I think it may be because you specify the weight using aweight and I specify it in my code as pweigh...
06/16/2019
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- Hi
When I use this weight I get an error message >Warning # 3211
>On at least one case, the value of the weight var...
06/14/2019
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- Dear Chloe,
No, I am still not getting the same results as you. I have attached my log file so you can compare.
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- Hi Stephanie,
I am using the weight d_indscub_xw for my analysis and interested mainly interested in column percen...
06/13/2019
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- Dear Chloe,
I am not getting the same results as you. I have checked waves 3-5 and find around 50% say supported m... -
- I have been running single year of age for 16-21 year olds by the famsup variable (feel supported by family) for Wave...
06/12/2019
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- Dear Sook Kim,
We have plans to link our data to the HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) database, which wil... -
- Hello. I'm wondering if you provide higher education data (areas of degree subjects such as humanities, science, etc)...
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- Thank you Olena
Best wishes
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- Sarah,
Yes, I can confirm that n_indpxui_xw is the correct weight to use in your analysis. Thank you for pointing ... -
- Hi
The US provides instructions on pages 65 to 71. Section 3.3 to choose the correct Variable to Weight the data.
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10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1197 (Feedback): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
- Dear Fabiana,
thank you for making us aware that the reference to the inapplicable value [-8] in the variable descri...
06/11/2019
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04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1197 (Resolved): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
- Hi there
I have a query tangentially related to a previous issue (REF 1063) [[https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support...
06/07/2019
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- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Fabiana,
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> The steps in syntax for matching partner info does put the partner and ... -
- Dear Fabiana,
The steps in syntax for matching partner info does put the partner and main respondent info on the s...
06/06/2019
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- fabiana macor wrote:
> Hi there
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> I'm using the syntax from Understanding Society website called "Matching indi... -
- Dear Fabiana,
The reason w_indall is used in the example for matching individuals within a household is that w_ind... -
- Hi there
I'm using the syntax from Understanding Society website called "Matching individuals within a household" ...
05/31/2019
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- Hi Ashley,
We are in the process of depositing the data. There are some technical difficulties at the UKDS which i...
05/30/2019
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08:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1168: Selecting correct weighting
- It was really giving me a good idea of doing some research work of mine. will connect if help needed.
05/29/2019
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- Dear Veruska,
As we do not run the Secure Lab, you will need to ask the UK Data Service whether this will be possi...
05/26/2019
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04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1195: Merging data
- Thank you Stephanie.
I understand, if secure access is obtained, would it be an option to run the Phython programme...
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