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From 06/22/2019 to 07/21/2019
07/21/2019
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06:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216 (Resolved): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
 - Hi, 
I'm working on neighbourhood social cohesion as a variable and looking at both Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion... 
07/20/2019
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11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1212: UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
 - Glad I could help pointing this out and thanks for detailed response!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
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11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1213: oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
 - Dear Gundi,
thanks so much! That resolves it!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> this appears t... 
07/19/2019
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05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1212: UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
 - Dear Martin,
according to the question text and notes in the UKHLS questionnaire, the variable _mlstat should be rou... - 
  
04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1213 (Feedback): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
 - Dear Martin,
this appears to be a labeling issue due to this question having been asked only in Northern Ireland (i.... - 
  
03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
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I'm trying to find a way to use wJHSTAT to find out whether a participant worked at the same firm through all... - 
  
05:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1214 (In Progress): variables "satisfaction with...."
 - Hi Ioulia,
Yes you are correct, the variable satisfaction with housing was not included in UKHLS.
Best wishes,
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07/18/2019
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04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
 - Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response. Your explanation definitely sounds plausible.
I've just had a look into my... - 
  
03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
 - Hello Charlotte,
You are right about this discrepancy.
In Wave 3, there were 969 who said they were living with ... - 
  
04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
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thank you. I'm coming up with an error message that says my weight is being ignored and a warning message on th... - 
  
03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
Cluster variable is called psu.
Best wishes,
Olena - 
  
02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi Olena
What is the cluster variable I should use? I have used the strata variable
Best wishes
Sarah - 
  
04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."
 - Hello,
I have a question on the variables the satisfaction variables sclfsat1 (health), sclfsat2 (income), sclfsat... - 
  
09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1213 (Resolved): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
 - The religious denomination variable contains values in wave k (see also website: https://www.understandingsociety.ac....
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09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1212 (Resolved): UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
 - Dear Madam or Sir,
thank you for putting together such a great harmonized version of both data sets, I think this ... 
07/17/2019
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04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1211: promotion variable and household income
 - Dear Alita, 
Thank you so much for the response.
It is massively helpful.
Thank you for being so responsive a... - 
  
03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1211 (In Progress): promotion variable and household income
 - Hi Ioulia,
Stephanie is away right now, so your email was not picked up. Sorry about that. If you want to attend t... - 
  
11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1211 (Resolved): promotion variable and household income
 - Hello,
I am working on a project, using Understanding Society and I have two questions:
a)I had to locate those... 
07/16/2019
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04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
 - Hi Stephanie,
Sorry for the delay and thanks for your response.
I was looking at a longitudinal file of all waves... 
07/15/2019
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01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
No, cross-tabulation will be wrong without weighting.
But if you are not presenting confidence intervals ... - 
  
01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Thank you Olena for this information
Can I confirm that if I do not do hypothesis testing and only cross tabulatio... 
07/08/2019
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04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
I see the problem. The way you specified weights in SPSS they are assumed to be frequency weights. Our weig... 
07/05/2019
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09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi Olena
Thank you. I've attached three pages in a word document. The first page has the syntax and the second and... 
07/04/2019
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05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
 - Dear Charlotte,
Can you tell me which wave you are looking at? I have checked Wave 7 and am not finding the result... - 
  
04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208 (In Progress): Identifying step-parent from relationship file
 - 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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05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210: Question about health conditions data
 - Thanks for the clarification Stephanie
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05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210 (Feedback): Question about health conditions data
 - Dear Jack,
You are correct in what you have said. We have realised this problem and have redesigned these question... - 
  
09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210 (Resolved): Question about health conditions data
 - I would simply like to generate a dummy variable to indicate if the individual has a certain health condition at each...
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05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1209 (Feedback): Shared parenting arrangements
 - Dear Kirsty,
We ask about this topic in the child maintenance module from the point of view of how often a child i... - 
  
04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
I am puzzled myself. But if you have a syntax that you can share I will be happy to look.
Thanks,
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01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi Olena
This is most strange and I've re-done the test again and appears the N does go up for weighted data in the ... - 
  
12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
I just want to clarify my previous comment. It relates to your earlier results of Fisher exact test.
I on... - 
  
10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
Unfortunately I don't think I know the reason for the difference between weighted and unweighted analysis t... 
07/03/2019
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09:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1209 (Resolved): Shared parenting arrangements
 - Hello. From looking at the data you currently collect I can't see that it would be possible to assess how many childr...
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04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi Olena
Yes I have used all the same variables when I did the analysis weighted/unweighted.
however, I have done... - 
  
12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
The weighting deals only with unit nonresponse. Don't knows and refusals can be treated as valid answers or... - 
  
11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi Olena
Thanks for your message. No I've used the exact same variables as I am using the same dataset but just ap... - 
  
11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
I see. No, your subgroup definition is fine and yes, our data will represent this subgroup. I misunderstood... 
07/02/2019
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12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Dear Olena
Have I missed something? I am only looking at a very specific sub sample of the dataset (e.g. specific ... - 
  
12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Try to exclude the variable reflecting samples of interests. The weight takes into account samples correctly on your ...
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12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - The definition of the variable is the same. However, the variable i'm using is ethnicity and as there are so many, I'...
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11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
This doesn't sound right: I expect the total with weights to be smaller than in unweighted analysis. I also... - 
  
11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
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Fishers exact test performed.
Sample size before weighting n=962 p=.027
Sample size after weighting n=1015... - 
  
11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Sarah,
What was the sample size in your analysis before and after weighting, and what was the p-value?
Thank y... - 
  
11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Thank you Olena.
To follow on from this, I've conducted some analysis using the weight and results I would expect ... - 
  
11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208 (Feedback): Identifying step-parent from relationship file
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I'm using a child-centric dataset to try and get an indicator of whether the child has a step-father in the ho... - 
  
11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207: Weighting and state benefits
 - Marcus,
The cross-sectional weights are correct. For the longitudinal analysis starting at wave 2 you will need to... 
06/28/2019
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07:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206: Data linkage to NHS data
 - Yes you are right we do have consent to do this linkage but the linkage to English health records is not currently in...
 
06/27/2019
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05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207 (In Progress): Weighting and state benefits
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. 
We have assigned your query regarding weights to our Survey Statistician who will g... - 
  
04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207 (Resolved): Weighting and state benefits
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I am currently undertaking cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses using both BHPS and US data looking at li... - 
  
03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205: self-completion weight wave 7
 - Dear Gill,
Thank you for pointing this to us. Yes, please use g_indscub_xw weight and disregard the User Guide co... - 
  
03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Yes, to both questions.
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03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - Hi 
I think this has gone on to a different topic, to confirm that if I use the n_indpxui_xw weight in SPSS, this ma... - 
  
07:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206 (In Progress): Data linkage to NHS data
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
06/26/2019
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206 (Resolved): Data linkage to NHS data
 - Hi,
I am interested in looking at some health related outcomes and possibly mental health related outcomes as part... - 
  
07:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205: self-completion weight wave 7
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
06/25/2019
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06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205 (Resolved): self-completion weight wave 7
 - Dear USoc Team
In issue #736 Peter Lynn helpfully explains that the decision not to provide indscub_xw from w5 was... 
06/24/2019
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02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204: UKHLS zero weight in panel data
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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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09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203 (In Progress): Net Income Variable in BHPS
 - 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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11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
 - The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p... - 
  
12:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204: UKHLS zero weight in panel 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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12:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203: Net Income Variable in BHPS
 - 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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11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078: Marital change
 - The partnership history files are now available at the UKDA.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2019/06/20/new-p... 
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