Understanding Society User Support

08/28/2019

06:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children

Hi,
I'm looking at waves 3, 5 and 7 of the individual file and the variable exsame. I noticed something that looks... Charlotte Edney

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233: Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Dear Maddalena,
If you are using BHPS and Understanding Society together it is better to use https://beta.ukdatase... Stephanie Auty

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233: Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Dear Staphanie, I have found the problem: my questions refers to the variable *jsttwt*, but I have copied for you the... Maddalena Ronchi

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233: Commuting to work (jsttwt)

I have also just re-downloaded the following dta: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=661... Maddalena Ronchi

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233: Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Dear Stephanie, thanks a lot for your quick reply!
I have tried redowloading the data before wirting to the support ... Maddalena Ronchi

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233 (Feedback): Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Dear Maddalena,
I have checked several waves of data, including the one you mention here, and I find that the data... Stephanie Auty

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233 (Resolved): Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Hello,
I want to use the variable jsttwt="minutes spent travelling to work" in the BHPS/UKHLS but I am experiencin... Maddalena Ronchi

08/27/2019

03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (Feedback): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data

Stephanie Auty

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229 (Feedback): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Stephanie Auty

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228 (In Progress): Unbalanced panel weight

Stephanie Auty

08/23/2019

01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231 (In Progress): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England

Hi Louise,
We are looking into this issue and will get back to you soon.
Best wishes,
Alita Alita Nandi

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (In Progress): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data

Yes, the data for this boost sample, IEMBS, is already mereged into all the files. You can identify the data for this... Alita Nandi

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (Resolved): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data

To whom it may concern,
I don't seem to be able to find the 2015 Understanding Society immigrant and ethnic minori... Elena Pupaza

08/21/2019

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England

Hi,
I found the percentage of young people (aged 20-34 years old in each wave) living with their parents in UKHLS ... Louise Luo

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Louise,
'91' is the zz part of the weight. To choose it correctly please refer to my ealier message.
Generally i... Olena Kaminska

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1230 (Closed): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Duplicate issue to issue #1229. Alita Nandi

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229: Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Hi Onyinye,
Please read the text of the question "disdif" in the questionnaire for Wave 7 to determine if someone ... Alita Nandi

08/20/2019

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Hi Olena,
Sorry for bothering you again.
I just found that '91' weight is only applied to those who participa... Louise Luo

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
I am investigating young people aged 20 to 34 years old in each wave. It is a ... Louise Luo

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Louise,
So, I guess you don't care when a perons is 20, in 1991 or 2008 let's say. And I imagine you are doing a l... Olena Kaminska

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1230 (Closed): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Hi there,
I would like to conduct some analysis on disabled sample members in USoc as defined by the Equality Act ... Onyinye Ezeyi

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229 (Resolved): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Hi there,
I would like to conduct some analysis on disabled sample members in USoc as defined by the Equality Act ... Onyinye Ezeyi

08/19/2019

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Dear Olena,
Many thanks for your help.
Back to your question, the unit of my analysis is individual in England.... Louise Luo

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight

Thank you for your question.
Generally you won't go wrong if you use the weight from the last wave in your analys... Olena Kaminska

08/16/2019

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228 (Resolved): Unbalanced panel weight

Hello. I am working on regression models using fixed effect. It is a longitudinal analysis using all the available da... Louise Luo

08/15/2019

05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information

Hi Ashley,
We used the cohabitation and marital history data collated by Pronzato from the BHPS indresp and marita... Alita Nandi

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information

Dear Alita,
I have a couple of questions regarding "British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabita... Ashley Burdett

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1227: Family size

Dear Ella,
There does seem to be a mismatch betweeen the data, the questionnaire and the online documentation. The... Stephanie Auty

08/14/2019

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1227 (In Progress): Family size

The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Und... Stephanie Auty

08/13/2019

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1227 (In Progress): Family size

To whom it may concern,
I am attempting to generate non-household family size variables for both waves three and s... Ella Moonan-Howard

08/08/2019

10:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Yes, your understanding is correct. But you multiply the weight from wave B by 2 only because in the first place it i... Olena Kaminska

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1225 (Feedback): Definition of partially productive interview

Dear Olga,
A partial interview is where someone has completed up to the household finances section, but not finish... Stephanie Auty

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access

Dear Karen,
I'm afraid we can't give a timescale for availability of this data at the moment.
Our linked datase... Stephanie Auty

08/07/2019

06:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1225 (In Progress): Definition of partially productive interview

Apologies for the delay in responsing to this question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will... Stephanie Auty

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205: self-completion weight wave 7

Many thanks for your help and clarification.
Best wishes
Gill Gill Weston

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205 (Feedback): self-completion weight wave 7

Stephanie Auty

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Feedback): Request

Stephanie Auty

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204 (Feedback): UKHLS zero weight in panel data

Stephanie Auty

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1212 (Resolved): UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set

Stephanie Auty

11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1208 (Feedback): Identifying step-parent from relationship file

Stephanie Auty

11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206 (Feedback): Data linkage to NHS data

Stephanie Auty

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207 (Feedback): Weighting and state benefits

Stephanie Auty

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1217 (Feedback): BHPS and UKHLS weights

Stephanie Auty

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223 (In Progress): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access

Apologies for the delay in responsing to this question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will... Stephanie Auty

08/06/2019

08:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1225 (Resolved): Definition of partially productive interview

Dear Sir or Madam,
I am looking for a definition of a "partially productive interview" used in Understanding Society... Olga Maslovskaya

10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #596: employment spells

Dear Victoria and Nicole:
I find myself in the same situation as Pilar. I would like to construct a panel data wit... Pietro Biroli

08/01/2019

05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion

Hi Celine,
I have not done any research on differences in these two constructs. Some thoughts:
Both instruments... Gundi Knies

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion

Hi Gundi,
Thank you for getting back to me.
I was hoping that you'd be able to let me know the difference betw... Celine Teo

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218: job change since the previous survey

Hi Dan,
I am attaching the employment annual events history questionnaire routing (two versions) that my colleague... Alita Nandi

07/31/2019

03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 eac... Tom Waters

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Tom,
Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 each before). In this situation ... Olena Kaminska

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your prompt response. I am still thinking about the other points, but I had one immediat... Tom Waters

01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Tom,
Thank you for your question. Here is the note that we are preparing to answer your question (see below). It s... Olena Kaminska

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221 (In Progress): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221 (Resolved): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Hi,
I am trying to look at various outcomes by quarter in a dataset which pools multiple UKHLS waves together with... Tom Waters

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1222 (In Progress): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)

Hi Karen,
When you compared the "proportion of individuals in the smaller companies (those with less than 50 emplo... Alita Nandi

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1222 (Resolved): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)

Hi,
I'm running analyses using the above variable in Understanding Society (US). However, I am seeing discrepancies... Karen Arulsamy

03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220: Loneliness

Hi Sofi,
Our Questionnaire Team have clarified that we used the response options that ELSA used for the UCLA 3-ite... Alita Nandi

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223 (Resolved): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access

Hi,
Can I check when the above dataset (as mentioned here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/link... Karen Arulsamy

07/30/2019

09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220: Loneliness

Hi Sofi,
I have passed on your query to the questionnaire team. I will get back to you as soon as I hear from them... Alita Nandi

09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218: job change since the previous survey

Hi Dan,
The best way to understand question routing is to look at the questionnaire.
https://www.understandingso... Alita Nandi