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From 08/09/2019 to 09/07/2019
09/07/2019
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01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239 (Resolved): Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS
- Hi,
I am running analysis (logit) on a subsample of UKHLS - wave 6 only, people under the age of 30.
I am using ...
09/06/2019
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10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1238 (Feedback): Genotyping Data - plink format
- Dear Dionysios,
We do not support these files here. Please write to the EGA about this.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
09/05/2019
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- The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Und... -
03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1238 (Resolved): Genotyping Data - plink format
- Hi,
We have granted access to the gwas data through EGA (through WTSI) after the process of signing an agreement (... -
- Dear Maddalena,
The month of birth is only available in the Special Licence datasets. The variable is w_dobm_dv in... -
03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1237 (Resolved): Month of birth variables
- Hello,
I would like to use the variable month of birth.
According to the online documentation:
- in the understa... -
01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236: Variable defining month of sample issue
- No. That is for the Innovation Panel.
This is what you need: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studie... -
12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236: Variable defining month of sample issue
- Hi Alita
Thanks for your response.
I downloaded June 2019. Is this the right data UKDA-6849-stata?
Previously i u... -
- Hello Oarabile,
I can find a_month, b_month,... variables in a_hhresp, b_hhresp in the most recently released vers... -
- I previous used understanding society data when it was up to Wave 5 i.e. wave 1-5, in the hhresp data they had a vari...
09/03/2019
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- When a population is divided into mutually exclusive and exhaustive parts and then samples are chosen from each of th...
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12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Dear Alita
I come to you with another question that I hope you can help with
I just want to confirm what Stra...
09/02/2019
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- For 5. & 6., my numbers are 91 and 97. You are consistently getting slightly fewer discrepancies than I am. Not sure ...
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- Hello Louise,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Our team has looked at the ONS report you are referring ... -
02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight
- Louise,
Yes, we have a general guidance for such situations. Please see below:
Creating your own tailored weigh... -
- Dear Marina,
We don't have this data for most children. There was a question, f_bornuk, in Wave 6 which asked if a...
08/30/2019
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11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228: Unbalanced panel weight
- Olena,
Thanks a lot. This is a great help!
Unbalanced panel weight might be more suitable for my research. Howe...
08/29/2019
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04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
- Hi,
I am struggling to find the country of birth for children under age 16. I thought I could find this variable ... -
- Hi Alita,
I check the figures using longitudinal weight (indpxnub_lw) in a balanced panel today. I found the perce... -
11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234: Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for looking into it.
I was using a merged dataset and looked at it observationally but also chec... -
- Hello Charlotte,
I have run a quick check and compared c_exsame e_exsame g_exsame and found:
1. 62 cases where c_...
08/28/2019
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- Hi,
I'm looking at waves 3, 5 and 7 of the individual file and the variable exsame. I noticed something that looks... -
- Dear Maddalena,
If you are using BHPS and Understanding Society together it is better to use https://beta.ukdatase... -
- Dear Staphanie, I have found the problem: my questions refers to the variable *jsttwt*, but I have copied for you the...
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- I have also just re-downloaded the following dta: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=661...
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- Dear Stephanie, thanks a lot for your quick reply!
I have tried redowloading the data before wirting to the support ... -
- Dear Maddalena,
I have checked several waves of data, including the one you mention here, and I find that the data... -
- Hello,
I want to use the variable jsttwt="minutes spent travelling to work" in the BHPS/UKHLS but I am experiencin...
08/27/2019
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08/23/2019
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- Hi Louise,
We are looking into this issue and will get back to you soon.
Best wishes,
Alita -
- Yes, the data for this boost sample, IEMBS, is already mereged into all the files. You can identify the data for this...
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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...
08/21/2019
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- Hi,
I found the percentage of young people (aged 20-34 years old in each wave) living with their parents in UKHLS ... -
- Louise,
'91' is the zz part of the weight. To choose it correctly please refer to my ealier message.
Generally i... -
- Duplicate issue to issue #1229.
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- Hi Onyinye,
Please read the text of the question "disdif" in the questionnaire for Wave 7 to determine if someone ...
08/20/2019
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- Hi Olena,
Sorry for bothering you again.
I just found that '91' weight is only applied to those who participa... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
I am investigating young people aged 20 to 34 years old in each wave. It is a ... -
- 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... -
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 ... -
- Hi there,
I would like to conduct some analysis on disabled sample members in USoc as defined by the Equality Act ...
08/19/2019
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- Dear Olena,
Many thanks for your help.
Back to your question, the unit of my analysis is individual in England.... -
- Thank you for your question.
Generally you won't go wrong if you use the weight from the last wave in your analys...
08/16/2019
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- Hello. I am working on regression models using fixed effect. It is a longitudinal analysis using all the available da...
08/15/2019
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- Hi Ashley,
We used the cohabitation and marital history data collated by Pronzato from the BHPS indresp and marita... -
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... -
- Dear Ella,
There does seem to be a mismatch betweeen the data, the questionnaire and the online documentation. The...
08/14/2019
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- The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Und...
08/13/2019
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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...
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