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From 08/21/2019 to 09/19/2019
09/19/2019
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04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245: Weighting
 - Thanks, Olena!
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03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245: Weighting
 - Marina,
If in your model you only use information from wave h then you can use xw weight. But if you use any infor... 
09/18/2019
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06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi Marina,
great to hear that you have managed to get the data merge together the way you intended!
As to the in... - 
  
01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Dear Gundi, 
Thanks for your help. I have now a file with all the children below age 16 (1 child per row) and I ha... - 
  
05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245 (Resolved): Weighting
 - Hi, 
I have a really basic question about weights though I want to make sure that I'm doing my analysis correctly.... - 
  
01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243: longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave
 - Louise,
I assume you are interested in a more general question on the covariates that are used in a specific weigh... - 
  
11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243 (In Progress): longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave
 - The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Under... - 
  
11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1244: variable howling in SN6614
 - Hello,
You have made a small typo - the name of the variable is HOWLNG and not HOWLING. The variable HOWLNG is ava... - 
  
11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1244 (In Progress): variable howling in SN6614
 - The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Under... 
09/17/2019
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07:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1244 (Resolved): variable howling in SN6614
 - The variable howling (hours spent on housework per week) is included in the variable catalogue in indresp in waves 1,...
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03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1240: School codes
 - Hi Nurfatima,
Yes, your assumption is correct. We have raised an internal request to address this issue. The curre... 
09/16/2019
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05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243 (Resolved): longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave
 - Dear Officers,
I am not an expert in sampling weight. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.
I am looking at ... - 
  
05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231: Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
 - Hi Alita,
Thanks for your reply.
Best wishes,
Louise - 
  
03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi Marina,
I see - sorry for that. If it is just one wave your code seems to be fine. The h_indall file has 19,009 c... 
09/13/2019
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05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Thanks, Gundi. I think the confusion is because you thought I was using all waves, but I am only using the last wave....
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10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi Marina,
I am afraid something has gone wrong in your data merge as there really are respondents who have a diff... - 
  
04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1240: School codes
 - Thanks a lot for a reply!
Just to be clear, when you say to take country in account, it is only possible to do so ... - 
  
10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1240 (Feedback): School codes
 - Dear Nurfatima,
Thank you for your questions.
We do not currently publish details of the school lists used by ... - 
  
10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229 (Resolved): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability
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10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (Resolved): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data
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10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233 (Resolved): Commuting to work (jsttwt)
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10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1237 (Resolved): Month of birth variables
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10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1238 (Resolved): Genotyping Data - plink format
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10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Resolved): Request
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10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221 (Resolved): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
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10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239 (Resolved): Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS
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10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1242 (Feedback): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of birth of first child.
 - Dear Barbara,
the information is routinely provided in the SL version of the data, see - for example:
https://www.u... 
09/12/2019
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05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi Gundi, 
I just wanted to make sure I am doing this OK.
These are the steps I've followed:
_Get your pidp-C... - 
  
11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Thanks for your detailed explanation, Gundi
 
09/10/2019
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06:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi Marina,
this is quite a complex data merge and, in general, I think it is best (as in: least error prone) to keep... - 
  
04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081: Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info
 - Hi Gundi, 
Just to make sure I am doing things right: there are 743 children who have a mother pidp identifier that ... - 
  
04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081: Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info
 - Thanks, Gundi. I don't know how I didn't realised it could be done that way
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04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081: Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info
 - Hi Marina,
I think you might want to look up the -merge- command in Stata. You can do a m:1 or 1:m merge on mnspid.... - 
  
03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1081: Youth and individual respondents datasets - merging info
 - Hi, 
I have a question regarding Support #1081.
I am following Stephanie's advice because I also want to merge m... - 
  
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  Understanding Society User Support
  Support #1242 (Resolved): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of birth of first child.
   - To whom it may correspond, 
My name is Barbara Boggiano and I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of... - 
  
02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239: Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS
 - Thanks very much for this Olena
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09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239: Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS
 - Dear Amanda,
Yes, your syntax looks correct. And yes if you use any subpopulation you should use weights as for th... - 
  
10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235: Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
 - Thanks for your answer, Stephanie
 
09/09/2019
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07:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241 (Resolved): Problem merging inderesp with children data
 - Hi, 
My objective is to construct a dataset that includes all household members, including children aged 0 to 15. ... - 
  
03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1240 (Resolved): School codes
 - Hello!
I am using SN7182 dataset with school codes and have a question regarding the school codes. In the documentat... 
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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04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1238 (In Progress): Genotyping Data - plink format
 - 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 (... - 
  
04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1237 (Feedback): Month of birth variables
 - 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... - 
  
11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236 (In Progress): Variable defining month of sample issue
 - Hello Oarabile,
I can find a_month, b_month,... variables in a_hhresp, b_hhresp in the most recently released vers... - 
  
12:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236 (Resolved): Variable defining month of sample issue
 - 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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04:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
 - 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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06:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234: Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
 - 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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06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231: Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
 - 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... - 
  
12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235 (Feedback): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
 - 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 ... - 
  
02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231: Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
 - 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... - 
  
11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234 (In Progress): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
 - 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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06:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
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I'm looking at waves 3, 5 and 7 of the individual file and the variable exsame. I noticed something that looks... - 
  
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... - 
  
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...
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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...
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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 ... - 
  
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... - 
  
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... 
08/27/2019
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03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (Feedback): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data
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03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229 (Feedback): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability
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03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228 (In Progress): Unbalanced panel weight
 
08/23/2019
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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 - 
  
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...
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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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02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
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I found the percentage of young people (aged 20-34 years old in each wave) living with their parents in UKHLS ... - 
  
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... - 
  
10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1230 (Closed): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability
 - Duplicate issue to issue #1229.
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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 ... 
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