Understanding Society User Support

09/23/2019

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223 (Feedback): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access

Dear Karen,
The DWP data is likely to have information regarding benefit claims, but it is not yet agreed.
For ... Stephanie Auty

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245: Weighting

Marina,
Thank you for the detailed explanation - this always clarifies the question. Yes, you definitely have to u... Olena Kaminska

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245: Weighting

Hi Olena,
In my model I use respondents from wave 7 only, but I consider the answers that wave 7 respondents gave... Marina Fernandez Reino

09/20/2019

10:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236 (Feedback): Variable defining month of sample issue

Stephanie Auty

10:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243 (Feedback): longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave

Stephanie Auty

10:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245 (Feedback): Weighting

Stephanie Auty

09/19/2019

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245: Weighting

Thanks, Olena! Marina Fernandez Reino

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... Olena Kaminska

09/18/2019

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... Gundi Knies

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... Marina Fernandez Reino

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.... Marina Fernandez Reino

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... Olena Kaminska

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

09/17/2019

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,... Darja Reuschke

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... Gundi Knies

09/16/2019

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 ... Louise Luo

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 Louise Luo

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... Gundi Knies

09/13/2019

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.... Marina Fernandez Reino

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... Gundi Knies

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 ... Nurfatima Jandarova

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 ... Gundi Knies

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1229 (Resolved): Equality Act 2010 definition of disability

Gundi Knies

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1232 (Resolved): 2015 immigrant and ethnic minority boost and ward level data

Gundi Knies

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1233 (Resolved): Commuting to work (jsttwt)

Gundi Knies

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1237 (Resolved): Month of birth variables

Gundi Knies

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1238 (Resolved): Genotyping Data - plink format

Gundi Knies

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #908 (Resolved): Request

Gundi Knies

10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1221 (Resolved): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level

Gundi Knies

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239 (Resolved): Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS

Gundi Knies

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... Gundi Knies

09/12/2019

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... Marina Fernandez Reino

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241: Problem merging inderesp with children data

Thanks for your detailed explanation, Gundi Marina Fernandez Reino

09/10/2019

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... Gundi Knies

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 ... Marina Fernandez Reino

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 Marina Fernandez Reino

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.... Gundi Knies

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... Marina Fernandez Reino

03:24 PM 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... Anonymous

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1239: Using weights on a subsample of UKHLS

Thanks very much for this Olena
A Amanda Moorghen

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... Olena Kaminska

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235: Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15

Thanks for your answer, Stephanie Marina Fernandez Reino

09/09/2019

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. ... Marina Fernandez Reino

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... Nurfatima Jandarova

09/07/2019

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 ... Amanda Moorghen

09/06/2019

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 Stephanie Auty

09/05/2019

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... Stephanie Auty

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 (... Dionysios Grigoriadis

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Maddalena Ronchi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Oarabile Molaodi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Oarabile Molaodi

09/03/2019

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... Alita Nandi

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... Sarah H

09/02/2019

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 ... Alita Nandi

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 ... Alita Nandi

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... Olena Kaminska

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... Stephanie Auty

08/30/2019

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... Louise Luo

08/29/2019

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 ... Marina Fernandez Reino

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... Louise Luo

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... Charlotte Edney

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_... Alita Nandi

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