Understanding Society User Support

10/09/2019

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1259: Education level

To confirm, above I meant to write B7, not B2. Xavier Castelino

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1259: Education level

Xavier Castelino wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was wondering why there are differences in the data for BHPS respondent... Xavier Castelino

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1259 (Resolved): Education level

Hi there,
I was wondering why there are differences in the data for BHPS respondents between the variables hiqual_... Xavier Castelino

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1258 (In Progress): Housing costs 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... Stephanie Auty

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1258 (In Progress): Housing costs in BHPS

I am keen to create an after housing costs in BHPS but am unclear what is included in the variable xphsg (gross month... Lindsay Judge

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257 (Feedback): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data

Samir,
Thank you for your question. I think you are using pooled analysis putting together waves 1 to 8.
For thi... Olena Kaminska

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data

Dear Olena,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am undertaking a longitudinal data analysis using wave 1 to w... Samir Sweida-Metwally

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1256 (Feedback): questions re deaths and representativeness

Dear David,
No, we don't currently link to death records.
The following working paper will help with your repre... Stephanie Auty

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1256 (Resolved): questions re deaths and representativeness

Sorry to bug you – especially as, no doubt, this information is available somewhere on your website. In my defence, h... David Walsh

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252: Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions

Thanks Stephanie, I understand that this is not in your remit.
I have a follow up question that I think will be thou... Laura M

10/07/2019

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249: Calculation of rent-to-income ratio

Thanks very much for your detailed explanation, Stephanie Marina Fernandez Reino

10/04/2019

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243: longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave

Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply. It is a very professional answer.
I am not sure if you are fam... Louise Luo

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252 (Feedback): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions

Dear Laura,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gen... Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1255 (Feedback): Religion data

Dear Xavier,
This is because at some waves only new entrants are asked these questions, while at others everyone i... Stephanie Auty

10/03/2019

08:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1255 (Resolved): Religion data

I'm trying to use the religion data from Understanding Society, and there's a few variables for which there isn't an ... Xavier Castelino

05:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1254 (Feedback): alternative for a question

Dear Georgina,
We can't give advice about what to use, as this will depend on your research question, but you may ... Stephanie Auty

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1254 (Resolved): alternative for a question

Hi there,

I wanted to ask about the variable “someone to rely on when there is a serious problem” which is constr... Georgina Martin

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253 (Feedback): Selecting correct weights

Dear Fatima,
Yes, if you reply to this issue then I will reassign it to Olena.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

10:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

Thanks a lot for the advice! I will do as suggested. If I have some additional questions along the way, could I reope... Nurfatima Jandarova

10/02/2019

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1250: Identifying transitions from households to institutions (older adults)

Dear Tom,
We do have some additional data which could help answer your question but it is not currently released. ... Stephanie Auty

02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

Yes, you are right - at the second stage you should use longitudinal weights, although if for example you only use 2 ... Olena Kaminska

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

Currently, my analysis is cross-sectional. As of now, there is no difference for me if it is wave 1 or 8. Although, h... Nurfatima Jandarova

01:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

Thank you. Can I just clarify how many waves per person you need for your analysis. Is one wave observation enough or... Olena Kaminska

01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

My population of interest are people who have finished their school in 80s, 90s and 00s. I am looking at their univer... Nurfatima Jandarova

01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights

Fatima,
Thank you for your question. Could you kindly tell me what you are trying to study - schools or people, ag... Olena Kaminska

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253 (Resolved): Selecting correct weights

Hello!
I am a bit lost about the correct weights for analysis. My project makes use of school codes and I can see ... Nurfatima Jandarova

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249 (Feedback): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio

Dear Marina,
A response from our Income team:
I will try to shed some light on the issues around the data.
F... Stephanie Auty

10:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252 (Resolved): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions

I'm wanting to categorise the youth wellbeing questions, for example using ypsdqha_dv to define who has a high or not... Laura M

10/01/2019

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1251 (Feedback): Identifying country of birth

Dear Matthias,
This information is avaiable in the variable plbornc_all which is part of the Special Licence datas... Stephanie Auty

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1251 (Resolved): Identifying country of birth

Hi
For many individuals born abroad, the country of birth is subsumed under the category "other" (the same is true... Matt F

04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1250 (In Progress): Identifying transitions from households to institutions (older adults)

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

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1248: Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS

Helen,
Averaging weighted scores over time would have a very strange meaning. So, it would be useful to know at th... Olena Kaminska

09/30/2019

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249: Calculation of rent-to-income ratio

Hi Stephanie,
Thank you for your help.
The FRS uses the rent net of housing benefit. I assume that if I want ... Marina Fernandez Reino

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249 (In Progress): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio

Dear Marina,
In the first step, you should divide by the OECD equivalence scale rather than multiplying. Next, if ... Stephanie Auty

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247 (In Progress): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only

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

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1250 (In Progress): Identifying transitions from households to institutions (older adults)

I am trying to identify transitions from households to institutions among older people aged 65+ (ideally residential ... Tom Snell

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1248: Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS

Thanks for the quick response, Olena.
Yes, I am looking to pool information by individual across different time po... Helen Burkhardt

10:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1248: Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS

Helen,
I think what you are doing is pooled analysis. For this you pool information from different waves rather th... Olena Kaminska

09/27/2019

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio

Hi,
I am trying to calculate a measure indicating the share of income spent on rent among private renters only. M... Marina Fernandez Reino

09/26/2019

09:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1248 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS

I am working with data from the adult 16+ individual questionnaire, namely the *_indresp data files. I am interested ... Helen Burkhardt

07:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246: Evermar

Hi Alita,
Thank you.
I think that for evermar the coding that you mention is quite in line with my thoughts.
... Lydia Palumbo

09/25/2019

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246: Evermar

Hi Lydia,
All information about marriage and cohabitations reported, whether as part of the histories, or current ... Alita Nandi

09/24/2019

05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246: Evermar

Ok, . That was what I was looking for! Ijust got confused by the two values.
So basically, if they had already bee... Lydia Palumbo

05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246: Evermar

Dear Lydia,
These questions are part of the partnership history module, Wave 2 module here https://www.understandi... Stephanie Auty

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246: Evermar

Yes, exactly. I just noticed that there are different values : -9 is inapplicable and 0 date of the marriage is missi... Lydia Palumbo

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246 (Feedback): Evermar

Dear Lydia,
Are you using the file xwavedat? The label for the value of 0 for both of those variables in xwavedat ... Stephanie Auty

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar

Hi,
I am interested in understanding what the value = 0 for the variables lmar1y lmar1m means.
It is associate... Lydia Palumbo

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only

Hi,

This is to ask you about the unusually high share of EU born respondents reporting only British citizenship... Marina Fernandez Reino

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