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From 09/23/2019 to 10/22/2019
10/22/2019
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05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1263: Number of households in broader London area
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for the rapid reply. Very helpful!
Best wishes,
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04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1263 (Feedback): Number of households in broader London area
- Dear Marie,
You can find out the answer to this question by looking at the variable gor_dv in the online documenta... -
- Hello,
I was wondering how many Understanding Society households are from the broader London area/ Greater London?... -
- Dear Marina,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Firstly, in calculating your final variable you wi... -
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- Dear Munyaradzi Kucherera,
I'm afraid we can't give an estimated date for this data as the linkage is still at an ... -
02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Thanks a lot Alita - v helpful. Please also forward my thanks to Olena for her help throughout.
Have a pleasant da... -
01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- The question you need to ask is why are you using weights. If your analysis is longitudinal (FE, RE, multi-level mode...
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- Dear Alita,
Thanks a lot for this.
This is v helpful and in line with my understanding from the readings. I had... -
- Hi Samir,
This issue is to do with how melogit works in Stata. My suggestion would be to look at Statalist and see... -
- Hello Olena,
Thanks a lot for this.
Unfortunately both options suggested didn't work. More specifically, using ...
10/21/2019
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10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Samir,
Thank you for your question. I am not very familiar with melogit command in Stata, but looking at the Stata... -
10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1262 (Feedback): Index of multiple deprivation
- Hi Xavier,
the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is not a variable we produce or share. We have linked our data to... -
10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1262 (Resolved): Index of multiple deprivation
- I've seen in the mainstage user guide that data for the Index of Multiple Deprivation has been linked to Understandin...
10/17/2019
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- Dear Munyaradzi Kucherera,
We asked for consent from participants to link that data at Wave 8, but since it can ta... -
12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1261 (Resolved): Energy use data
- HI,
I am currently analyse energy use data patterns and household thermal efficiency for UK households. I am kindl... -
12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
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what are the implications for the data analysis if I conduct the analysis without weighting the data using co...
10/16/2019
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02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Hi Olena,
In the user guide p58 table 28, it says w_indall includes non-respondents as well. It seems that it is n... -
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- Olena,
Thanks a lot for your reply. It is very clear to me.
Louise -
- Louise,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, the variables in indall are only available for respondents in the cur...
10/15/2019
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- Dear Officer,
Thank you for your previous support. Your help really means a lot to me.
I am currently looking ... -
- Hi Xavier,
the differences between the two variables are indeed minute. The difference stems from a slight differenc...
10/11/2019
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- Regarding my last question, I am essentially trying to understand the consequences on my model/results of not taking ...
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- Hello Olena,
Thanks a lot, this is v helpful.
As discussed, I applied the changes but *I wanted to check I used...
10/09/2019
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- To confirm, above I meant to write B7, not B2.
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- Xavier Castelino wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I was wondering why there are differences in the data for BHPS respondent... -
- Hi there,
I was wondering why there are differences in the data for BHPS respondents between the variables hiqual_... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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...
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- Samir,
Thank you for your question. I think you are using pooled analysis putting together waves 1 to 8.
For thi... -
- Dear Olena,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am undertaking a longitudinal data analysis using wave 1 to w... -
- Dear David,
No, we don't currently link to death records.
The following working paper will help with your repre... -
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...
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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...
10/07/2019
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10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249: Calculation of rent-to-income ratio
- Thanks very much for your detailed explanation, Stephanie
10/04/2019
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- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply. It is a very professional answer.
I am not sure if you are fam... -
- Dear Laura,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gen... -
- Dear Xavier,
This is because at some waves only new entrants are asked these questions, while at others everyone i...
10/03/2019
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- I'm trying to use the religion data from Understanding Society, and there's a few variables for which there isn't an ...
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- Dear Georgina,
We can't give advice about what to use, as this will depend on your research question, but you may ... -
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... -
- Dear Fatima,
Yes, if you reply to this issue then I will reassign it to Olena.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
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...
10/02/2019
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- Dear Tom,
We do have some additional data which could help answer your question but it is not currently released. ... -
- Yes, you are right - at the second stage you should use longitudinal weights, although if for example you only use 2 ...
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- Currently, my analysis is cross-sectional. As of now, there is no difference for me if it is wave 1 or 8. Although, h...
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- Thank you. Can I just clarify how many waves per person you need for your analysis. Is one wave observation enough or...
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- My population of interest are people who have finished their school in 80s, 90s and 00s. I am looking at their univer...
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- Fatima,
Thank you for your question. Could you kindly tell me what you are trying to study - schools or people, ag... -
- Hello!
I am a bit lost about the correct weights for analysis. My project makes use of school codes and I can see ... -
- Dear Marina,
A response from our Income team:
I will try to shed some light on the issues around the data.
F... -
- I'm wanting to categorise the youth wellbeing questions, for example using ypsdqha_dv to define who has a high or not...
10/01/2019
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- Dear Matthias,
This information is avaiable in the variable plbornc_all which is part of the Special Licence datas... -
02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1251 (Resolved): Identifying country of birth
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For many individuals born abroad, the country of birth is subsumed under the category "other" (the same is true... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Helen,
Averaging weighted scores over time would have a very strange meaning. So, it would be useful to know at th...
09/30/2019
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- Hi Stephanie,
Thank you for your help.
The FRS uses the rent net of housing benefit. I assume that if I want ... -
- Dear Marina,
In the first step, you should divide by the OECD equivalence scale rather than multiplying. Next, if ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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 ...
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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,
I think what you are doing is pooled analysis. For this you pool information from different waves rather th...
09/27/2019
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- Hi,
I am trying to calculate a measure indicating the share of income spent on rent among private renters only. M...
09/26/2019
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- I am working with data from the adult 16+ individual questionnaire, namely the *_indresp data files. I am interested ...
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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.
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09/25/2019
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- Hi Lydia,
All information about marriage and cohabitations reported, whether as part of the histories, or current ...
09/24/2019
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- Ok, . That was what I was looking for! Ijust got confused by the two values.
So basically, if they had already bee... -
- Dear Lydia,
These questions are part of the partnership history module, Wave 2 module here https://www.understandi... -
- Yes, exactly. I just noticed that there are different values : -9 is inapplicable and 0 date of the marriage is missi...
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- Dear Lydia,
Are you using the file xwavedat? The label for the value of 0 for both of those variables in xwavedat ... -
- Hi,
I am interested in understanding what the value = 0 for the variables lmar1y lmar1m means.
It is associate... -
Hi,
This is to ask you about the unusually high share of EU born respondents reporting only British citizenship...
09/23/2019
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- Dear Karen,
The DWP data is likely to have information regarding benefit claims, but it is not yet agreed.
For ... -
- Marina,
Thank you for the detailed explanation - this always clarifies the question. Yes, you definitely have to u... -
- Hi Olena,
In my model I use respondents from wave 7 only, but I consider the answers that wave 7 respondents gave...
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