Activity
From 10/10/2019 to 11/08/2019
11/08/2019
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10:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270 (In Progress): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Dear Ines,
Government Office Region is the smallest area variable in the EUL dataset, but we have other smaller va... -
12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270 (Resolved): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Hello,
I am trying to analyse UK data from the Understanding Society dataset and I would like to make comparisons ...
11/04/2019
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- Dear Kris,
You may find the questions opsoca-f useful - these were included in several waves of BHPS and are due t... -
- 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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- Dear Harvey,
You could investigate this through looking at the w_relationship_dv and w_mastat_dv variables as they...
11/01/2019
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05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an ex
- Hello,
A recent report using data from the Understanding Survey found that 2.5 million Brits are in "hidden househ...
10/31/2019
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05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1268 (Resolved): Political Ideology
- Hi,
After looking through the dataset, much of the documentation (which is vast), using the online variable search...
10/25/2019
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01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
Louise -
- Dear Tom,
Thank you for making us aware of this issue. We have passed the information to our data release team for...
10/24/2019
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- 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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12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1265 (Resolved): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
- Hi,
I wanted ask whether it would be possible to ensure that data storage types for a given variable not change fr... -
03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
Hi
what are the implications for the data analysis if I conduct the analysis without weighting the data using com...-
03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- Hi Stephanie and Olena
Thank you very much for your answers. I confirm that they only reason I was using longitudi...
10/23/2019
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02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Louise,
There are a number of levels of nonresponse in our data:
1) household nonresponse at wave 1 (where some h... -
- Marina,
Apologies. I just realized that you very helpfully included your syntax. I just had a look at it and notic... -
- Marina,
I agree with Stephanie that you need to use weights to make sure you account correctly for the immigrant ...
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,
Marie -
- 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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- 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... -
- Hi
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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- 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...
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