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From 10/20/2019 to 11/18/2019
11/18/2019
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05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275 (Feedback): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
- Dear Yuliya,
This appears to be a coding error in bg_oprlg1. I have referred it to the data team to correct it, bu... -
04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275: Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
- Dear Stephanie,
I am using the harmonised dataset and, yes, I am looking at bw_oprlg1.
Thank you,
Yuliya -
- Dear Yuliya,
Could you confirm whether you are using the harmonised dataset? If so, are you looking at the harmoni... -
- Hello,
I just wanted to add some comments on the religion distribution in 1997 and 1999.
I take only those peo...
11/15/2019
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11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271: Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available
- Olena,
I see. Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Louise
11/14/2019
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- Hello,
I work with questions on religion and find some inconsistencies. Maybe you can help me in sorting this out.... -
11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Thank you. Yes, I realized that the combination was nonsense.Thank you for the link.
I was not sure how to set the ... -
10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Lydia,
No, you shouldn't combine PSU and ID - as the results will be wrong. If you have to choose you should use t... -
- Dear Michael,
A response from the biomarkers team:
We have not made polygenic scores for public use. We are consi... -
- Louise,
Thank you. For these households I imputed the missing predictor values.
Best of luck,
Olena
11/13/2019
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- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply.
I am creating my own cross-sectional individual weights. I want... -
- Louise,
I have checked for you and for the households id's that you mentioned we provided b_psnenub_xw b_psnenus_l... -
- Thank you. It does.
I think that in this way it is possible to use svyset because
I can create a variable that ... -
- Lydia,
Indeed some statistical analyses do not work with svy command. One of such is multilevel models, random eff... -
- Dear Support,
I have a question on how to analyse weights.
In the handouts of the Moodle, I found that I should ... -
03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1274 (Resolved): Polygenic Scores
- Hi,
Are there any plans for the public use data to have pre-constructed Polygenic scores and for these to be avail...
11/12/2019
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- Dear Officer,
According to my understanding, the individual weights take into account predicted household respons... -
- Ines,
No, you don't need to recalculated the weights. A weight that is used for the whole population is correct to... -
11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270: Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Ines,
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> Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any...
11/11/2019
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- Ines,
Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any subpopulation if defined usi...
11/08/2019
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- Dear Ines,
Government Office Region is the smallest area variable in the EUL dataset, but we have other smaller va... -
- 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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- 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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- 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...
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