Understanding Society User Support

11/21/2019

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279 (In Progress): Wave 9 chmain file

Hi,
I've just downloaded wave 9 of Understanding Society to add another wave of child maintenance data (chmain fil... Charlotte Edney

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants

Dear Support,
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction of any keeping in touch exercises that you ca... Anna Tudor

11/20/2019

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271 (Feedback): Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available

Stephanie Auty

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273 (Feedback): Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Stephanie Auty

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275: Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for your help and advice.
Best wishes,
Yuliya Yuliya Kazakova

11/19/2019

05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1277 (Feedback): Tracking marital statuses

Dear Chetan,
New entrants are asked their relationship history in the relationshiphistory module at the wave they ... Stephanie Auty

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1277 (Resolved): Tracking marital statuses

I was wondering if it was possible to determine whether an individual was a single mother or divorced when they were ... Chetan Jethwa

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1276 (Feedback): Info on estranged young people

Dear Andrew,
When using the questions you mention, please be aware that if a participant has both a biological and... Stephanie Auty

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1276 (Resolved): Info on estranged young people

I am trying to find out more information on young people (25 and under) who have been estranged from their parents. P... Andrew O'Neil

11/18/2019

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... Stephanie Auty

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 Yuliya Kazakova

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275 (In Progress): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9

Dear Yuliya,
Could you confirm whether you are using the harmonised dataset? If so, are you looking at the harmoni... Stephanie Auty

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275: Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9

Hello,
I just wanted to add some comments on the religion distribution in 1997 and 1999.

I take only those peo... Yuliya Kazakova

11/15/2019

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 Louise Luo

11/14/2019

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275 (Resolved): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9

Hello,
I work with questions on religion and find some inconsistencies. Maybe you can help me in sorting this out.... Yuliya Kazakova

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 ... Lydia Palumbo

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... Olena Kaminska

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1274 (Feedback): Polygenic Scores

Dear Michael,
A response from the biomarkers team:
We have not made polygenic scores for public use. We are consi... Stephanie Auty

10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271: Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available

Louise,
Thank you. For these households I imputed the missing predictor values.
Best of luck,
Olena Olena Kaminska

11/13/2019

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271: Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available

Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply.
I am creating my own cross-sectional individual weights. I want... Louise Luo

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271: Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available

Louise,
I have checked for you and for the households id's that you mentioned we provided b_psnenub_xw b_psnenus_l... Olena Kaminska

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Thank you. It does.
I think that in this way it is possible to use svyset because
I can create a variable that ... Lydia Palumbo

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Lydia,
Indeed some statistical analyses do not work with svy command. One of such is multilevel models, random eff... Olena Kaminska

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273 (Resolved): Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Dear Support,
I have a question on how to analyse weights.
In the handouts of the Moodle, I found that I should ... Lydia Palumbo

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... Michael Lebenbaum

11/12/2019

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271 (Resolved): Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available

Dear Officer,
According to my understanding, the individual weights take into account predicted household respons... Louise Luo

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270: Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data

Ines,
No, you don't need to recalculated the weights. A weight that is used for the whole population is correct to... Olena Kaminska

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270: Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data

Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Ines,
>
> Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any... Ines Barreiros

11/11/2019

02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270 (Feedback): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data

Stephanie Auty

12:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270: Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data

Ines,
Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any subpopulation if defined usi... Olena Kaminska

11/08/2019

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... Stephanie Auty

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 ... Ines Barreiros

11/04/2019

06:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1268 (Feedback): Political Ideology

Dear Kris,
You may find the questions opsoca-f useful - these were included in several waves of BHPS and are due t... Stephanie Auty

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1268 (In Progress): Political Ideology

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

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1269 (In Progress): Living with an ex

Dear Harvey,
You could investigate this through looking at the w_relationship_dv and w_mastat_dv variables as they... Stephanie Auty

11/01/2019

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... Harvey Day

10/31/2019

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... Kristinn Mar

10/25/2019

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment

Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
Louise Louise Luo

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1265 (Feedback): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave

Dear Tom,
Thank you for making us aware of this issue. We have passed the information to our data release team for... Stephanie Auty

10/24/2019

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1265 (In Progress): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave

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

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... Tom Waters

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... Sarah H

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... Marina Fernandez Reino

10/23/2019

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... Olena Kaminska

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only

Marina,
Apologies. I just realized that you very helpfully included your syntax. I just had a look at it and notic... Olena Kaminska

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only

Marina,
I agree with Stephanie that you need to use weights to make sure you account correctly for the immigrant ... Olena Kaminska