Understanding Society User Support

12/18/2019

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1295 (In Progress): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society

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

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1284 (Feedback): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to

Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in replying to you.
Yes, I have had it confirmed that g_csakidnoNN, g_cmsco... Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Hi,
I am using longitudinal weights to analyse the event between t an t+1.
Now I am questioning whether I am ... Lydia Palumbo

12/17/2019

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1294 (Feedback): Universe of school variable

Dear Nurfatima,
You can use the derived variables school_dv and scend_dv in xwavedat to see the most up to date in... Stephanie Auty

12/16/2019

06:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society

Hi! I'd be interested to know if someone has tested the stability of personality across the two waves in which the Bi... C Josten

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1294 (Resolved): Universe of school variable

Hello!
Could you please help me figure out my confusion about school attendance status. If I look at the questionn... Nurfatima Jandarova

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1269 (Feedback): Living with an ex

Stephanie Auty

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1281 (Feedback): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280 (Feedback): ISCED

Dear Laura,
We plan to create the derived variable for ISCED to be released with Wave 10 data next year, but if yo... Stephanie Auty

12/12/2019

07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1293: How to contact sample members from wave 2?

I see. Thank you.
Louise Louise Luo

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1293 (Feedback): How to contact sample members from wave 2?

Dear Louise,
The calls you are referring to are not telephone calls, but times that the interviewer called at the ... Stephanie Auty

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?

Dear officer,
I know that there is a participant web for sample persons to update their addresses. However, I am n... Louise Luo

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1292 (Feedback): SF-12 Items

Dear Laura,
You don't say which wave you are working with, but from Wave 2 onwards the components of the sf12 were... Stephanie Auty

02:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1292 (Resolved): SF-12 Items

Dear UKHLS Team,
I am interested in using the SF-12 in my research. However, I would prefer to work with the 12 i... Laura Spitaleri

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280: ISCED

Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Laura,
>
> The Wave 9 data does contain the information needed to calculate the ISCE... Laura Spitaleri

12/10/2019

06:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1291 (Feedback): Measurement error in savings data

Dear Mihai,
As this question was only asked of those who have savings accounts, in Wave 8 13% of respondents provi... Stephanie Auty

12:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1291 (Resolved): Measurement error in savings data

Hi,
I am currently working with the savings data in USoc (save, saved, svamt etc.) and the savdocs variable shows ... Mihai Codreanu

05:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1290 (Feedback): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income

Dear C,
Negative values in our income variables refer to self employment losses. A value of 0 means their income w... Stephanie Auty

12/09/2019

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1290 (Resolved): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income

Hi!
I'd like to better understand what a value of zero means for the variable fimnlabgrs_dv. Similarly, what does ... C Josten

12/05/2019

07:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1287 (Feedback): Inapplicable observations

Dear Xavier,
You do not say which wave you are looking at, but some general advice would be to look at the questio... Stephanie Auty

12:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1287 (Resolved): Inapplicable observations

Hi there,
There are a few variables of observation which have data listed as inapplicable, the reason for which I ... Xavier Castelino

07:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1288 (Feedback): Overtime variables

Dear Xavier,
You can see the flow of the questions, either by downloading the full questionnaire here: https://www... Stephanie Auty

12:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1288 (Resolved): Overtime variables

Hi there,
I've been looking at the overtime variables, and am a little confused at the measurement technique. Both... Xavier Castelino

06:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280: ISCED

Dear Laura,
The Wave 9 data does contain the information needed to calculate the ISCED value, but it has not yet b... Stephanie Auty

05:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1289: What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable

Brilliant, thankyou Nicole Martin

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1289 (Resolved): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable

Hi Nicole,
sorry for that. We have changed the programmes and have overlooked a coding mistake on this variable. It ... Gundi Knies

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1289 (Resolved): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable

I have used the variable w_jbnssec3_dv in the file w_indresp for a number of projects but in the new data release the... Nicole Martin

12/03/2019

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286: Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset

Perfect. thanks a lot for your help!
Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> Yes, w_childpno in w_chmain corre... David Irvine

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1285 (Feedback): Missing interview year and month

Dear C,
For Understanding Society datasets, please use the derived date variables, w_intdatd_dv w_intdatm_dv w_int... Stephanie Auty

11/29/2019

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286 (Feedback): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset

Dear David,
Yes, w_childpno in w_chmain corresponds to w_pno in w_indall (within a wave) so, along with w_hidp, ca... Stephanie Auty

03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282 (Feedback): ISCO-88 derived classification

Dear C,
THe coding for those variables in these waves was done by our fieldwork agencies at the time. The 11 and 2... Stephanie Auty

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278: Keeping in touch with participants

This issue will be discussed directly. Stephanie Auty

11/28/2019

07:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282: ISCO-88 derived classification

Thanks, I will get back to you when I have an answer.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

07:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286 (In Progress): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset

Stephanie Auty

04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286: Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset

David,
Thank you for your question. I suggest you use g_psnenui_xw weight as it has a higher sample size, but g_ps... Olena Kaminska

07:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1284 (In Progress): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to

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

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1285 (In Progress): Missing interview year and month

Dear C,
BHPS does not include an interview year variable because all of the interviews took place within one calen... Stephanie Auty

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1283 (Feedback): Job satisfaction: comparability across BHPS and Understanding Society

Dear C,
The main reason we have not harmonised these variables was that jbsat in BHPS wasn't asked of self employe... Stephanie Auty

11/27/2019

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset

Hi,
Sorry to bother you again. I work for DWP and have been trying to do some cross sectional analysis of the wave... David Irvine

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

I did see this note and orginally thought it makes it seems like this is an error in just wave 9? And it was applied ... Charlotte Edney

04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Just above the Universe this note is written:
"In Loops
Loop foreach child enumerated via CSAKIDNO, CMCOKIDNO and C... Alita Nandi

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Hi Alita,
I'm sorry but I'm not following you very well. I can't find the filtering information anywhere in the qu... Charlotte Edney

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

In Waves 5, 7 and 9, adult respondents (cases in w_indresp) for whom w_csacalc=1 & at least one w_csakidno[N]=1 OR w_... Alita Nandi

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1285 (Resolved): Missing interview year and month

Hi!
I realised that the variable interview month and year is missing for all of BHPS wave one and for parts of other... C Josten

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1284 (Resolved): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to

Hi,
Sorry to bother you. I work for DWP and am trying to find out how many parents have child maintenance arrangem... David Irvine

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282: ISCO-88 derived classification

Hi Stephanie,
thanks for getting back. The code 200 and the code 11 both appear in the BHPS in wave 1 and 9. The c... C Josten

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282 (In Progress): ISCO-88 derived classification

Dear C,
Could you tell me which waves you are looking at? I can see a code of 10 in UKHLS datasets but not the oth... Stephanie Auty

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282 (Resolved): ISCO-88 derived classification

Hi Stephanie!
Thanks for answering my previous question. Additionally, I'd be interested to know if there is an over... C Josten

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1283 (Resolved): Job satisfaction: comparability across BHPS and Understanding Society

Hi! I'd be interested to know whether there is a joint "job satisfaction variable" that can be used across teh BHPS a... C Josten

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1281 (In Progress): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS

Dear C Josten,
1. We are not able to advise on this and suggest looking at previous research using personality mea... Stephanie Auty

11/26/2019

05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1281 (Resolved): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS

Hi!
I have two questions regarding the Big5 personality traits in the BHPS and Understanding Society:
1. I am c... C Josten

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280 (In Progress): ISCED

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

11/25/2019

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Lydia,
Yes, you can take couples into account. If you want you can specify three levels of clustering: PSUs, coupl... Olena Kaminska

11/22/2019

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Hi,
I do have another question about multistage sampling.
My sampling strategy is to consider only those who f... Lydia Palumbo

10:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280 (Resolved): ISCED

Dear support team,
I am wondering if there is an ISCED variable available for UKHLS? I saw that this exists for B... Laura Spitaleri

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278 (In Progress): Keeping in touch with participants

Alita Nandi

09:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278: Keeping in touch with participants

Hello,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you... Alita Nandi

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279 (In Progress): Wave 9 chmain file

Hello,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you... Alita Nandi

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