Understanding Society User Support

12/23/2019

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

And to respond to your earlier question, the weights that you suggested are correct. The reason that some zero weight... Olena Kaminska

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Lydia,
My suggestion would be use longitudinal enumeration weight at time t, and conditional on it being positive ... Olena Kaminska

02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Dear Charlotte,
We are still in discussion of this issue and ISER will be closed over the holiday period, reopenin... Stephanie Auty

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1295 (Feedback): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society

Dear C,
We are not aware of any work on this topic. If you would like to discuss this with other researchers you c... Stephanie Auty

12/20/2019

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Dear Charlotte,
By using duplicates report pidp (in Stata) on the i_chmain data file, you can see that there is mo... Stephanie Auty

08:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

I forgot one part. If possible, I would like to do
a robustness check by using cross-sectional (or design) weights
... Lydia Palumbo

08:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Hi Olena,
Sorry. I was not clear. I will rephrase the issue.
I am doing a pooled cross-sectional analysis (with... Lydia Palumbo

07:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?

Lydia,
Thank you for your question. Could you clarify? Are you creating your own weights or are you using ours? If... Olena Kaminska

12/19/2019

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Dear Charlotte,
Apologies, Alita is currently on leave but I will see what I can find out.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file

Hi,
Apoligies if you are still working on it, but am wondering if there is any update on my question?
Best,
Ch... Charlotte Edney

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