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From 01/21/2020 to 02/19/2020
02/19/2020
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06:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1314 (In Progress): NPD-USOC linkages
- Dear Daniel,
This page describes the linkages we are planning and the stages they are at: https://www.understandin... -
- Dear Marie,
These questions are asked as part of the child development module, which is asked of parents when thei... -
02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1315 (Resolved): SDQ in child data
- Hello,
Until recently I thought SDQ data was only available for 10-to 15-year olds. However, now I saw the SDQ als...
02/18/2020
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04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1314 (Resolved): NPD-USOC linkages
- I am the Head of Data Science at the Behavioural Insights Team and we are working on a project for the Government Equ...
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- Dear Yu-Chin,
Children are followed if they are original sample members. The following rules and definitions are i... -
02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question
- Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all, thank you for all the work regarding the wonderful data. I am a PhD student at UAntw... -
- Dear Georgios,
The fieldwork team say it is reasonable to assume that interviews before Wave 5 were completed on t...
02/14/2020
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09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Thank you Stephanie, that's good to be aware of on the seeterm variables. And thank you for the information on relex.
02/13/2020
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- Dear Laura,
The 8 and 9 codes for cseeterm2 will remain the same as in Wave 9 to avoid confusion when merging wave... -
- Dear Laura,
The inapplicable responses in relex are due to this question being asked only once per ex partner, whi... -
- Dear Stephanie,
I have a tangentially related question. We have used the seeterm variable as a proxy for relations... -
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for this. I'm less concerned with the change in options and more the change in looping. ... -
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- Dear Georgios,
In the harmonised datasets, variables with different names in BHPS were renamed to the UKHLS equiva...
02/12/2020
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06:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1312: Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- BHPS had variables "doid/doim/doiy4" as "Date of interview: day/month/year".
These in the Harmonaised BHPS "istrtdat... -
- BHPS had variables "doid/doim/doiy4" as "Date of interview: day/month/year".
These in the Harmonaised BHPS "istrtdat... -
- Dear Laura,
I have some updated information about i_cseeterm and i_cseeterm2: this was not due to a script error, ... -
- Dear Ashling,
Yes, the variable you need is w_jbstat, which is found in the w_indresp file: https://www.understand... -
12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1311 (Resolved): Unemployment/home-keeper variable
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am currently using the Understanding Society dataset to complete my undergraduate dissertati...
02/10/2020
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- Dear Charlotte,
Apologies again for the delay. We are currently investigating this issue further and will respond ...
02/04/2020
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- Dear Alexander,
At the end of the section for the question nfl, the pdf version of the questionnaire says:
In l... -
09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1309: Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
- Thank you for your quick and helpful response.
The questions in the pdf are very similar as you can see below.
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02/03/2020
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- Dear Laura,
As respondents were asked either one or the other, you can combine the responses from both questions. ... -
- Dear Petra,
Our questions on health conditions are hcond?? where ?? is a number referring to the condition. We hav... -
- Dear Alexander,
You can find the answer by reading the full pdf questionnaire, which you can download here: https:... -
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11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
- Pascale,
The solution that we have discussed would be correct in a simple situation (without pooling) where for ex...
02/02/2020
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- I am studying Working Tax Credit. I am wondering what the difference is between the variables nfh20 and bentax5. Of t...
01/31/2020
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01/30/2020
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- Fatima,
Your detailed explanation really clarifies your data setup. So ignore some of my comments from before as s... -
04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
- Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for your detailed response. Apologies that it has taken me a while to get back to you, I wa... -
- Chloe,
Let's assume you will analyse wave 6 with the marriage datafile. For this you can use ub_xw weight. This wi... -
12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- ok. I have assigned this issue to Olena Kaminska, our survey statistician, who will respond to your question on weights.
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12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- Hi,
No problem. I'll analyse the 2015 version in the meantime and will keep my eyes peeled for the new update.
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- Hello Chloe,
Yes you are right marital status since 2015 could have changed for some respondents. The updated vers... -
- Hi Xiaowei,
I looked at the group of respondents who reported they were in paid employment in Wave 1 and self-empl... -
11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1303: Accessing linked data
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for your help! Sorry, I'll be clearer, by participant conditions I mean health conditions or thei...
01/29/2020
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05:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
- Thank you for a quick reply!
Ok, let me try to explain my setup again. I want to have a panel of people that woul... -
- Fatima,
See my answers below.
1. My understanding is that you need information on the highest degree for each per... -
- Thank you for all your help so far!
Can I ask more questions? Well, basically similar questions but now that I have ... -
- Pascale,
Your clarification helps a lot, and I think your situation is a little bit more complex and unique than I... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for you quick response. Here some clarifications:
- Basically, what we are doing is selectin... -
- Pascale,
Thank you for your question. Before I answer it I have a few clarifications. I am not sure what your anal... -
- Hello,
We are doing crossectional analysis combining all waves from USoc and the BHPS and include all household memb... -
- Charlotte,
The best variables for nonresponse correction are the ones related to your y variable and to nonrespons... -
11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your response. I think I understand it better now. I just want to clarify something from ...
01/28/2020
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- Thank you, this doesn't really help the situation though. I had looked at cseeterm2 and it has even more missings and...
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- Perfect, thank you for looking into it.
01/27/2020
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04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1307: Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Chetan,
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> This is a derived variable, as indicated by the _dv suffix, and is bas...-
- Dear Chetan,
This is a derived variable, as indicated by the _dv suffix, and is based on some variables which may ... -
- Dear Laura,
Apologies for the delay in response.
If you look at the questionnaire, here: https://www.understand...
01/24/2020
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- To clarify, if in a future wave these individuals appear in a household with at least one OSM or PSM they will be eli...
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- We have checked and you are correct there is a difference in number of observations between the g_indresp files in th...
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- Hello,
Just looking at G_INDRESP I see different volumes between the 2 versions I am comparing. As I said before I... -
- Good afternoon,
I am recently looking at pension income (Variable name: *a_fimnpen_dv*) for wave found that income... -
11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1304: The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- Thanks a lot - i'd forgotten all about that document sorry.
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10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Karen,
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> I'm afraid we can't give a timescale for availability of this data at the... -
01/23/2020
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- I'm just concerned that I'm looking at 2009-2015 marital status with 2019 characteristics but the marital status of ...
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- for a project, I want to look at the year couples got into a relationship so using the marriage datafile to obtain th...
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- Hi Olena,
Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply.
To clarify, the information about mothers does come from th... -
- Charlotte,
Thank you for your question. I just want to clarify a few details of your analysis before answering the... -
- Hi Petra,
Yes, clicking on the "edit" button, which you did, is the correct way to reply.
What do you mean by N... -
- Hi Alita,
Sorry not sure if this is the way to reply - I can't see a reply button. We need NHS information on part... -
- Hi Laura,
One reason I can think of that you would get a difference in the number of cases in the two created data... -
- Hello,
Further information:
I've made a variable using relationship questions in INDRESP and combining this at th...
01/22/2020
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- Hi,
I have a question about sample weighting. I'm using a sub-sample of children who have experienced their parent... -
- Hello David,
Please look at the User Guide sections 3.4 and 3.5.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/def... -
- Hi,
Sorry to bother you. The Understanding Society online variable guide gives the following descriptions for the ... -
- Dear Petra,
When you say health data, do you mean the Nurse Data? https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/s... -
- Dear User Support team,
We are academics from outside the UK who are interested in obtaining access to the linked ... -
- Hello Laura,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
What do you mean by "raw volumes"? Do you mean that th... -
- Hello Xiaowei,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Our team is looking into this and will get back to you ... -
- Hello Giorgio,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
You can use b?_hhmem variables to identify new entra... -
- Many thanks Stephanie
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