Understanding Society User Support

03/27/2020

01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1327 (Feedback): Revision of derived variables in new release

Dear Emily,
There is a document which lists changes since the last release. The most recent version is available o... Stephanie Auty

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1324 (Feedback): Childcare by grandparents

Stephanie Auty

03/26/2020

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1324: Childcare by grandparents

Cath,
Thank you for your question.
So if you want to represent adults who have children of a particular type etc... Olena Kaminska

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1327 (Resolved): Revision of derived variables in new release

Hi,
I've run my code with the latest version of the special licence data (waves 1-9) and I'm getting slightly dif... Emily Harris

03/25/2020

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1326 (Feedback): Attitudes Towards Immigration Info

Dear Laura,
You can find more related questions by using our index terms search: https://www.understandingsociety.... Stephanie Auty

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1326 (Resolved): Attitudes Towards Immigration Info

I am currently investigating the development of attitudes towards immigration and I am planning to use Understanding... Laura Silva

03/24/2020

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323: youth self completion longitudinal weight

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your suggestions.
I have found the f_psnenub_lw weight in the f_indall file.
That's ve... Linda Ng

03/23/2020

05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323 (Feedback): youth self completion longitudinal weight

Stephanie Auty

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323: youth self completion longitudinal weight

Linda,
Yes, the weight for the situation C is correct.
For the situations A and B we do not have tailored weights... Olena Kaminska

04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1305 (Feedback): Weighting for youth questionnaire

Stephanie Auty

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1319 (Feedback): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

03/20/2020

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1324 (In Progress): Childcare by grandparents

Hi Cath,
Thanks for your query. A member of our user support team is looking at these and we'll be in touch soon. ... Rebecca Parsons

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1324 (Resolved): Childcare by grandparents

Hello,
I’m looking at USOC data on the use of grandparents for childcare. As the datafile structures are slightly co... Cath Roberts

03/18/2020

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323 (In Progress): youth self completion longitudinal weight

Hi Linda,
Your questions have been passed to our weighting specialists and we'll get back to you very soon.
Best ... Rebecca Parsons

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323 (Resolved): youth self completion longitudinal weight

Hi US Support,
I have a question about the youth self-completion weight.
My analytical sample comprises of yout... Linda Ng

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1321 (Resolved): Self-efficacy module - wave 2

Rebecca Parsons

01:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1321: Self-efficacy module - wave 2

Thanks for that Becky.
It seems that the first two items from question 32 on that self-completion questionnaire re... Lewis Anderson

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1321 (Feedback): Self-efficacy module - wave 2

Hi Lewis,
This one is a little more complicated.
Self-efficacy questions were asked in Wave 2, but this used ... Rebecca Parsons

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1322 (Resolved): Positive and negative events

Rebecca Parsons

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1322: Positive and negative events

Ok thanks, that makes sense.
Regards,
Lewis Lewis Anderson

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1322 (Feedback): Positive and negative events

Hi Lewis,
I'm answering this question first, as it's the more straight forward one!
We don't release data from ... Rebecca Parsons

03/17/2020

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1142: Identifying unemployment spells

Thanks, that's good to know. Issue resolved.
(Apologies, I only just noticed this was assigned back to me for feed... Lewis Anderson

03/16/2020

12:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1322 (Resolved): Positive and negative events

Hello,
This is similar to #1321 which I recently opened (i.e. a discrepancy between the long-term content plan and... Lewis Anderson

03/15/2020

07:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1321 (Resolved): Self-efficacy module - wave 2

Hello,
The long-term content plan states that the 'Self-Efficacy (self-completion)' module was included in the adu... Lewis Anderson

03/09/2020

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1316: birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons

Dear Maria,
You may want to compare your created variable or w_qfvoc1-16 with either w_hiqual_dv or w_qfhigh_dv, b... Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1316: birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons

Dear Stephanie,
thank you for your reply.
I tried to generate a variable from w_qfvoc1-16 and it worked. I was able... Maria Petrillo

03/03/2020

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1319 (In Progress): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS

Dear Karen,
You can look at the universe of the question (who is asked) by reading the questionnaires which can be... Stephanie Auty

03/02/2020

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1316: birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons

Dear Maria,
We have w_qfvoc1-16 in Understanding Society, which could be used to derive a variable similar to bw_q... Stephanie Auty

05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1319 (Resolved): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS

Hi,
The question for this variable jbpen was asked to those who satisfied jbsemp = 1 (currently an employee of a f... Karen Arulsamy

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1318 (Feedback): Special Licence access

Dear Ashley,
Yes, you will require a new SL approval. Please liaise with the UK Data Service regarding this.
Be... Stephanie Auty

09:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1318 (Resolved): Special Licence access

Hello,
I am seeking clarification regarding a data access issue. I require access to a second special licence (SL) ... Ashley Burdett

02/28/2020

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1317 (Feedback): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)

Dear Cristina,
During the interview, jbsempchk (And are you still self employed/an employee?) is asked using data ... Stephanie Auty

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1308 (Feedback): Cross-sectional weights 0 values

Stephanie Auty

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1315 (Feedback): SDQ in child data

Dear Marie,
The choice of ages was influenced by the sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (9 months, then age 3, ... Stephanie Auty

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1314 (Feedback): NPD-USOC linkages

Dear Daniel,
The Wave 4 linkage is close to completion, and the current estimate is of weeks rather than months. I... Stephanie Auty