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From 05/17/2020 to 06/15/2020
06/15/2020
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  04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359: Using the EMB sample independently 
- Hi Alita
 That's great, thanks so much for your help. One last question; if I wanted to stratify my analysis by eth...
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  10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359: Using the EMB sample independently 
- "If I want to analyse only those who have been asked the extra five minutes questions (so EMB + 500 random GPC + GPS ...
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  09:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359: Using the EMB sample independently 
- Hi Alita
 Thanks so much for your reply. Apologies, I think I am confusing the extra 5 minutes sample and the EMB s...
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  10:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (In Progress): How to find all publications 
- Dear Lina,
 When you say you are using the University of Essex database do you mean this page?
 https://www.underst...
06/14/2020
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  02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (Resolved): How to find all publications 
- Dear all, 
 I was wondering if there is a possibility of finding all publications to the BHPS. Currently I am using...
06/12/2020
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  11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1358: Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency 
- All 16+ year olds enumerated in the household (and so present in indall), are eligible for adult interviews, but not ...
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  11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1358: Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency 
- Dear Alita, 
 thanks a lot for your answer, just a quick clarification: what could be the reason for someone >16 to...
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  07:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359 (Feedback): Using the EMB sample independently 
- Hi Natalie,
 You are correct that EMB sample should not be analysed by itself. The JEMS paper you mentioned does no...
06/11/2020
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  05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359 (Resolved): Using the EMB sample independently 
- Hello, I have a question regarding the EMB sample I am hoping you can help me with? I was hoping to conduct an analys...
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  12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1358 (Feedback): Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency 
- Hello,
 the indresp file includes everyone who has responded to the adult (16+ year) interviews, while indall inclu...
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  11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1358 (Resolved): Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency 
- Dear all, I would like to know your help about a probably silly question but on which I am struggling on.
 Why the ...
06/10/2020
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  04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Ok, thanks anyway 
 best wishes,
 Katie
 
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  01:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Sorry Katie, there isn't one as yet.
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  01:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Ah I see. Is there an equivalent syntax available for SPSS?
 Best wishes,
 Katie
 
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  01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Katie,
 Sorry I should have specified that this is a Stata syntax file. So, it will not work with SPSS.
 Best ...
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  12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Alita,
 Unfortunately not (I accept this may be me though!) Is this syntax suitable for use with SPSS? I'm getting...
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  01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1357 (Feedback): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9 
- Hi Chris,
 The variable you need to match the two ca_indresp_w with any individual level file in Wave 9 is pidp. If...
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  01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1357 (Resolved): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9 
- Hi,
 I am a novice at using Understanding Society data, but it is my understanding that respondents in the Covid-19...
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  11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1355: question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi Marina,
 Sorry I missed your second question, "In addition, I would like to know how you compare the baseline ho...
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  10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1355: question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi Alita, 
 Thanks for your fast answer. I am, however, still confused about how to construct a household earnings ...
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  08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1355 (Feedback): question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hello,
 You are right that ca_blhhearn* is asked of everyone. But if someone gives a partial interview then it mean...
06/09/2020
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  06:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1355 (Resolved): question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi, 
 I am interested in the household questions in the COVID module (variables ca_blhhearn_answer ca_blhhearn_peri...
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  11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1354 (Feedback): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study 
- Hello,
 The file ca_indresp_w is the adult level file where pidp uniquely identifies each row. The information prov...
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  10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1354 (Resolved): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study 
- Hello,
 I have been analysing the April wave of the Covid-19 data. I have come across trouble linking the children ...
06/04/2020
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  03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1353 (Feedback): COVID-19 survey 
- Hi Alexis,
 We advise users to use "scaled" option, as the "certainty" option means that these units do not contrib...
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  10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey 
- Good morning and I hope you are well. I am trying to analyse data from the COVID-19 survey and I have a question.
 
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05/29/2020
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  04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1350 (Feedback): GCSE grade data 
05/27/2020
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  07:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Katie,
 I am attaching a syntax file that attaches co-resident parents information. See if this works for you. I...
05/21/2020
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  02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (Resolved): weighting 
- You are welcome!
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  02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1348 (Resolved): Merging 
- You are welcome!
 Best,
 Gundi
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  01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1350: GCSE grade data 
- Dear Abigail,
 detailed information about GCSE English and maths results is only asked of young people aged 16 who fi...
05/20/2020
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  04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1352: Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Thank you very much!
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  04:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1352 (Resolved): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- I've asked our income specialist, and his response is: 
 The reason is that imputed values get updated at each annu...
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  02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1352: Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Thank you for the prompt reply.
 I had a look through the revision document and it appears the change came in the t...
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  02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1352 (In Progress): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Hi Cameron, 
 Looking back through the revision documents, changes were made to the income variables in the Wave 8 ...
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  12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1352 (Resolved): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Hi,
 I was previously working with an older download of US that contained waves 1-7. I recently re-downloaded the d...
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  02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1331: query about food poverty/insecurity information 
- Dear Fatemah, 
 The fieldwork for Wave 12 has only just started, so the data won't be available until November 2022...
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  02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1331: query about food poverty/insecurity information 
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
 > Dear Fatemeh,
 >
 > In the data currently available, we have two variables relating to food...
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  11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1350 (In Progress): GCSE grade data 
- Hi Abigail, 
 Thanks for your query. The User Support team are delivering training today, so there will be a short ...
05/19/2020
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  07:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade data 
- Hi,
 I need some help with my analysis for my undergrad dissertation
 I am using the Harmonised BHPS data and my ...
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  10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1348: Merging 
- Hi Gundi,
 thank you very much for your tremendous help, really appreciated.
 Have an awesome day,
 Laura
05/18/2020
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  01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Thank you for you response! The second, more precise, option sounds exactly what I am looking for. I would be gratefu...
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  10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1348: Merging 
- Laura,
 if you look at the interview outcome variable _ivfio or _hhresp_dv, you can see that there are households i...
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