Understanding Society User Support

08/11/2020

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

Hi Colin,
I have forwarded your query to the team responsible for producing these variables. Due to team members b... Alita Nandi

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394 (Feedback): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hi Abigail,
As this is a longitudinal survey, the same sample members are interviewed every year. Part of the BHPS... Alita Nandi

08/05/2020

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392: natid - change in national identity

Hi Ivelina,
You are right that within those who report twice, a high % change their responses. I agree it will be ... Alita Nandi

06:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392 (Feedback): natid - change in national identity

Hi Ivelina,
The national identity questions are only asked once: first time someone is interviewed, or later if it... Alita Nandi

07:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Fiona,
You are right. But the labelling is not wrong. NRELS1-NRELS6 in Waves 3 & 5 correspond to NRELS3-NRELS8 ... Alita Nandi

05:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391 (Feedback): dropouts due to mental health

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05:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391: dropouts due to mental health

Hi Kai,
Our survey team has confirmed that there aren't any targeted incentives for people in particular circumsta... Alita Nandi

05:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390 (Feedback): englang - change in English as first language

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05:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393 (Feedback): Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

Hello,
Yes, as you are looking at change between Waves 4 & 6 and including self-completion items, you should use l... Alita Nandi

08/04/2020

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391: dropouts due to mental health

Hello Kai,
Information on incentives is available here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mains... Alita Nandi

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1390: englang - change in English as first language

Hi Ivelina,
This question was supposed to be asked in Wave 1 of everyone, and in Wave 5 only those in the extra 5 ... Alita Nandi

10:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Fiona,
The file a_natchild records the number of children ever born to adult respondents in GPS+EMBS and whethe... Alita Nandi

07/30/2020

02:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (Feedback): Estimates of UK population

Hello,
Please take a look at the discussion in this working paper about this issue on pg 19-20 & see Table 6.
htt... Alita Nandi

02:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1388 (Feedback): Merging geographical special license data

Hello,
The geographical special license data files include households with valid postcodes including those that di... Alita Nandi

07/29/2020

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (In Progress): Estimates of UK population

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

07/27/2020

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (In Progress): weighting

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08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1384 (Feedback): Sharing Data

Hello Isaac,
Thanks for your query.
You are not allowed to upload or share the data. If anyone wants to use th... Alita Nandi

07/24/2020

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380: Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Hi Abigail,
I will email you from our "usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk" email address (where you had corres... Alita Nandi

07/22/2020

06:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380: Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Hi Abigail,
Has this question been answered by Olena's response to 1378?
Thanks,
Alita Alita Nandi

07/21/2020

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1382 (Feedback): Where to find questionnaire modules?

Hello,
Have you read our User Guide? Please take a look at that.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta... Alita Nandi

07/20/2020

06:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379: Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data

And for these unmatched cases we found gor_dv and country were missing, as is expected since their postcodes were mis... Alita Nandi

06:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379 (Feedback): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data

Hi Clara,
Our data team has looked into this and found the number of individuals in w_indresp for whom a matched L... Alita Nandi

06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (Resolved): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Alita Nandi

06:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1381 (Feedback): Query

The negative values refer to self-employment losses. You can check that by:
tab a_jbemp if a_fimnlabnet_dv<0
An... Alita Nandi

05:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?

Hi Abigail,
You are correct, The answer to your first question "Which variable would indicate those “interviews th... Alita Nandi

07/16/2020

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1380 (In Progress): Calendar month analysis [item 11, weighting FAQ] not making sense to recreate January 2014

Hi Abigail,
I have assigned this to Olena. This is similar to your question on the other post which also I have as... Alita Nandi

07/15/2020

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378: Overlapping interview periods across waves?

I see. Yes, you can analyse by calendar year. Take a look at item 11 in the weighting FAQ and see if that is appropri... Alita Nandi

01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378 (Feedback): Overlapping interview periods across waves?

Yes, in Understanding Society the fieldwork period for any wave stretches over 24 months and is overlaps with the nex... Alita Nandi

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Yes drop all the weight variables, then merge i_indin91_lw from i_indrsp onto the entire long format file (many to on... Alita Nandi

03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375 (Feedback): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Alita Nandi

03:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1241 (Resolved): Problem merging inderesp with children data

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03:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1337 (Resolved): w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category

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03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1374 (Resolved): Weights

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03:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1377 (Feedback): Weights in Covid-19 Study

Hello Darja,
ca_betaindin_xw = i_indinui_xw * non-response probability based on a model of non-response between m... Alita Nandi

07/14/2020

01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376: Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)

Hello,
Sorry the variable note for w_fimnnet_dv does not clearly explain how topcoding is done. There are 51 obser... Alita Nandi