Understanding Society User Support

09/04/2020

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1404 (In Progress): Coding of vote3

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

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1405 (In Progress): Ethics application number for 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... Alita Nandi

09/03/2020

01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1300 (Feedback): reason for leaving job for self-employment

Hi Xiaowei - sorry the delay in getting back to you. I should have clarified that as there is an error in routing or ... Alita Nandi

01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1302 (Resolved): See term variable changed for wave i?

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01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1303 (Feedback): Accessing linked data

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01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1304 (Resolved): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1304 (Feedback): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372 (Feedback): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

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01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395 (Feedback): f_scotvot2 - values

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01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1383 (Resolved): Coding of variable "hiqual_dv" in the harmonised BHPS

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01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389 (Feedback): Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

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12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1400 (Feedback): Importance of Britishness to sense of self

Variable note has been added to clarify the different routing rules across waves.
https://www.understandingsociety.a... Alita Nandi

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1402 (Feedback): Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias

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12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1403 (Feedback): Questions about the data

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12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1401 (Feedback): AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8

To add, the response rate definition used to produce Tables 13.13. & 13.14 in the user guide is a modified version of... Alita Nandi

09/02/2020

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1401: AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8

Hi Dana,
As this is a longitudinal survey, we know that the households issued after the first wave are eligible (i... Alita Nandi

09:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1401: AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8

Dear Dana,
Thank you for your query. I have forwarded your question to the IP team and will get back to you soon.
... Alita Nandi

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1403: Questions about the data

Hello Lior,
1) Is there a number of years of education variable?
Ans: Not number of years of education, but highe... Alita Nandi

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1402: Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias

Hello,
Thank you for raising this issue. This is not directly within the remit of the User Support Team to answer ... Alita Nandi

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1400: Importance of Britishness to sense of self

Hello Jesse,
If you check the questionnaire and find this question BRITID, you will find who gets asked this quest... Alita Nandi

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1399 (Feedback): jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society

Hello Mathhew,
In Understanding Society, In Wave 1, past employment history was asked for a quarter of the sample ... Alita Nandi

08/19/2020

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398 (Feedback): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study

Hi Laia,
As you may have seen from the Covid19 User guide, the Covid19 survey is considered to be a module of the ... Alita Nandi

08/18/2020

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

Hi Colin,
Whether you use basrate or fimnlabgrs_dv depends on what you are interested in.
basrte is not used to... Alita Nandi

10:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1397 (Feedback): questions about interviewer assignment and training for Innovation Panel Wave 8

Hi Dana,
Here is the response from our survey team.
It is not an interpenetrated design, interviewers are alloc... Alita Nandi

08/17/2020

05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Hi Fiona,
We have added variable notes to reflect this.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/ma... Alita Nandi

08:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

Yes you are correct. The label for NRELS1 in Wave 3 & 5 should be "Number of absent sons/daughters" Alita Nandi

08:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

My suggestion would be to add the weights to the indresp files in before merging them. But remember to merge the rele... Alita Nandi

08/14/2020

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1171 (Resolved): How to match information of any two household members across waves

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05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1175 (Feedback): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?

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05:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1181 (Feedback): Merging general health variables

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05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1120 (Feedback): Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS

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05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1118 (Resolved): f_closenum filtering issues

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05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216 (Feedback): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion

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05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1200 (Resolved): Wave 4 Famsup variable

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05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1203 (Resolved): Net Income Variable in BHPS

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05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1211 (Resolved): promotion variable and household income

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05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."

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05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm

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05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218 (Feedback): job change since the previous survey

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05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220 (Feedback): Loneliness

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05:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1222 (Feedback): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)

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05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1301 (Resolved): Volume change between releases

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05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (Feedback): weighting

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05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Feedback): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

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05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376 (Feedback): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)

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05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hi Abigail,

Last time we spoke you said you wanted to estimate models using fixed effects using data from all 18 ... Alita Nandi

08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1396 (Feedback): calculate taxable income

Hello Peter,
Have you looked at the questionnaires (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage... Alita Nandi

08/12/2020

03:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395 (In Progress): f_scotvot2 - values

Hi Ivelina,
Thanks for highlighting this. I have asked the data team to find out if there is any reason to believe... Alita Nandi