Understanding Society User Support

11/04/2020

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436 (Feedback): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4

Response from the team:
The routing instructions in the questionnaire for the question AIDHH shows that it is only... Alita Nandi

11/03/2020

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436 (In Progress): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4

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

03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1437 (Feedback): JK weighting guidance

Dear Charlotte,
These jk_ data files are only meant to be used in conjunction with the Covid19 data files and so t... Alita Nandi

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1435 (Feedback): BHPS wave 18 and UKHLS wave 1 integration

Dear Arpita,
Since BHPS joins Understanding Society in Wave 2, so BHPS W18 could be considered to be UKHLS W1 for ... Alita Nandi

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434 (Feedback): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)

Hello Carla,
From what I can understand you would like access to the School Codes. To do that go to the UKDS websi... Alita Nandi

10/27/2020

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1433 (Feedback): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

Hello,
While a lower value generally reflects a higher educational qualification, these are not ordinal variables ... Alita Nandi

10/26/2020

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432 (Feedback): Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

Hello Taha,
Our remit is to respond to queries about the data. If you would like to know about the R syntax for me... Alita Nandi

10/22/2020

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427 (Resolved): i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?

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10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1423: Merging youth to adult data

Hi George,
It will involve merging data files, so should require standard R syntax to do that. But the complicatio... Alita Nandi

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1430 (Feedback): Wave 10 release

We are on track to have this data released in November.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Alita Nandi

10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1408 (Resolved): Family structure

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10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1418 (Resolved): Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC

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10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429 (Feedback): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations

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09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

The Covid19 team has responded: In the September data there is a new question asked of all respondents who have in on... Alita Nandi

10/21/2020

10:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access

Hello Kevin - the Metadac team have informed me that they will be emailing you very soon.
Alita Nandi

10/20/2020

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

Ok, I see. I will pass your question onto the covid19 team in case they are aware of any questions that may help iden... Alita Nandi

10/16/2020

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429 (In Progress): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations

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

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1426: Adverse childhood experience data

This is continuing via email. Alita Nandi

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427: i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?

1. About interviews in 2020: Sorry for not being clearer in my response. The Understanding sample can be considered t... Alita Nandi

10/15/2020

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427 (Feedback): i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?

Each person in the Covid19 survey will have been interviewed in 2019 either as part of Wave 10 or Wave 11. This dataf... Alita Nandi

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1426: Adverse childhood experience data

Hi Luke - Could you please clarify what you mean by "adverse childhood experience by adulthood"? From your earlier po... Alita Nandi

10/14/2020

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398: Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study

The current weights available with Covid19 survey data (cW_betaindin_xw) do not adjust for any bias arising from non-... Alita Nandi

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

No same population. This is how longitudinal weights in this survey are computed: Iniital wave cross sectional weight... Alita Nandi

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hi Abigail - I am providing a Stata syntax file to show you what I mean. Alita Nandi

02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Option 1: Append individual level files (indresp) from W11 of BHPS until W18, and W2 UKHLS until W9 into a long forma... Alita Nandi

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Hello Abigail,
If you are using xtreg you can only use one weight for the entire set of waves - as it is the same ... Alita Nandi

03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1426 (Feedback): Adverse childhood experience data

Dear Luke,
There is alarge number of questions that are asked across the waves. Here are different ways you can se... Alita Nandi

10/13/2020

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1424: Stability of resp ethnicity over time

Yes, but there is one exception: When the Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample was added in Wave 6, ethnic grou... Alita Nandi

04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1424 (Feedback): Stability of resp ethnicity over time

Hello,
You are right. Here is a summary:
Those who enter the survey as adults (16+) are asked the question once... Alita Nandi

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1421 (Feedback): top coding in income components

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04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1421: top coding in income components

Hi Luca - Yes, if you use the non-topcoded values, there will be more extreme values. But please note that we do not ... Alita Nandi

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398: Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study

The longitudinal weights will not be available with the next release of the data. Alita Nandi

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

If someone returned to work you will be able to identify them by using the employment status variable, cW_sempchk. Th... Alita Nandi

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1423 (Feedback): Merging youth to adult data

Hello,
To link individual level data to household level data use the household ID, w_hidp
To link children/youth ... Alita Nandi

10/12/2020

08:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

Yes, use the hrschange* variables. Alita Nandi

06:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422 (Feedback): furlough in Covid-19 Study

Hello Darja,
Take look at the Universe for the question FURLOUGH in the questionnnaires for Waves 2 & 3. The Unive... Alita Nandi