Understanding Society User Support

11/05/2020

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436: Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4

Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for confirming these timeframes.
Best wishes,
Emma Emma Maun

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

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am working on the Covid-Wave 4 Caring within the household module and wondered ... Emma Maun

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

02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1437 (Resolved): JK weighting guidance

Hi all,
I was hoping that you could clarify a few things regarding the weighting of the jk datasets. As far as I ... Charlotte Hassell

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

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434: Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)

Hello Alita,
thank you for your quick reply!
I know how to access "Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018: Sp... Carla Grindel

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

11/02/2020

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1435 (Resolved): BHPS wave 18 and UKHLS wave 1 integration

Dear User Support team,
I hope you are doing well. I am writing to you regarding a question about using BHPS 18 an... Arpita Ghosh

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434 (Resolved): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)

Hello,
I am planning to request the special license data on school codes. I would like to use them to analyse additi... Carla Grindel

10/28/2020

11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1433: Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

Dear Alita,
Thanks for sharing the look-up file, which is very helpful. I currently get an understanding of how ot... Ting Liu

10/27/2020

03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

Hello again team,
Just following up on the non-response adjustment.
As I understood from your answer, I would n... Taha Abrar

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

01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1433 (Resolved): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

Educational variable ‘d_qfhigh’ includes 16 categories (shown as below). Does lower coding imply a higher educational... Ting Liu

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

super helpful, thanks team! Taha Abrar

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

10/25/2020

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398: Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study

Hi Alita. Just a reminder on this issue. Any advices from Covid team on what weights one should use when conducting a... Theocharis Kromydas

10/23/2020

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432 (Resolved): Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

Hi there,
I've been doing a quick analysis for the question listed above, I was hoping someone could sense-check m... Taha Abrar

10/22/2020

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1431 (Feedback): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv

Hi Michael,
this question has already been asked, please see https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1337.
The ... Gundi Knies

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1431 (Resolved): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv

Hi folks,
I was wondering if you could tell me what the values 7 to 12 relate to for the jbnssec3_dv variable? Als... Michael Vallely

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access

Dear Kevin
Thank you for your patience. We are establishing with the data team when the data will be ready and wil... Annette Pasotti

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

Alita Nandi

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

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1430 (Resolved): Wave 10 release

Hi,
On the website it says wave 10 of USoc is likely to be released in November 2020. I was wondering if you were ... Emily Harris

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

Alita Nandi

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

Alita Nandi

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

Alita Nandi

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

08:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1423: Merging youth to adult data

Thanks for the reply.
More specifically, how would I take youth data from say wave 1 and track those individuals t... George Comp

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

12:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access

Can you please let me know if I and when I will receive this data? Kevin Brennan

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

10/19/2020

01:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427: i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?

Hi Alita
Many thanks for your reply. This isvery helpful. Theocharis Kromydas

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429: Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations

Hi Colin,
JBISCO88 is coded from JBSOC00, JBSEMP, JBSIZE and JSSIZE using rigid look-up files, see e.g. https://www.... Gundi Knies

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

Many thanks. However, those on furlough remained in employment. Sorry, I did not explain this well enough. Those who ... Darja Reuschke

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

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429 (Resolved): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations

Hi! I'd be interested why there is a disproportionate large number of individuals who report to be in the ISCO88 occu... C Josten

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

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427: i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?

Hi there
Many thanks for your reply.
There are a couple of following up points I would need to clarify with ... Theocharis Kromydas