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From 10/22/2020 to 11/20/2020
11/20/2020
- 04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1450 (Resolved): Covid Study netpay_amount
- Dear User support,
I would be grateful if you could confirm whether the self-employed have reported their SEISS pa... - 03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448 (In Progress): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448 (Resolved): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1
- Hello,
I am trying to select an appropriate weight but I am struggling with deciding which is the most appropriate...
11/19/2020
- 04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1444: COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
- The unmatched cases are those who were not interviewed in 2019 (either as part of Wave 10 or 11). So, I matched with ...
- 10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1444: COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
- Hi,
Thank you very much for this. I'm afraid I'm still a bit confused. When I run this command there are 120 resp... - 04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1443 (Feedback): COVID wave 4 youth file
- You will have to link back youth data from Covid19 (cW_youth_p) to INDALL files in the main data (W_indall) which wil...
- 03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1445 (Feedback): Geographic disaggregations available
- Hi Evelyn,
all available neighbourhood classifications and geographical identifiers are listed here:
https://www.un... - 03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1445 (Resolved): Geographic disaggregations available
- Good afternoon,
I am hoping to get a better understanding of what sociodemographic and health variables can be acc...
11/18/2020
- 08:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442 (Feedback): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
- Hello Natalie,
The extra5min eligibility conditions do not apply to proxy respondents. So, if someone qualified as... - 11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442 (In Progress): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442 (Resolved): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
- Hello, I have been trying to calculate how the extra 5 minutes sample size changes from wave 1 to wave 3. Because the...
- 06:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1444 (Feedback): COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
- Hello,
If you merge this file with the 2019 data file, jk_indall_cv which includes the household grid information ... - 11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1444 (Resolved): COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
- Hi, I am working with the COVID-19 survey data. I've noticed that the household composition data for the May 2020 tel...
- 01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1443: COVID wave 4 youth file
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1443 (Resolved): COVID wave 4 youth file
- Hi,
I was wondering whether it is possible to link the wave 4 youth SDQ responses to the parent pidp in the indivi... - 01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441: Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
- Hello Ilona,
In Wave 6, only IEMB sample members not born in the UK were asked this question. In Wave 7, those who... - 11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441 (In Progress): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
11/16/2020
- 05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
- Hi there,
I'm interested in the question on reasons for migration asked in wave 6 (migrationhistory_iemb1.mreason)... - 02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1439: jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
- That's brilliant, thank you so much for your help! I should have spotted that additional filtering question, sorry ab...
- 02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1439 (Feedback): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
- Hello,
If you look at the questionnaires you will see that there was an additional filtering that was included a f... - 11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
- Hi,
I am working on a project to potentially combine BHPS + UKHLS datasets with a specific interest in the variab... - 02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1440 (Feedback): Identifying Household Roles
- Hello,
No there is no such variable. But there is a file EGOALT which shows the relationship between any two indiv... - 12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1440 (Resolved): Identifying Household Roles
- Good Morning,
I am working with the first 5 waves of the UsoC.
I am currently trying to undertake a within hous...
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
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...
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...
- 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 ... - 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... - 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 ... - 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 ... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
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...
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... - 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 ...
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...
- 09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules
- super helpful, thanks team!
- 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...
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...
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...
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 ... - 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... - 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... - 10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1427 (Resolved): i_hidp and hidp missing from jk datasets?
- 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... - 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 - 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 ... - 10:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1408 (Resolved): Family structure
- 10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1418 (Resolved): Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC
- 10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429 (Feedback): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations
- 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...
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