Understanding Society User Support

11/23/2020

12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1453 (Feedback): Wave 10 release date

Yes, that is still the plan.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team Alita Nandi

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451 (Feedback): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hello,
Yes, you can use ppid or sppid (depending on whether you want to include spouses or spouses & partners) to ... Alita Nandi

08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1388 (Resolved): Merging geographical special license data

Alita Nandi

08:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. You will need to create the weight yourself by estimating the probability... Alita Nandi

07:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1433: Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

Correspondence continued via email Alita Nandi

07:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1450 (Feedback): Covid Study netpay_amount

Hello Darja,
These are not variables derived by us, but as reported by the respondent.Please take a look at the qu... Alita Nandi

11/20/2020

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... Alita Nandi

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 ... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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 ... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

11/16/2020

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... Alita Nandi

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... Alita Nandi

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