Understanding Society User Support

12/11/2020

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1462: respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness

Thank you Alita,
that is very helpful.
all best,
Laura Laura Jones

07:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1462 (Feedback): respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness

Hello Laura,
Here are our responses:
"Would I be correct in saying that they do not correct for differential re... Alita Nandi

07:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1457: Variable for living in a big city

In order to know the city of residence, you will have to download the SPecial License datafiles for LAD residential c... Alita Nandi

12/10/2020

05:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1462 (In Progress): respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness

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

05:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1462 (Resolved): respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness

Dear US team,
I don't believe this question has been asked elsewhere or addressed in the user manual, but please do ... Laura Jones

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1461 (Feedback): Special license access to wave 10-11 JK data

Hello,
Special License version of Wave 10 has been released in November, and the Wave 11 data will be released in ... Alita Nandi

12/09/2020

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1457: Variable for living in a big city

Hello,
Thank you very much!
I am not sure it is what we need. Is there a way to know in which city individuals ... Lior Shabtai

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1461 (Resolved): Special license access to wave 10-11 JK data

Hi,

We are conducting analysis on the Teacher Labour Market and we are using Understanding Society data. We have ... Henry Faulkner-Ellis

10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Also there is a difference between using Wave 10 or the sub-sample of Wave 10 and Wave 11, which was integrated to th... Theocharis Kromydas

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel Serrano wrote in #note-2:
> Dear Olena, thanks very much for the help.
>
> Should I take out of my respons... Theocharis Kromydas

12/08/2020

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1460 (Feedback): HE consent variables

Yes, these are available as a Special license dataset: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?i... Alita Nandi

10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1460 (Resolved): HE consent variables

Hi,
I was wondering if the HE consent variables from Wave 5, specifically the university attended "Heiname", are a... Andrew McNeil

12/07/2020

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458 (Feedback): Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Alita Nandi

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel,
Yes, you should.
Thanks,
Olena Olena Kaminska

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Dear Olena, thanks very much for the help.
Should I take out of my response model also those who died and moved ou... Manuel Serrano

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel,
Yes, this sounds correct. Although it has one unnecessary assumption of no household composition change be... Olena Kaminska

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458 (Resolved): Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Hi,
I am doing a longitudinal analysis of a balanced sample from Wave 9 to Wave Covid 4. So far I am using the cro... Manuel Serrano

05:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1459 (In Progress): Covid module high risk

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

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1459 (Resolved): Covid module high risk

Hello, hope you're well!
The first release of the April wave of the Covid module contained derived variables for b... Xiaowei Xu

12/06/2020

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1457 (Feedback): Variable for living in a big city

A more detailed version of the indicator is available here:
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/... Alita Nandi

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1457 (Resolved): Variable for living in a big city

Hello,
We use the data in a study that examines the gender wage gap, and we would like to have information about w... Lior Shabtai

12/04/2020

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1456 (Feedback): Youth and young adults who filled in incorrect surveys

Hi Amy,
there is to our knowledge no written statement why this occurs. There is sometimes a bit of a time gap bet... Gundi Knies

12/03/2020

05:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1456 (Resolved): Youth and young adults who filled in incorrect surveys

Dear US team,
I am analysing some of the US youth and young adult sample, and a very small proportion of participa... Amy Orben

12/02/2020

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1455: Inapplicable responses to GHQ-12 and SF-12 in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Alita
That is great thank you so much for your help.
Best wishes
Natalie Natalie Bennett

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1455 (Feedback): Inapplicable responses to GHQ-12 and SF-12 in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Natalie,
These questions were asked in the self-completion part of the questionnaire. If these respondents didn... Alita Nandi

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1455 (Resolved): Inapplicable responses to GHQ-12 and SF-12 in the extra five minutes sample

Hi
I am trying to work out why there is such a high number of ‘inapplicable’ responses to the GHQ-12 and SF-12 me... Natalie Bennett

03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448 (Feedback): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Alita Nandi

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1452: panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

Hi Michael,
apologies, there was a typo in the variable name - PASOC is filtered on PAJU==1 (MASOC is filtered on... Gundi Knies

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442: Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3

Great, thanks so much for your help Alita.
Best wishes
Natalie Natalie Bennett

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441: Reasons for migration - w6 and w7

Great thanks very much Alita! Ilona Pinter

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1454 (Feedback): Understanding Society area level deprivation measure

No, we don't provide this information with the data. But we provide geographical locator variables which you can use ... Alita Nandi

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1454 (Resolved): Understanding Society area level deprivation measure

I am just wondering if Understanding Society contains a measure of area level deprivation Laura Bryce

12/01/2020

07:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1452: panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

Hi Gundi,
Thanks for your reply. Yeah I understand that, thanks. So if a respondent did list their father's occupa... Michael Vallely

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441 (Feedback): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7

Alita Nandi

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441: Reasons for migration - w6 and w7

You are correct, you need to type to see the cases that appear in only one of the waves
ta f_mreason6 g_mreason6, m
... Alita Nandi

10:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442: Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3

Yes. There are 8883 individual adult respondents who are either in EMB, LDA or GPC samples. Of these 722 are proxy. S... Alita Nandi

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442: Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3

Apologies, the table was in line when I sent the previous message.
I have attached it as a word document here inst... Natalie Bennett

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442: Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3

Hi Alita
Thank you for your reply. Apologies if I am not understanding, I am still unsure as to why the LDA + GPS ... Natalie Bennett

11/30/2020

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441: Reasons for migration - w6 and w7

Hi Alita,
Thanks for this and sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for clarifying the samples that this question... Ilona Pinter

11/25/2020

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448: Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Hi George,
In my experience the use of survey weights in R can be tricky with some packages. Having a quick look a... Pablo Cabrera Álvarez

11/24/2020

07:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1452 (Feedback): panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

Hi Michael,
hope you are doing fine as well.
Information about the parents' job when the respondent was aged 14 i... Gundi Knies

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448: Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Hi, thank you for your reply on the last bit.
I have tried using the weight in my data but can't seem to find an ... George Comp

11/23/2020

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451: Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your advice. I have referenced the NSSEC variables for occupation- based social class status.... Abigail Dumalus

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

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451 (Resolved): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hello,
Is there a way to use ppid and sppid variables to designate a household's social class? For example, a man ... Abigail Dumalus

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

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1453 (Resolved): Wave 10 release date

Dear support team,
I've read on your website that wave 10, including 2018-2020 responses, will become available in... Marina Soley-Bori

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448: Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Dear George,
Thank you for your question. We do not provide longitudinal youth weights as one quickly runs out of ... Olena Kaminska

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1452 (Resolved): panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

Hi folks,
I hope you are well. I was just wondering if you could inform me as to why there are such large inapplic... Michael Vallely

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

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... Darja Reuschke

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

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... George Comp

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

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... Lizzie Augarde

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

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... Gundi Knies

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... Evelyn Jager

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

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... Natalie Bennett

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

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... Lizzie Augarde

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

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... Charlotte Edney

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

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)... Ilona Pinter

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... Karen Arulsamy

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

11:21 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... Karen Arulsamy

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

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... Patricio Valdivieso