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02/26/2021

09:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495 (Resolved): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

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02/24/2021

11:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1412: Weights_poverty line (BHPS)

Dear Support Team,
I have a question that relates to this post. I noticed that in the example for the BHPS (see po... Nico Seifert

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514 (In Progress): Covid Longitudinal weights

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06:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514 (Feedback): Covid Longitudinal weights

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06:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights

Dear Harry,
If you want to analyse data from all 6 Covid19 survey waves, then you will need to take the longitudin... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income

The income team has confirmed that negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are reserved for genuine missing values. Understanding Society User Support Team

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Olena
Thank you for your help. I have sent an email to user support.
Best wishes
Natalie Natalie Bennett

06:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1512 (Resolved): Wave drop down menus not responding

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06:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1512 (Feedback): Wave drop down menus not responding

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06:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1510 (Resolved): Website not displaying questionnaires

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06:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1510: Website not displaying questionnaires

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06:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504 (Feedback): Weights

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06:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (In Progress): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

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06:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (Feedback): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

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05:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1515 (Feedback): Meaning of different mstatch variables

Hello,
When someone says that their marital status changed since last time (Mstatsamn), they are asked about that ... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/23/2021

11:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1515 (Resolved): Meaning of different mstatch variables

Hello!
I wished to know the difference between the mstatch1, mstatch2, mstatch3, and mstatch4 variables
I under... Vikramsinh Patil

06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Natalie,
Some of ethnic minority identity was revealed to the survey only later, after wave one. The eligibility a... Olena Kaminska

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Olena
Thanks for your response. I agree, it is not such a problem to lose some White British respondents, but i... Natalie Bennett

12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514 (Resolved): Covid Longitudinal weights

Hi
I recently realised that Understanding Society weighting team has now included a longitudinal weight (explained... Theocharis Kromydas

02/22/2021

07:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Dear Olena,
Thank you so much for your response!
I apologize for asking something that did not fit with the r... Vikramsinh Patil

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Vikram,
Just to add, if you use a calendar year you will need to use three weights (see below an extract from FAW ... Olena Kaminska

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1513 (Feedback): Variable for Income

Dear Emily,
Have you looked at the Income section in the User Guide? It describes the income variables that are pr... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1512 (In Progress): Wave drop down menus not responding

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09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1512: Wave drop down menus not responding

Hello,
We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused by this disruption. We are aware of this issue and are looki... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1511 (Feedback): Merging UKHLS data to the LFS data

It is not possible to merge Understanding Society and LFS data.
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02/20/2021

10:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1513 (Resolved): Variable for Income

Hello,
I have an enquiry about a variable that I am trying to find. I need a derived variable for the Waves 7-10 ... Emily C

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1512 (Resolved): Wave drop down menus not responding

Hello,
I have an enquiry about the drop down menus of the waves on the webpages of the variables which are not sho... Emily C

02/19/2021

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1511 (Resolved): Merging UKHLS data to the LFS data

Hello
I aim to merge data from the UKHLS to the LFS data. Is this possible? If yes, are there mutual identifier ID... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1510 (Feedback): Website not displaying questionnaires

Hi James,
unfortunately, we have been experiencing some technical issues with the website causing this, our IT tea... Piotr Marzec

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1510 (Resolved): Website not displaying questionnaires

Hello,
I am trying to access the US questionnaires from this page https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta... James Morrison

02/18/2021

03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1452 (Resolved): panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

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03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1456 (Resolved): Youth and young adults who filled in incorrect surveys

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03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1457 (Resolved): Variable for living in a big city

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02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1459 (Resolved): Covid module high risk

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02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1460 (Resolved): HE consent variables

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02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1461 (Resolved): Special license access to wave 10-11 JK data

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02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1464 (Resolved): Matching household data from parents to children

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02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1454 (Resolved): Understanding Society area level deprivation measure

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02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Hello Vikram,
Our remit is to answer questions related to the survey & its details and the datasets (incl data man... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/17/2021

07:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Okay, thank you so much.
As a follow-up, if I xtset the data with pidp and wave as my time variable and add dummi... Vikramsinh Patil

08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (In Progress): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Hello Vikram,
The way you have set up the data is ok.
"More specifically, if I were to try plotting average rea... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1470: Question about data

"Is there a list somewhere of what is defined within sheltered and institutional?"
The two places to look are the... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/16/2021

08:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1470: Question about data

Hello,
Thank you so much for answering this last month so quickly and helpfully.
I had a follow up question:
... Ben Phillips-Farmer

02/15/2021

06:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (Resolved): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave

Hello,
In my Metrics project, I am trying to explore the causal impact of income on subjective well-being by expl... Vikramsinh Patil

02/12/2021

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1

In Wave 1, a_nnatch is missing for 3262 cases who are the Proxy respondents. Then those with a_nnatch=0 (no children ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1

Hello,
Thank you for your reply. I have checked these variables before, but noticed that there are a substantial ... Yu-Chin Her

02/11/2021

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505: UKHLS data question

Unfortunately we cannot give you a date when this linked data will be available as talks are ongoing, but it will not... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505: UKHLS data question

Hello,
At the moment I can work with the variable you just told me about, but my project depends on the exact numb... Maria Cabrera

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505 (Feedback): UKHLS data question

Hello,
The variable w_jbsize shows the number of employees at the workplace of current job (as reported by the res... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

ok. I have added more explanation in the attached syntax file, and also slightly changed the syntax so that only thos... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, you have provided me with this syntax but there is not too much descri... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Hi Mario,
We have provided you with the syntax for merging parents with children. Please modify that to create the... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491 (Resolved): advice on constructing ISCED variable

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11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net income

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11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1500 (Feedback): Definition of "living as a couple"

Hello,
The variable w_mastat_dv is "de-facto" marital status and not the legal marital status. To know about the l... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506 (Feedback): Number of children who have left the household before wave 1

Hello,
The variable a_lprnt asks those who have no children in the household (a_nnatch=0) if they have ever had/fa... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1508 (Feedback): Which is the best way to merge all the files (INDRESP, HHRESP,JOBHIST, YOUNTH) across the 18 BHPS waves

Hello Mario,
To merge INDRESP and HHRESP use HIDP
To merge INDRESP and YOUTH - there is no point doing this as ... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/09/2021

04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1508 (Resolved): Which is the best way to merge all the files (INDRESP, HHRESP,JOBHIST, YOUNTH) across the 18 BHPS waves

Dear Sir or Madam,
I have appended all the 18 waves of each file (e.g. indresp, hhresp, indall, jobhist, younth), ... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

02/08/2021

04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504: Weights

Cameron,
Yes, from what you have said it sounds like you would need cross-sectional weights. As long as you don't ... Olena Kaminska

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504: Weights

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, my mistake on the cross-sectional weight in the second question. M... Cameron Harries

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504: Weights

Cameron,
It sounds like you are using pooled analysis. I suggest you search for other similar questions on this fo... Olena Kaminska

01:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504: Weights

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504 (In Progress): Weights

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11:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504 (Resolved): Weights

Dear Team,
I am having a little trouble understanding how to implement the weights in my analysis. I have read the... Cameron Harries

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you so much for your kind of response - I have been working with the codes and your advic... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505 (In Progress): UKHLS data question

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505 (Resolved): UKHLS data question

I have some questions about the UKHLS, and I would be very grateful if you could help me:
Is there any possibility... Maria Cabrera

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506 (In Progress): Number of children who have left the household before 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... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506 (Resolved): Number of children who have left the household before wave 1

Hi,
I am working on all waves of BHPS and Understanding Society. I would like to know if you have information on t... Yu-Chin Her

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1313: household follow up question

Thank you for your answer! (Sorry for my late reply!) Yu-Chin Her

02/05/2021

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Natalie,
To understand why we have TSMs with 0 from wave 1 you would need to understand how weight-sharing works (... Olena Kaminska

09:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Olena
Thanks for your response. Why is it that they were entered as TSMs in wave 1? Apologies if I am not under... Natalie Bennett

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501: xtreg and fixed effects

Okay, thank you so much! Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501: xtreg and fixed effects

Leilah,
Thank you for your question. My suggestion is the following:
1) ignore stratification - this can't be tak... Olena Kaminska

02/04/2021

07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494 (Resolved): Weights

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04:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Yes, Olena. That indeed helped.
Thanks very much.
Best,
Lydia Lydia Palumbo

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Lydia,
Yes, all the steps described above are correct.
The scaling fractions on the whole population or just you... Olena Kaminska

07:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501 (Feedback): xtreg and fixed effects

Dear Leilah,
Your question is about Stata and more generally about statistics/econometrics. That is beyond the rem... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501 (In Progress): xtreg and fixed effects

Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501 (Resolved): xtreg and fixed effects

Hi,
I have been trying to estimate a panel regression using xtreg, fe in Stata. My observations are at the level o... Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

06:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1500 (In Progress): Definition of "living as a couple"

Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1500 (Resolved): Definition of "living as a couple"

Hi,
Could you please confirm whether "living as a couple" in mastat_dv means living with a partner as someone who ... Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable

Hi Gundi,
Indeed I had only looked in the mainstage questionnaire for wave 6.
Thanks for your advice, it has be... Clara Mascaro

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable

We are glad to hear you find the flowchart useful.
Regarding f_qfhighoth, the IEMBS had a separate questionnaire a... Gundi Knies

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable

Dear Gundi,
Thanks for this answer - it seems that w_qfhighoth was only asked (in wave 9, it does not appear in th... Clara Mascaro

02/03/2021

09:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Sorry, Olena.
Let me just add a question to the previous post re: 1).
1) Calculate the weighted sample size f... Lydia Palumbo

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Thank you for your answer. I would like to check if I follow the correct procedure.
Following the instructions you ... Lydia Palumbo

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Lydia,
Then it's yes to both questions: use cross-sectional weights, and rescale them to take into account larger ... Olena Kaminska

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Yes,
Step 1: create the step/adopted/natural parent pidp using the egoalt files. This was covered in the workshop... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Hi Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your the kind of response - the Do.file has really helpful information.
Howeve... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

08:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498 (Feedback): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Hello Mario,
If you want to link children with their parents information you can do it for the waves they were liv... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Natalie,
Some of these participants are TSMs-from-wave1. These are non-eligible for boost people who live with eth... Olena Kaminska

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1490: Top-coding of net income

As fimnnet_tc doesn't exist, how would I know if fimnnet_dv observations are top-coded? fimnnet_dv is comprised of 6 ... Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

08:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1490 (Feedback): Top-coding of net income

Hello Leah,
Currently the only way to identify the cases where income has been topcoded is using the _tc variable... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/02/2021

06:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1496 (Feedback): data merge

Hi Rachel,
1) I am assuming you want to merge a household level file (such as w_hhresp) with an individual level f... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1496 (In Progress): data merge

Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (In Progress): Missing values vs negative income

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03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Dear Olena,
thank you for the answer. Yes - I am pooling observations. Individuals might be observed more than on... Lydia Palumbo

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494: Weights

Lydia,
Thank you. Are you pooling all the information together and using it in one model?
Are you studying a cros... Olena Kaminska

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Olena
Thanks for your help. I have already removed all participants who are not part of the extra five minutes ... Natalie Bennett

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Natalie,
Extra 5 minutes are questions meant for ethnic minorities - so all ethnic minorities are asked them, but ... Olena Kaminska

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Hi,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I would like to add a better way to create children id:
foreach w in $W ... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498 (In Progress): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Dear Mario,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498 (Resolved): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status

Dear Sir or Madam,
I have managed to create a mother, father, and children identifier using the EGOALT file in BHP... Mario Martinez-Jimenez

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1491 (Feedback): advice on constructing ISCED variable

Piotr Marzec

11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1493 (Resolved): negative income

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02/01/2021

08:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights

Thank you. Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights

Hi Leilah,
as you are looking for the population mean, you can use summarize which allows aweight, but not pweight. ... Gundi Knies

05:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1496 (Resolved): data merge

Sorry if this has been asked before!
How can i merge variables from one dataset to another from the same year. on... Rachel Bridge

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

Hi Olena,
Thank you so much for your detailed reply and suggestion for even more accurate analysis. I will probabl... Marie Mueller

01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

Marie,
One more point. If you want to skip postal sectors and go with the lower LSOAs it is theoretically possible... Olena Kaminska

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

Marie,
You do need to go with the highest level of clustering in the model (other levels are optional). But indeed... Olena Kaminska

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

Hi Olena,
Yes, thank you very much!
As for the clustering, I was wondering: when I am interested in neighbourho... Marie Mueller

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495 (In Progress): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample

Hi Natalie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1494 (In Progress): Weights

Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/30/2021

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights

In addition, how would I know which population weight to choose for the mean income calculation? When calculating mea... Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights

Hi Gundi, why do you use an aweight? I am trying to construct the mean income of a reference group weighted by popula... Leilah Plant-Tchenguiz