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From 02/13/2021 to 03/14/2021

03/09/2021

07:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398 (Feedback): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
Longitudina weights are now being discussed in other posts, e.g., 1514 and in the User Guide Understanding Society User Support Team

03/08/2021

06:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1521 (Feedback): How to merge variables from newborn file when my main unit are children?
You should try m:1 merge
In the child file all 0-15 year olds in any household are present. As parents may have mo... Understanding Society User Support Team
06:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (In Progress): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
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
06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1519 (Feedback): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (ppid==-8, sppid==-8)?
Hello Abigail,
To understand this you should look at w_indall as it includes everyone who have been enumerated to ... Understanding Society User Support Team
06:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1517 (Feedback): Covid weights
Hello,
You are correct, the longitudinal weights are based on Wave 9 response and so will be zero for anyone who d... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/05/2021

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
Here is a timeline of how the different samples joined.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainst... Understanding Society User Support Team
08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1518 (Feedback): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
Hello,

This data has not been linked yet. The earliest this may be possible is the end of 2021, but we are not ab... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/03/2021

07:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1518 (In Progress): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
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

03/02/2021

07:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?
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07:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
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07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1184 (Resolved): informal care receipt in wave 7
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07:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
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07:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1244 (Resolved): variable howling in SN6614
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07:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1259 (Resolved): Education level
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07:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants
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07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1299 (Resolved): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS
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04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units
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04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
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04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1201 (Resolved): Question in related to participants' response for chronic conditions in wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
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04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question
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04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
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04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1309 (Resolved): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
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04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1154 (Resolved): Pay
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04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1178 (Resolved): Income
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04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1424 (Resolved): Stability of resp ethnicity over time
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04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1092 (Resolved): Variables
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04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252 (Feedback): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
We have checked and the maximum value for these variables remain 10 ac... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252 (In Progress): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
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04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434 (Feedback): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Currently we do not provide information on the external datasets that you... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434 (In Progress): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
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04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451 (Feedback): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. On this user support forum we generally do not provide advice on these ty... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451 (In Progress): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
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04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (Feedback): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
Hello Vikram,
This is an issue because in your final analysis sample, there are strata with only one PSU. When you... Understanding Society User Support Team
04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1117 (Resolved): Scottish sample
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04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1142 (Resolved): Identifying unemployment spells
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04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1094 (Resolved): MSOA level data - Scotland and NI identifiers
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03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1096 (Resolved): Special licence data release calendar
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03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation
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03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1185 (Resolved): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
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03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228 (Resolved): Unbalanced panel weight
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03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
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03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1155 (Resolved): What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime
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03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1162 (Resolved): Month of Sample Issue
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03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1165 (Resolved): Identifying the correct weights for analysis of Understanding Society (USoc) data
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03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1166 (Resolved): Material deprivation response categories
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03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1177 (Resolved): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother
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03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1194: h_jbfxuse9
If someone is a proxy respondent, and the question was not included in the proxy questionanire then the value of that... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
Here is information on why weights should be used.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/us... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1205 (Resolved): self-completion weight wave 7
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03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210 (Resolved): Question about health conditions data
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03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1213 (Resolved): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
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03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
Please see our webpage on linked dataset and any updates will be available here. https://www.understandingsociety.ac.... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar
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03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
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03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
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03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
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03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio
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03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
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03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1263 (Resolved): Number of households in broader London area
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03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275 (Resolved): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
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03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
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03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1284 (Resolved): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
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03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?
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03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1306 (Resolved): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
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03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1307 (Resolved): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
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03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1330 (Resolved): neighbourhood modules / neighbourhood trust in subsequent waves
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03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343 (Resolved): Creating a family group for profile of parents
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03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359 (Resolved): Using the EMB sample independently
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03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (Resolved): How to find all publications
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03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366 (Resolved): Valid occupation code versus job hours
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03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369 (Resolved): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
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03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
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03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392 (Resolved): natid - change in national identity
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03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398 (In Progress): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
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03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1411 (Resolved): Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
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03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
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03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
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03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
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03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1442 (Resolved): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
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03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472 (Resolved): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
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02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1517 (In Progress): Covid 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
01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1412: Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
Sorry for the delay in responding Nico.
When calculating the poverty line in Example 4, the datafile being used is... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights
Sorry - we should have been clearer. You had said that once you stratified by sex and age groups you had concerns abo... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514 (Feedback): Covid Longitudinal weights
Dear Harry,
Here is the response from our team: "It's not a good idea to combine weights from different waves. Ea... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/26/2021

09:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1495 (Resolved): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
This conversation is now going on via email, so setting this to resolved Understanding Society User Support Team

02/24/2021

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
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
This issue has been resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team
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

02/22/2021

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.
Best wishes,
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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

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
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
 

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