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From 02/14/2021 to 03/15/2021
03/15/2021
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03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Thank you, Alita!
Note: As I am interested in neighbourhood influences measured at LSOA level, I thought a multile... -
02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- About clustering on individuals: If you pool data across waves of this data, you are right the error is not independe...
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01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your quick and very helpful reply. Yes, of course, I understand that I need to... -
12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (Feedback): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
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12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Hello Marie,
You are right (1) will result in small sample sizes and there are no avaialble weights to use with ap...
03/12/2021
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11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Dear Olena,
To make it (hopefully) even clearer:
* My outcomes are measured at waves 1, 3, 5, and 7
* In every...
03/09/2021
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04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1522 (Feedback): data availability and representativeness
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03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1522: data availability and representativeness
- Fernanda,
Technically we represent all subgroups of the population - some may be too small for a good representati... -
12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1522 (Resolved): data availability and representativeness
- I am writing to ask you the following questions:
1) I know that your data is available/can be decomposed at by UK ... -
04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Dear Olena,
I will try to describe my problem/issue in a different way:
* My study population is young adolesce... -
03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Marie,
Your analysis as you describe is only legitimate if you study something time variant - something that chang... -
03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your rapid and detailed reply.
I will use the UKHLS youth data. My populati... -
10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Marie,
Thank you. Your problem is not about weights or even data structure but with the definition of the populati... -
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
03/08/2021
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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... -
01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1521 (Resolved): How to merge variables from newborn file when my main unit are children?
- Good afternoon!
I was wondering if you could help me. I am working with Stata and currently have a dataset where c... -
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...
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11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (Resolved): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- Hello,
This issue relates to issue #1472.
+Summary+
I will use UKHLS youth data of Waves 1 to 7. My outcome ... -
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 ... -
09:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1519 (Resolved): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (ppid==-8, sppid==-8)?
- Hello Alita,
I am wondering if respondents in the indresp file have a marital status (marstat_dv) of being married... -
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...
03/05/2021
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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... -
12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Thank you. I understand the logic now. However, I wonder if this is also possible for wave 1 of BHPS? I saw that vari...
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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...
03/03/2021
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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...
03/02/2021
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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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05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1518 (Resolved): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
- Hello,
I could see in the forum some old queries about linkage with Hospital Episode Statistics. Are the linked dat... -
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... -
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...
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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...
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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... -
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...
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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... -
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....
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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...
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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... -
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...
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09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Harry,
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> Here is the response from our 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...
03/01/2021
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03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1517 (Resolved): Covid weights
- I am running two path analysis models using baseline information from 2019 (the jk_indresp file), mediators from the ...
02/26/2021
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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
02/24/2021
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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... -
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... -
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.
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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 -
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.
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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
- This issue has been resolved
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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 ...
02/23/2021
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
02/22/2021
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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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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,
Understanding Society User Support Team
02/20/2021
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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 ... -
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...
02/19/2021
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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... -
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... -
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...
02/18/2021
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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...
02/17/2021
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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... -
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... -
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...
02/16/2021
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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:
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02/15/2021
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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...
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