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From 03/01/2021 to 03/30/2021

03/29/2021

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1528 (Resolved): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data: I am wondering what the difference in dates are between the mainstage_2019 and UKLFS wave 10 data and what differenti... Patrick Daniel

03/26/2021

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1527: parental education: Thank you very much for your help.
Have a nice weekend.
Danuta Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1527 (Feedback): parental education: Hello,
Only for those respondents who lived with their parents in the same household at least once during the surv... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/25/2021

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1527 (Resolved): parental education: Hello again,
Is there a possibility to find information about an educational level obtained by respondents' parents ... Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?: Thank you, everything is clear! Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?: Sorry just to be clear the search tool is working ok! Understanding Society User Support Team
03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1526 (Feedback): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?: Hello,
This variable is only available for Waves 6 onwards in the files CHILD & INDALL for UKHLS, and for all BHPS... Understanding Society User Support Team
02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1526 (Resolved): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?: Hello,
Under the following link:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentati... Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524 (Resolved): Mortality weight adjustment: Discussion has moved to email (usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk), so setting to resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team

03/24/2021

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1525 (In Progress): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.: 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
11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment: Yu-Tzu Wu,
Please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User S... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/23/2021

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1525 (Resolved): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.: I am currently using the British Household Panel Survey (study 5151). Specifically, I am using all waves 1-18 (1991-2... Simon Cremer
11:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment: Hi Olena,
Thank you for your reply. Sorry that I cannot find the full User Guide from wave 9 in UKDA. Would it be ... YT Wu
09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment: Yu-Tzu Wu,
The best document for you to read is the full User Guide from wave 9. You can download it with wave 9 d... Olena Kaminska
07:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment: Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your help.
I am interested in UKHLS data and consider to generate my own weights... YT Wu

03/22/2021

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment: Yu-Tzu-Wu,
Thank you for your question. The mortality that is provided with the data is for BHPS sample, and it ha... Olena Kaminska
09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524 (In Progress): Mortality weight adjustment: 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
09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1524 (Resolved): Mortality weight adjustment: Dear Sir/Madam,
I was wondering how to account for mortality when using the weights in Understanding Society. I foun... YT Wu
09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1523 (Feedback): Question on individual net labour income: Hi Lydia,
Details about how the income variables in UKHLS have been derived are explained in this paper:
https:/... Understanding Society User Support Team
07:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1523: Question on individual net labour income: And just to be precise, I would be interested in the usual monthly earning, not the last earning or annual one. Lydia Palumbo
07:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1523 (Resolved): Question on individual net labour income: Dear Understanding Society Team,
I have a question on individual net labour income. I would like to know whether, ... Lydia Palumbo

03/16/2021

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7: Marie,
Yes, this sounds correct.
Best of luck,
Olena Olena Kaminska
01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7: Hi Olena,
Yes, thank you!
From our various exchanges, I conclude the following:
Using *svyset*, accounting f... Marie Mueller
12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7: Marie,
You need to account for the highest level of clustering as a minimum. Our sample is clustered within PSUs -... Olena Kaminska

03/15/2021

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... Marie Mueller
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Marie Mueller
12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (Feedback): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7: Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/12/2021

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... Marie Mueller

03/09/2021

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1522 (Feedback): data availability and representativeness: Alita Nandi
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... Olena Kaminska
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 ... Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon
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... Marie Mueller
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... Olena Kaminska
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... Marie Mueller
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... Olena Kaminska
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
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... Michaela Kyclova
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
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 ... Marie Mueller
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
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... Abigail Dumalus
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
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... Yu-Chin Her
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?: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1184 (Resolved): informal care receipt in wave 7: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1244 (Resolved): variable howling in SN6614: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1259 (Resolved): Education level: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants: Understanding Society User Support Team
07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1299 (Resolved): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS: Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Rami Cosulich
04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1309 (Resolved): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1154 (Resolved): Pay: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1178 (Resolved): Income: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1424 (Resolved): Stability of resp ethnicity over time: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1092 (Resolved): Variables: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
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): Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1142 (Resolved): Identifying unemployment spells: Understanding Society User Support Team
04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1094 (Resolved): MSOA level data - Scotland and NI identifiers: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1096 (Resolved): Special licence data release calendar: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1185 (Resolved): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1228 (Resolved): Unbalanced panel weight: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1155 (Resolved): What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1162 (Resolved): Month of Sample Issue: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1165 (Resolved): Identifying the correct weights for analysis of Understanding Society (USoc) data: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1166 (Resolved): Material deprivation response categories: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1177 (Resolved): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1210 (Resolved): Question about health conditions data: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1257 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1263 (Resolved): Number of households in broader London area: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1275 (Resolved): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1306 (Resolved): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1307 (Resolved): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1330 (Resolved): neighbourhood modules / neighbourhood trust in subsequent waves: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1343 (Resolved): Creating a family group for profile of parents: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1359 (Resolved): Using the EMB sample independently: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1360 (Resolved): How to find all publications: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1366 (Resolved): Valid occupation code versus job hours: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1369 (Resolved): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1392 (Resolved): natid - change in national identity: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398 (In Progress): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1411 (Resolved): Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7: Understanding Society User Support Team
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: Understanding Society User Support Team
03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472 (Resolved): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8: Understanding Society User Support Team
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
09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights: Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Harry,
>
> Here is the response from our team: ... Theocharis Kromydas
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

03/01/2021

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 ... Kate Dotsikas

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