Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 03/11/2021 to 04/09/2021
04/08/2021
- 02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1533 (In Progress): Adjusting weights when constructing a calendar year from two waves
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1532 (Feedback): b_scsf6c - last 4 weeks: felt downhearted and depressed
- This is part of the SF12 module of 12 questions to measure mental and physical health
These questions are asked in... - 01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1531 (Feedback): w_sf12mcs_dv - SF-12 Mental Component Summary (PCS)
- These variables are derived from the SF12 questions: scsf*
The Stata syntax for deriving these variables is availa... - 01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1530 (Feedback): Questions for assignment
- Hello,
The two versions summarise information collected in the 12 GHQ questions (w_scghqa - w_scghql) in two diffe...
04/06/2021
- 05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1529 (Feedback): Linking couples across waves
- ok, thanks. Thse couple identifiers use pno & ppno and so are unique within a household and wave. So, you cannot use ...
- 05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1529 (In Progress): Linking couples across waves
- Hello,
When you say you are trying to link couples in households across waves, have you produced couple identifier...
03/31/2021
- 04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1474 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting
- 04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1526 (Resolved): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
- 04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1527 (Resolved): parental education
- 04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1517 (Resolved): Covid weights
- Correspondence is continuing via email, so setting to resolved here.
Our response is copied here:
1: If your m... - 12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1525 (Feedback): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.
- Hello Simon,
Please take a look at the BHPS User Guide: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/vola/index... - 10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1528 (Resolved): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- 10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1528 (Feedback): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- Hello,
The 2019 datasets made available with the Covid survey data (SN8644), includes information collected during...
03/26/2021
- 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...
03/25/2021
- 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!
- 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... - 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.
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...
- 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...
03/22/2021
- 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:/... - 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...
03/15/2021
- 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...
- 12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (Feedback): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- 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...
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