Understanding Society User Support

07/08/2021

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1562: Is the answer to question #933 up to date?

Thank you very much!
Danuta Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1562 (Feedback): Is the answer to question #933 up to date?

Hello,
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Here is a complete list of urban-rural indicator variables avaiable for the main UKHLS & BHPS surveys, th... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1562 (Resolved): Is the answer to question #933 up to date?

Hello,
My question concerns the urban / rural variable in the UKHLS and BHPS surveys. In fact, such question was ask... Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Thanks - I have passed on your request to the data team. Understanding Society User Support Team

08:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Thanks, that was helpful.
Regarding the hsval variable, further inspection of the UKHLS and BHPS data suggests tha... Edward Pinchbeck

07/07/2021

01:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558 (Feedback): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

About (a)
UKBORN (Whether born in E, S, W, NI or outside UK) & its follow-up PLBORNC (Country of birth if said the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Here are replies to b) and c):
If you are analysing households, and you want to represent households in ... Olena Kaminska

07/06/2021

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1556 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting

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03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children

Great! I will give it a try – thank you! :) Marie Mueller

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children

Good point! Yes, you could prioritise the biological parent, and perhaps also adoptive parent. A child is almost alwa... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children

Hello,
Thank you very much for the rapid help!
That's a good suggestion! However, if, for example, a step paren... Marie Mueller

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561 (Feedback): Residential mobility of youth and children

Hello Marie,
What you are suggesting is a good idea but you don't need to make an assumption that the child always... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561 (Resolved): Residential mobility of youth and children

Hello,
I am analysing youth (10–15 years) and child (3, 5, 8 years) data. In my analyses, I would like to include ... Marie Mueller

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1560 (Feedback): Project Query

Hello,
If a variable has a valud of -7 it means that this person did not complete the interview themselves, but so... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/05/2021

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1560 (Resolved): Project Query

Hello
Firstly, I would like to make it clear that my knowledge regarding Understand Society's data as well as STA... Casper Gill

07/04/2021

08:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
I'm having a few more questions now.
Like I said, we'd like to classify entire households as immigran... Carolin Schmidt

07/02/2021

04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1546: Wave 8 innovation panel trace/keystroke files for a few cases as a manipulation check

Thank you for looking into this and confirming that the experiment was working as intended! -Dana Dana Garbarski

07/01/2021

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

That does help a lot. Thanks, Olena. Carolin Schmidt

06/30/2021

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Yes, in a sense that all immigrants who were present in the country are represented longitudinally (some ... Olena Kaminska

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
Thanks for the quick reply. One last question (at the moment, at least): the sample is representative of... Carolin Schmidt

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Use ui_xw weight for wave 6, and use ui_lw weight if your longitudinal analysis starts at wave 6 or later... Olena Kaminska

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1559 (Feedback): Scottish Sample Size and Breakdown

Hello Ethan,
This is a complicated question as this is a longitudinal and household survey. So, the sample size de... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1559 (Resolved): Scottish Sample Size and Breakdown

I am wondering if someone is able to give some more information about the Scottish sample for the survey. More specif... Ethan Hood

09:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Hello,
Please take a look at this User Forum post about the variables we provide to identify movers.
https://iser... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Hello again. Just following this up: I wonder if the data team had any further advice on this?
Also, could you pro... Edward Pinchbeck

06/29/2021

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Dear Olena,
Thanks a lot for your help. I did read the relevant sections on immigrants in the help files but did n... Carolin Schmidt

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Your problem is not weights but how you are using longitudinal dataset. By default the longitudinal aspec... Olena Kaminska

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558 (In Progress): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal 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

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1555: Weighting across main survey and Covid-19 survey

Hello,
Could you please email your query to us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and someone from our weig... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1556: Covid-19 weighting

Hello,
Could you please email your query to us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and someone from our weig... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/28/2021

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558 (Resolved): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hello,
I am working with Understanding Society for the first time and have a few questions.
My coauthors and I ... Carolin Schmidt

06/24/2021

05:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1557 (Feedback): Survey design

Hello,
When the survey started there were interviewing capacity issues due to the large sample size and all interv... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1557 (Resolved): Survey design

Dear staff,
I am really interested in survey design of Understanding Society. I notice that the survey is conduc... Iris Wang

06/23/2021

09:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1556 (In Progress): Covid-19 weighting

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

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1556 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting

Hi,
I know some people have already asked about this but I would like to clarify the best way to weight the data.... Katie Cross

06/22/2021

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Fab, thanks. Yes Wave 23 is UKHLS W5. Edward Pinchbeck

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Thanks Ted. I see what you mean. I can see in this example it does look like they misreported hsval in Wave 23 (UKHLS... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

OK. Thank you. It is true that there are few cases like my example above. However, there are many other cases where t... Edward Pinchbeck

09:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554 (Feedback): hsval - units

We don't have any additional information that will help you to undersstand why some of the hsval reported are so low.... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554 (Resolved): hsval - units

Hello,
I would like to use the hsval variable (About how much would you expect to get for your home if you sold it... Edward Pinchbeck

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1555 (In Progress): Weighting across main survey and Covid-19 survey

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

12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1555 (Resolved): Weighting across main survey and Covid-19 survey

Hello,
I’m working with the Covid-19 survey matched to the Wave 10 Main Survey and have some queries about which ... Mary Reader

06/21/2021

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1553 (Feedback): Household asset

Hello,
Respondents are asked questions about assets and wealth and you can find that by looking through the househ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1553 (Resolved): Household asset

May I ask whether there is any document or report showing how the *household asset* in Understanding Society is quest... Iris Wang