Understanding Society User Support

07/28/2021

07:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567 (In Progress): Information about most recent job

Understanding Society User Support Team

07/24/2021

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1568 (Resolved): Household income components

Hi - In the User Guide it says "At the household level, w_fihhmnnet1_dv is the net household monthly income. It is th... Matt Barnes

09:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Hello,
No, I won't exclude those respondents. I will include them as a distinct sub-group (e.g. 'long-term unemplo... Catherine Bunting

07/23/2021

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Dear Catherine,
I would like to clarify something - are you planning to exclude from your analysis respondents who... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Dear Catherine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get ba... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/22/2021

06:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Thank you for your question. UKHLS does not think of households as longitudinal entities as they change w... Olena Kaminska

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567 (Resolved): Information about most recent job

Hello,
I am carrying out some analysis of the cohort of respondents who were unemployed at Wave 8 of the survey (h... Catherine Bunting

07/21/2021

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Dear Alita,
Thanks, that helps a lot.
I have another follow-up question (probably fo Olena?). It may sound stra... Carolin Schmidt

07/20/2021

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1565 (Feedback): Income Variable: Drop negative values?

Dear Ipsitaa,
Negative values result from self-employed respondents reporting losses. You might also find useful o... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1565 (Resolved): Income Variable: Drop negative values?

Hi,
I am using the fimngrs_dv variable from indresp files. Some of the reported values are negative, for example,... Ipsitaa Khullar

07/15/2021

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1563 (Feedback): Survey Participant Drop-Outs

Hello Ethan,
The number of adult interviews of Scotland residents increased in Wave 2 when we added the BHPS sampl... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/14/2021

10:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1563 (In Progress): Survey Participant Drop-Outs

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

07/13/2021

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1563 (Resolved): Survey Participant Drop-Outs

I am wondering if someone would be able to give any more information on the drop-out rates of participants, particula... Ethan Hood

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