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08/09/2021

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

Carolin,
If you represent individuals and therefore run individual-level analysis you can use as many household at... Olena Kaminska

08/06/2021

03:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
Thanks, this helps a lot, again!
Yes, we are using information from the household head (age, age at m... Carolin Schmidt

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
Wave 8 is representative of the population with one exception: it does not include immigrants that ente... Olena Kaminska

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
Our research question doesn't depend on the wave number and we were wondering if we could just use wave ... Carolin Schmidt

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
If you tell me how you define your longitudinal households I would be able to suggest the best option for... Olena Kaminska

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Hi Olena,
Thanks for the quick reply. We are looking at households and so, there are no longitudinal weights in th... Carolin Schmidt

11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Thanks Ted. I understand. I have passed on your request to the data team. If you have written any code to automate th... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Good morning. No problem.
So if I have understood correctly this soft check occurs when Hsval < 50000 OR > 100000... Edward Pinchbeck

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1571 (Feedback): Coding of Arts Variables (Wave 2 & 5)

Hello,
The way to understand -8 cases is to look at the questionnaire and see who is asked the question. Those who... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/05/2021

06:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Carolin,
I can't comment on the substantive idea of using later wave income. I will only mention that I wouldn't u... Olena Kaminska

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Those aspects that are not expected change frequently are asked less frequently including wealth. So, it is expected ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Thank you - that is very helpful. What a fantastic support service!
Best wishes,
Catherine Catherine Bunting

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Dear Catherine,
1) for those who are unemployed in wave 8 and for whom the information on their occupation in the... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1571 (Resolved): Coding of Arts Variables (Wave 2 & 5)

For variables b_arts1freq, b_art2freq and e_arts1freq, e_arts2freq, does "-8" refer to all those who replied "none of... Ipsitaa Khullar

02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1482 (Resolved): Top-coded income

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02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1501 (Resolved): xtreg and fixed effects

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01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1520 (Resolved): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7

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01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1555 (Feedback): Weighting across main survey and Covid-19 survey

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01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1529 (Resolved): Linking couples across waves

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01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1546 (Resolved): Wave 8 innovation panel trace/keystroke files for a few cases as a manipulation check

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11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1570: BHPS hhmove variable with 0 values

The bk_ivnadd shows whether this is a new address, corrected address etc and bk_ivfho shows the household interview o... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1570: BHPS hhmove variable with 0 values

Hi,
Thank you for looking into this, these explanations are very helpful.
Could I please just ask how the bk_hh... Marek Rojicek

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1570 (Feedback): BHPS hhmove variable with 0 values

Hello,
In Wave 7, the UK component of the ECHP panel sample were added to the BHPS and the hhmove variable is miss... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The data team have looked into this but their investigation releaved that... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554: hsval - units

Hello. Thank you. When convenient, please could you let me know if the data team have been able to look at this yet? ... Edward Pinchbeck

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1561 (Resolved): Residential mobility of youth and children

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11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1562 (Resolved): Is the answer to question #933 up to date?

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08/04/2021

10:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1570 (Resolved): BHPS hhmove variable with 0 values

Hi,
In BHPS waves 7 and 11, the derived _hhmove_ variable has blank values associated with a value label of 0. The... Marek Rojicek

12:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Dear Olena,
Thanks for the details. I'll meet my coauthors soon and will discuss the definition of households with... Carolin Schmidt

08/02/2021

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567: Information about most recent job

Thank you very much for a clear and helpful response. I can now see how to derive the variable I need using a combi... Catherine Bunting

07/30/2021

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1569 (Feedback): USoc Query SEISS

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02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1569 (In Progress): USoc Query SEISS

Hello,
1. The best way to find out sample sizes for the main survey is to use the online variable search facility:... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1569 (Resolved): USoc Query SEISS

Dear Usoc Team,

I work for HMRC on the evaluation of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). I’m hopin... Josh Munday

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1568 (Feedback): Household income components

Thanks for your question. Our income team has had a deeper a look into the issue and can confirm the variables contai... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1567 (Feedback): Information about most recent job

Dear Catharine,
There is no quicker alternative to the method you are suggesting. But your method needs to be adj... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/28/2021

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

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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