Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 10/07/2021 to 11/05/2021
11/05/2021
- 09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
- Dear Daniel,
Thanks for your response. It is clear now. I have passed on your request to the data team.
In the... - 09:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1587: panssec8_dv
- The issue that you highlighted has been resolved for this latest data release. The latest data will be released by th...
11/03/2021
- 01:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Feedback): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
- Dear Daniel,
It is not entirely clear what your question is.
You have said that you want to transform pasoc00 i... - 08:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (In Progress): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
- Re-opened upon request
11/02/2021
- 03:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
- This issue has been resolved - this person let us know via our usersupport@ email address so setting this to resolved.
- 03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1604 (Feedback): religiosity variables
- Hello,
ff_oprlg is just the value of oprlg fed forward from past waves.
This question has been asked in differe... - 03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1602 (Feedback): unemployment rate
- Hello,
We do not provide this information with our survey data. But we do provide data on the geographical locatio... - 02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1598 (Feedback): Time Use Module
- Hello,
We don’t have a time use set of questions in Understanding Society and we’ve not carried time-use diaries. ...
10/28/2021
- 06:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1601 (Feedback): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores
- Hello,
As stated in the syntax file you have mentioned for further details about the scoring method used please se...
10/26/2021
- 09:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1600 (Feedback): 'Other' response in hsownd variable
- We have no information about what kinds of living arrangements are covered in the 'other' response to the hsownd vari...
- 09:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1595 (Feedback): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS
- Hello,
Thanks for highlighting this issue.
We have checked and in each wave there are around 1-2k cases where ... - 08:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1597 (Feedback): UK born variable for BHPS member in UKHLS
- A variable that identifies whether someone was born in the UK or not is available in the file xwavedat for all sample...
- 07:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1599 (Feedback): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult
- The variable adresp17 was created automatically during the interview – the rules for creating it can be found in the ...
- 03:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1599 (In Progress): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult
- Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 06:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1591 (Feedback): Design and testing of questionnaire questions
- Dear Will,
The life satisfaction and satisfaction with other domains were introduced in Wave 6 of BHPS and were mo... - 12:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1598 (In Progress): Time Use Module
- Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
10/15/2021
- 04:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1595 (In Progress): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1596 (Feedback): Identifying a birth in indresp
- Hello,
w_newmum in w_indall file identifies whether the household member is the biological mother of a new entrant...
10/14/2021
- 07:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1594 (Feedback): Distributing household level information to individuals
- Hello,
All enumerated households, that is, where the household grid has been completed are eligible for a househol... - 02:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1593 (Feedback): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?
- You can take a look at the datafile, xwavedat, which includes all individuals ever enumerated during the 18 BHPS wave...
- 02:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1593: Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?
- Yes.
10/13/2021
- 12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1303 (Resolved): Accessing linked data
- 12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1305 (Resolved): Weighting for youth questionnaire
- 12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1308 (Resolved): Cross-sectional weights 0 values
- 12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1311 (Resolved): Unemployment/home-keeper variable
- 12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1312 (Resolved): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- 12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1314 (Resolved): NPD-USOC linkages
- 12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1315 (Resolved): SDQ in child data
- 11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1316 (Resolved): birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons
- 11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1317 (Resolved): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)
- 11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1318 (Resolved): Special Licence access
- 11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1319 (Resolved): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS
- 11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1323 (Resolved): youth self completion longitudinal weight
- 11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1324 (Resolved): Childcare by grandparents
- 11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1326 (Resolved): Attitudes Towards Immigration Info
- 11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1327 (Resolved): Revision of derived variables in new release
- 11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1328 (Resolved): jbsoc10 jbsic07
- 11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1329 (Resolved): Enumeration of strata variable and
- 11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1331 (Resolved): query about food poverty/insecurity information
- 11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1333 (Resolved): Social Media data
- 11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1334 (Resolved): Verifying correct construct of motherhood variable | Harmonized BHPS-UKHL
- 11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1335 (Resolved): Question on Covid survey
- 11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1336 (Resolved): Religion in Wave 9
- 11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1338 (Resolved): COVID-19 module
- 11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1339 (Resolved): NPD Usoc secure access
- 11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1341 (Resolved): Ethics Approval Details
- 11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1342 (Resolved): finding variables in dataset and questionnaires
- 11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1345 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
- 11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1346 (Resolved): SPSS Complex Samples General Linear Model assumptions
- 11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1347 (Resolved): weighting
- 11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade data
- 11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1354 (Resolved): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study
- 11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1355 (Resolved): question on household earnings in COVID study
- 11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1357 (Resolved): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9
- 11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1358 (Resolved): Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency
- 11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1362 (Resolved): Deriving own weights
- 11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1363 (Resolved): Covid weights
- 11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1364 (Resolved): Sample overlap with other studies
- 11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1365 (Resolved): Payment methods gas and electricity
- 11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1367 (Resolved): Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)
- 11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1368 (Resolved): Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data
- 11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- 11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1372 (Resolved): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)
- 11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1373 (Resolved): Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]
- 11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp
- 11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1376 (Resolved): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)
- 11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1377 (Resolved): Weights in Covid-19 Study
- 11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods across waves?
- 11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1381 (Resolved): Query
- 11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1382 (Resolved): Where to find questionnaire modules?
- 11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1384 (Resolved): Sharing Data
- 11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1387 (Resolved): Estimates of UK population
- 11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1389 (Resolved): Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?
- 11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1391 (Resolved): dropouts due to mental health
- 11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1393 (Resolved): Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?
- 11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- 11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1395 (Resolved): f_scotvot2 - values
- 11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1396 (Resolved): calculate taxable income
- 11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1398 (Resolved): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- 11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1399 (Resolved): jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society
- 11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1400 (Resolved): Importance of Britishness to sense of self
- 11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1402 (Resolved): Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias
- 11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1403 (Resolved): Questions about the data
- 11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1405 (Resolved): Ethics application number for Understanding Society
- 11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1406 (Resolved): COVID-19 July release
- 11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1407 (Resolved): categories of the qfhigh_dv variable
- 11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1409 (Resolved): Ethnicity Query
- 11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1410 (Resolved): Determining the missing values in the jbsoc10_cc variable.
- 11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1412 (Resolved): Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
- 11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1413 (Resolved): Variables for employment
- 11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1414 (Resolved): Weighting dual pay only
- 11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1415 (Resolved): Using weights for all 9 waves
- 11:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1417 (Resolved): Time-varying predictor variables at different waves to outcome
- 11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1419 (Resolved): Moved to current address variable
- 11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1420 (Resolved): covid-19 observations not merging with wave 9 data
- 10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1421 (Resolved): top coding in income components
- 10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1423 (Resolved): Merging youth to adult data
- 10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1426 (Resolved): Adverse childhood experience data
- 10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1429 (Resolved): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations
- 10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1430 (Resolved): Wave 10 release
- 10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1431 (Resolved): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv
- 10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1432 (Resolved): Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules
- 10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1433 (Resolved): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'
- 10:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1434 (Resolved): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
- 10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study
- We have prepared a FAQ on the furlough questions. Attached.
If it does not answer your questions please let us kno...
10/12/2021
- 05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1435 (Resolved): BHPS wave 18 and UKHLS wave 1 integration
- 05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1437 (Resolved): JK weighting guidance
- 05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1440 (Resolved): Identifying Household Roles
- 05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1443 (Resolved): COVID wave 4 youth file
- 05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1444 (Resolved): COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
- 05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1445 (Resolved): Geographic disaggregations available
- 05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448 (Resolved): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1
- 05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1450 (Resolved): Covid Study netpay_amount
- 05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1451 (Resolved): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
- 05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1453 (Resolved): Wave 10 release date
- 05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458 (Resolved): Weights for Covid longitudinal sample
- 04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1469 (Resolved): Matching data
- 04:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1481 (Resolved): Missing values vs negative income
- 04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1511 (Resolved): Merging UKHLS data to the LFS data
- 04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1506 (Resolved): Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- 04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1509 (Resolved): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- 04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1514 (Resolved): Covid Longitudinal weights
- 04:55 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.
- 04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1518 (Resolved): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
- 04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1519 (Resolved): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (ppid==-8, sppid==-8)?
- 04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1521 (Resolved): How to merge variables from newborn file when my main unit are children?
- 04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1522 (Resolved): data availability and representativeness
- 04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1523 (Resolved): Question on individual net labour income
- 04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1530 (Resolved): Questions for assignment
- 04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1531 (Resolved): w_sf12mcs_dv - SF-12 Mental Component Summary (PCS)
- 04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1532 (Resolved): b_scsf6c - last 4 weeks: felt downhearted and depressed
- 04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1534 (Resolved): b_scsf6c - last 4 weeks: felt downhearted and depressed
- 04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1574 (Feedback): Children's weights in the COVID-19 survey
- 02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1574 (In Progress): Children's weights in the COVID-19 survey
- 04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1569 (Resolved): USoc Query SEISS
- 03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1535 (Resolved): b_sf12mcs_dv SF-12 Mental Component Summary (PCS)
- 03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1536 (Resolved): Happiness Questionnaire in Youth Survey
- 03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1537 (Resolved): query re. b_wlk30min
- 03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1538 (Resolved): Comparing health conditions across US waves 1-10
- 03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1539 (Resolved): Identifying indivdiual movers
- 03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1541 (Resolved): Benefit income in indresp and income file: what accounts for the differences between frmnthimp_dv and fimnsben_dv, and how can I retrieve benefit amounts for non-matching records?
- 02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1542 (Resolved): Health conditions in 2019 mainstage data
- 02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1543 (Resolved): Inapplicanle racel data
- 02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1545 (Resolved): has birthy variable name changed over USoc waves?
- 02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1548 (Resolved): 4-digit-ISCO-08?
- 02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1550 (Resolved): Modern Slavery and Children Data
- 02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1553 (Resolved): Household asset
- 02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1555 (Resolved): Weighting across main survey and Covid-19 survey
- 02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1557 (Resolved): Survey design
- 02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1559 (Resolved): Scottish Sample Size and Breakdown
- 02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1560 (Resolved): Project Query
- 02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1563 (Resolved): Survey Participant Drop-Outs
- 02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1565 (Resolved): Income Variable: Drop negative values?
- 02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1568 (Resolved): Household income components
- 02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1570 (Resolved): BHPS hhmove variable with 0 values
- 02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1504 (Resolved): Weights
- 02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1515 (Resolved): Meaning of different mstatch variables
- 02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1513 (Resolved): Variable for Income
- 02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1470 (Resolved): Question about data
- 02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1505 (Resolved): UKHLS data question
- 02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1498 (Resolved): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- 02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1508 (Resolved): Which is the best way to merge all the files (INDRESP, HHRESP,JOBHIST, YOUNTH) across the 18 BHPS waves
- 02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1500 (Resolved): Definition of "living as a couple"
- 02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1496 (Resolved): data merge
- 02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1492 (Resolved): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
- 02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1471 (Resolved): Identifying relation to respondent of those being cared for
- 02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1483 (Resolved): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
- 02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1466 (Resolved): Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy
- 02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1480 (Resolved): Who was sampled for question ca_timeshare in the COVID-19
- 02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1489 (Resolved): SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'
- 02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1585 (Resolved): Weights for youth dataset
- 02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554 (In Progress): hsval - units
- 02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1571 (Resolved): Coding of Arts Variables (Wave 2 & 5)
- 02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1558 (Resolved): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- 02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1575 (Resolved): _jk mainstage survey and COVID-19 survey responses-timing
- 02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1576 (Resolved): variables in Lower super output areas
- 02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1577 (Resolved): South Africa - anyone if there's an equivalent to BHPS in South Africa and/or where find South African wellbeing data sets?
- 02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1573 (Resolved): Pension contribution variable in BHPS
- 02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1572 (Resolved): Weighting in multilevel modelling in R Studio
- 02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1579 (Resolved): Refreshment sample IP4
- 02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1580 (Resolved): Questionnaire items relating to Social Capital
- 02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1582 (Resolved): UKHLS labour liked data
- 02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1578 (Resolved): Covid Universal Credit Variables
- 02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1592 (Feedback): individual records for variables collected during the survey
- Hello,
This is a household longitudinal survey where individuals are interviewed repeatedly (at one year intervals... - 09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1589 (Feedback): Tracking individuals moving house: lack of wave 2 data for addrmov_dv and distmov_dv
- Hello,
The methodology for constructing these variables for Wave 2 was different from later waves, and was more ti...
10/11/2021
- 05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1591 (In Progress): Design and testing of questionnaire questions
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1583 (Resolved): Children in Wave 1 of BHPS
- 05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1588 (Feedback): Combining the BHPS and UKHLS CNEF datasets
- Hello,
Please contact CNEF. Contact information is available here: https://www.cnefdata.org/contact
Best wishes... - 05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1587 (In Progress): panssec8_dv
- Hello,
If the respondent says that their mother/father was working when they were 14 (maju/paju=1), then they are ...
10/08/2021
- 03:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1589 (In Progress): Tracking individuals moving house: lack of wave 2 data for addrmov_dv and distmov_dv
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590 (Feedback): Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis
- (1) This is an analysis question. This is a good discussion about why and when we should weight. http://jhr.uwpress.o...
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