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12/23/2021

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Dear Lieke,
Yes, lchsx is the correct variable for non-resident children. You need to combine the information on r... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/22/2021

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Olena,
Problems are solved, thanks for your help.
Best Wishes
Jun Jun Wang

12/21/2021

05:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623 (In Progress): Gender first-born child

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

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Sorry, I think I found it already: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentati... Lieke Holt

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623 (Resolved): Gender first-born child

Dear User Support team,
I have been looking for a variable that captures the gender of individual respondents' fir... Lieke Holt

12/19/2021

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1619: Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)

Thank you very much for following up on this so quickly and for the clarification. I have since checked once more in ... Lucas Auer

12/15/2021

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1622: Creating my own longitudinal weight

Kate,
As your analysis is longitudinal you will need a longitudinal weight. You can create your own tailored weigh... Olena Kaminska

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1622 (Feedback): Creating my own longitudinal weight

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

12/14/2021

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1622 (Resolved): Creating my own longitudinal weight

I am running a linear regression using participants who have responded in waves 9 and 10. I understand that using the... Kate Dotsikas

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1617 (Resolved): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata

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02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1617: Rare cases of time varying psu and strata

Thank you very much for following up on this so quickly, and for providing such a detailed explanation! Helps a lot.
... Lucas Auer

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1605 (Resolved): Life Satisfaction Data

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01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1604 (Resolved): religiosity variables

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01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1602 (Resolved): unemployment rate

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01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1601 (Resolved): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores

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01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1600 (Resolved): 'Other' response in hsownd variable

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01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1599 (Resolved): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult

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01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1598 (Resolved): Time Use Module

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01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1597 (Resolved): UK born variable for BHPS member in UKHLS

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01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1596 (Resolved): Identifying a birth in indresp

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01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1594 (Resolved): Distributing household level information to individuals

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01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1593 (Resolved): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?

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01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1592 (Resolved): individual records for variables collected during the survey

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01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590 (Resolved): Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

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01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1589 (Resolved): Tracking individuals moving house: lack of wave 2 data for addrmov_dv and distmov_dv

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01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1588 (Resolved): Combining the BHPS and UKHLS CNEF datasets

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01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1586 (Resolved): Merging UKHLS waves and optimal weight

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01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1574 (Resolved): Children's weights in the COVID-19 survey

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01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1581 (Resolved): Variables for the creation of education history spells

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01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1584 (Resolved): "inapplicable" end date of maternity leave & how to find out when leave ended

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01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1621 (Feedback): How to merge two data files from two different waves?

Hello,
(1) Merge into a wide format file, and you only want to keep those who appeared in both datasets
use j_ind... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1619 (Feedback): Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)

Hello,
We do not collect the information that you need. You can double check by looking at the questionnaires:
ht... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/13/2021

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1621 (Resolved): How to merge two data files from two different waves?

Could you please provide me with stata syntax to merge 'j_indresp.dta' and 'k_indresp.dta' into one file ?
I need... amwaj abugamza

10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

Thank you for this reply. All clear on inapplicables and universes. In the downloaded file, "...\UKDA-6614-stata\stat... Chris Percy

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1620: Raven Progressive Matrix

Thank you very much. That was very helpful Hai Tran

07:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1620 (Feedback): Raven Progressive Matrix

The Raven Progressive Matrices were collected from 10-15 year olds via the youth self-completion questionnaire in Wav... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1619 (In Progress): Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)

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

08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1617 (Feedback): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata

Hello,
There are 3-4 persons for whom this has happenned. This is because they moved from one sample into the hous... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1618 (Feedback): Measuring attacks in the home using wave 1 module on harassment. Q'aire suggests this is possible. Data does not.

Hello,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The variable label for these variables a_attackedw17, a_unsafew1... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/12/2021

10:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1620 (Resolved): Raven Progressive Matrix

Hello,
In youth questionnaires of Wave 10, there are questions on the Raven Progressive Matrix. However, I could ... Hai Tran

12/09/2021

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1619 (Resolved): Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)

Dear Support Team,
In my current research project, I am focussing on benefit recipients. More specifically, I would ... Lucas Auer

12/08/2021

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1618 (Resolved): Measuring attacks in the home using wave 1 module on harassment. Q'aire suggests this is possible. Data does not.

Hello,
Might you be able to help?
The variable lables are inconsistent with the questionnaire grid for the har... vanessa gash

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1617 (In Progress): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata

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

01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1617 (Resolved): Rare cases of time varying psu and strata

Dear support team,
When trying to account for the complex survey design, I have run into the following stata error m... Lucas Auer

09:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

Dear Understanding Society team,
Would you still be able to answer my final questions in this thread? Thank you in... Lieke Holt

12/07/2021

08:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1615 (Feedback): Enquiry of participants data collection

Hello,
Ethnic group and country of birth questions are asked only once - the first time someone is interviewed. It... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1615 (Resolved): Enquiry of participants data collection

Hello, I am interested in exploring the data of ethnicity in the Understanding Society report. I understand the quest... Erica Lee

12/03/2021

07:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11

Many thanks! Theocharis Kromydas

07:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614 (Feedback): jbstat Wave 11

Thanks for letting us know that the issue has been resolved. You may also find this document looking at changes made ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/02/2021

09:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614: jbstat Wave 11

I have just read the comment that "New response option code added in Wave 11: 12 Furloughed and 13 Temporarily laid o... Theocharis Kromydas

09:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614 (Resolved): jbstat Wave 11

Hi there
Jbstat variable in Wave 11 has two additional values (12 and 13) that are not label and also they don't e... Theocharis Kromydas

12/01/2021

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
Yes, for each wave I only link data of the same wave. After creating 'complete' data sets for each wave,... Marie Mueller

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Yes, youth weights will be suboptimal weights for your analysis (assuming analysis within one wave, and not... Olena Kaminska

11/30/2021

10:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Hi Olena,
Can I assume that the youth cross-sectional weight is the sub-optimal (or indeed the optimal) weight for... Marie Mueller

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Assuming no change in population size of PSUs over time, the selection probability at the PSU stage is the sa... Olena Kaminska

11/29/2021

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

That is very useful to know, many thanks. Is this list of examples of available administrative data still accurate?
... Lieke Holt

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data

Linked Welsh administrative health data are almost with us (with possibility of access to users by Spring 2022) but l... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

(1) About your question regarding inapplicables - anyone who is not asked the question is coded as inapplicable. You ... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-8:
> Jun,
>
> Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration).... Jun Wang

08:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-3:
> Dear Jun Wang,
>
> Thank you for your question.
> 1. Selection probabilities ... Jun Wang

11/28/2021

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

Thank you for the quick response. When I follow the approach you describe I get some values that I struggle to interp... Chris Percy

11/26/2021

06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1591 (Resolved): Design and testing of questionnaire questions

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06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1595 (Resolved): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

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06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (In Progress): Linking administrative health data

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10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

Thank you very much for the clarification!
Good to know that more information will be provided soon. Do you maybe ... Lieke Holt

09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Feedback): Linking administrative health data

Hello,
We collected the consents but the data hasn't been linked yet. As and when data are linked information abou... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613 (Resolved): Linking administrative health data

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am interested in participants' health status around the time of the Understandi... Lieke Holt

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610 (Feedback): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

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02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Also, if people move across PSUs you are in the territory of a cross-classified design, which would need to b... Olena Kaminska

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration). It depends on your longitudinal plans f... Olena Kaminska

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Hi, Olena, thanks very much, the second question is solved.
For the first question, suppose there are 100 PSUs in ... Jun Wang

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Let's talk about a theoretical example.
In IP1 let's say we sample 10 people out of each PSU. If each PSU ha... Olena Kaminska

08:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS project. Thanks for your reply, but there is still some questions here:
Accor... Jun Wang

08:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Olena,
I'm working on CHARLS(China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study) project. Thanks for your reply, ... Jun Wang

06:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612 (Feedback): Understanding length of time unemployed

The end of the first employment status since last interview is recorded in j_empstend(y/m/d). Then if the next employ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Thanks! Marie Mueller

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
I can confirm that "if weight2011>0" is not necessary in this example and should result in the same estimat... Olena Kaminska

08:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Hi Olena,
Thank you!
What confused me is this part:
> svyset psu2011 [pw=weight2011], strata(strata2011) sin... Marie Mueller