Understanding Society User Support

01/24/2022

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1638 (Resolved): w_fimnlabnet_dv

Hi,
Does this Labour income variable (w_fimnlabnet_dv) also capture the Statutory maternity pay (SMP) that the emplo... ISHA GUPTA

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Joe,
Have you listened to the full training material yet? Some of the answers will be there as well as an example ... Olena Kaminska

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Hi Olena,
So having a look at the data today, and playing around with creating a tailored weight. To be clear agai... Joe Lillis

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Thanks very much for your help,
Will come back to this with further questions re. tailored weights if required.
... Joe Lillis

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Yes, we asked you to continue to post your questions here. Thanks for doing that.
But to clarify you do need to em... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Thanks Olena,
The USoc email team responded, asking me to make this request here:
I need the training manual f... Joe Lillis

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1637 (Resolved): Religion in Covid survey

Hello,
I hope you are well.
I had a question about the Covid survey (adults 16+). Looking at the data I can't s... Samir Sweida-Metwally

11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1636 (Feedback): Empstat wave 5

Hello,
You are correct the questions were about employment status and not jobs. The empstat datafile includes the ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (In Progress): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

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11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1635 (Feedback): Scotland – all UKLHS participants who completed secondary education in Scotland?

We also provide school locator variables of children's current schools and those of recent school leavers. To know mo... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/22/2022

12:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1636 (Resolved): Empstat wave 5

Hi Team,
I am trying to reconstruct the employment history of all the individuals. So, according to my understandi... ISHA GUPTA

01/21/2022

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1635 (Resolved): Scotland – all UKLHS participants who completed secondary education in Scotland?

Hello,
Could you please advise us on the best way to identify individuals (in all UKLHS waves, but not BHPS) who h... Yulia Anopa

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1633 (Feedback): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire

We do have food poverty questions in W12 but they are about foodbanks, not the Food Insecurity Experience (FIES) ones... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632 (Feedback): Correct weighting for mental health

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11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1634: Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

Thank you for your quick response. It is extremely helpful.
In the life employment history('empstat' file in wave 5)... ISHA GUPTA

07:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1634 (Feedback): Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

The employment history of the rest of the sample was asked in Wave 5. You may also be interested in the syntax that w... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/20/2022

06:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1634 (Resolved): Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

Hi,
According to the documentation the employment status history is only available for individuals surveyed betwee... ISHA GUPTA

01/19/2022

08:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1633 (In Progress): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire

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

08:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1626: Who is the respondent parent - SDQ

Dear Michaela,
There is also one more thing you might find useful. As part of Understanding Society efforts to h... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/18/2022

03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1633 (Resolved): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire

Hello there,
I have been reviewing variables available in the UKLHS questionnaires related to food poverty. I see on... Rachel Loopstra

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Sounds like using youth weights should be a good option for you.
Best,
Olena Olena Kaminska

01/17/2022

09:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Hi,
Thank you very much for helping with this.
Yes that's correct, I'm using the EUL version of the data and it... Marek Rojicek

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health

Joe,
Thank you for your question. The set of instruments you use is unusual and we don't have specific weight for ... Olena Kaminska

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632 (Resolved): Correct weighting for mental health

Hello all,
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
I've recently carried out an analysis on adolescent men... Joe Lillis

01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1630: Date of birth data

Hi Isha,
It may take up to a few weeks, for further details please contact UK Data Service as they responsible fo... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/14/2022

06:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1630: Date of birth data

Thank you for your quick response.
May I know how much time does it usually take to get access to the data once the ... ISHA GUPTA

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1630 (Feedback): Date of birth data

Hi Isha,
I'm assuming you're using the End User Licence version of the data. Birthm variable is considered to be p... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (Feedback): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

In the UKHLS waves, most of these cases are explained by income top-coding. I am guessing you are using the EUL versi... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (In Progress): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

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

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608 (Feedback): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

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11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624 (Feedback): Weights for subsample

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11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1629 (Feedback): Merging Variable vote_7

Dear Jan,
The label of the value 7 of vote7 in wave7 of the BHPS reads "NA: ONS sub-sample" suggesting that this q... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1629: Merging Variable vote_7

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

01/13/2022

06:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (Resolved): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Hi,
I have been doing some comparisons of the gross and net income variables in the hhresp files in USoc and BHPS ... Marek Rojicek

04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1630 (Resolved): Date of birth data

Hi,
I am exploring the Understanding Society Survey and I need data on the date of birth (date, month and year) of... ISHA GUPTA

04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1629 (Resolved): Merging Variable vote_7

Dear Madame or Sir,
i am a stundent and am using the bhps and ukhls datasets in a project.
I have a question co... Jan Heinicke

01/12/2022

02:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1627: Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

Hi Alexandra,
We are investigating whether these are missing values which were not coded to the UKHLS convention (... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1628 (Feedback): data and documentation not matching up (jbsoc variable)

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09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1626 (Feedback): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ

Dear Michaela,
Please use the adresp15_dv variable to identify who is the responsible adult responding the SDQ que... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/11/2022

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1628: data and documentation not matching up (jbsoc variable)

Dear Ruth,
The fieldwork for the COVID-19 web surveys – and subsequent occupation coding – is done by a different ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1628 (In Progress): data and documentation not matching up (jbsoc variable)

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

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1627 (In Progress): Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

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

01/10/2022

12:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624: Weights for subsample

Ashley,
Thanks for your question. If you use wave 2 information than you will need to use longitudinal weight for ... Olena Kaminska

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624 (In Progress): Weights for subsample

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09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624: Weights for subsample

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

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1628 (Resolved): data and documentation not matching up (jbsoc variable)

Hi, I am trying to use wave 8 job title and description variable ch_jbsoc, however the variable doesn't seem to exist... Ruth Boardman

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1627 (In Progress): Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

Hi,
I have just started looking at the data in Wave K of the youth data file and found that for k_ypfhweve: "Durin... Alexandra Turner

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1625 (Feedback): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?

Hi Mushtahid,
This is a coding error, the correct value for this person is 15 "Black African".
Best wishes,
Un... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1625 (In Progress): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?

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09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1625: What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?

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

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1626 (In Progress): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ

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

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1626 (Resolved): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ

Good morning,
I was wondering whether there is a way to identify if the respondent parent is the mother or the fath... Michaela Kyclova

01/09/2022

04:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1625 (Resolved): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?

Hi,
In ethn_dv (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/ethn... Md Mushtahid Salam

01/06/2022

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624 (Resolved): Weights for subsample

Hello,
I am trying to estimate the fraction of people that transition to their first relationship (cohabitation o... Ashley Burdett

01/04/2022

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623 (Feedback): Gender first-born child

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