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01/28/2022

01:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1642 (Feedback): Incomplete Merge of Longitudinal individual indresp variables (a - k; 1 - 11) and longitudinal hhresp variables - Unmatched Data both ways

Hello Sue,
While attempt is made that all enumerated/responding households complete the household questionnaire, t... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1641 (Feedback): 3 critical issues regarding COVID-19 UK Household Longitudinal Dataset

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Thank you for your valuable feedback.
A quick clarification - Understanding Society is led and managed a... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/27/2022

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1621 (Resolved): How to merge two data files from two different waves?

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02:11 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.

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02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1615 (Resolved): Enquiry of participants data collection

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02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1614 (Resolved): jbstat Wave 11

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02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1611 (Resolved): Geographical data

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02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1606 (Resolved): Adult Subject Birth Order

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02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1607 (Resolved): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS

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02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1587 (Resolved): panssec8_dv

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02:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608 (Resolved): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

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02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609 (Resolved): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

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02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610 (Resolved): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

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02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1613: Linking administrative health data

Hello Luke,
Sorry this slipped through. The best way to know of what linked administrative data is available is he... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1620 (Resolved): Raven Progressive Matrix

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01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1619 (Resolved): Differentiating between income-based benefits and contribution-based / "new style" benefits (JSA, ESA)

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01:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1634: Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

Hi Ishita,
For continuing sample members, they are asked questions about changes in employment status via the Annu... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1639 (Resolved): Creating housing benefit indicator using _renthb & _renthb_bh

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01/26/2022

06:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1637 (Feedback): Religion in Covid survey

Questions about religion has been asked in the main survey, every 4 years for the whole sample (Waves 1 4 8), and onl... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1638 (Feedback): w_fimnlabnet_dv

Hello,
Basic information on how the income variables were created is available in this User guide section:
https:... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1639 (Feedback): Creating housing benefit indicator using _renthb & _renthb_bh

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If you look at the Universe for this question, i.e., who were asked this question in the Questionnaire, you... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1640 (Feedback): Onward Social Fabric Index and Understanding Society Wave

Hello Luke,
Wave 12 data will be released in November 2022.
You can check which of these variables/questions we... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/24/2022

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

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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

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

01/21/2022

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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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

01/19/2022

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

01/17/2022

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

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

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

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

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

09:57 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

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

01/04/2022

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

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