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02/09/2022

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1657: Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds

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12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1651 (Feedback): Matching Partners Data

Dear Laura,
You can identify partners who do not live with the respondent only in cases where we captured the two ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655 (Feedback): Household income in Covid surveys

Hi Natalie,
Yes, you need to multiply the hhincome_amount by a factor corresponding to the period provided in the ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1656 (Feedback): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim

Dear Jonathan,
The unib question asked about the first degree (e.g. B.A., BSc, BEd), the unim about the second or ... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/08/2022

08:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Dear Alessandro,
Thank you for pointing out these issues. In waves 6,8 and 9 the -8 "inapplicable" category was as... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1646 (Feedback): Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households

Matt,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you are right - our weights are either for people who respondent to interv... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1646 (In Progress): Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households

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

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1654 (Feedback): Looking for motherhood status variables

Dear Amwaj,
You can use nchild_dv which gives you the number of own children in the household, including natural c... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1647 (Feedback): Filter issues of "vote7"

Dear Sebastian,
Vote7 was asked only of respondents who completed their interview after the 12th of December 2019,... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655 (In Progress): Household income in Covid surveys

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 #1656 (In Progress): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim

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02/07/2022

12:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1648 (Feedback): Help with linking data across two waves

Dear Fathia,
You can link variables across waves using the individual identifier variable pidp. Pidp is a cross-wa... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1648 (In Progress): Help with linking data across two waves

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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1650 (In Progress): yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

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

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1651 (In Progress): Matching Partners Data

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

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1653 (In Progress): Representativeness of lone mothers

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11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1654 (In Progress): Looking for motherhood status variables

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11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?

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02/02/2022

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1647 (In Progress): Filter issues of "vote7"

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01/31/2022

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1645 (Feedback): How to Deal with Missingness in Health Variables Over Time

Hello Sue,
Which health variables are you referring to? For some questions, not everyone is asked the question so ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1643 (Feedback): Employment history for different samples

Hello,
The employment history for GPS & EMBS first six months samples were asked in Wave 1, and for the remaining ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1644 (Feedback): Inapplicable issue

Hello,
Not every respondent is eligible for every question. To know who is eligible for a specific question, take ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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

Hello,
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

Hello,
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

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

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