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03/14/2022

05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667 (Resolved): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Hello,
I was looking to check if I have correctly understood the weight I needed for my analysis .
My analysis... jennie parnham

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

Hi William,
If you are analysing the main survey data separately from the Covid-19 survey data, so first generatin... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1664: IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

Dorothee,
If you include all sample months 1 through 24 in your analysis you don't need to worry about samples / s... Olena Kaminska

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1627: Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

Hi Alexandra,
We are sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Unfortunately, we are still investigating this is... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/08/2022

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

update: or, do we use the xw for indicators with no comparison and then have to make our own weights for comparisons ... William Shufflebottom

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

Hi,
Thanks for your quick response. We are comparing means so that is the _xw then. Thanks. For our variables whe... William Shufflebottom

03/07/2022

10:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1665 (Feedback): j_youth file lacking hrpid

Hi Larissa,
We are aware of this issue, it will be addressed in the next data release, but, of course, thank you f... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1665 (Resolved): j_youth file lacking hrpid

I have realised that the hrpid variable in the j_youth file is missing for all youth respondents in wave 10. I don't ... Larissa Pople

10:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666 (Feedback): Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

Hi William,
Are you analysing the data cross-sectionally, that is, for example, a mean from Wave 8 Covid-19 survey... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666 (Resolved): Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

Hi,
My name is William and I’m working on a social capital publication. I’m a little unsure of which weights we sh... William Shufflebottom

03/03/2022

08:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1664 (In Progress): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

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

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1627: Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

Hi, is there any update for my query? Alexandra Turner

03/02/2022

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1664 (Resolved): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

Dear UKHLS team,
I am trying to understand, based on Q11 and Q12 of the Weighting FAQ document, whether I can incl... Dorothee Schneider

04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys

Hi
That's great, thanks so much
Best wishes
Natalie Natalie Bennett

03/01/2022

01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1660: Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11

And you can find these questions in the Wave 12 questionnaire which is now available online here: https://www.underst... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Hi,
Thank you for looking further into this, that's useful to know.
Would you please also be able to look into... Marek Rojicek

09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (Feedback): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The reason for the few remaining cases with net income being greater than... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/22/2022

12:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1658: Questions

Hi,
Thanks for that. I think it indeed answered my question. Many thanks.
Weixi Kang

02/21/2022

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1658: Questions

Hello,
You can find some additional information about ethics and consent in the BHPS Quality Profile: https://www.... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1649 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal analysis

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02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1652 (Feedback): Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?

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02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1661 (Feedback): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS

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02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1659 (Feedback): Longitudinal analysis - correct weight

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02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1663 (Feedback): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

If you look at the questionniares you will see that the Universe of these questions that these changed across waves, ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1663 (In Progress): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

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

02/20/2022

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Hi,
I hope you are well, could I please request if someone would be able to help with this?
Thank you,
Marek... Marek Rojicek

02/17/2022

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1658: Questions

I will need to check with one of the team members who worked on the BHPS, I will let you know when I hear back.
Be... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1663 (Resolved): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

Dear Forum,
I am trying to construct a simple rough binary variable UK citizen yes or no for all eleven waves. I ha... Nico Ochmann

11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1656: Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim

Dear Jonathan,
These two questions were discontinued, but you can see the Higher Education establishments of resp... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Dear Alessandro,
So, just to make sure, your question is whether one can interpret answering 1 "Get a full time jo... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/16/2022

11:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1658: Questions

Hello,
Thanks for that. May I know which institution approved the ethics of the study with relevant detials?
Weixi Kang

09:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1660 (Feedback): Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11

Hello,
This module has been postponed and will be available in wave 12 (November 2022).
Best wishes,
Understan... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1661: Merging children with thier parent using SPSS

Hello,
We would recommend checking the SPSS version of our online Introduction to Understanding Society Moodle cou... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1662 (Feedback): Linking with a different data set

Hello,
It is not possible to link UKHLS to WERS at an individual and workplace level. The only linkage that might ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys

Hi Natalie,
Household income variables were not included in the 2019 jk dataset. However, since wave 11 was releas... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/15/2022

04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1662 (Resolved): Linking with a different data set

Is it possible to link BHPS with Workplace Employment Relations Study? Thank you. Soyoung Han

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1661 (Resolved): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS

Hello,
I am trying to study the association between children's mental health and their parents' mental health, bef... Afag Mohammed

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys

Apologies, I have one final question. I can't seem to find household income in any of the mainstage wave 9 data files... Natalie Bennett

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys

Ok great, thanks so much for your help.
Best wishes
Natalie Natalie Bennett

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys

Hi Natalie,
Yes, I think it is the only solution.
Best wishes,
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02/14/2022

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1659: Longitudinal analysis - correct weight

Yes, set it to zero. Olena Kaminska

08:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1659: Longitudinal analysis - correct weight

Hi Olena,
Thanks very much for this quick and very clear answer.
One follow-up question: to correct for non-resp... Rebeka Balogh

09:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
Thank you for your answer. So if I understand correctly, the "Inappl... Alessandro Ferrara

02/13/2022

04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1656: Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim

Thank you, this clears this up for me.
Additionally, is there a reason why both of these questions as well as the ... Jonathan Ramshaw