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04/05/2022

06:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1673: pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

Hi Tom,
We have passed this to our Data Team who are now investigating this discrepancy. We will keep you updated.... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1675 (In Progress): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status

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

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676 (In Progress): Youth self-esteem measure

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

10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676 (Resolved): Youth self-esteem measure

Hello,
I am using the self-esteem measure from the youth questionnaire. There are 8 items - they seem to be from t... Marie Mueller

04/04/2022

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1675 (Resolved): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status

I am trying to find a variable for employment status but cannot find one measuring whether people are employed or une... FATHIA Ali

03/31/2022

10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1674 (Resolved): Merging parstyle and indresp using hidp

The question was answered by email. Understanding Society User Support Team

03/30/2022

06:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1674 (Resolved): Merging parstyle and indresp using hidp

I can't seem to merge parstyle and indresp using hidp Jose Leonard Humiding

03/29/2022

05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1673 (In Progress): pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

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

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1673 (In Progress): pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

Hi,
The pensioner_dv variable is supposed to determine whether the respondent is past State Pension Age (SPA). But... Tom Waters

03/25/2022

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1668 (Feedback): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment

If you look at the user guide section on hh income here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstag... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/24/2022

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1671 (Feedback): Linking parents-children data during COVID (2019-2021)

Hello Irina,
Please read the Covid-19 user guide which discusses weights and how to link the covid-19 survey data ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/23/2022

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1672 (Feedback): Long Covid

Hello,
The routing condition for the cw_longcovid variable reads "Ask if previously reported having covid symptoms... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1672 (In Progress): Long Covid

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

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1672 (Resolved): Long Covid

The question on Long Covid (longcovid) in the USoc COVID-19 Study 2020-2021 was posed to the following participants: ... Darja Reuschke

11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1671 (In Progress): Linking parents-children data during COVID (2019-2021)

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

12:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1671 (Resolved): Linking parents-children data during COVID (2019-2021)

Hello!
My name is Irina Kolegova, I am a Masters student at the University of Oxford. Currently I am working on m... Irina Kolegova

03/22/2022

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670: Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Very good, I appreciate your quick reply and great information.
Best wishes,
Nico Nico Ochmann

11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670 (Feedback): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Hi Nico,
1) please note that it might happen that some numbers in the ranges are not in use, e.g. in the most up-t... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670: Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Thanks for your reply.
As a follow-up question/comment, I would like to have a list of all local authority district... Nico Ochmann

11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1669: Employment history and labour force spell

You may also be interested in the syntax that was developed by Liam Wright to produce the complete employment history... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Dear Support Team,
Thank you so much! This was very helpful.
Best,
Lieke Lieke Holt

03/21/2022

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1669 (Feedback): Employment history and labour force spell

Hello,
We do not have a separate user guide covering UKHLS employment data but I would recommend checking:
1) the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Hi Lieke,
Yes, that's correct, so since BHPS sample members have been asked about their children already in the BH... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Jennie,
Yes, use k_psnenui_lw weight as a base weight. You should include in your model everyone who is eligible. ... Olena Kaminska

03/18/2022

07:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1669 (In Progress): Employment history and labour force spell

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

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670 (In Progress): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

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

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1663 (Resolved): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

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01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1140 (Resolved): Mistake between ba_jbstat_bh ba_jbstat in Wave 1 of BHPS

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01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1664 (Feedback): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

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03/17/2022

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670 (Resolved): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
I have attached a copy of the SN 6666 user guide published by Understanding Society.
I... Nico Ochmann

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1663: How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

Thanks for your help,
Have a nice day,
Nico Nico Ochmann

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Dear Jennie,
You can find the information about the course here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/traini... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1669 (Resolved): Employment history and labour force spell

Dear Member of the Understanding Society team,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am emailing to enquire ab... Yanan Zhang

03/16/2022

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your response. I have now watched the course on creating a tailored weight and I see that it ... jennie parnham

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Dear Support Team,
Thanks for your confirmation already a few months ago. I would just like to ask for some clarif... Lieke Holt

07:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1668 (In Progress): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment

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

03/15/2022

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1668 (Resolved): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment

I am trying to get a measure of net household income.
I understand that when housing benefit is implied by differ... Rebecca Benson

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Jennie,
The best option for you is to create a tailored weight. We have now an online course for this. Piotr shoul... Olena Kaminska

09:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667 (In Progress): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

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

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1644 (Resolved): Inapplicable issue

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09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1630 (Resolved): Date of birth data

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09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1634 (Resolved): Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

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

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09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1641 (Resolved): 3 critical issues regarding COVID-19 UK Household Longitudinal Dataset

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09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1642 (Resolved): Incomplete Merge of Longitudinal individual indresp variables (a - k; 1 - 11) and longitudinal hhresp variables - Unmatched Data both ways

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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