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05/04/2022

10:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1692 (Feedback): Data Query

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10:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

We are very sorry this slipped through.
In the syntax you have specified, you need to
(1) make sure that the nega... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1694 (Feedback): Question on meaning ivfio

IVFIO is a summary variable derived from the more detailed IOUTCOME also in INDALL.
Some of the IVFIO=11 cases are ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676: Youth self-esteem measure

Sorry I meant 8 + 1 questions, where the 8 are the YPEST* questions and the 1 is the life sastisfaction question. You... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/03/2022

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685: creating a disabled status variable

Ok, I see.
We looked at the Wave 10 data and recreated the variable that you have created and we get the same freq... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1693 (Feedback): household data

All 10+ year old members in a responding household, are eligible for interviews - 10-15 year old for the youth interv... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1692: Data Query

Based on the numbers it seems they have excluded telephone and proxy interviews and the ECHP sample that was temporar... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/30/2022

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1632 (Resolved): Correct weighting for mental health

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01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1622 (Resolved): Creating my own longitudinal weight

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01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1624 (Resolved): Weights for subsample

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01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1623 (Resolved): Gender first-born child

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01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1646 (Resolved): Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households

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01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1658 (Resolved): Questions

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01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1655 (Resolved): Household income in Covid surveys

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04/29/2022

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1690: jbnssec8_dv

Yes for jbnssec_dv unemployed is not included as an additional category, rather jbnssec_dv=-8 identifies those who sa... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/28/2022

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676 (Feedback): Youth self-esteem measure

There are 9 questions (ypesta-ypesti) and the question "On the whole, I am satisfied with myself" is asked separately... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1691 (Feedback): Combining BHPS with US, as well as match children to parents across waves

The second option should work - first merge children with parents in each wave (BHPS & UKHLS) individually. It is not... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1690 (Feedback): jbnssec8_dv

Hello,
The value labels of jbnssec8_dv do not match the ONS NSSEC 8-cateogorisation, but the categories are the sa... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/27/2022

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1686: New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Yes, continuing sample members were asked if they had ever been diagnosed with these health conditions - not whether ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1686 (Feedback): New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Hello,
These health conditions were changed in Wave 10. Please take a look at the FAQ about this. Go to the FAQ pa... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685: creating a disabled status variable

Hello,
We could not find these variables in the UKHLS Covid Survey Wave 8 dataset (collected in Mar 2021 and more ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1689 (Feedback): Matching Spouses data across waves

Best to Link individuals and spouses at each wave and then link the waves. Here are the syntax files about how to mat... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667 (Feedback): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

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12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1670 (Resolved): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

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04/26/2022

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1688 (In Progress): Linkage Query

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

04/21/2022

09:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1687 (Feedback): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w

Hi,
This is a summary index for the battery of the 12 General Health Questionnaire questions ranging from scghqa t... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685 (Feedback): creating a disabled status variable

So, if I understand correctly, your definition of disability is this: health=2 AND disdif96=0, which translates to: n... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/20/2022

07:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1686 (In Progress): New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

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

07:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685 (In Progress): creating a disabled status 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

06:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

2. These were cases where either the total annual hh income or the labour income or non-labour incomes were imputed (... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/19/2022

05:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1684 (Feedback): Difference between cd_chsdqtd_dv_f and cd_chsdqtd_dv_m

_m stands for mothers, _f for fathers. Please see section 14.2 "July 2020: Special Education Needs (SEN) and Strength... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1683 (Feedback): Merging parents (cd_indresp_w.dta) to children (cd_youth.dta)

Rename pidp_c in cd_youth to pidp and then merge it to the latest main survey wave w_indall file from the main survey... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/14/2022

03:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

looked t the screenshop - yes, weights created and use of svyset is ok Understanding Society User Support Team

03:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

As your objective i to estimate trends, you don't need to restrict to cases that responded in all 3 waves. Understanding Society User Support Team

04/13/2022

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1682 (Feedback): How to get access to postcodes?

Hello,
Please check the list of available geographical identifiers: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documen... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1681 (Feedback): ff_stillfurl

Dear Darja,
In Waves 5 & 6, respondents who had said they had been on furlough and hadn’t said previously that the... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/12/2022

05:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1650 (Feedback): yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Hi Alessandro,
1) Such an interpretation is possible as the yp2uni questions reads “after you finish school?”, so ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1680 (Feedback): Merging: Many to one & sorting

Dear Irina,
1) all these files are individual level files in which pidp is a unique identifier, so this is 1:1 mer... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1680 (In Progress): Merging: Many to one & sorting

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11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1680: Merging: Many to one & sorting

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

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Sorry about that - same principle applies for baseline using Wave 9.
After you have put the data together (as you ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Hi Irina,
It seems that you want to estimate trend in these SDQ summary scales, rather than within person change i... Understanding Society User Support Team