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05/24/2022

05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hello
That's really strange - my read6614 file also refers to the 15th edition so this should be the same data. I d... Emily Humphreys

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hi Emily,
Thank you, I'm attaching the distribution of the bd_scghq2_dv in wave 4 of the BPHS. As you can see, the... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Sorry, I should say - in case it's not obvious - that the missing data discrepancy is in the "inapplicable" category ... Emily Humphreys

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Thanks for your help. This shows waves 1-7 and is from the harmonised version (release that includes Understanding So... Emily Humphreys

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705 (In Progress): Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

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

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

Hi,
1. Are there any reference documents on how/where to enter the UKHLS variables: PSU, strata and k_indinus_lw i... Sue Easton

08:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1704: Representative Counts of Migration Moves

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

05/23/2022

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702 (Feedback): Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hi Emily,
I have compared the distribution of these variables in wave 4 BPHS to waves 3 and 6 of the BHPS and have... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702 (In Progress): Wave 4 GHQ scores

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

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1704 (Resolved): Representative Counts of Migration Moves

Hello,
I am attempting to ascertain how many people moved into each U.K. region per year. To begin this process, I... Morgan Ward

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703 (In Progress): Time-varying UKHLS identifier

Hi Lydia,
Could please provide some examples? It will make it easier to investigate this.
Best wishes,
Underst... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701 (In Progress): Problems with latest release

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

05/20/2022

08:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703 (Resolved): Time-varying UKHLS identifier

Dear UKHLS User Support,
I noticed that some BHPS enumerated respondents change their UKHLS identifier while havi... Lydia Palumbo

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699: BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

Hi Rebeka,
The course "How to create tailored weights is here" https://open.essex.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=301
an... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702 (Resolved): Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hello
I'm trying to understand the reason for what seems to be a very different distribution of the w_scghq1_dv a... Emily Humphreys

05/19/2022

09:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699: BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

Hi Olena,
Thanks. Where could I request the training material?
Rebeka Rebeka Balogh

05/16/2022

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1700 (Feedback): Interview timing

Hello,
We don't think this is a serious issue for our survey due to way the interviews are conducted. Sample house... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1688 (Feedback): Linkage Query

Hello,
We are sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
We are not planning on linking our data to the GP wo... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699 (Feedback): BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1698 (Feedback): Weights for Waves 1-11 (CS and Longitudinal)

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05/15/2022

12:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701: Problems with latest release

I am writing this because I noticed that many variables either changed their name (age_dv-->age in indall) or were de... Lydia Palumbo

05/14/2022

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701 (Resolved): Problems with latest release

Dear UKHLS support,
is it my problem or in the BHPS files of the latest release some variables are missing from i... Lydia Palumbo

05/13/2022

10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1700 (Resolved): Interview timing

Dear Understanding Society team,
I was hoping you might be able to help me with a question: We are currently study... Nils Braakmann

05/12/2022

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699: BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

Rebeka,
You could use a suboptimal weight of indin01_lw or you could additionally correct for the remaining nonres... Olena Kaminska

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699 (Resolved): BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

Hi there,
I am looking to analyse trajectories of employment and mental health over waves of BHPS (waves 15 to 18)... Rebeka Balogh

02:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1698: Weights for Waves 1-11 (CS and Longitudinal)

Rowan,
For wave a use hhdenus_xw - it is equivalent to hhdenub_xw (note it becomes hhdenui_xw from wave 6 onwards... Olena Kaminska

05/11/2022

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1698 (Resolved): Weights for Waves 1-11 (CS and Longitudinal)

Hi Support Team,
I am doing two types analysis: One is a repeated cross-section of households and the other is a p... Rowan Isaaks

12:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1696 (Feedback): random effects logistic regression models and weighting

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12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1694: Question on meaning ivfio

There is a variable bW_ivrref which provides reasons for refusal that may help understanding this category of cases f... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/10/2022

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1696: random effects logistic regression models and weighting

Dear Zohra,
In multilevel modelling you can have a few levels, the highest of which will be PSU as a clustering va... Olena Kaminska

04:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1696 (In Progress): random effects logistic regression models and weighting

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

04:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612 (Resolved): Understanding length of time unemployed

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04:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1694: Question on meaning ivfio

We are not aware of a more detailed version of this variable for BHPS that has been released. Understanding Society User Support Team

04:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1695 (Feedback): Intimate Partner Violence Related Measure

Hello,
No we do not ask questions about this.
Best wishes,
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05/09/2022

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1696 (Resolved): random effects logistic regression models and weighting

Hello,
I am attempting to run a random effects logistic regression model using waves 1-10 of the UKHLS, and am run... Zohra Ansari-Thomas

05/08/2022

05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1612: Understanding length of time unemployed

All clear, thank you for the reply and the support. Chris Chris Percy

05/05/2022

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1695 (Resolved): Intimate Partner Violence Related Measure

Hello,
I am just wondering if there are any questions/ variables that pertain to Intimate Partner Violence/ Domes... Rachel Tisi

10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1694: Question on meaning ivfio

Thank you very much. Do you also know whether there is a similar variable for BHPS?
Best regards,
Lydia Lydia Palumbo

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

09:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1694 (Resolved): Question on meaning ivfio

Dear UKHLS team,
I have a very simple question on the meaning of "other non-intw" answer to the ivfio item in the... Lydia Palumbo

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

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1693 (Resolved): household data

Hello
Can you please confirm the following: if a household consists of two members eg a married couple, does the sur... Thanos Verousis

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

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1686: New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

So to confirm - there is no way to conduct a longitudinal analysis of new diagnoses that includes wave 10?
Many th... Amy Clair

05/02/2022

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1692 (Resolved): Data Query

Hi,
I'm a 2nd Year Ph.D at Glasgow University, researching happiness. I've been trying to replicate and then upda... Stewart Dunlop

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

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1690: jbnssec8_dv

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
>
> The value labels of jbnssec8_dv do not ma... Ruth Bickerton

04/28/2022

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676: Youth self-esteem measure

Hello,
Thank you very much for your reply. So, do you mean there are 10 items (9 + 1) or 9 items (8 + 1)?
The q... Marie Mueller

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

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1691 (Resolved): Combining BHPS with US, as well as match children to parents across waves

I am analyzing effects of divorce, and the outcomes I am investigating are the household income, education level, hea... Viktoria Ancher-Jensen

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

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1690 (Resolved): jbnssec8_dv

Hi, I'm looking for some information around US SEC data (e.g. jbnssec8_dv). I'm looking for a variable to proxy socio... Ruth Bickerton

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685: creating a disabled status variable

Hi,
Maybe we can use the Main survey Wave 10 to make things clearer as we attached these data from Wave 11 to Wave... William Shufflebottom

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

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1686: New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Thanks for getting back to me.
Is the suggestion then that the change in the way the variable was asked at wave 10... Amy Clair

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

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1689 (Resolved): Matching Spouses data across waves

I am looking to link consecutive waves together as well as link individuals data with their spouses. I am wondering i... Laura Bryce

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

04/25/2022

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1688 (Resolved): Linkage Query

Hello,
Can Understanding Society data be linked to General Practice Workforce data in anyway?
Kind regards
Brenda Brenda Hayanga