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05/31/2022

07:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709 (In Progress): Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19

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

06:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701: Problems with latest release

Hi Lydia,
The variable bw_age_dv, Age at Date of Interview, in bw_indall and bw_indresp, has been renamed
to its ... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

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06:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1706 (Feedback): International Socio-Economic Index for class from ISCO-88 codes

Hi George,
You can use the ISCO-88 version of the occupation variables, jbisco88_cc Current job: ISCO88 (condensed... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1707 (Feedback): mvyr - Year Moved To Current Address

Dear Caroline,
In wave 1 the mvyr and mvmnth questions were asked of people who had not lived at current address w... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1708 (In Progress): Usual and last pay - question on imputation and missing values

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

05/27/2022

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701 (Feedback): Problems with latest release

Hi Lydia,
The missing BHPS identifier PID is a separate issue. It was accidentally dropped, the issue will be fixe... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1704 (Feedback): Representative Counts of Migration Moves

Dear Morgan,
You need to multiple the weighted proportions by the UK population, then you will get the population ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/25/2022

03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hi Emily,
So this might be the reason behind the difference, I was using SPSS and Stata. I'll investigate this fur... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hi Emily,
Which software version of the data are you using? Stata, SPSS or Tab?
Best wishes,
Understanding Soc... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703: Time-varying UKHLS identifier

Thank you for sending more details over email. We will check this with our Data Team and try to find out the cause of... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/24/2022

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

02:12 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

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

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

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

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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05/11/2022

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

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

04:09 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

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

Hello,
No we do not ask questions about this.
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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