Understanding Society User Support

06/04/2022

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710: Variable for current health status?

Clarification: the data I’m seeking to either find or create is an indicator of whether an individual has health cond... Tera Allas

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710 (Resolved): Variable for current health status?

I would like to compare data on individuals’ health status (e.g., “have you been diagnosed with X”, “do you still hav... Tera Allas

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

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709 (Resolved): Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19

Dear Understanding Society team,
I would be interested to know how the self-completion questionnaire was completed... Nico Seifert

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

05/30/2022

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1708: Usual and last pay - question on imputation and missing values

* last pay Rebeka Balogh

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1708 (Resolved): Usual and last pay - question on imputation and missing values

Hi there,
I'm constructing indicators relating to an individual's current employment in wave 8. My sub-sample cons... Rebeka Balogh

01:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1707 (Resolved): mvyr - Year Moved To Current Address

Dear Understanding Society team,
I have a question regarding the variable ‘mvyr’ (and mvnth, mnever), these three... Caroline Kienast von Einem

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1706 (Resolved): International Socio-Economic Index for class from ISCO-88 codes

Hi everyone,
I'm a 1st year Politics PhD student at the University of Southampton, attempting to use Understanding... George Bolton

05/27/2022

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701: Problems with latest release

Sorry I intend that I compared age_dv and age Lydia Palumbo

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701: Problems with latest release

Thank you. Could you also confirm that the renaming of some variables (apart from weights) does not affect data? I cu... Lydia Palumbo

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

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1701: Problems with latest release

Lydia,
BHPS weights now follow naming convention of UKHLS. So find them in the end of the file under 91 or 01 weig... Olena Kaminska

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

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hello
I'm using R, so it's the tab files.
I also picked up that the weighting variables don't seem to be included... Emily Humphreys

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

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705: Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

Sue,
Thank you for your question.
1. In any multilevel model you should be able to use a weight, sometimes strat... Olena Kaminska

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1688: Linkage Query

Thank you for letting me know. I asked this query because I am interested in exploring wider determinants of health a... Brenda Hayanga

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,
Understanding Society User Support Team Understanding Society User Support Team

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