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From 05/18/2022 to 06/16/2022

06/15/2022

01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1708 (Feedback): Usual and last pay - question on imputation and missing values
Hi Rebeka,
Thanks for your question. Missing data is unlikely to be missing at random, and so dropping missing cas... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/14/2022

06:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1716 (Feedback): constituency level data
Hello,
Please check the dataset Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies available under Special Licence Access (h... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/10/2022

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1714 (Feedback): Merge the COVID19 survey waves
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05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1714: Merge the COVID19 survey waves
Hello,
The problem arises here:
"foreach w in ca cb cc cd ce cf ck cg ch ci {

// find the wave number
local wa... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/08/2022

06:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1713 (Feedback): fiyrl variable
Hello,
In principle, many of income variables in Understanding Society are updated in each release of the data (so... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710: Variable for current health status?
Yes, that is correct, users need to derive this variable on their own.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User S... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/07/2022

07:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1711 (In Progress): Identifying care home residents
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07:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1713 (In Progress): fiyrl 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
07:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores
Hi Emily,
We've had another look at the most up-to-date tab data on the UKDS website and the distribution of bd_cg... Understanding Society User Support Team
12:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709: Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19
Hello,
I am sorry, I misunderstood your question. However, the situation was similar in the main survey - such que... Understanding Society User Support Team
10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1653 (Resolved): Representativeness of lone mothers
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10:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1651 (Resolved): Matching Partners Data
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10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1662 (Resolved): Linking with a different data set
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10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1656 (Resolved): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
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10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1659 (Resolved): Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
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06/06/2022

09:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1661 (Resolved): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS
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09:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1652 (Resolved): Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
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09:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1649 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis
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09:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1660 (Resolved): Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11
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09:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1665 (Resolved): j_youth file lacking hrpid
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08:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1666 (Resolved): Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves
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08:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1664 (Resolved): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years
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08:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1669 (Resolved): Employment history and labour force spell
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08:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1672 (Resolved): Long Covid
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08:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1671 (Resolved): Linking parents-children data during COVID (2019-2021)
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08:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1668 (Resolved): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment
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08:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1675 (Resolved): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status
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08:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1679 (Resolved): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Universal Credit receipt
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08:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1677 (Resolved): Covid Wave cx_age variable inconsistencies
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08:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1680 (Resolved): Merging: Many to one & sorting
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08:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1681 (Resolved): ff_stillfurl
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08:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1678 (Resolved): Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data
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08:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1683 (Resolved): Merging parents (cd_indresp_w.dta) to children (cd_youth.dta)
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08:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1684 (Resolved): Difference between cd_chsdqtd_dv_f and cd_chsdqtd_dv_m
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08:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1690 (Resolved): jbnssec8_dv
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08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1682 (Resolved): How to get access to postcodes?
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08:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1685 (Resolved): creating a disabled status variable
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07:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1692 (Resolved): Data Query
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06:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1712 (Feedback): Linking waves
Hello,
You can link these datasets using the unique identifier variable, that is, pidp. The syntax files are avail... Understanding Society User Support Team
06:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710: Variable for current health status?
Hello,
Please have a look at the FAQs here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/faqs "Questions about varia... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710 (Feedback): Variable for current health 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
02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709 (Feedback): Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19
Hi Nico,
The covid-19 surveys did include some questions from the self-completion module in the annual mainstage i... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1711: Identifying care home residents
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

05/31/2022

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
 

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