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06/29/2022

12:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1719 (Feedback): Several inconsistencies for birthy and also mastat

Hi Lydia,
1) I'd recommend using doby_dv from xwavedat. It is a derived variable and our Data Team has tried to ma... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/24/2022

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1717 (Feedback): vote8 variable election coverage

Dear Leonard,
"the last election" may refer to the same general elections in more than one wave, so the same event... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/23/2022

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Dear Emily,
I downloaded the data on the 7th of June from here: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/stu... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/22/2022

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1711 (Feedback): Identifying care home residents

Dear Jack,
I am sorry for the delay in responding to your question.
1) you can identify if the household is in... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1718: Sexuor Access

Dear Evie,
I checked this with the team responsible for managing levels of access. The change was suggested by the... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/17/2022

04:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1717 (In Progress): vote8 variable election coverage

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

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1718 (Feedback): Sexuor Access

Dear Evie,
This information is now considered to be sensitive and for that reason it was moved to the Special Lice... Understanding Society User Support Team

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,
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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