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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

06/26/2022

05:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1719 (Resolved): Several inconsistencies for birthy and also mastat

Dear UKHLS Support,
I am currently noticing that there are several differences between the variable birthy in the... Lydia Palumbo

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

02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores

Hello
Thanks again for your help and apologies for delay - I've been away for a couple of weeks.
I've redownl... Emily Humphreys

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

05:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1718: Sexuor Access

Thank you for the above information! Would you be able to inform me why this variable (and I notice HIV diagnosis als... Evie Tabor

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

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

06/16/2022

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1718 (Resolved): Sexuor Access

To whom it may concern,
I have noticed that the sexuor variable has been moved to special licence access via the U... Evie Tabor

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1717 (Resolved): vote8 variable election coverage

Hello,
I am working on a project on voter behaviour, using variable "vote8" as a dependent. The variable asks for ... Leonard Mussler

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

08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1716 (Resolved): constituency level data

To study the rollout effect of universal credit, I need to get the constituency-level data first. However, this data ... huihui song

06/13/2022

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1715: Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

Hi Olena,
Well sub-population 1) is the residents who have not moved at all.
However, is it possible to also in... Sue Easton

12:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1715: Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

Sue,
Thank you for your question. Do you mean you want to study the group who has not moved their house in the las... Olena Kaminska

12:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1715 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

Hi, I have searched and can't find these key words in any posts.
Due to limitations of time I need to limit my ana... Sue Easton

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

06/09/2022

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1714 (Resolved): Merge the COVID19 survey waves

Hi
I am trying to merge the COVID19 survey waves into long format using stata based on the syntax provided in the... amwaj abugamza

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

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705: Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

To find more information on PSUs you should look into sampling documents for UKHLS and BHPS.
Olena Olena Kaminska

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705: Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

Hi Olena,
Thanks very much for confirming that PSU is Postcode Sector - I couldn't find this in the User Guides/do... Sue Easton

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705: Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

Sue,
You have to run a correct model with correct specification, though you don't need to interpret all the levels... Olena Kaminska

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

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1713 (Resolved): fiyrl variable

Hello,
I am writing to you because I am running an analysis on the motherhood penalty in the UK and, in the first ... Césarine Boinet

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

05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1710: Variable for current health status?

Thank you for your response. However, it doesn’t answer my question. I’ve looked through the FAQs, and they _imply_ t... Tera Allas

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705: Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

Hi Olena,
__
Thanks very much for your advice.
However, I've done a bit of research on the data, and from a _geo... Sue Easton

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709: Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19

Thanks for your quick response! Nico Seifert

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

10:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709: Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19

Hello,
my question was not about the Covid-19 survey, but the main survey.
Best wishes,
Nico Nico Seifert

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

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1712 (Resolved): Linking waves

Hello,
I have two questions and I would be grateful if you can share stata syntax examples:
1. How to link mul... amwaj abugamza

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

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1711 (Resolved): Identifying care home residents

Hello,
I understand that whilst you have to be community dwelling to enter the sample, those who later move to in... Jack Elliott

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