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07/06/2022

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1722 (In Progress): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables

Hi William,
Just to double-check - your analysis is cross-sectional, so you will be running the descriptives for t... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/05/2022

03:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721 (In Progress): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

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

10:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1720 (Feedback): Which children are selected for parent reported SDQ?

Dear Matthias,
The SDQ questions are asked of children aged from 5 to 8 years old. You can see the universe (there... Understanding Society User Support Team

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,
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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