Understanding Society User Support

07/07/2022

02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1722 (Feedback): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables

Hi William,
The list of weights looks alright.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team Understanding Society User Support Team

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dv

Hi,
I can't find any information on what exactly 'other qualifications' consists of in your hiqual_dv variable (ht... Albert Ward

07/06/2022

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1722: Quick weight to use check for 7 variables

Hi,
Yes that is correct. Separately for each wave.
Kind regards
Will William Shufflebottom

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

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721: Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

Hi Olena,
Thank you very much, this answers my questions (and thanks for your US work on weighting).
All the be... Richard Belcher

07/05/2022

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721: Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

Richard,
1. Yes, use cross-sectional weights in your analysis.
2. You don't need to create your own longitudinal ... Olena Kaminska

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

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721 (Resolved): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

Dear Support Team,
I am completing an analysis using Understanding Society Waves 1-9, where I would like to genera... Richard Belcher

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1722 (Resolved): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables

Hi,
We are running some descriptive statistics for a few variables on main USoC waves between wave 8 and 11 (where... William Shufflebottom

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

07/04/2022

09:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1720 (Resolved): Which children are selected for parent reported SDQ?

Hi,
Each wave has a question on children's SDQ to be reported by the parent, available in the 'child' file, but the... Matthias Pierce

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

Understanding Society User Support Team

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