Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 07/17/2022 to 08/15/2022
08/15/2022
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04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1294 (Resolved): Universe of school variable
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1297 (Resolved): Household meat consumption
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04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1300 (Resolved): reason for leaving job for self-employment
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04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1422 (Resolved): furlough in Covid-19 Study
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04:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
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04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1625 (Resolved): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?
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04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1292 (Resolved): SF-12 Items
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04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1291 (Resolved): Measurement error in savings data
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04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1290 (Resolved): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income
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04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1288 (Resolved): Overtime variables
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04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1287 (Resolved): Inapplicable observations
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03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1285 (Resolved): Missing interview year and month
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03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1283 (Resolved): Job satisfaction: comparability across BHPS and Understanding Society
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03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1282 (Resolved): ISCO-88 derived classification
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03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1281 (Resolved): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS
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03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1280 (Resolved): ISCED
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03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1277 (Resolved): Tracking marital statuses
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03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1276 (Resolved): Info on estranged young people
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03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1274 (Resolved): Polygenic Scores
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03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1273 (Resolved): Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
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03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1271 (Resolved): Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available
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03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1270 (Resolved): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
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03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an ex
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03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1268 (Resolved): Political Ideology
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03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1265 (Resolved): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
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03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1262 (Resolved): Index of multiple deprivation
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03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1261 (Resolved): Energy use data
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03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1256 (Resolved): questions re deaths and representativeness
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03:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1255 (Resolved): Religion data
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03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1254 (Resolved): alternative for a question
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03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1253 (Resolved): Selecting correct weights
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03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1252 (Resolved): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
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03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1251 (Resolved): Identifying country of birth
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03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1248 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS
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03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1245 (Resolved): Weighting
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03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1243 (Resolved): longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave
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03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1242 (Resolved): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of birth of first child.
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03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1240 (Resolved): School codes
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03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1236 (Resolved): Variable defining month of sample issue
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02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1225 (Resolved): Definition of partially productive interview
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02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1223 (Resolved): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
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02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1222 (Resolved): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)
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02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1220 (Resolved): Loneliness
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02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1218 (Resolved): job change since the previous survey
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02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1217 (Resolved): BHPS and UKHLS weights
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02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1216 (Resolved): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
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02:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1209 (Resolved): Shared parenting arrangements
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02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1207 (Resolved): Weighting and state benefits
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02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1206 (Resolved): Data linkage to NHS data
 
08/12/2022
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05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1748 (Feedback): stable mother pidp and household id in children survey
 - Hello,
1) the w_child file includes pidp of natural mother, w_mnpid, and for step/adoptive mothers you can work it... - 
  
02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1748 (In Progress): stable mother pidp and household id in children survey
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1742 (Feedback): Recommended Method to Construct Unemployment Duration?
 - Hello JoAnn,
Alita is currently away but I'll try to help you. To construct the unemployment history you need to d... - 
  
02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1747 (In Progress): Weight problem when running regression
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
08/11/2022
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03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1741 (In Progress): Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves
 - Dear Karen,
Please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and we will direct you to our Covid-19 weigh... 
08/10/2022
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04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1554 (Resolved): hsval - units
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03:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1737: Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations
 - Dear Laura,
The person responsible for this linkage is currently on holiday, we will be able to answer when they a... - 
  
03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1746 (Feedback): reconciling household income between the main survey & covid-19 survey
 - Dear Karen,
Yes, fihhmnnet1_dv is the closest variable in the sense that this is net hh income from all sources. O... - 
  
02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1743 (Feedback): Averaging regional data to obtain control variables for individuals
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11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1204 (Resolved): UKHLS zero weight in panel data
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11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1199 (Resolved): UKHLS higher education data linkage
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11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1198 (Resolved): Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
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11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1197 (Resolved): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1195 (Resolved): Merging data
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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1194 (Resolved): h_jbfxuse9
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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1192 (Resolved): Caring for a Child
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1191 (Resolved): Availability of requested variables
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1187 (Resolved): Is it possible to identify contributory and income-based JSA
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1186 (Resolved): Ethnicity Data Inapplicable
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1182 (Resolved): Pooling data for analysis by calendar year
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11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1181 (Resolved): Merging general health variables
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11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1180 (Resolved): BHPS + US harmonized measure of mental well-being
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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1179 (Resolved): EQ-5D-5L
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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1176 (Resolved): Merging a set of variables to wave 1
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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1175 (Resolved): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?
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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1174 (Resolved): Creating reliable fertility history variables - UKHLS waves 1-8
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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1173 (Resolved): Clustering
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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1170 (Resolved): Self reported health
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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1169 (Resolved): Micro-level locational data
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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1164 (Resolved): job classification
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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1161 (Resolved): Medication query
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11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1160 (Resolved): sample size - households in NI in latest wave
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11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1158 (Resolved): On variables in entrepreneurship studies
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11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1157 (Resolved): Missing variable: a_nbrsnci_dv (Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument)
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11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1156 (Resolved): Fertility History and birth events
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11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1152 (Resolved): Coding of x_jbxpcha in Waves 6 and 8
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11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1151 (Resolved): Carrying forward variables across waves, creating 'how long lived at address' variable
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11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1149 (Resolved): Caregiving
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11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1148 (Resolved): Geographic information
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11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1147 (Resolved): Identification of members of household receiving care
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11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1146 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 8 Interview dates/times data
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11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1145 (Resolved): disdif and health variables
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11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1143 (Resolved): Derived interview and demographic characteristics
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11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1141 (Resolved): Weighting
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11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1139 (Resolved): Polytechnic vs university degree
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11:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1138 (Resolved): fihhmnnet1_dv
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11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1137 (Resolved): Field of Study Variable
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11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1135 (Resolved): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland
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11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134 (Resolved): Weights Northern Ireland
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11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1130 (Resolved): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7
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11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrs
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11:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1127 (Resolved): Determing end date of cohabitation spell
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11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1126 (Resolved): Who owns vehicle
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11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125 (Resolved): Weighting problem
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11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1121 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all
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11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1120 (Resolved): Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS
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11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1119 (Resolved): fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset
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11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1114 (Resolved): Tracking health conditions
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11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1110 (Resolved): Uprating Wages for Inflation
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11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1104 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc"
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11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1102 (Resolved): Type of further education (variable: FETYPE) inapplicable
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11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1101 (Resolved): Use of social media
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11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1098 (Resolved): Consulting
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11:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1097 (Resolved): YPDKLM: irregular variable dist.
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11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1095 (Resolved): question about sample sizes
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11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1093 (Resolved): Mortality and attrition
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11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1089 (Resolved): Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?
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11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1088 (Resolved): More information on variable "plbornc"
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11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1086 (Resolved): Biomarker serum creatinine
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11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1085 (Resolved): Inapplicable and missing data
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11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1084 (Resolved): Financial situation
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11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1083 (Resolved): Subjective Well-Being Data
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11:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1082 (Resolved): House details in youth or adult datasets
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11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital change
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11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1077 (Resolved): Variable on country of birth
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11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights
 
08/09/2022
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06:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1745 (Feedback): the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys
 - Dear Karen,
Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for jbstat in the Covid-19 survey. The only question covering em... 
08/08/2022
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04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1744 (Feedback): weight
 - Hello,
You can use one of the weights available in the child file (w_psnenxx_lw). Please read the weights selectio... 
08/04/2022
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06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1740 (Feedback): Survey participant drop out across waves
 - Hello,
1) Yes, the drop results from survey attrition which could have happened in wave 10, but also in any of the... - 
  
06:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1741: Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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06:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1739 (In Progress): Weights when pooling data from different waves
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
08/03/2022
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03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1737 (In Progress): Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1738 (Feedback): Variables- child abuse, child witnessing of abuse
 - Dear Luke,
This perhaps depends on how you define violence, but I think you can find some potentially useful varia... 
08/01/2022
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03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1735: Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire
 - Dear Dan,
These are the sample sizes for adult (16+) individuals, I'm attaching samples sizes for adult and all in... 
07/27/2022
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06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1736 (Feedback): Data request - by Scottish Local Authority
 - Dear Christina,
You can certainly get any information separately for males and females and by Scottish Local Autho... - 
  
05:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1735 (Feedback): Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire
 - Dear Dan,
Here are the sample sizes (individual respondents) across 11 waves of the UKHLS for Bradford identified ... - 
  
11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1734 (Feedback): Imputation flag for income variable fimngrs_dv in BHPS
 - Dear Daniël,
Please use the w_fimnthi (Imputation flag - wFIMN (derived)) - fimngrs_dv is named fimn in the unha... 
07/25/2022
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03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1733 (Feedback): Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration
 - Dear Morgan,
I suspect that you have incorrectly calculated the number of moves. I managed to get 147 moves to Sou... - 
  
03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1732 (Feedback): Inapplicable values in qfhigh_dv variable
 - Dear Claire,
Please check the variable note for qfhigh_dv (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/ma... 
07/22/2022
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01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1730 (Feedback): study youth health
 - Dear Huihui,
please check the syntax "Matching co-resident parents' information" available on our website https://... - 
  
01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1715 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)
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01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1731 (Feedback): Interview Time for Main Survey Wave 10
 - Dear Claire,
The wave 10 fieldwork spanned over 2.5 years, so from Jan 2018 to May 2020, you can check the individ... 
07/21/2022
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06:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1729: variable for out of work with a disability
 - Hi Huihui,
Would jbstat be helpful? Category 8 "LT sick or disabled" gives you this information and is available i... - 
  
01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1729 (Feedback): variable for out of work with a disability
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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05:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1730: study youth health
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1728: Merging main survey wave to COVID-19 study wave
 - Dear Parth,
The missing values on the variables you included on the screenshot result from the way in which you cr... - 
  
05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1727 (Feedback): harassment variables unclear
 - Dear Ellen,
All variables w_resinsulted(1-97)_12 refer to people who answered 1 "mentioned" on the filtering varia... 
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