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From 07/30/2022 to 08/28/2022

08/26/2022

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1737 (Feedback): Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations
Dear Laura,
Yes, we will be trying to get cancer registrations data going back in time as far as possible.
The ...
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03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1751 (Feedback): Welsh education data linkage query
Dear Hettie,
I am sorry for our late reply - the person responsible for this linkage was away on holiday.
1) Th...
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08/22/2022

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1755 (Feedback): Description of creating weights to adjust for nonresponse bias
Dear Daiga,
Please read the weighting section in the attached pdf document, it discusses in detail how the weights...
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03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1754 (Feedback): advice on creating a variable for number of children in the main & covid surveys
Hi Karen,
1) To get the most precise and accurate measure it is best to construct it using the set of cw_relation*...
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08/18/2022

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #877 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
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03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1753 (Feedback): How to analyze environmental habits likert scale
Dear Nichaphat,
We do not advise on analysis-related issues and leave such decisions to researchers. However, you...
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03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1752 (Feedback): Link wave 9 child module (i_child) with i_hhresp and i_indall
Dear Rafeya,
I think that the issue is related to what is the unit of analysis in each of these files. Let's have ...
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08/17/2022

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1750 (Feedback): Sample size changes after applying sample weight
Dear Claire,
Please check question 13 "Should I worry that some members of my analysis sample have a weight of
ze...
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11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1750 (In Progress): Sample size changes after applying sample weight
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
03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1749 (Feedback): Permission to use Understanding Society data in a book
Dear Catherine,
Yes, of course, we are happy for you to use the data. We would also be grateful if you could cite ...
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11:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1749 (In Progress): Permission to use Understanding Society data in a book
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
11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1752 (In Progress): Link wave 9 child module (i_child) with i_hhresp and i_indall
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
11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1751 (In Progress): Welsh education data linkage query
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

08/15/2022

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
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08/12/2022

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...
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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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
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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... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/11/2022

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...
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08/10/2022

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...
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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...
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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
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08/09/2022

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...
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08/08/2022

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...
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08/04/2022

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...
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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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/03/2022

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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
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08/01/2022

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...
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