Understanding Society User Support

09/09/2022

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1768 (Feedback): Merging the Xsample datafile to the main survey

Hi Amwaj,
Please try the solutions from this statalist thread https://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-05/msg0... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/06/2022

07:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1765 (Feedback): Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis

Hi Rebecca,
You can access the tailored weights course here: https://open.essex.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=301
Be... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1766 (Feedback): BHPS linked to Educational Data

Dear Agnes,
When youth respondents turn 16 they are eligible for the adult interview, the BHPS sample members incl... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1766 (In Progress): BHPS linked to Educational Data

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

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1767 (Feedback): Difference between j_pdvage and j_dvage

Hello,
Dvage is the information about respondent's age calculated from the household grid, that is, a questionnair... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1767 (In Progress): Difference between j_pdvage and j_dvage

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

09/02/2022

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1760 (Feedback): LVRel

Hi Albert,
This is up to the respondents interpretation, that is to say, it depends who the respondent thinks of ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764: Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples

Two variables were created for UKHLS: distmov_dv and addrmov_dv. But these are not available for the moves between Wa... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/01/2022

05:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764 (Feedback): Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples

Hi Albert,
I'd say that adcts offers a fairly reasonable degree of comparability to the BHPS plnew, though the uni... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1765: Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis

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

05:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1756 (Feedback): Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever

Hi Albert,
1) For the BHPS you should use plnowy4 which is available across all waves, ba_mvyr is actually just a ... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/31/2022

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1761 (Feedback): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv

Yes both are in km Understanding Society User Support Team

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)

A correction to the first answer. LVREL asked about non-co-resident family members ONLY. See the Question text and th... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/30/2022

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759 (Feedback): Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd

The code for deriving tenure_dv is here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/syntax
Search... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd

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

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1762: Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values

The pno are assigned as per the list of hh members when the hh grid is being completed. There is no particular order ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1762 (Feedback): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values

1. There can be cases in w_egoalt not in w_indresp if no adult member from that household completed an adult quesiton... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1762: Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values

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

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1763 (Feedback): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files

Yes, there can be mismatched records.
1. Household is in hhresp but no hh member from this household is in indresp... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1763: Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files

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

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1758 (Feedback): Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)

1. Yes. You can verify this by selecting the cases for which w_mnspid~=-8/w_fnspid~=-8
2. Yes
3. The parent with wh... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)

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

03:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757 (Feedback): Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)

You are correct.
The variable which records number of minutes taken to travel to work for those who are self-empl... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)

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 #1761: Difference between distmov and distmov_dv

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

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1756: Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever

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

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1760: LVRel

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

08/26/2022

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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*... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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