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09/27/2022

07:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)

Yes you are right. Even though the information is collected in two separate questions/variables for CAWI and non-CAWI... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd

As you can see from the syntax file for tenure_dv, other variables are used to create this variable - not just hsownd... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1760 (Resolved): LVRel

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06:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1761 (Resolved): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv

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06:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1762 (Resolved): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values

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06:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1763 (Resolved): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files

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09/26/2022

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1464: Matching household data from parents to children

Dear Lydia,
Yes, you are right. If the non-resident parent co-resided with the OSM parent or the OSM child at some... Understanding Society User Support Team

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