Understanding Society User Support

10/06/2022

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777 (Resolved): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

I have a question similar to #1257.
In #1257, Alita mentioned that we can create longitudinal weights for unbalanc... JoAnn Tan

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1776 (Resolved): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing

Dear Understanding Society team,
I hope this finds you very well - I wanted to consult the Wave 6 migration histor... Marion Lieutaud

10/05/2022

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1775 (Resolved): Reason for job change - same employer, different job

Hi,
I am using UKHLS waves 2-10 to study people changing jobs between waves, using data from the annual event hist... Ceri H

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Dear Piotr,
Many thanks for your reply. The issue is that when I use a function such as svymean in R, it uses the sm... Laurence Rowley-Abel

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770 (Feedback): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Dear Laurence,
A significant reduction of the weighted counts for ethnic minorities (so from 1314 respondents to 4... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

Hi Albert,
The syntax file for the w_ndepchl_dv variable that we provide is available on the syntax page under "UK... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1774 (Feedback): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2

Hi Albert,
Are you sure this is from the wave 2 questionnaire pdf? I've had a quick look and I think it is the fol... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/04/2022

04:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

Hi Piotr,
I'm probably not understanding the definition of a dependent child properly. I meant where someone is be... Albert Ward

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771 (In Progress): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

Dear Albert,
Can I just clarify one thing, what do you mean by _their_ children? Natural children?
Best wishes,... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS 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

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1774 (Resolved): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2

Hi,
I was wondering why adcts is not available for wave 2 of the UKHLS? Since plnowy4 is conditionally displayed p... Albert Ward

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773 (Feedback): Gig Economy module

Dear Yuliya,
Unfortunately, I have no quick way of checking wave 12, but you can look at the numbers from wave 11:... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773: Gig Economy module

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

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772 (Feedback): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1

Dear Albert,
You are right, istrtdaty is indeed missing in ba_indresp and we will consider adding it in the next r... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772: Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1

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

09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

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

10/03/2022

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773 (Resolved): Gig Economy module

Dear Team Member,

I am interested in the *Gig Economy* module. I would like to ask if there is preliminary data o... Yuliya Tavares

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772 (Resolved): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1

Hi,
I'm trying to compute some variables which require interview date across the whole BHPS/UKHLS panel. The inter... Albert Ward

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1756: Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever

Hi Piotr,
Thanks for your reply - that's very helpful!
Best,
Albert
Albert Ward

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771 (Resolved): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

Hi,
I'm interested in computing the number of own dependent children variable (ndepchl_dv) for the BHPS waves of t... Albert Ward

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd

No, it's ok - it's not a big issue and I'm sure they understand the coding better than me.
Thanks, Albert Ward

10:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769 (Feedback): missing values after merging household and individual dataset

Hello,
Such missing values are rare but can happen in two situations:
1) the household questionnaire is completed... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)

Great! Thanks for your help
Best,
Albert
Albert Ward

10/02/2022

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770 (Resolved): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Hi Understanding Society team,
I am conducting a basic analysis of health outcomes across combinations of ethnic gro... Laurence Rowley-Abel

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

09/14/2022

07:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1464: Matching household data from parents to children

Hello,
I would like to have a clarification on nonresident parents. If a child is only observed within a single-p... Lydia Palumbo

09/13/2022

11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769: missing values after merging household and individual dataset

Dear Annett,
Thanks for your reply.
Please see attached for the do file.
Many thanks for your help.
Best ... Shujun Liu

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769: missing values after merging household and individual dataset

Dear Shujun
We like investigate further but in order to do so could you please provide the code so we can see how ... Annette Pasotti

09/12/2022

04:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769 (In Progress): missing values after merging household and individual dataset

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti

09/09/2022

04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769 (Resolved): missing values after merging household and individual dataset

Dear member of Understanding Society,
I am dealing with Inovation Panel data(wave10) and trying to merge the var... Shujun Liu

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

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1768 (Resolved): Merging the Xsample datafile to the main survey

Hi
I am trying to merge (using pidp variable) the xsample datafile from the COVID-19 survey to a preprepared - lo... amwaj abugamza

09/07/2022

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)

Hi, that's all very helpful thank you! Sorry I misunderstood for whatever reason about the pafar / parmar conditions,... Albert Ward

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1765: Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis

Thanks Olena and Piotr; much appreciated. Rebecca Benson