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10/07/2022

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

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

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

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

02:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Dear Laurence,
Can I ask which weight you use and with which wave?
Best wishes,
Piotr
Understanding Society U... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1776 (Feedback): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing

Hi Marion,
Thank you for letting us know about the issue with the empty Migration history module on the website, I... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1775 (Feedback): Reason for job change - same employer, different job

Dear Ceri,
The reasons for job change are captured in the following way:
1) empchk=2 -> stendreas (wave 1-6), s... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/05/2022

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

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

10/04/2022

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

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

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

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

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