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10/12/2022

06:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Dear Laurence,
Here is the advice from Olena Kaminska, our survey statistician:
"For an analysis with only one... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764: Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples

Hi Albert,
This is postcode change, not the exact address change.
Best wishes,
Piotr,
UKHLS User Support Understanding Society User Support Team

06:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785 (Feedback): Question regarding geographical data

Hello,
You can find the list of all available geographic variables here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/do... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1784 (Feedback): Questions on Housing Problems

Hello,
Thank you for your feedback.
If the questions you are interested in are asked every wave than a more up... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783 (Feedback): ff_jbsoc00 not available

Hi Albert,
This is because that ff_jbosoc00 is a text variable, by definition it is very disclosive and that's why... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/11/2022

10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1782 (Feedback): DK and prefer not to say options in web component of Understanding Society

Dear Alessandra,
I am posting the answer from Tarek (which you have also received directly from him via email):
... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1782 (In Progress): DK and prefer not to say options in web component of Understanding Society

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

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1781 (Feedback): Identifying House Moves

Dear Caroline,
It looks like the addrmov_dv could be helpful: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1780 (In Progress): Code creator

Dear David,
I am sorry to hear you have encountered an issue. I will report this to people responsible for the cod... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1779: Calculating persistent poverty

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

09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1778 (Feedback): Asking about confusing variable in the birth date in UKHLS

Dear Yi Wu,
These variables use a different source of information, you can check the questionnaires (https://www.u... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777 (In Progress): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

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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
Best wishes,
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