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10/20/2022

12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1787: BHPS variables availability and question route (jlendm, rjlend4, rjlsoc00)

Hi,
Thanks very much for your reply. So rjlsoc00 essentially has the same conditions as jlsoc00? (new entrants, wo... Albert Ward

10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789 (Resolved): Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

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08:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789: Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

Ah I see: thanks for your answer, that's incredibly helpful! I wasn't aware of ethn_dv. I think I'm looking for most ... Albert Ward

08:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789: Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

I see.
racel_dv is combined from the information on racel (or racelt*) collected from across all the waves, i.e.,... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709 (Resolved): Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19

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08:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dv

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08:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1725 (Resolved): Variable for region of work?

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08:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721 (Resolved): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

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08:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1724 (Resolved): Weights and accounting for individual clustering

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08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1733 (Resolved): Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration

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08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1745 (Resolved): the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys

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08:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1756 (Resolved): Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever

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08:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757 (Resolved): Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)

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08:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759 (Resolved): Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd

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08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764 (Resolved): Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples

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08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1765 (Resolved): Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis

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08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772 (Resolved): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1

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08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1774 (Resolved): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2

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08:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1776 (Resolved): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing

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10/19/2022

05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789: Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

Hi Alita,
Not really unfortunately, maybe I'm not understanding something - I'm only talking about the racel_dv va... Albert Ward

01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789 (Feedback): Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

Every adult respondent is asked questions about their ethnic group the first time they are interviewed. Those who are... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789 (Resolved): Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave

Hi,
I'm using the crosswave variable racel_dv: when I match it into UKHLS indresp waves that I am interested in, I... Albert Ward

04:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703: Time-varying UKHLS identifier

Thanks for pointing this out. This is a data error and we will fix this in the next data release. Understanding Society User Support Team

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703 (Resolved): Time-varying UKHLS identifier

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01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1739 (Feedback): Weights when pooling data from different waves

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01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1741 (Feedback): Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves

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01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1747 (Feedback): Weight problem when running regression

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01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1787 (Feedback): BHPS variables availability and question route (jlendm, rjlend4, rjlsoc00)

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Only new entrants who say they are not currently employed are asked about the last job they ever had, while c... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1786 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal study

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12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1779 (Feedback): Calculating persistent poverty

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12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1780 (Feedback): Code creator

Thanks for your feedback and spotting the error. Our data team are working on correcting this. In the meantime we hav... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771 (Feedback): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

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11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777 (Feedback): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

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10/18/2022

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves

Thanks both, that makes sense
From what I can see from the syntax for deriving depchl_dv is that this would still ... Albert Ward

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772: Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1

Ah, I see! Thank you
Best,
Albert
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02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1786: Weights for longitudinal study

Connor,
Thank you for your question. The answers are below:
Q1: Weighting represent any subgroup of the populatio... Olena Kaminska

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783: ff_jbsoc00 not available

Thanks Piotr,
I should have said that I have access to the Special Licence version of the harmonised dataset - I w... Albert Ward

10/17/2022

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1787 (Resolved): BHPS variables availability and question route (jlendm, rjlend4, rjlsoc00)

Hi,
I have a couple of questions about variable availability and conditions in the BHPS waves:
1. What is the... Albert Ward

05:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1786 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal study

Hi Olena,
I am currently looking to see the effect of government policy on the mental health of people in England,... Connor Gascoigne

10/13/2022

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764: Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for your help!
Best,
Albert Albert Ward

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,
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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

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785 (Resolved): Question regarding geographical data

My name is Anil Menon. My co-author and I are currently using the Understanding Society data for a project and am won... Anil Menon

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

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1779: Calculating persistent poverty

Dear Facundo,
Thank you for your question.
Yes, the weights account for attrition, including that related to inc... Olena Kaminska

10/11/2022

08:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1784 (Resolved): Questions on Housing Problems

I hope you are well! As a way of introduction, my name is Neftalem Emanuel and I'm an MSc Sociology student at Nuffie... Neftalem Emanuel

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

Dear Piotr,
I am using Wave 10 and am using the weight j_indinus_lw as later on in my analysis I will be involving v... Laurence Rowley-Abel

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783 (Resolved): ff_jbsoc00 not available

Hi,
I've noticed that some variables I am interested in (e.g. Jbsoc00) are contingent on ff_jbsoc00, but that this... Albert Ward

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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10/10/2022

05:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1782 (Resolved): DK and prefer not to say options in web component of Understanding Society

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to ask a question regarding the DK and prefer not to say options in web component of U... Alessandra Gaia

04:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1781 (Resolved): Identifying House Moves

Hi,
I am interested in identifying individuals who have moved home during the 11 available waves of UKHLS. As I w... Caroline Kienast von Einem

03:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1780 (Resolved): Code creator

Hi,
The code creator is great, thanks for introducing this.
I'm struggling to resolve an issue that has arisen ... David Bayliss

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1774: adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2

Hi Piotr,
Thanks, you're right, for some reason I didn't notice this.
Best Albert Ward

10/08/2022

08:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1779 (Resolved): Calculating persistent poverty

Dear Team,
I need to estimate persistent poverty rates following the standard definition that someone is persistentl... Facundo Herrera

10/07/2022

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1776: Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing

Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much! This clarification is very helpful
All the best,
Marion Marion Lieutaud

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

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1778 (Resolved): Asking about confusing variable in the birth date in UKHLS

We have some questions about the variable, birth date in the ukhls dataset since WAVE 1
For example, for the Year of... Yi Wu

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

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

I am pooling wave 1 to wave 11. I want to run xtlogit on Stata to predict the probability of being in temporary emplo... JoAnn Tan

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel

Can you give a little more details on your analysis, specifically which waves are you pooling, and what you want to r... Olena Kaminska

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

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

10/06/2022

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