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From 10/04/2022 to 11/02/2022
11/02/2022
- 12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Caroline,
On the specific melogit command it is best to check Stata manual.
Your non-convergence problem is lik... - 07:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Hi Olena,
Thank you!
Do you know whether I would need to specify running [pweight=...] instead of svyset and ...
11/01/2022
- 04:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1798: Which weight to use for Adults in COVID Wave 6 & 2
- Thanks for letting us know. Could you please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and our weighting tea...
- 08:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1798 (In Progress): Which weight to use for Adults in COVID Wave 6 & 2
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 08:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1798 (Resolved): Which weight to use for Adults in COVID Wave 6 & 2
- I could do with some advice re: which weights to use for the COVID module Waves 2 & 6 (that have both web and telepho...
- 01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Caroline,
Firstly, I can confirm that you need a longitudinal weight. This is because those people who moved but d... - 12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Hi,
reading in more depth I am now sure that I will need to include weights at each level of my analysis if I wan... - 08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Good morning!
Households at the top level and individuals nested within the households at the lower level.
As... - 08:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Sorry I sent this too quickly. Are you considering household and individual levels in your multilevel model?
- 08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- What are the different levels that you are considering in this multilevel model?
- 08:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797 (In Progress): Child birth years/fertility histories
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
10/31/2022
- 06:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797 (Resolved): Child birth years/fertility histories
- Hello
I am trying to create datasets for each wave of the survey which include the date (year) of birth for each ... - 09:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Good morning,
thank you for your response this is very helpful.
When I run the svy:melogit command with the l...
10/30/2022
- 01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1795: Wave 9 COVID-19 data
- This has now been corrected.
- 01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1793 (Feedback): Biomarkers ethnic diversity breakdown
- Hello,
Combining b_indresp_ns and c_indresp_ns there are approx 20,000 individuals. Of these around 1900 are ethni... - 01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- So, you need to include all those who were interviewed in Wave 3, but you also need to observe them in Waves 4, 5 & 6...
- 12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783: ff_jbsoc00 not available
- Hello Albert,
The employment questions (like many other questions) follow dependent interview, i.e., previously in...
10/27/2022
- 04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Hi,
thank you very much!
Maybe I should explain this better. Let's just focus on the first model to not make ... - 02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Cross-sectional weights make the sample estimates generalizable to the population of that time period while longitudi...
- 01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Hi,
thank you for your quick response.
I am hoping to do cross-sectional analysis. I am interested in differe... - 01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Stata help for xtgee says "iweights, fweights, and pweights are allowed; see weight. Weights must be constant within...
- 12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights
- Hi,
this is helpful thank you.
I am looking to use generalized estimating equations (in stata command: xtgee)... - 12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794 (Feedback): Weights
- Hello,
If you want to correctly compute standard errors taking into account the sample design then you should use ... - 10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794 (Resolved): Weights
- Hi team,
I have a question about applying survey weights:
When I am applying the weights do I have to do this v... - 12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1795 (Feedback): Wave 9 COVID-19 data
- Hello,
There was no Covid19 survey in May 2021. There were three surveys in 2021: January 2021 (Wave 7), March 202... - 11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1795 (Resolved): Wave 9 COVID-19 data
- On the Understanding Society webpage Waves 1-9 are described as having taken place from April 2020 to May 2021, with ...
- 12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1787: BHPS variables availability and question route (jlendm, rjlend4, rjlsoc00)
- In the BHPS questionnaires the Universe description is a little complicated. If you take a look at the questionnaire ...
10/26/2022
- 05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1793 (Resolved): Biomarkers ethnic diversity breakdown
- Hi Understanding Society Support team,
I am trying to find out the ethnic diversity breakdown of the wave 2-3 GPS... - 04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1792: Employer changes in BHPS
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
>
> From onwards Wave 16 of the BHPS dependen... - 01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1792 (Feedback): Employer changes in BHPS
- Hello,
From onwards Wave 16 of the BHPS dependent interviewing was implemented, i.e., questions were asked based o... - 01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770 (Resolved): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
10/25/2022
- 06:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1792 (Resolved): Employer changes in BHPS
- Dear USoc team,
Like some previous questions, this question is about job changes. In the Understanding Society wav... - 01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
- Dear Piotr and Olena,
Thank you for your help with this. I believe my understanding of the use of weighted/unweighte... - 11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1791 (Feedback): child deprivation questions - youth questionnaire
- Hello,
If you want to know who gets asked a particular question please refer to the questionnaire. If you look at ... - 11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1790 (Feedback): Weighting approach in Understanding society
- Hello,
We don't provide a prevalence weighted combined material deprivation score. Only the individual variables a...
10/24/2022
- 04:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1791 (Resolved): child deprivation questions - youth questionnaire
- I have read on your website that 'Respondents aged 16 and over take part in the main adult survey and young people ag...
- 04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1790 (Resolved): Weighting approach in Understanding society
- Do you take a prevalence weighting approach similar to the FRS to calculate a material deprivation score for relevant...
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... - 10:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1789 (Resolved): Missing responses for racel_dv at each wave
- 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 ...
- 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.,... - 08:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1709 (Resolved): Self-completion questionnaire during Covid-19
- 08:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dv
- 08:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1725 (Resolved): Variable for region of work?
- 08:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1721 (Resolved): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- 08:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1724 (Resolved): Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- 08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1733 (Resolved): Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration
- 08:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1745 (Resolved): the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys
- 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
- 08:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1757 (Resolved): Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- 08:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1759 (Resolved): Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
- 08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1764 (Resolved): Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
- 08:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1765 (Resolved): Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- 08:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772 (Resolved): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1
- 08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1774 (Resolved): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2
- 08:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1776 (Resolved): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing
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... - 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...
- 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... - 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.
- 01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1703 (Resolved): Time-varying UKHLS identifier
- Conversation continued via email
- 01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1739 (Feedback): Weights when pooling data from different waves
- 01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1741 (Feedback): Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves
- 01:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1747 (Feedback): Weight problem when running regression
- 01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1787 (Feedback): BHPS variables availability and question route (jlendm, rjlend4, rjlsoc00)
- Q1&2
Only new entrants who say they are not currently employed are asked about the last job they ever had, while c... - 12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1786 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal study
- 12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1779 (Feedback): Calculating persistent poverty
- 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...
- 11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771 (Feedback): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
- 11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
- Yes
- 11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777 (Feedback): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
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 ... - 03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1772: Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1
- Ah, I see! Thank you
Best,
Albert
- 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... - 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...
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...- 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,...
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
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... - 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 - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 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... - 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...
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...
- 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... - 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... - 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):
... - 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...
- 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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 09:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1777 (In Progress): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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
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...
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 - 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... - 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... - 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 - 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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,... - 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...
- 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... - 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:... - 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...
- 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... - 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...
- 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...
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