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11/14/2022

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797 (Feedback): Child birth years/fertility histories

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I looked at the age of first child for respondents by UKHLS waves 1-11 and did not find any difference in t... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1803: Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage files

To clarify, their response is the same as mine, i.e., it is ok to make this application. Understanding Society User Support Team

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1803: Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage files

I have been informed by our data manager that they have responded to your query via the UKDS. Understanding Society User Support Team

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1803 (Feedback): Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage files

No, this should not be a problem. Please see item 4.6 in the Data Access Strategy. https://www.understandingsociety.a... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1805 (Feedback): More information about the variable "bensta2": Education Grant other than a Student Loan or Tuition Fee Loan

The information that is provided to respondents when they are asked these questions is in the questionnaire. No addit... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1802: Missing data for pasoc10 in xwavedat

It may not be clear from my response above, pasoc90_cc, pasoc00_cc or pasoc10_cc are available in the End User Licens... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/10/2022

09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1799: query in advance of making data application

Sorry the text associated with that link is out of date. But if you follow the link then the UKDS page shows that it ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/09/2022

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1781: Identifying House Moves

You are correct w_addrmov_dv variable identifies moves between two consecutive waves using the postcode of the two ad... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1799: query in advance of making data application

1. Here is the latest information about linked education data available: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/docum... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1802 (Feedback): Missing data for pasoc10 in xwavedat

Hello,
Currently not all reports of parents' occupation are available using SOC 2010 coding frame. Parents occupat... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/08/2022

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1802 (In Progress): Missing data for pasoc10 in xwavedat

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

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1800 (Feedback): Monthly variable on current labour force status

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To get this monthly labour force status variable you will need the employment event history data. This is c... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1801 (Feedback): Belong to religion oprlg variable: many missings

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This question is asked of everyone every few years (Waves 1, 4, 8,..) and in the intervening waves it is as... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1798 (Resolved): Which weight to use for Adults in COVID Wave 6 & 2

We have received your email and passed that on to the weighting team. As the conversation is now continuing via email... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1799 (Feedback): query in advance of making data application

Dear Sandra,
This dataset contains school code variables for the Understanding Society COVID-19 study (SN 8644).
... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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? Understanding Society User Support Team

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794: Weights

What are the different levels that you are considering in this multilevel model? Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/30/2022

01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1795: Wave 9 COVID-19 data

This has now been corrected. Understanding Society User Support Team

01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1793 (Feedback): Biomarkers ethnic diversity breakdown

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Combining b_indresp_ns and c_indresp_ns there are approx 20,000 individuals. Of these around 1900 are ethni... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/27/2022

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794 (Feedback): Weights

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If you want to correctly compute standard errors taking into account the sample design then you should use ... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1795 (Feedback): Wave 9 COVID-19 data

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There was no Covid19 survey in May 2021. There were three surveys in 2021: January 2021 (Wave 7), March 202... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/26/2022

01:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1770 (Resolved): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample

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01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1792 (Feedback): Employer changes in BHPS

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From onwards Wave 16 of the BHPS dependent interviewing was implemented, i.e., questions were asked based o... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/25/2022

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1791 (Feedback): child deprivation questions - youth questionnaire

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If you want to know who gets asked a particular question please refer to the questionnaire. If you look at ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1790 (Feedback): Weighting approach in Understanding society

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We don't provide a prevalence weighted combined material deprivation score. Only the individual variables a... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/20/2022

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

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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

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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01:55 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

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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