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From 11/11/2022 to 12/10/2022
12/09/2022
- 04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827: Correct weights to use
- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your response.
Could I ask a further question to help me understand the cross-secti... - 03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827: Correct weights to use
- Amelia,
Thank you for your clarification.
1) No, you can't use only one calendar year. Using 2014 from wave 5 fo... - 02:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1829: Proportions of groups within inactive population.
- Alex,
Thank you for your question. There may be many reasons for the difference you mention, but from my previous ... - 02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies the question. You should put the model together. If a person is in your model ... - 01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Sorry, I am a bit confused. My wave-combination of interest is participants at waves 7 to 11 of the mainstage and 1 t...
12/08/2022
- 09:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826 (Feedback): Socioeconomic status
- 09:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826: Socioeconomic status
- Hello Sadia,
A sketch of the matching is as follows:
For i_youth file, you have different identifiers for paren... - 04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1829 (In Progress): Proportions of groups within inactive population.
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1829 (Resolved): Proportions of groups within inactive population.
- Hi, I have recently analysed the inactive population using USoc within DWP to expand our evidence base, applying the ...
- 02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1828: Partnership histories response status
- Dear Michaela
Yes, the Partnership Histories dataset (SN 8473) is about to be deposited at the UK Data Service to ... - 11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1828: Partnership histories response status
- Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
Thank you very much for this, it is really helpful.
One thing I'd like t... - 04:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1828 (Feedback): Partnership histories response status
- Hello Michaela,
In the initial wave someone is interviewed they are asked if they were ever married, ever cohabite... - 02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Henrique,
Do you mean you want to model first nonresponse to a Covid wave, and then conditional on response your m... - 01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Thanks so much for your suggestion. So what you are suggesting would be to fit a conditional model of response, where...
- 11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1825: 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
- Hi,
Thanks for this; that makes sense. I am considering using 2001 LSOAs - though this would make the UKHLS waves ... - 10:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1825 (Feedback): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
- Hello Albert,
According to our data team, there are no current plans to make LSOA 2011 apply to BHPS waves. As do... - 10:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827: Correct weights to use
- Thank you Olena for your response.
For 1), if I’m going to select respondents who were interviewed in 2014 in wav...
12/07/2022
- 10:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1828 (Resolved): Partnership histories response status
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering if there is any way to know whether a woman (specifically, a moth... - 02:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Ok, then your best option would be to use wave 11 longitudinal weight as your base weight, and predict response in yo...
- 02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- No, a person just needs to participate in one of the Covid waves.
Kind regards,
Henrique - 02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies it. Can you tell me how you are using Covid data - do you need a person to par... - 01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Thanks for your reply.
We are indeed interested in a 0/1 effect of our treatment variable. We are simply regressi... - 02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827: Correct weights to use
- Amelia,
Thank you for your question. Our weights work with any population subgroup (but not a subsample). If you w... - 09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Just to clarify regarding 2), I’m not looking at changes in this wave 2 independent variable over time, but simply ...- 09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827 (Resolved): Correct weights to use
- Dear Olena,
I have two questions regarding using weights. I’m trying to conduct a cross-sectional analysis using ... - 09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826 (In Progress): Socioeconomic status
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1825 (In Progress): 2011 LSOAs 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...
12/06/2022
- 06:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826 (Resolved): Socioeconomic status
- I wondered if there is a variable for socioeconomic status (e.g., parents' annual income) that I could match with the...
- 06:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1825 (Resolved): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
- Hi,
I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the 2011 LSOA file (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataca... - 02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Henrique,
Just to clarify, by treatment variable do you mean that you are interested in 0/1 effect of your treatme...
12/05/2022
- 07:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1817: oldest child via family matrix
- yes
- 10:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Thanks for your reply, and my apologies for not being clear. Responding to your questions:
1) We have combined th...
12/02/2022
- 04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Henrique,
Thank you for your question. Just to clarify:
1) do you use wave 7-11 of the mainstage in one model?
... - 09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- The dataset you have referred to above SN 7630 is "Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Acce...
- 09:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Sorry, just another question - I notice that the document says there is 'no data for northern ireland'. Why is this?
... - 09:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Ah ok, that's a bit confusing (the 2011 version uses 2001 indicators?) but thanks for letting me know.
Best,
Albe...
12/01/2022
- 06:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820 (In Progress): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 06:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1823 (Feedback): dual fuel energy expenditure- split into electricity and gas?
- You are correct. If they reported that they paid a combined bill they were asked for the total amount.
As a gener... - 04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1823 (Resolved): dual fuel energy expenditure- split into electricity and gas?
- Hello,
I'm doing some analysis on household fuel expenditure. I'd like to be able to split out gas and electricit... - 05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822 (Feedback): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Thanks for your question Albert. You will notice that the Geographical Identifiers guide that you refer to is dated 2...
- 02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1817: oldest child via family matrix
- Dear data team,
Thank you very much for the clarification, this is very helpful.
I would like to ask one more f...
11/30/2022
- 01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
- Thanks so much Olena, really appreciate it.
I don't think this can be the cause of the issue, though, because it is... - 12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
- Emily,
There may be a few reasons for this, but one of them maybe related to the definition of the population that...
11/29/2022
- 05:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
- Sorry about the delay.
The first child information is based on these variables for UKHLS sample members:
(1) w_ch... - 10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
- Hello
Just hoping for an update on this query?
Thanks very much
Emily - 05:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822 (In Progress): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Dear Albert,
I have passed on your query to the data team.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team - 02:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822 (Resolved): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Hi,
I've noticed that the Special Licence dataset SN 7630 (Rural-Urban Indicators) is not as described here: https... - 05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1817 (Feedback): oldest child via family matrix
- Here is the response from the data team: The Family Matrix contains people reported in INDALL (those enumerated in th...
- 04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1818: X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
- Dear Esme,
Sorry, pid and not pidp is the variable to use. The label for rapid_bh "X-wave person identifier of res... - 01:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1818: X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
- Hi yes, sorry I meant pidp, it doesn't match with any pidp. I can't seem to find the pid variable in any of the BHPS ...
- 08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820 (Resolved): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Dear Understanding society support team,
Our research team is using data from the Understanding Society Main Annu...
11/28/2022
- 05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1817 (In Progress): oldest child via family matrix
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1819 (Feedback): Volunteering and donating questions
- I have checked the Wave 12 questionnaire that is available online and these questions/variables are not included: htt...
- 04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1819 (Resolved): Volunteering and donating questions
- Hello,
I was wondering if you could confirm that the two following variables will be available in Wave 12 of the U... - 05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1818 (Feedback): X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
- Could you plesae try using the PIDP instead of pid? Please let us know if that solves the problem.
Best wishes,
U...
11/25/2022
- 03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1818 (Resolved): X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
- I'm trying to match children to their parent/responsible adult. To do this in the BHPS waves, I am using the variable...
- 03:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1817 (Resolved): oldest child via family matrix
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am pleased to work with your newly released family matrix. My question regards ... - 08:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1811: Longitudinal weight selection
- By using the wave 5 longitudinal weights the estimates based on your analysis will be representative of the UK adult ...
- 08:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1810 (Resolved): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
11/24/2022
- 11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1810: Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
- Thank you for your reply.
I can see that the individuals with inconsistency in income values have imputed flags on... - 08:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1810 (Feedback): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
- Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. If you check the imputation flags you will see that these chang... - 08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1816 (Feedback): Difference between plnowy4 and mvyr
- If you look at the universe for these questions you will see who gets asked each question. You can find the Universe ...
- 08:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1815 (Feedback): distmov_dv
- Hello,
That is because this variable is based on the postcode at the time of last and current interview.
Hope th... - 08:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1814 (Feedback): "inapplicable" in sempderived variable
- Hello,
If someone only did a partial interview (identified as those who completed upto the coronavirus module), th... - 07:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1813 (Feedback): Wave 12 Release Date
- Hello,
Yes, it will be released this month, most likely towards the end of the month.
Best wishes,
Understandi...
11/22/2022
- 08:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1816 (Resolved): Difference between plnowy4 and mvyr
- Hi,
Which differences are there between the plnowy4 and mvyr variables? In the description both are denoted as yea... - 06:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1815 (Resolved): distmov_dv
- Hi,
Checking the variable distmov_dv I came across that in many waves (not in the first ones) even though this va... - 01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1814 (Resolved): "inapplicable" in sempderived variable
- Dear support team,
I have a question about the "semderived" variable in the Covid-19 study. I intend to create a b... - 12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1813 (Resolved): Wave 12 Release Date
- Hi I was just wondering when Wave 12 of the Understanding Society survey results would be released? The website say t...
- 08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1811: Longitudinal weight selection
- Thanks for the very quick reply!
So does this mean that by using the wave 5 longitudinal weights my analysis will be...
11/21/2022
- 04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1812 (Feedback): Aggregate data on specific questions
- You can check the frequencies of the responses for these questions by using our online interactive variable search. F...
- 04:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1812 (Resolved): Aggregate data on specific questions
- My name is Andrew Schein, and I'm the lead behavioural scientist for the Sustainable Future mission of Nesta, a UK ch...
- 04:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1811 (Feedback): Longitudinal weight selection
- Yes. As your analysis sample includes those who responded in Waves 1, 4 & 5, (and also Waves 2 & 3 if you used any la...
- 04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1811 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight selection
- Hello,
I'd have (another) question on longitudinal weight selection.
I've conducted a latent class analysis in w... - 09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1810 (Resolved): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
- I am referring to the Understanding Society (US) dataset in https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/st...
- 08:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1808 (In Progress): nunmpsp_dv variable doesn't seem to aling with employ variable
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
11/20/2022
- 02:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783: ff_jbsoc00 not available
- Ah I see - this is very helpful, thank you!
Best,
Albert
11/19/2022
- 12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1808 (Resolved): nunmpsp_dv variable doesn't seem to aling with employ variable
- Hi,
As far as I understand, the employ variable simply flags if someone is employed or not. And I think the nunmps...
11/18/2022
- 10:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1806: Socioeconomic classification
- Yes, but I would change the order and use jbnssec5_dv followed by jlnssec5_dv at each wave. Here is a compact version...
11/17/2022
- 07:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1806: Socioeconomic classification
- Hello - thanks for this, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post but I have merged waves of data together but...
- 01:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1806 (Feedback): Socioeconomic classification
- Hello,
To create this variable for those who were interviewed previously and currently not working, you will need ... - 01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1807 (Feedback): hadsymp and longcovid
- Dear Karen,
Please check the questionnaire to know who gets asked this question. Below each question you will see ... - 01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1807 (Resolved): hadsymp and longcovid
- Hi there,
I am trying to create a variable based on longcovid that matches the number of observations in hadsymp ex...
11/14/2022
- 04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1806 (Resolved): Socioeconomic classification
- I am wondering if there is Stata syntax available to construct a socioeconomic status variable for each wave of the U...
- 04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
- Hello
Thanks for your help. That isn't quite what I'm looking for - apologies for not explaining more clearly.
... - 03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797 (Feedback): Child birth years/fertility histories
- Hello,
I looked at the age of first child for respondents by UKHLS waves 1-11 and did not find any difference in t... - 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.
- 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.
- 02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1803: Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage files
- Ah great, that's good to know
thanks - 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...
- 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...
- 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...
11/11/2022
- 01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1805 (Resolved): More information about the variable "bensta2": Education Grant other than a Student Loan or Tuition Fee Loan
- Hello,
Can I have more descriptive information about the educational grant variable "bensta2"? Does it refer to th... - 10:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1803 (Resolved): Accessing multiple Special Licence geographic data linkage files
- Hi,
I'm currently applying for Special Licence access to Understanding Society. I'm interested in using some of th...
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