Understanding Society User Support

01/19/2023

07:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1843 (Resolved): missing data on parental education

Dear Sir/Madam,
Sorry to trouble you again.
I wish to ask a question on parental education in the USoc. I under... Yaojun Li

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Henrique,
Thank you for your questions.
1) You could start at wave 7 longitudinal weight. The gain will be smal... Olena Kaminska

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1839 (In Progress): Combining individual level files across waves with different variables into a long format.

Hello Ingrid,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are going to update our syntax to include your sug... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1842 (Feedback): Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Hello Karen,
In the EUL version, you can have the country of birth (*_ukborn *_plbornc *_ff_ukborn) and geographi... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1842 (Resolved): Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Dear officer,
Good morning.
I am a user of Understanding Society. May I get access to the data on individuals' pl... Xinyu Tao

01/18/2023

12:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840 (In Progress): errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

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

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1841 (Feedback): charitable giving in wave 12 or wave 13?

Hello Yaojun
Data on charitable giving are located in the Charitable Giving module, a rotative module appearing in... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/17/2023

06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1841 (Resolved): charitable giving in wave 12 or wave 13?

Dear Sir/Madam,
Sorry to trouble you. I wish to ask whether data on charitable giving is available in wave 12 of U... Yaojun Li

01/16/2023

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

erratum (somehow edit doesn't work): "...The zero sometimes does exist in the fourth digit, so it's NOT available to ... Matteo Pinna Pintor

09:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840 (Resolved): errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Dear survey help team,
Last spring I submitted a request for special license version in order to use the four-dig... Matteo Pinna Pintor

01/13/2023

09:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826: Socioeconomic status

Thank you for the response. Is there a SPSS syntax code example you could provide rather than Stata? Sadia Riya

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1838: Weights when using Data from waves with gaps

Johanna,
Sounds like you are studying not people but events / states (that can differ over time). Sounds like you ... Olena Kaminska

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories

Hello
Please could I have an update on whether this is possible and how long it might take?
Thank you
Emily Emily Humphreys

01/12/2023

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1839: Combining individual level files across waves with different variables into a long format.

I just found the answer to this myself- of course: isvar is a user generated command and I only had to download it (a... Ingrid Storm

02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1839 (In Progress): Combining individual level files across waves with different variables into a long format.

I am trying to follow the suggested syntax for appending individual level files across waves into a long format. Howe... Ingrid Storm

01:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1838: Weights when using Data from waves with gaps

Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-1:
> Johanna,
>
> Could you explain a bit more the set up of your dataset, please? ... Johanna Pauliks

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1838: Weights when using Data from waves with gaps

Johanna,
Could you explain a bit more the set up of your dataset, please? Do you have multiple observations per pe... Olena Kaminska

01/11/2023

04:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1838 (Resolved): Weights when using Data from waves with gaps

Greetings,
I'm currently unsure which weights I should use for my analysis. I'm interested in the effect of flexi... Johanna Pauliks

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1830 (Feedback): Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)

Hello Frank,
The variable sclonely belongs to the Self-Completion Loneliness Module, which is asked in wave 9 to ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/10/2023

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1837 (Feedback): Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas

Dear Caroline,
All of our geographies are taken directly from the ONS Postcode Directory. LSOA for England & Wales... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1837 (In Progress): Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas

Hello Caroline,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get b... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1836 (Feedback): 2021 calendar data

Hello Matthias
Our data team is still working on the calendar year 2021 dataset.
An estimated release date is th... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/09/2023

01:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1837 (Resolved): Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas

Hi,
In the special licenced dataset that includes 2011 Census Lower Layer Super Output Areas, what spatial scale... Caroline Kienast von Einem

11:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1836 (Resolved): 2021 calendar data

Hi, do you have an update on when the 2021 calendar data will be released?
Thanks Matthias Pierce

01/06/2023

10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1834: Linkage National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)

Thank you very much for the quick reply. That is very helpful!
Best wishes
Tobias Tobias Rüttenauer

01/05/2023

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1834 (Feedback): Linkage National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)

Hello Tobias,
Our data team is expecting to match the data from the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NE... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/03/2023

02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1835 (Feedback): Number of dependent children (inside or outside of household) - variable availability

Hello Thomas,
For the moment UKHLS only have a derived variable for the number of own dependent children in the hou... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/22/2022

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1831 (Feedback): hhgrid_w12.clstat

Hello Becky
According to our data team, leavers are dropped as the Household Grid module (hhgrid) is only for thos... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1835 (In Progress): Number of dependent children (inside or outside of household) - variable availability

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

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1835 (Resolved): Number of dependent children (inside or outside of household) - variable availability

Good afternoon,
By my reading, Understanding Society doesn't have a variable (derived or otherwise) on the number ... Thomas Stephens

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1834 (In Progress): Linkage National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)

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

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1834 (Resolved): Linkage National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)

Dear Support team,
I am writing to ask if there has been any process regarding the linkage of the National Energy ... Tobias Rüttenauer

12/21/2022

06:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1833 (Feedback): Data information necessary for publication in journal

Understanding Society User Support Team

06:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1833: Data information necessary for publication in journal

Congratulations Nico!
We ask all data users to cite all datasets used - both SN6631 and SN6666 - correctly. The e... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1833 (Resolved): Data information necessary for publication in journal

Dear Understanding Society Team,
I would like to inform you that my job market paper out of my dissertation (Essays... Nico Ochmann

05:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1827 (Feedback): Correct weights to use

Understanding Society User Support Team