Understanding Society User Support

02/17/2023

06:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1858 (Resolved): Inquiry on the Youth files in BHPS

Dear officer,
I found no region of government indicator in the * *_youth files in BHPS. To solve this issue, I use... Xinyu Tao

02/15/2023

03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1851 (Feedback): Labour Income whilst on maternity leave

Hello Cara
Generally speaking, the employee pay variables refer to “usual” pay. The Study asks about the last net ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1857 (Resolved): ISCED levels for Main study waves 1 to 12

Hi,
We've been asked to run in R some analysis on the sclfsat7 variable looking at horizontal inequality by ISCED ... William Shufflebottom

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1856 (Feedback): Coding of currently on maternity leave

Hello Cara,
Are you working with variable w_matleave? If this is correct I just checked wave 5 and don't see and ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1856 (Resolved): Coding of currently on maternity leave

Hi,
It seems as if the coding for currently on maternity leave changed after wave 5. Would you be able to tell me ... Cara Nelson

10:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785 (Resolved): Question regarding geographical data

Understanding Society User Support Team

02/14/2023

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1854 (Feedback): Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles variable

Hello Catherine,
You will need to download UKHLS dataset again given the index of Multiple Deprivation variables ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844: Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

Hello Timea
According to our data team linking SSNAP information (collected by King’s College) with UKHLS is not i... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/12/2023

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844: Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

Hello,
Just quickly following up on the above query, the SSNAP dataset seems to be available on NHS Digital for li... Timea Putnoki

02/10/2023

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1854 (Resolved): Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles variable

Hello,
I am carrying out analysis of waves 6 and 7 and would like to use the derived variable for Index of Multipl... Catherine Bunting

02/09/2023

01:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1852: Select the correct weighting values

Yushi,
Thank you for your question. Very interesting design and use of our data. There are two concepts your may w... Olena Kaminska

10:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1853 (In Progress): Missing Data in Higher Education Codes

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

09:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1853 (Resolved): Missing Data in Higher Education Codes

Hello!
I applied for special access to the data 8578 Higher Education Codes. I have now been given the data but I ... Johanna Reuter

07:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

Thanks for all your help! Henrique Neves

02/08/2023

09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1852 (In Progress): Select the correct weighting values

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

02/07/2023

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1852 (Resolved): Select the correct weighting values

Dear colleagues,
I'm a post-doc research associate at the University of Manchester. We're currently planning an an... Yushi Bai

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1851 (In Progress): Labour Income whilst on maternity leave

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

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1851 (Resolved): Labour Income whilst on maternity leave

Whilst a participant is on maternity leave is the labour income they report 0 or their usual labour income? Cara Nelson

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1850 (Feedback): Query regarding consent for the COVID-19 study

Hello Olivia
As with the main survey, the overall mechanism for gaining consent for participation in the COVID-19 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1848: Sibling relationship measures in youth questionnaire/ young adult module

Hello Georgina,
Sorry for my misunderstanding.
They were derived from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/06/2023

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1850 (Resolved): Query regarding consent for the COVID-19 study

Could you please clarify whether participants gave written or oral consent to participate in the Understanding Societ... Olivia Hamilton

02/02/2023

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1848: Sibling relationship measures in youth questionnaire/ young adult module

Hi Roberto,
Thank you for the information but unfortunately it does not answer my question. My question was on whe... Georgina Pavey

04:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1848 (Feedback): Sibling relationship measures in youth questionnaire/ young adult module

Hello Georgina,
The Study has some questions regarding siblings' relationships. For household members aged 10-15 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1848 (Resolved): Sibling relationship measures in youth questionnaire/ young adult module

hello,
I am planning to use the sibling relationship items (asking about behaviours towards and from a sibling e.g... Georgina Pavey

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1847 (Feedback): Panel construction across all UKHLS for paygu_dv

Hello Vriddhi
As Understanding Society is a longitudinal study there is always a missingness risk involved. This m... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Finally, let me signal that one of the jbisco pseudo-codes 2470 ("Public service administrative professionals") does ... Matteo Pinna Pintor

08:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Dear Piotr,
thanks for the clarification. Let me also point out, both to ask your confirmation and for future read... Matteo Pinna Pintor

02:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data

Thank you! Anil Menon

02/01/2023

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1847 (In Progress): Panel construction across all UKHLS for paygu_dv

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

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1847 (Resolved): Panel construction across all UKHLS for paygu_dv

Using the data management syntax available on your website, I was able to match parents with their children, and usin... Vriddhi Khattar

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1846 (Feedback): Question re. recontact for Understanding Society cohort

Hello Ben,
UKHLS asks participants for consent to give an interview in the current wave and the subsequent wave i... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data

Hello Anil,
In general, the steps are:
1. Register with the UK Data Service at https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1845: Childhood socioeconomic status for adults

Hello Michaela,
UKHLS recently released a family matrix data file “xhhrel”, where you can identify family connect... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/31/2023

08:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data

Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for the detailed response. After consulting the webpage you recommended, I have ident... Anil Menon

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1846 (Resolved): Question re. recontact for Understanding Society cohort

Dear Understanding Society team,

I hope this email finds you well. I'm reaching out with a couple of specific que... Benjamin Fell

01/30/2023

09:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1845: Childhood socioeconomic status for adults

Hi Piotr,
Thank you for this! I'm sorry, maybe I was not very clear. I am looking at maternal characteristics link... Michaela Kyclova

01/29/2023

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844: Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

Hello,
Thank you for your quick reply, that is very helpful. We would be interested in linking the data from the s... Timea Putnoki

01/27/2023

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data

Dear Anil,
Each of the geographical variables is available only as a separate dataset (basically, this dataset inc... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1845 (Feedback): Childhood socioeconomic status for adults

Hello,
I would suggest linking to children the information about their co-resident parents, we provide the code in... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1845 (Resolved): Childhood socioeconomic status for adults

Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering whether you could recommend a variable that would help me determi... Michaela Kyclova

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844 (Feedback): Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

Hello,
Some health data linkage has been done under the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration initiative (https://... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840 (Feedback): errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Dear Matteo,
Thank you for your additional clarifying comments.
The coding into ISCO-88 in UKHLS was done by tr... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/26/2023

07:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data

Hi Piotr,
I somehow missed this reply, thank you for getting back to me! I was trying to apply for secure access ... Anil Menon

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

I also realize now the issue is less debilitating than at first sight, because the codes with the fourth-digit zeroes... Matteo Pinna Pintor

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Dear Piotr,
thanks for your reply and appreciated efforts - and apologies for the initial disgruntled tone. Looki... Matteo Pinna Pintor

01/25/2023

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1838 (Feedback): Weights when using Data from waves with gaps

Understanding Society User Support Team

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Dear Matteo,
First of all, I am sorry for the inconvenience, I understand that sometimes the waiting time to get a... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1843 (Feedback): missing data on parental education

Hello,
In W1 UKHLS these questions were asked only during sample months JA1 to JU1 (January to June 2009) and coll... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844 (In Progress): Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

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

01/24/2023

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1843 (In Progress): missing data on parental education

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

01/23/2023

06:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1844 (Resolved): Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data

Hello,
I am currently working on a project looking at inequalities in stroke care access and outcomes in partners... Timea Putnoki