Understanding Society User Support

02/28/2023

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1869 (Feedback): 2021 calendar data

Hi Matthias,
There is a slight delay and we now hope to release the dataset sometime in May.
Best wishes,
Piot... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1853 (Feedback): Missing Data in Higher Education Codes

Hello,
I am sorry that it has taken so long to get back to you.
The high level of missingness is due to some er... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/27/2023

02:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1866 (Feedback): Code Creator Beta No longer working

Hello,
The IT team informed us that they fixed the issue, would you be able to check if it works for you now, plea... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/24/2023

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1866 (In Progress): Code Creator Beta No longer working

Hello,
We are very sorry about that. I have informed our web team and asked them to look into this.
Best wishes... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1857: ISCED levels for Main study waves 1 to 12

Hello,
To be able to provide ISCED classification, we had to collect additional information which was done in Wave... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1867 (In Progress): Significant change between waves - longitudinal weight

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

08:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1865 (In Progress): Changes to USOC wave data downloaded from UK Data Service compared to previous downloads of the waves

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

08:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1864 (In Progress): Using survey weights in longitudinal analysis

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

08:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1861: Job tenure variable in Understanding Society

Sorry I should have been clearer, after the next job information if current spell not reached the employment loop sta... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/23/2023

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1861: Job tenure variable in Understanding Society

If they were continuously employed and changed jobs then the end date of each job is recorded in jbendd/m/y4 & then i... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1861 (Feedback): Job tenure variable in Understanding Society

As we use dependent interviewing, if someone is in the same job they are not asked these types of questions about the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1863 (Feedback): coding health conditions

hello Karen,
You are right the health conditions quesitons have changed. I am attaching two files that we have pre... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1820 (Resolved): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights

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11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1839 (In Progress): Combining individual level files across waves with different variables into a long format.

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11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1839 (Feedback): Combining individual level files across waves with different variables into a long format.

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10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1857 (In Progress): ISCED levels for Main study waves 1 to 12

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

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1858 (Feedback): Inquiry on the Youth files in BHPS

Hello,
Q: "I found no region of government indicator in the * *_youth files in BHPS. To solve this issue, I used t... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1859 (Feedback): sample size loss due to weighting

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10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1860 (Feedback): household income special licence variables

Hello,
Please take a look at the section of our user guide that details the income variables that we provided and ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1862: Welsh Language

But if you are interested in specific questions, you can either do a search across the questionnaires, or search usin... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1862 (Feedback): Welsh Language

Hello,
While there are some core questions that are asked every wave, these are not provided as a separate module,... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1852 (Feedback): Select the correct weighting values

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02/21/2023

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1861 (In Progress): Job tenure variable in Understanding Society

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02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1861: Job tenure variable in 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... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1860 (In Progress): household income special licence variables

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

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1859 (In Progress): sample size loss due to weighting

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

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1858 (In Progress): Inquiry on the Youth files in BHPS

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

02/15/2023

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

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

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

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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

02/09/2023

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

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

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

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

02/02/2023

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

02:57 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

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

04:25 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