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03/29/2023

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1886: Weighting unemployment duration data

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

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1885: Health status of all the household members

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03:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1884 (Feedback): Reporting economic inactivity using the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Hello,
Yes, julk4wk and jubgn are the right variables.
Best wishes,
Piotr
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03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1883: Periods for personal income - fimnlabgrs_dv & paygu_dv

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03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1882 (Feedback): Linking individual and household data and analysing at a household level

Hello,
If I understand correctly what you want to do then you started with a household level file, then linked an ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/24/2023

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1881 (Feedback): Explaining valid skips for AUDIT-C items

Dear Jessie,
You can find this information in these questions' universe (see the pdfs of the questionnaires here: ht... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1880 (Feedback): Smart meter data

Hi Natalie,
We are indeed planning to link metered-consumption data for electricity and gas (annual amounts). We a... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/22/2023

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872 (Feedback): Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

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03/21/2023

10:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1880 (In Progress): Smart meter data

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

09:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1879 (Feedback): More detailed country of origin

Hi Mark
Another variable is plbornc_all which is the country of birth for those not born in the UK coding a long u... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1879 (In Progress): More detailed country of origin

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

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1877 (Feedback): Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Area Classification

Hello Lina
The SN7629. Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Ar... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1878 (Feedback): Census 2011 Output Area Classification Linked Dataset

Hello Lina
The SN7629. Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Ar... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/16/2023

09:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1874: Issue with religion variable in wave 12

Hi,
I've done some initial checks and I can confirm that the l_oprlg1 variable is incorrect - my provisional diagn... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/15/2023

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1873: Health conditions explanation on website

Hello Laurence,
The information you previously found on the webpage is correct. It is just that we are updating t... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1876 (Feedback): benefit claim

Hello Huihui
The Study has a specific benefit module called benefits_w(1 to 12) which has information about unearn... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/13/2023

10:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1870: Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Hello,
Moreover, for some respondents (the surviving BHPS sample members) you can also get the information on the ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1875 (Feedback): jbscoc00

Hello,
The End User Licence version of the data (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/10/2023

02:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1874 (In Progress): Issue with religion variable in wave 12

Hi Laurence,
Thank you for flagging this up, we will look into the issue.
Best wishes,
Piotr
UKHLS User Support Understanding Society User Support Team

03/09/2023

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1808 (Feedback): nunmpsp_dv variable doesn't seem to aling with employ variable

Hi Michael,
We are terribly sorry that it has taken so long to answer your question.
1) The way you defined th... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1870 (Feedback): Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Hello,
Unfortunately, we don't collect this information. We only collect information about the country of birth: h... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/08/2023

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1857 (Feedback): ISCED levels for Main study waves 1 to 12

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12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1867 (Feedback): Significant change between waves - longitudinal weight

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12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1864 (Feedback): Using survey weights in longitudinal analysis

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12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1865 (Feedback): Changes to USOC wave data downloaded from UK Data Service compared to previous downloads of the waves

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12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1868 (Feedback): Use of weights for analysing job quality in UKHLS, Waves 4, 6, 8 and 10

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12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872 (In Progress): Pooling waves for 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

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1873 (Feedback): Health conditions explanation on website

We are revising it to add some more information. But here is the beta version.
If any part of this is not clear pl... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/02/2023

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1870 (In Progress): Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Hello,
Can I ask how do you define the place of birth?
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support Team Understanding Society User Support Team

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1871 (Feedback): Inquiry on the place of residence

Hello,
In such case they would be treated as living in a new household, whether they would be followed and intervi... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/01/2023

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1863: coding health conditions

Hello Karen if you want to create a variable denoting if someone has a health condition, meaning they still have it w... Understanding Society User Support Team