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03/31/2023

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1883: Periods for personal income - fimnlabgrs_dv & paygu_dv

Hi Selcuk,
I am afraid it is impossible to identify specific dates relative to the interview for paygu_dv, for fim... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1885 (Feedback): Health status of all the household members

Hello,
In principle, we try to collect at least some information about all households members, the most basic info... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/30/2023

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1886: Weighting unemployment duration data

Fergus,
You will need a longitudinal weight for this as for some TSMs you will have only 1 wave observation and th... Olena Kaminska

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

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1886 (Resolved): Weighting unemployment duration data

Dear Team,
I am investigating the relationship between online job search and unemployment durations by pooling wav... Fergus Jimenez-England

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

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

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1885 (Resolved): Health status of all the household members

Dear Sir/Madam,
Does BHPS and UKHLS interview all the members within a household? Is the health status of each hou... Yanan Zhang

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

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

03:43 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

03/28/2023

04:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1884 (Resolved): Reporting economic inactivity using the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Hi there
I'm starting a project that is looking at the drivers of economic inactivity and want to use data from th... Peter Humphreys

03/27/2023

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1883 (Resolved): Periods for personal income - fimnlabgrs_dv & paygu_dv

Dear colleagues,
May I ask which time periods do the following personal income/earnings variables refer to: fimnl... Selcuk Beduk

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1882 (Resolved): Linking individual and household data and analysing at a household level

Hi there!
Do let me know if this is the wrong place to be asking but I'm currently doing some analysis using wave... Matty Grassow

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

03/23/2023

04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1881 (Resolved): Explaining valid skips for AUDIT-C items

Hello,
I'm using alcohol data (AUDIT-C) from Waves 7, 9 and 11 for a longitudinal study. Please could you provide ... J Smith

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

04:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1880 (Resolved): Smart meter data

Hi
I recently attended a UKHLS event where it was mentioned that Smart Meter data for participants might be made ... Natalie Bennett

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

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1879 (Resolved): More detailed country of origin

Hi,
I am trying to construct a variable of region of origin for those not born in the UK. The variable plbornc has... Mark Tomlinson

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

08:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1878 (Resolved): Census 2011 Output Area Classification Linked Dataset

I am planning on requesting the OAC2011 Special License Access to study neighbourhood classification and health.
S... Lina Böttcher

03/17/2023

11:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1877 (Resolved): Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Area Classification

I am planning on requesting the OAC2011 Special License Access to study neighbourhood classification and health.
... Lina Böttcher

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

11:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1876 (Resolved): benefit claim

Is there a variable measuring whether the interviewer has claimed any benefit from waves 1-10? If not, is there a way... huihui song

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

03/12/2023

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1875 (Resolved): jbscoc00

Hi. I would like to use the variable "jbsoc00" for my research. In the dataset documentation, it says that I need Spe... Fergus McCormack

03/10/2023

02:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1874: Issue with religion variable in wave 12

Many thanks Piotr, looking forward to hearing what you find Laurence O'Brien

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

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1874 (In Progress): Issue with religion variable in wave 12

Hello support forum,
I think there might be an issue with the religion variable (l_oprlg1) in wave 12. I suspect t... Laurence O'Brien

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

03:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

Dear Spencer,
Yes, you are completely right. Both approaches will be correct and should give you similar results. ... Olena Kaminska

03/08/2023

02:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

P.S. - I should have clarified, I am not using wave 1 in my work. I mention this because in your example there was a ... Spencer Thompson

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

Hi Olena,
Thanks, this is really helpful. This is indeed what I was trying to do:
_Alternatively you may be int... Spencer Thompson

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

Dear Spencer,
This should answer your question:
Pooling can be cross-sectional or longitudinal. Theoretically, yo... Olena Kaminska

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

10:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

Hi, I think I've figured this out, thanks.
I realised I don't need to change the longitudinal weights since all my o... Spencer Thompson

12:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1873: Health conditions explanation on website

Thank you very much - the documents are very useful! Can I confirm that the information previously on the website was... Laurence Rowley-Abel

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

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

Hi there, previously on the FAQs section of the Understanding Society website, there was a section under "Questions a... Laurence Rowley-Abel

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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03/03/2023

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1868: Use of weights for analysing job quality in UKHLS, Waves 4, 6, 8 and 10

Tom,
Yes, sounds like cross-sectional weight will be suitable. After wave 6 it will be 'ui' instead of 'ub'.
You ... Olena Kaminska

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1868: Use of weights for analysing job quality in UKHLS, Waves 4, 6, 8 and 10

Olena,
Many thanks, this is very helpful. However just three clarifications / further queries ...
First, apolog... Thomas Stephens

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1870: Inquiry on the data on place of birth

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
>
> Can I ask how do you define the place of ... Xinyu Tao