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From 04/02/2023 to 05/01/2023

04/28/2023

02:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1898 (Feedback): Link respondents to Westminster electoral constituencies
Hi Margherita,
Have you considered using Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies Special Licence datasets? These ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1897 (Feedback): Birth year and birth order of all ever child
Hi Luca,
I'd suggest the following steps:
1) using xhhrel file to identify all resident children,
2) linking the inf...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1895 (Feedback): Parental leave histories
Hello,
Regarding q1, it seems that you have already covered most possible scenarios as w_jbstat inquires about you...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/27/2023

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1898 (Resolved): Link respondents to Westminster electoral constituencies
Hello, I would like to be able to link respondents in a given wave to Westminster electoral constituencies for the la... Margherita Negri
08:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1897 (Resolved): Birth year and birth order of all ever child
Dear Support Team,
I aim to derive for each women the birth year, age and birth order of all her child ever had i.e...
Luca Giangregorio

04/24/2023

07:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894: Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data
Olena Kaminska wrote in #note-2:
> Dear Yanan Zhang,
>
> Thank you for your question. Yes, you always need to use...
Yanan Zhang
01:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894: Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data
Dear Yanan Zhang,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you always need to use weights with UKHLS, regardless of analy...
Olena Kaminska
01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892: Question regarding longitudinal weights
Johanna,
Yes, clustering changes only standard errors, and therefore confidence interval, and therefore p-values o...
Olena Kaminska

04/23/2023

11:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892 (In Progress): Question regarding longitudinal weights
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894 (In Progress): Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data
Thank you for your email.
We aim to respond to simple queries within 48 hours and more complex issues within 7 wo...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1895 (In Progress): Parental leave histories
Thank you for your email.
We aim to respond to simple queries within 48 hours and more complex issues within 7 wo...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1896 (Feedback): why there are so many cases inapplicable in terms of occupational class (current job)
Hello,
This variable value for jbsoc00_cc is missing for anyone who does not have a job. Please check the question...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1896 (Resolved): why there are so many cases inapplicable in terms of occupational class (current job)
Dear User Support Team,
I was wondering why there were so many cases inapplicable in terms of occupational class (...
Sijia Du

04/21/2023

07:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892: Question regarding longitudinal weights
Dear Olena,
thank you very much for your in-depth answer! I'm interested in what happens after a particular event...
Johanna Pauliks
02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892: Question regarding longitudinal weights
Johanna,
It sounds to me that you may be pooling information from multiple waves, which depending on how you do it...
Olena Kaminska
04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1895 (Resolved): Parental leave histories
Hello
I'm hoping to find a way to construct a dataset listing paternity and maternity leave uptake (yes/no) and d...
Emily Humphreys
03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data
Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope this message finds you in good health and high spirits.
I am currently working with indi...
Yanan Zhang
09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1886 (Feedback): Weighting unemployment duration data
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890 (Feedback): Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1893 (Feedback): How can I match the information of youths onto that of their fathers and mothers
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1893: How can I match the information of youths onto that of their fathers and mothers
The father and mother pidps are included in the youth files. Using those you can match their information from other f... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1893 (Resolved): How can I match the information of youths onto that of their fathers and mothers
Dear User Support Team,
I am a postdoc researcher in Sociology at Nankai University, China. I was awarded a PhD in...
Sijia Du

04/19/2023

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892 (Resolved): Question regarding longitudinal weights
Dear support,
I've got another question regarding longitudinal weights in UKHLS. I'm using data from adult respon...
Johanna Pauliks
10:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1830: Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)
Hello Roberto,
Thank you very much! I was just a bit confused because the data shows that there are some cases in ...
Nico Seifert

04/18/2023

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1830: Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)
Hello Frank
As was mentioned before, the Loneliness (self-completion) module was added to the questionnaires in wave...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/17/2023

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1830: Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)
Dear all,
I have a follow-up question. Is there a variable to identify these cases? I have tried to identify the ...
Nico Seifert

04/14/2023

02:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Laurence,
The individual weight should be the appropriate weight for your analysis.
Best of luck,
Olena
Olena Kaminska
01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Dear Olena,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Just one further question - for the individual weight, you sta...
Laurence Rowley-Abel
12:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Laurence,
Thank you for coming back to me. Please ignore my earlier recommendations. You actually don't need desig...
Olena Kaminska
12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply. How do I access previous releases of the data?
Additionally, I tr...
Laurence Rowley-Abel
12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Laurence,
Thank you for your question. Yes, your consideration of the weights at each level is correct.
You can ...
Olena Kaminska

04/12/2023

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1891: l_nbrcoh_dv in wave 12 not found
Thank you! Emanuele Fino
01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1891 (Feedback): l_nbrcoh_dv in wave 12 not found
Hello Emanuele
The variable l_nbrcoh_dv is now part of the household questionnaire so will appear in the w_hhresp ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1891 (Resolved): l_nbrcoh_dv in wave 12 not found
I might be wrong, sorry, in case.
I cannot seem to find l_nbrcoh_dv in wave 12.
Thanks in advance for any hel...
Emanuele Fino
08:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1883 (Feedback): Periods for personal income - fimnlabgrs_dv & paygu_dv
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/11/2023

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890 (In Progress): Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
Dear Understanding Society team,
I am running a multilevel model using individuals nested within census areas (LSOAs...
Laurence Rowley-Abel
12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1888: Interpretation of 'trainany'
Hello Laura,
I have noticed that the table is not displaying properly. I have attached an Excel file containing t...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1888 (Feedback): Interpretation of 'trainany'
Hello Laura,
Sample members are interviewed every year as long as they continue to live in the UK and can be loca...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1888 (In Progress): Interpretation of 'trainany'
Hello Laura
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1889 (Feedback): Missing waves when merging UKHLS and BHPS datasets
Hello Neil,
Consider incorporating the "isvar" command in your code to identify defined variables when working wi...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/07/2023

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1889 (Resolved): Missing waves when merging UKHLS and BHPS datasets
Hi there,
I have merged the UKHLS and BHPS datasets for a few data variables which were used in both datasets and ...
Neil Smith

04/06/2023

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1888 (Resolved): Interpretation of 'trainany'
I wanted to clarify the interpretation of the variable 'trainany' in the annual event history module.
The variable...
Laura Jones
12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1887: Merging PEACH with core file
Dear Piotr,
Thanks for your quick reply! I have now deleted this version of PEACH and will use the new one upon it...
Gabriele Mari
11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1887 (Feedback): Merging PEACH with core file
Dear Gabriele,
We have identified a major issue with the data - a lot of pidps are incorrect. Please refrain from ...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/05/2023

03:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1887 (Resolved): Merging PEACH with core file
Hi,
I have been trying to merge the newly-released version of PEACH (2009-2021) to the core file (indresp, W1-W12...
Gabriele Mari
 

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