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05/10/2023

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899 (In Progress): Household weights

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04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899: Household weights

Olena,
I'm wanting to see how the characteristics of these households (e.g. max personal income, average financial... Imogen Farthing

03:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899: Household weights

Imogen,
Thank you for your question. How do you define household longitudinally? What happens if someone moves out... Olena Kaminska

12:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899 (Resolved): Household weights

Hello.
I am using individual data which I have joined onto household data, by hidp for each wave then put all of t... Imogen Farthing

05:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773 (Feedback): Gig Economy module

Dear Yuliya,
When this question was designed it was based on the definition of gig economy relevant at that time a... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773 (In Progress): Gig Economy module

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

08:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1892 (Feedback): Question regarding longitudinal weights

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05/09/2023

05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773: Gig Economy module

Dear Team Member,
I have another Gig Economy module-related question. There is a question 'Thinking about the past... Yuliya Tavares

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Dear Olena,
Above you stated that "Wave 11 release will have ub design weight", however I am unable to find this wei... Laurence Rowley-Abel

05/05/2023

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1895: Parental leave histories

Thank you Piotr, this is very helpful
Emily Emily Humphreys

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

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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

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09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890 (Feedback): Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

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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

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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

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