Understanding Society User Support

05/19/2023

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905 (In Progress): Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Hi Rory,
I have looked into this and found the same type of problem cases as you did. But after reading the univer... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905 (Resolved): Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Hi,
This question might be of general interest unless I've missed something really obvious...
I'm trying to use... Rory Coulter

02:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1902 (Feedback): weights individual files waves 10 -11 wide format

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02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903 (Feedback): Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

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01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Cross-sectional weight is a wrong one as a base weight, as we don't follow TSMs by design. You should use a ... Olena Kaminska

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Hi Olena,
Thanks. I have followed the online course, however the course could not provide me with the answers on h... Esme Lilly

12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Thank you for this clarification. You will need longitudinal weights. It may be best for you to create you o... Olena Kaminska

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904 (Feedback): Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

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12:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Richard,
What to do with item missingness completely depends on the subject you study and research question you ha... Olena Kaminska

05/17/2023

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Dear Olena,
Thanks for your swift response.
The population that I want to represent are people born 1975-1995.... Esme Lilly

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Thank you for your question. To answer it you would need to clarify the population that you want to represen... Olena Kaminska

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your quick reply and your ideas on what could be done.
Thank you for your suggestion ... Richard Belcher

01:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Richard,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, there may be some part of nonresponse unaccounted due to missing res... Olena Kaminska

10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1904 (Resolved): Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data

Dear Olena,
I am running a pooled cross sectional individual level analysis (waves 1-9), using cross-sectional wei... Richard Belcher

05/16/2023

08:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773: Gig Economy module

Hello Yuliya
Questions on wave 13 include the sharing economy. We used HMRC Sharing Economy report as a reference,... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1773: Gig Economy module

Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. It is extremely helpful.
May I ask what source and defi... Yuliya Tavares

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903 (Resolved): Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Hi, I am doing research into the role of education in intergenerational income mobility, and I had some questions on ... Esme Lilly

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Hello Laurence,
The variable you are looking for is psnenub_xd. You can locate it in the xwavedat file.
I hope... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/15/2023

03:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1902: weights individual files waves 10 -11 wide format

Dear Annaelena,
Thank you for your question. Here is information on our weights that may be helpful to you:
https... Olena Kaminska

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1902 (Resolved): weights individual files waves 10 -11 wide format

Hi,
I am trying to merge individual files across waves 10 and 11 into wide format to create a 2019 calendar year d... Aelen Valen

05/12/2023

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1900: People appearing in individual file but their household isn't in the household file

Great, thanks for the clarification! Imogen Farthing

12:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1900 (Feedback): People appearing in individual file but their household isn't in the household file

Dear Imogen,
Households who complete the household questionnaire are in the hhresp datafile. There are some cases ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1900 (Resolved): People appearing in individual file but their household isn't in the household file

Hello,
I'm looking at waves g to l. There are several instances where there are some individuals who are in the i... Imogen Farthing

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894: Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data

Yanan,
On tailored weights we have a online workshop for you: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training... Olena Kaminska

12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899: Household weights

Imogen,
Yes, this is definitely a possible option. In comparison over the years it is best to do it at an individu... Olena Kaminska

12:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Dear Olena,
Thanks for your reply. I wrote to UKDA about accessing previous releases of Understanding Society, as th... Laurence Rowley-Abel

11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Laurence,
Look in xwavedat.dta. But please for this look in wave 11 release (which is not the most recent). You sh... Olena Kaminska

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