Understanding Society User Support

06/10/2023

03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1920: Create a Schooling years variable

Here is the code I have tried for query 2) using the xwavedat file but I still get only 1081 observations...
use x... Pauline Bucher

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1920: Create a Schooling years variable

Note: I am confused about a 3) thing
3)When recoding the -8 and -1 as misisng in wave 11 for both scend and feend,... Pauline Bucher

02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1920 (Resolved): Create a Schooling years variable

Hi team,
I need help with some Stata coding...I want to create a schooling years variable to get the number of yea... Pauline Bucher

02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1921 (Resolved): Non-Covid affected data

Hi team,
If I want the most recent data unaffected by Covid, what wave should I use? I started using 2019-2020 but... Pauline Bucher

06/09/2023

06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1919 (Resolved): Marital status (mastat_dv & marstat_dv)

Dear colleagues,
I'm wondering which of the derived variables of maritat status to use for my analysis.
When I ... Luis Ortiz

01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1918 (Resolved): Controlling for residence/county

Hi team,
I am looking to control for the region where respodents live/work at. I have found variables that allow t... Pauline Bucher

06/08/2023

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1917 (In Progress): DVLA Data: Untaxed vehicles

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

03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1916 (Feedback): xwavedat vs xwaveid

Hello Alexey,
Universe of xwavedat is all sample members who have ever been enumerated in any household in the BHP... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913 (Feedback): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

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01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Laura,
What you need is the weight of the parent individual full interview, like indinui_xw. Technically, you comb... Olena Kaminska

06/07/2023

07:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1917 (Resolved): DVLA Data: Untaxed vehicles

Hello
I would be greatful if anyone could explain this aspect of the DVLA dataset. I’m looking at the proportion o... Eduardo Fe

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1916 (Resolved): xwavedat vs xwaveid

Hello,
What is the difference in the universe between the xwavedat file (150,393 rows) and xwaveid file (128,036 r... Alexey Bessudnov

09:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1914: job title and descriptive information in the covid wave

Hello,
These variables were dropped due to some inconsistencies we had discovered. There is a plan to release them... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1912 (Feedback): Merging newborn and child data Waves 11 & 12

Hello,
w_child - that file is at the child level, there are two unique identifiers, pidp and the combination of w_... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/06/2023

04:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1914 (In Progress): job title and descriptive information in the covid wave

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

11:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1914 (In Progress): job title and descriptive information in the covid wave

To who it may concern,
I am currently using UKHLS covid wave 7,8,9 to conduct research. In the questionnaires, jbs... Shiyu Yuan

04:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1912 (In Progress): Merging newborn and child data Waves 11 & 12

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

03:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913 (In Progress): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

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

06/05/2023

05:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Dear US team,
My question is about weighting when carrying out analysis with infants (0-2).
I want to carry out... Laura Jones

04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1910: Information about NHS and purchase of private health isurance

Hi Piotr,
Thank you for your timely response.
Yeah I saw those variables but does private use equal private i... Rosemary Obi

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1910 (Feedback): Information about NHS and purchase of private health isurance

Hello,
I am assuming you are asking about the hlcvr question which has been discontinued in UKHLS. You can find so... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1910 (Resolved): Information about NHS and purchase of private health isurance

Hi,
I am conducting a longitudinal study on factors that predispose individuals to purchase private medical insura... Rosemary Obi

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1912 (Resolved): Merging newborn and child data Waves 11 & 12

Hello,
I am trying to look at breastfeeding data for waves 11 and 12, and note there is breastfeeding data in both k... Rehana Meeajan

06/02/2023

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1909 (Feedback): Cognitive ability

Hi Luis,
In addition to the raw data from this module a set of derived variables is included, you can find the lis... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1909 (Resolved): Cognitive ability

Dear colleagues,
I am a Sociologist at the DemoSoc Research Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) I'm currently doing r... Luis Ortiz

05/29/2023

05:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1908 (In Progress): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories

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

04:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905 (Resolved): Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

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05/26/2023

10:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1908 (Resolved): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories

Hello. I am studying differences in single/partnered parents. To do so, I am using the British Household Panel Survey... Natalia Carralero

05:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905: Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Hi Alita,
Thanks for this - all makes sense now!
Best
Rory
Understanding Society User Support Team wrote i... Rory Coulter

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907 (Feedback): Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

Hello,
if you are using only variables from Wave 12 indresp file (l_indresp) to compute the statistics then you ca... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907 (Resolved): Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

Hi there
So I'm using the indresp dataset and looking at adult respondents. My population is respondents who are c... Peter Humphreys

05/23/2023

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905 (Feedback): Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Thanks for highlighting this pattern.
First, I need to amend my answer above. The syntax of the Universe for helpb... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
Yes, I think you've done your best.
Olena Olena Kaminska

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1894 (Feedback): Weight for unbalanced and merged UKHLS and BHPS data

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11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1899 (Feedback): Household weights

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11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Hi Olena,
That's good to know - thanks! I am just using indresp, so adults.
Thank you so much for your on-going h... Laurence Rowley-Abel

05/22/2023

04:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Hi Olena,
Only 24 of the 330 people are TSMs. I've tried using issue weights from wave 2, but unfortunately, it le... Esme Lilly

02:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Esme,
First, check if 330 people are OSMs. If they are TSMs they should not have any weight. And yes, if you want,... Olena Kaminska

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

Hi Olena,
Thanks. I have done so using enumeration weights for my sample from the year they turn 25. However, now ... Esme Lilly

02:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model

Laurence,
It is possible for you to create psnenub_xd yourself. But first, could you tell me if you are using any ... Olena Kaminska

10:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905: Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Just a quick update - I'm wondering if this temporal trend is related to the broader patterning of inapplicable cases... Rory Coulter

09:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1905: Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions

Hi Alita,
Many thanks for looking into this so swiftly. I've rerun the code with your more restricted universe and... Rory Coulter

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