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06/28/2023

03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1929 (Feedback): ISCO classification of occupations

Hello,
4-digit ISCO is available in the Special Licence version of the main UKHLS data file available here: https:... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/27/2023

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1928 (Feedback): Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)

Dear Alexander,
The definition of new entrants in the routing of the hcond questions is based on the following condi... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/25/2023

09:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1927 (Feedback): SF1 and SCSF1 variables

Hello Rowan,
Thanks for highlighting this. We are very sorry the variable note is not entirely correct. We will re... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/24/2023

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

Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
The car registration data was collected at W5 (2013-15) whi... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/23/2023

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

One more thing, if you are using at least one self-completion variable in your analysis model then the correct weight... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

For the example you have described, the correct weight is l_indinui_xw.
Due to staff time constraints, we only ad... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1926: Parent-reported variables

I see. What you are suggesting is correct.
These questions were asked only in the BHPS. Based on the questionnaire... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1926 (Feedback): Parent-reported variables

Hi Anna,
We provide some of this linking information so you don't need to do this yourself. In the w_indall files,... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/22/2023

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

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06/21/2023

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1924: Control for mother/father educ

Hi Pauline,
The majority of these new entrants will be youth turning 16 and thus becoming eligible for an adult in... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1925 (Feedback): Importing data to R - converting from wide to long error

Dear Matthew,
This is a user deposited file, I am afraid we do not provide assistance for these files. Please cont... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/19/2023

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1924 (Feedback): Control for mother/father educ

Hi Pauline,
It's best to link this information from xwavedat, use the maedqf and paedqf variables.
Best wishes,... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/16/2023

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1923 (Resolved): Utilising questions from UKLHS as national benchmarks in Wales

The question was answered over email. Understanding Society User Support Team

05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1922 (Feedback): Care Home

Hi Joshua,
To see if the household is in an institution, use dweltyp (hhsamp) for CAPI, and whether the respondent... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/14/2023

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1908 (Feedback): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories

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11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1921 (Feedback): Non-Covid affected data

When you don't weight our data your estimates will be biased in certain ways, please see the weighting section of the... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/13/2023

07:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1921 (In Progress): Non-Covid affected data

Hi,
In wave 10 there 145 respondents (j_indresp, count if j_ienddaty==2020 & j_ienddatm>=3) who completed their i... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1920: Create a Schooling years variable

Sorry, I missed your further posts.
Re 2, the advice is the same, the most efficient way is to link that informati... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1920 (Feedback): Create a Schooling years variable

Hi,
1) I am afraid I can't help you with this one, that depends on you research problem and we leave such decision... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1919 (Feedback): Marital status (mastat_dv & marstat_dv)

Hi Luis,
mastat_dv is more detailed and has slightly less missing values than marstat_dv. The reason behind is tha... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1918 (Feedback): Controlling for residence/county

Hello,
You need to apply for one of the geographical identifiers datasets. These datasets include only the househ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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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06/07/2023

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

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

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

06/02/2023

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