Understanding Society User Support

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

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1929 (Resolved): ISCO classification of occupations

I am wondering whether there exists also the full four digit version of ISCO(88 or 08) codes as the variable query on... Jesse Magin

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

06/26/2023

01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

You will need a longitudinal weight for your analysis if you are using information from more than 1 wave.
Olena Olena Kaminska

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1928 (Resolved): Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)

I'm interested in constructing health status and especially certain health conditions over time.
Therefore I have cr... Alexander Labeit

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

09:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1927 (Resolved): SF1 and SCSF1 variables

Dear sir or madam,
The variables SF1 and SCSF1, in the w_indresp files, are supposed to represent self-assessed h... C Rowan Marron

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

02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

I'm looking to estimate the probably that a survey respondent is classified as economically inactive in wave 12 based... Peter Humphreys

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

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1926: Parent-reported variables

Hi Alita/team,
Thanks for getting back to me. This information will be useful for me later on, but I'm not sure it... Anna Dearman

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

04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1926 (Resolved): Parent-reported variables

I would like to check whether I have merged some files correctly, please? My aim is to gather parent-reported variabl... Anna Dearman

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

06/20/2023

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1925 (Resolved): Importing data to R - converting from wide to long error

I've been trying to read in data (a stata file) in R, tidy and convert from wide to long format using the code shared... Matthew Clark

06/19/2023

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

ok, thank you so much Olena, this has been incredibly helpful.
all best,
Laura Laura Jones

12:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Laura,
Yes, good point. For a single parent household use the parent's weight (regardless of gender). But for both... Olena Kaminska

10:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1924: Control for mother/father educ

Yes but that info is not available for the wave 11 entrants no? It's only for people up until wave 6? Pauline Bucher

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

06/18/2023

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1924 (Resolved): Control for mother/father educ

Hi team,
In Wave 11 of the UKHLS- is there any variables to control for father/mother's education?
Thanks, Pauline Pauline Bucher

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

10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1923 (Resolved): Utilising questions from UKLHS as national benchmarks in Wales

I am a Research Fellow at Cardiff University working on a project funded by Healthy Working Wales (HWW) of Public Hea... Sara Long

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

06/15/2023

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Thanks Olena,
One final question - why do you suggest using the father's weight as opposed to the mother's? Since mo... Laura Jones

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

If both parents need to respond to a full personal interview, we don't have a weight for this combination. You could ... Olena Kaminska

06/14/2023

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

to clarify the above - children's eligibility depends on *both* of their parents incomes (assuming they live in a two... Laura Jones

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Thanks so much for your response Olena.
I am a little confused as to how that would work in practice given that many... Laura Jones

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

10:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1921: Non-Covid affected data

I am actually confused about the weights?
What is wrong/what happens if I use for example Wave 11's data only with... Pauline Bucher

09:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1922 (Resolved): Care Home

Understanding Society states, 'Sample is not selected from institutions such as care homes but if sample members move... Joshua Parry

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

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1908: Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories

Dear Natalia,
Thank you for your question. All the weights we provide are probability weights (pw in stata).
If y... Olena Kaminska

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