Understanding Society User Support

07/10/2023

03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1937 (Resolved): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyp

Hello,
My question is about the variable "dweltyp" in the hhsamp files.
- Why are so many households reported as ... Vikram Patil

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1936 (Resolved): Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity

Dear Support Team,
Hello! I am currently looking into the data on people's physical activity. I see that in waves ... Pengyu Li

07/07/2023

02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935 (Resolved): Missing data on MSOA codes

Hello,
I have been using the 2011 census LSOA and MSOA codes and the LAD codes from the Special License Access dat... Fiona Steele

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1934 (In Progress): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023

Dear Belinda,
I will check this with the data linkage team and get back to you.
Best wishes,
Piotr
UKHLS User... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1932 (In Progress): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2

Hi Laurence,
I can confirm that it is indeed not clear which, if any, variable corresponds to the carechange2 ques... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1928: Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)

Hi Alexander,
Yes, absolutely, you can take this information from the BHPS health questions, for some respondents ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1928: Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)

An additional question for respondents who have been interviewed before in one of the BHPS samples and are now being ... Alexander Labeit

07/06/2023

02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1934 (Resolved): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023

I am emailing to enquire about a forthcoming linked dataset mentioned on your website, namely “linked credit history ... Belinda Tracey

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1931 (Feedback): Child Birthweight

Hi Taiba,
The c_bwt, c_bwtlb, c_bwtoz, c_bwtk, c_bwtg5 are variables pertaining to child's birth weight, c_chdnbub... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1933 (Feedback): Linking individual data to mother's data in the BHPS

Hi Dipanwita,
You say that "the BHPS indresp datafiles only contain the harmonised PIDP, and not the PID that was ... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/05/2023

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1933 (Resolved): Linking individual data to mother's data in the BHPS

Hello,
I need to link individual level data on individuals aged 16-20 with their mother's data in the BHPS. My ori... Dipanwita Ghatak

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1932 (Resolved): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2

Dear UKHLS team,
In the telephone interview version of the second wave (May 2020) of the Covid study, the caring mod... Laurence Rowley-Abel

01:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1931 (Resolved): Child Birthweight

I am interested in looking at children's birthweight across the waves from 2010 and onwards. I have come across vario... Taiba Chaudhry

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