Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 06/12/2023 to 07/11/2023
07/07/2023
- 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... - 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... - 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 ...
07/06/2023
- 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... - 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 ...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
- 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... - 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... - 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,...
06/22/2023
- 11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
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... - 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...
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,...
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.
- 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...
06/14/2023
- 12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1908 (Feedback): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories
- 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...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
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