Understanding Society User Support

07/13/2023

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1939 (Feedback): Data availability

Dear Ali,
You can see if a child has a foster parent using the relationship_dv variable from the egoalt datafile a... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935 (Feedback): Missing data on MSOA codes

Dear Fiona,
You are right about the high number of -9 for MSOA11. We checked this and it seems that for MSOA11 for... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/12/2023

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1937 (Feedback): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyp

Hello,
1) this was due to online interviewing being introduced in wave 7, in the web only households this informat... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1936 (Feedback): Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity

Hello,
The high number of missing values on the variables you listed is expected as these were asked only when the... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1934 (Feedback): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023

Dear Belinda,
Please contact Dr Jack Kneeshaw (kneejw@essex.ac.uk) who can share a draft of the user guide for thi... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935 (In Progress): Missing data on MSOA codes

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

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... 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

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... 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

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