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From 07/05/2023 to 08/03/2023
08/03/2023
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05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949: Merging two datasets
 - Hi Taiba,
The step 1 is fine, you correctly linked the hhresp to indresp. However, as you are using indresp which ... - 
  
02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949: Merging two datasets
 - Thank you for getting back to me. I have done a few steps so far.
I merged the individual and household data files... - 
  
01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949 (Feedback): Merging two datasets
 - This happens because these are individual level files, a lot of individuals live together in the same household there...
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01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949: Merging two datasets
 - I am using Stata
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12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949: Merging two datasets
 - Hi Taiba,
Which statistical package do you use?
Best wishes,
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11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949: Merging two datasets
 - I am trying to look at parental income and children health. By merging the two datasets I can see the children within...
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11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1949 (Resolved): Merging two datasets
 - Hi, I am currently trying to merge g.indresp and g.youth together. I have tried using the household identifier g.hidp...
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09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1945 (Feedback): Using the individual questionnaire
 - Hi Joshua,
You should use all individuals in the household.
Best wishes,
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09:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1947 (Feedback): Information on pooled data
 - Dear Rosemary,
Please see "Pooling data from different waves for cross-sectional analysis" section in the user gui... - 
  
06:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1947 (Resolved): Information on pooled data
 - Hi,
can I kindly request for information on pooled data.
Kind regards
Rosemary - 
  
09:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1948 (In Progress): variables in secure data
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1948 (Resolved): variables in secure data
 - I just wanted to understand in advance whether the USoC dataset that we are hoping to gain access to will have an ind...
 
08/01/2023
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01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1945 (Resolved): Using the individual questionnaire
 - When doing analysis at the individual level. Is it valid to do research using multiple members of the same household ...
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10:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1944 (Feedback): Sample size in regressions
 - Dear Michael,
If I understand your question right, this happens because each additional variable added to your mod... 
07/27/2023
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02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1688 (Resolved): Linkage Query
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02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1699 (Resolved): BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight
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02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1700 (Resolved): Interview timing
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02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1696 (Resolved): random effects logistic regression models and weighting
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02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1676 (Resolved): Youth self-esteem measure
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02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1693 (Resolved): household data
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02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1689 (Resolved): Matching Spouses data across waves
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02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1667 (Resolved): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response
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02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1687 (Resolved): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w
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02:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1631 (Resolved): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
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02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1657 (Resolved): Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds
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02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1654 (Resolved): Looking for motherhood status variables
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02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1647 (Resolved): Filter issues of "vote7"
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02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1648 (Resolved): Help with linking data across two waves
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02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1645 (Resolved): How to Deal with Missingness in Health Variables Over Time
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02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1643 (Resolved): Employment history for different samples
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02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1637 (Resolved): Religion in Covid survey
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02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1638 (Resolved): w_fimnlabnet_dv
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02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1640 (Resolved): Onward Social Fabric Index and Understanding Society Wave
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02:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1636 (Resolved): Empstat wave 5
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02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1635 (Resolved): Scotland – all UKLHS participants who completed secondary education in Scotland?
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02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1633 (Resolved): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire
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02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1626 (Resolved): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ
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02:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1629 (Resolved): Merging Variable vote_7
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02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1769 (Resolved): missing values after merging household and individual dataset
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11:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1944 (Resolved): Sample size in regressions
 - Hi Alita,
I'm running Nested OLS regressions to examine the social class pay gap for each wave of data (I am using... - 
  
09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1943 (Resolved): Weights
 - I am messaging with a question regarding weights. I am using data from the indresp files from waves 1 to 9 of the UKH...
 
07/25/2023
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04:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1941 (In Progress): Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data
 - Dear Thomas,
1) I can confirm that wave 6 looks odd, I will investigate this further.
2) I checked the long term ... 
07/24/2023
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05:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1942 (In Progress): Bornuk_dv missing data
 - Hi Luis,
Before I can investigate this further, could you please provide a few more details: the name of the varia... 
07/19/2023
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02:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1942 (In Progress): Bornuk_dv missing data
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I have observed that the derived variable "Born in UK" reports a substantial number (8.61% of obs... - 
  
12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1941 (Resolved): Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data
 - Good afternoon,
I have a query about some of the pensions data in Understanding Society.
Specifically, I have ... 
07/14/2023
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03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1936: Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity
 - Dear Piotr,
Your answer is incredibly helpful.
Thank you very much for your kind help and support.
Best Wish... 
07/13/2023
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06:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935: Missing data on MSOA codes
 - Thanks, Piotr.  That's very helpful.
Best wishes,
Fiona - 
  
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... - 
  
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... - 
  
12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1939 (Resolved): Data availability
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I am looking for data relating to the motor development of children who are either in foster care or have experi... 
07/12/2023
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03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1937 (Feedback): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyp
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1) this was due to online interviewing being introduced in wave 7, in the web only households this informat... - 
  
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... - 
  
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... - 
  
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...
 
07/10/2023
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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 ... - 
  
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 ... 
07/07/2023
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02:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935 (Resolved): Missing data on MSOA codes
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I have been using the 2011 census LSOA and MSOA codes and the LAD codes from the Special License Access dat... - 
  
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
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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 ... - 
  
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 ...
 
07/06/2023
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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 ...
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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 ... 
07/05/2023
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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... - 
  
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... - 
  
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...
 
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