Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 08/24/2023 to 09/22/2023
09/21/2023
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09:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1976 (In Progress): Combing specific variables from two waves for cross-sectional analysis
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
09/19/2023
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11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1975 (In Progress): Weights - Cross-sectional Analysis on LAD level
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
09/18/2023
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11:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1971 (Feedback): vote8 for waves 3 through 6
 - Dear Albert,
In wave 2 these questions were asked differently than it was done later in the study, that is, only i... - 
  
10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1965: citing the website
 - Dear Georgina,
In addition to our previous answer, we also encourage our users to cite the data itself. Depending on... - 
  
09:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1965 (Resolved): citing the website
 
09/17/2023
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05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1974 (Feedback): Other Arthritis and Other Cancer in j_hcondno* Variables
 - Hi Laurence,
I am sharing the FAQ for the health conditions questions which we hope will clarify this issue (speci... 
09/15/2023
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01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1972 (Feedback): Asking health conditions (hcond*) and first apperance
 - Dear Alexander,
1) the universe condition says ff_ivlolw <> 1 and ff_everint <> 1 which means that proxies from th... - 
  
09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1971 (In Progress): vote8 for waves 3 through 6
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
09/13/2023
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05:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1964 (Feedback): Universe for mglife and other home-ownership related questions
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01:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1972: Asking health conditions (hcond*) and first apperance
 - Dear Alexander,
Thank you for letting us know. Would you be able to include any syntax related to this issue? It w... - 
  
01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1973 (Feedback): Family matrix
 - Dear Alvertos,
Have you considered using the w_relationship_dv variable available in w_egoalt files? https://www.u... 
09/07/2023
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05:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1966 (Feedback): cross-sectional analysis
 - Dear Zahra,
Please check our pooling guidance and see if this answers your question. If it doesn't, we are happy to ... - 
  
03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1968 (Feedback): Is it possible to have access to the raw methylation data?
 - Dear Sanem,
I am afraid we do not make the raw dat files available to users.
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support - 
  
02:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1967 (Feedback): Derived OECD equivalience scale variable which matches scale used to calculate relative poverty
 - Dear Tom,
We follow the methodology and procedure proposed by the OECD for their OECD-modified scale: "This scale,... 
09/05/2023
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02:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1963: Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
 - Hi Richard,
I checked this with the team generating the LSOA files.
The process for each wave works on the bas... - 
  
09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1965: citing the website
 - Hi,
Please cite it as Understanding Society and follow the standard academic citation rules.
Best wishes,
UKHL... 
09/04/2023
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04:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1963: Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
 - Thank you. I'll investigate this further.
Best wishes,
Piotr - 
  
08:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1963: Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
 - Hi Richard,
Thank you for providing the information. Regarding 3), as hidp is a wave specific variable, I'd need t... - 
  
04:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1962 (Feedback): Early-wave proxy/inapplicables for the physical and mental health (sf / scsf) variables and sources for the derived scales (sf12mcs_dv)
 - Hi Thomas,
1) I am assuming you're asking about the scsf1 question. That is a function of the gradual increase of ... - 
  
03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1964: Universe for mglife and other home-ownership related questions
 - Hi Vikram, 
The issue arises because the Universe syntax doesn't match the text description of this Universe. For ... 
09/01/2023
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04:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1963 (In Progress): Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
 - Hi Richard,
Would you be able to provide some more details, please? To investigate this would be helpful to know:
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01:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1962 (In Progress): Early-wave proxy/inapplicables for the physical and mental health (sf / scsf) variables and sources for the derived scales (sf12mcs_dv)
 - Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
 
08/25/2023
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10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1956 (Resolved): Variable for Depression diagnosis by expert
 - The response can be found in issue #1957 Depression Diagnosis variable in BHPS.
 
08/24/2023
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06:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1961 (Feedback): Newly diagosed health conditions in UKHLS wave 10
 - Hello Alexander, 
For the continuing sample members variable hcondn identify newly diagnosed conditions for waves ... 
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