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11/15/2023

02:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1993 (Resolved): Indall and hhresp

Am I right to understand that all of the variables in the study are in these two files (indall and hhresp)? And that ... Isaac Hance

01:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1990 (Feedback): urban_dv

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01:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1992 (Feedback): household income

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11/10/2023

11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1990: urban_dv

Dear Caroline,
We will consider updating the urban_dv variable using the newer 2011 classification. In the meantim... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1987: IP12 Blood and Hair Sample Particpation

Hello Jasmine,
After consulting with our experts, I learnt that participants who engaged either online or with an ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/09/2023

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1992: household income

Hello,
w_fihhmnnet1_dv+ is the net household monthly income. It is the sum of net monthly incomes from all househo... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/08/2023

08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1992 (Resolved): household income

Hello,
I'm using Understanding Society together with Eu SILC and I was wondering whether w_fihhmnnet1_dv+ (*12 mon... Aelen Valen

11/07/2023

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1991 (Feedback): request explanation for variable 'Njbsp' in BHPS

Hello,
Please see the note in the BHPS User Manual (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/dow... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1991: request explanation for variable 'Njbsp' in BHPS

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

01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1990: urban_dv

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

11/06/2023

10:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1991 (Resolved): request explanation for variable 'Njbsp' in BHPS

Dear officer,
I hope you are doing well.
I'm writing to request more explanation on a variable 'Njbsp' in BHPS.... Peijie Ju

10:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1990 (Resolved): urban_dv

Hi,
from the variable catalogue I can see that "urban_dv" is derived from the ONS Rural and Urban Classification ... Caroline Kienast von Einem

11/01/2023

01:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1987 (Feedback): IP12 Blood and Hair Sample Particpation

Hello Jasmine,
For both question routing, it's important to note that the mode is face-to-face, and the respondent... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1989 (Feedback): inapplicable ukborn

Hello Aelen,
May I know which wave you are referring to? In general, not every respondent is eligible for every qu... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1989 (Resolved): inapplicable ukborn

Hi, what does "inapplicable" suggest? Why there are 96.66% of inapplicable replies to "ukborn"? Thanks Aelen Valen

10/30/2023

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #571 (Resolved): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Alena - you have raised the same question in https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1988 and we have answere... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #571: routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hello,
I am trying to look at participants' start date of their current job. In the Wave 12 questionnaire, it look... Alena Oxenham

01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1987 (In Progress): IP12 Blood and Hair Sample Particpation

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01:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1986 (Feedback): Jbbgdat variable

Same as issue 1988, https://iserredex.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1988 Understanding Society User Support Team

01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1988 (Feedback): Jbbgdat variable

Hello,
If you look at the Universe below this question in the Wave 12 questionnaire you will see who gets asked th... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/27/2023

06:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1985 (Feedback): Representativeness of housing tenure (tenure_dv)

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08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1988 (Resolved): Jbbgdat variable

Hello,
I am trying to look at participants' start date of their current job. In the Wave 12 questionnaire, it look... Alena Oxenham

10/26/2023

03:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1985: Representativeness of housing tenure (tenure_dv)

Dear Eoghan,
Thank you for your question. I am not an expert in the field, but looking at the question for Census ... Olena Kaminska

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1985: Representativeness of housing tenure (tenure_dv)

Many thanks for your enquiry. We will look into this and get back to you.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User S... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable

Hi Matteo,
I'm really sorry we missed your follow-up. Yes, your description of our coding procedure sounds about r... Piotr Marzec

11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1987: IP12 Blood and Hair Sample Particpation

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

10/25/2023

05:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1987 (Resolved): IP12 Blood and Hair Sample Particpation

Hi,
I am trying to investigate the particpation in the hair sample and dried blood sample in IP12. I am using l_ha... Jasmine Mitchell

11:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1986 (Resolved): Jbbgdat variable

Hello,
I am trying to look at participants' start date of their current job. In the Wave 12 questionnaire, it loo... Alena Oxenham

10/24/2023

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1985 (Resolved): Representativeness of housing tenure (tenure_dv)

I am looking at wave 11 responses in the hhresp table for the breakdown of housing tenure (tenure_dv) at the househol... Eoghan O'Brien

09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1485 (Resolved): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level

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09:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1485 (In Progress): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level

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09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1487 (Resolved): Clarification on fuel expenditure

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09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1487 (In Progress): Clarification on fuel expenditure

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09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1705 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weighting of UKHLS Data in MLwiN

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09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1715 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

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09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1783 (Resolved): ff_jbsoc00 not available

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09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1794 (Resolved): Weights

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09:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1797 (Resolved): Child birth years/fertility histories

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09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1822 (Resolved): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators

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09:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1826: Socioeconomic status

Sorry for the late reply Sadiya - currently we only provide syntax code for derived variables in Stata.
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09:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1830 (Resolved): Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)

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09:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1891 (Resolved): l_nbrcoh_dv in wave 12 not found

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09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1895 (Resolved): Parental leave histories

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09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1900 (Resolved): People appearing in individual file but their household isn't in the household file

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09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1903 (Resolved): Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis

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09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1907 (Resolved): Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents

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09:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1932 (Resolved): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2

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09:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1936 (Resolved): Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity

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09:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1935 (Resolved): Missing data on MSOA codes

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10/19/2023

02:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1963 (Feedback): Missing LSOA for hidp across waves

Hello Richard,
We have removed the pidps from your earlier post, and also we had not made this post public.
We ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/17/2023

02:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1982 (Feedback): reference person weights

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02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1979: Using UKHLS for financial year poverty rates

We have heard back from the income team. Their response:
You could use the datafile “income.dta” to see who report... Understanding Society User Support Team