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From 12/26/2023 to 01/24/2024

01/24/2024

05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2038 (Feedback): Merging family level and individual level data
Hi Ted,
You can proceed in two steps:
1) linking the household level data to the individual level data for each...
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04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2039 (Feedback): Household identifier in Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Waves
Hello,
I am guessing you are referring to the values of these variables in the cw_indresp files. Indeed, in most c...
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09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2037 (Feedback): Weight variables for BHPS Youth Study
Hello,
As per the BHPS User guide you should use the ypwght (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/upl...
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01/22/2024

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2035 (Feedback): Inquiry on the Travel to work area special license data
Hello,
Do you mean the postcode of each household, or do you mean a list of all postcodes within each TTWA? If the...
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01/19/2024

05:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2033 (In Progress): Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit
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
05:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2031 (Feedback): Cross-Sectional Weighting Questions.
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05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2032 (Feedback): hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files
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05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2032: hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files
Dear Chris,
This happens in households in which there were some individual interviews completed (thus there is a h...
Understanding Society User Support Team

01/11/2024

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2027 (Feedback): jbft_dv variable
Hello Yuliya,
It should be the same variable you mentioned. The Study introduces an improvement in the employment-...
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01/10/2024

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2029 (Feedback): Missing wave 1 data for yphsc, yphsw, yphlf
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11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2029: Missing wave 1 data for yphsc, yphsw, yphlf
Hello Imogen,
The information you are looking for is not displayed on the website. We will add it as soon as possibl...
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09:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2027 (In Progress): jbft_dv variable
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

01/09/2024

10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2026: expenditure in UKHLS
Hello Jane,
Unfortunately, the UKHLS doesn’t have this type of questions. In addition to what you mentioned, ther...
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01/08/2024

04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1836: 2021 calendar data
Hello Matthias
We just want to let you know the release of the Calendar Year Dataset, 2021, as follows:
*SN 919...
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03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2025 (Feedback): expenditure in UKHLS
Hello Jane,
The response is provided on Issue #2026
Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User Su...
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03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2026 (Feedback): expenditure in UKHLS
Hello Jane,
Understanding Society asks questions about income and expenditure at the individual and household level,...
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11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2024: Death/dead in waves: dcsedfl_dv (Respondent reported as deceased) + dcsedw_dv (Wave respondent deceased) and value labels for waves
Hello Alexander
The data team is aware of this issue and will initiate the correction process.
Thank you for hi...
Understanding Society User Support Team

01/05/2024

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2024 (Feedback): Death/dead in waves: dcsedfl_dv (Respondent reported as deceased) + dcsedw_dv (Wave respondent deceased) and value labels for waves
Hello Alexander
Thank you for bringing this up. I’ll ask the data team if there is a reason for these labels and let...
Understanding Society User Support Team

01/04/2024

06:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2022 (Feedback): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent?
Hello Connor,
The response is provided on Issue #2023
Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User S...
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06:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2023 (Feedback): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent? Also how to count .00 as missing.
Hello Connor,
Are you using "indresp" file? The total number of observations you showed differs from the current r...
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09:21 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2019 (Feedback): Tailored Weighting Guidance
Hello Freya
Here is the reply regarding xtreg
I can’t tell for sure from the information provided, but this see...
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01/02/2024

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2010: BHPS and Understanding Society Dataset Query
Hello Joe
Here is the updated link
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/documentation/main-s...
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05:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2021 (Feedback): Question about gor_dv variable
Hello Kamil,
You're correct, there's no result when searching for gor_dv in the main Study. This might be due to the...
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04:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2020 (Feedback): Reasons for "-8 Inapplicable" response for life satisfaction variable "sclfsato"
Hello John,
Please review the universe/routing of the question, which is located at the end of each question/variabl...
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