Understanding Society User Support

01/26/2024

08:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2040 (Feedback): Survey Weights

Understanding Society User Support Team

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2040: Survey Weights

Martha,
Thank you for your question. For answers have a look here, questions 13-17 are relevant to your question:
... Olena Kaminska

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2040 (In Progress): Survey Weights

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

02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2041: w_outcome in COVID-19 survey waves

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Dear Laura,
>
> I am not sure I understand what the ... Laura L

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2041 (Feedback): w_outcome in COVID-19 survey waves

Dear Laura,
I am not sure I understand what the problem is, could you elaborate please?
1) Which dataset are y... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2041 (Resolved): w_outcome in COVID-19 survey waves

In the cv_indresp dataset (COVID-19 survey), there are three variables (i_outcome, j_outcome, k_outcome) referring to... Laura L

01/25/2024

11:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2036: Understanding Society - weights

Valentina,
Thank you for your question. Have a look in this paper, questions 14-16 should be helpful:
https://www... Olena Kaminska

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2040 (Resolved): Survey Weights

Hi
I am conducting an analysis an dam struggling to determine the best weights to use and was hoping you could gi... Martha Tindall

01/24/2024

06:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2039: Household identifier in Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Waves

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
>
> I am guessing you are referring to the va... Laura L

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2039 (Resolved): Household identifier in Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Waves

I have a question about the use of the household identifiers (i_hidp, j_hidp, k_hidp) in the Understanding Society CO... Laura L

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2038 (Resolved): Merging family level and individual level data

Hi,
I am looking to create a panel data set using the main survey from Understanding society. Most variables I nee... Ted Porter

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/23/2024

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2037 (Resolved): Weight variables for BHPS Youth Study

Good morning,
I have downloaded the SPSS data files for *SN 6614*-Understanding Society: Waves 1-13, 2009-2022 and H... Imogen Cartwright

01/22/2024

12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2036 (Feedback): Understanding Society - weights

Good morning,
After reading the user guide and watch the short YouTube video, I am still confused on which are the... Valentina Di Iasio

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/20/2024

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2035 (Resolved): Inquiry on the Travel to work area special license data

Dear officer,
We wonder if data on postcodes of the travel to the work area are available.
Many thanks for you... Xinyu Tao

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.

Understanding Society User Support Team

05:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2032: hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files

Dear Piotr,
Thank you, that is a nice, easy explanation.
Best wishes,
Chris Chris Grollman

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2032 (Feedback): hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files

Understanding Society User Support Team

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

01/18/2024

08:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2033 (Resolved): Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit

Hi,
I notice that Understanding Society has a useful derived variable which splits households by their benefit uni... Thomas Stephens

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2031: Cross-Sectional Weighting Questions.

Dear Ifraz,
Thank you for your question.
I am not sure what your first two questions relate to, but please note ... Olena Kaminska

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2031 (Feedback): Cross-Sectional Weighting Questions.

Hi, I'm currently working on a cross-sectional study across waves to examine the proportion of children who live in c... Ifraz Hussain

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2032 (Resolved): hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files

Hi there,
I am taking values of _ficode_ from the *income* file, and want to attach them to the associated househ... Chris Grollman

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-... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/10/2024

11:19 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2029 (Feedback): Missing wave 1 data for yphsc, yphsw, yphlf

Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2029 (Resolved): Missing wave 1 data for yphsc, yphsw, yphlf

Good morning,
Hope you are well!
For the variables yphsc, yphsw and yphlf, data for Wave 1 is missing on the on... Imogen Cartwright

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

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2026: expenditure in UKHLS

Hi Roberto,
Thanks very much for this information. Much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Jane. Jane Fry

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/08/2024

06:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2027 (Resolved): jbft_dv variable

Dear Team Member,
There is a derived variable 'jbft_dv' to identify full or part-time employment. In the last 13th... Yuliya Tavares

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2026: expenditure in UKHLS

Dear Roberto,
thank you for this information. I see there are questions relating to food, alcohol and energy in th... Jane Fry

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,... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2026 (Resolved): expenditure in UKHLS

Hi,
I am new to Understanding Society/UKHLS but have used the Australian HILDA dataset, which is very similar. I gat... Jane Fry

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2025 (Resolved): expenditure in UKHLS

Hi,
I am new to Understanding Society/UKHLS but have used the Australian HILDA dataset, which is very similar. I gat... Jane Fry

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2024 (Resolved): Death/dead in waves: dcsedfl_dv (Respondent reported as deceased) + dcsedw_dv (Wave respondent deceased) and value labels for waves

Dear Understanding Society Team,
I want to use the information if a respondent has died in one of the waves. There... Alexander Labeit

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/03/2024

06:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1982: reference person weights

Yes, that's correct.
Olena Olena Kaminska

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1982: reference person weights

Thank you Olena for your helpful response. The representative person is defined as a head of a household, therefore t... Amelia Watts

12:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2019: Tailored Weighting Guidance

Freya,
Yes, this sounds correct. You would need _xw weights, not _lw weights if you are just pooling cross-section... Olena Kaminska

12:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2023 (Resolved): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent? Also how to count .00 as missing.

Hi there,
I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 d... Connor Drake

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2022 (Resolved): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent?

Hi there,
I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 d... Connor Drake

01/02/2024

08:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2019: Tailored Weighting Guidance

Hi Olena,
Thank you for your swift response.
I have pooled data from all 13 waves using the 'append' command.... Freya Buchanan

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2019: Tailored Weighting Guidance

Freya,
Thank you for your question. I am not sure you need a tailored weight for your analysis. It sounds like you... Olena Kaminska

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2012: longitudinal weight

Margherita,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you should use the longitudinal weight from the last wave in your an... Olena Kaminska

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1982: reference person weights

Amelia,
Depends on your definition. Is the 'representative person' represents whole households? Or do you want to ... Olena Kaminska

12/28/2023

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2021 (Resolved): Question about gor_dv variable

Hi,
For some reason I cannot see the gor_dv variable in the mainstage variable search, maybe I am going crazy but ... Kamil Kadziolka

11:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2020 (Resolved): Reasons for "-8 Inapplicable" response for life satisfaction variable "sclfsato"

Within the first 12 waves of the main survey, a total of 27,645 observations do not include data on overall life sati... John Poole