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From 03/27/2024 to 04/25/2024

04/25/2024

12:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092: Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Hello Sam

Here is the Income team feedback:

The interpretation of your first paragraph is exactly right ie. ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092: Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Thanks for this information Roberto.
Could I clarify what exactly you mean by estimating interest "based on a sta...
Sam Ray-Chaudhuri

04/24/2024

11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Ah, I see. That makes sense thanks. Albert Ward
11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
BHPS never provided self-completion weights, so we kept with that tradition. But sample size would be very small by n... Olena Kaminska

04/23/2024

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092: Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Hello Sam,

The income team is currently undertaking a significant review of the calculation of housing costs and ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092: Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Thank you for the fast response. That's helpful to know, but it would be good if you could ask the Income Team for fu... Sam Ray-Chaudhuri
03:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Thanks again. One final question: I thought I might need these weights: I_indsc91_lw and I_indsc01_lw, but it seems t... Albert Ward
02:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Albert,
So, all you mentioned in num4 message messages is correct, but if you use more than one wave you have to u...
Olena Kaminska

04/22/2024

02:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
That was worded poorly: what I meant was that, I assume that if I am matching variables from previous waves and then ... Albert Ward
11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2084 (Feedback): Linking NPD data with other special licence understanding society data
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2095 (Feedback): parent children variable
Hello Leo,
Consider exploring the variable "nchild_dv," which indicates the number of own children in the household,...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2094: Universe for macob/pacob in xwavedat
Hi Piotr,
That's great thanks!
Albert Ward

04/19/2024

05:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2094 (Feedback): Universe for macob/pacob in xwavedat
Hi Albert,
M/pacob are asked in the adult questionnaire, so the be biggest group in xwavedat for whom these are m...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2094 (Resolved): Universe for macob/pacob in xwavedat
Hi,
I'm just wondering why there are missing values for macob/pacob in the xwavedat file? Is there something I'm n...
Albert Ward
04:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2095 (Feedback): parent children variable
Hello,
I cannot seem to find a variable that simply states if the respondent has children (=is a parent) or not. I...
Leo Haentjes
01:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2093 (Feedback): voteeuref variable
Hi Felicity,
The reasons for the missing data you're observing are quite complex.
First, you need to check the w...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083: Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
Isabelle,
I suggest you start with wave 6 weight as it includes IEMB sample that has many immigrants and model fro...
Olena Kaminska
08:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083: Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
Hi Olena!
To my understanding, the multilevel model can handle missingness under the assumption that its missing a...
Isabelle Munier
11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2084: Linking NPD data with other special licence understanding society data
Hi Laura,
Below the answers from our data access expert:

1. You will need two applications. One for the Sec...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/18/2024

11:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2093 (Feedback): voteeuref variable
Hello,
For Wave 10,11 and 12, why does the variable "voteeuref" have such a high proportion of inapplicable and mi...
Felicity Leung
07:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090: Overcrowding measure in USoc
Hi Piotr,
This is very helpful, thank you!
Best wishes,
Michaela
Michaela Kyclova
07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090: Overcrowding measure in USoc
Hi Michaela,
Age and sex of all members of the household is recorded in in the indall file for each wave. You may ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090: Overcrowding measure in USoc
Dear Piotr,
Thanks so much for your response. In overcrowding measures, it is often needed to also know the exact ...
Michaela Kyclova
07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092 (Feedback): Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Hi Sam,
You can find some information on how this variable is derived in the Derived Income Variables section of t...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2092 (Feedback): Calculation of mortgage interest payments
Hello,
I am interested in working out mortgage interest payments of households with mortgages in USoc. I see there...
Sam Ray-Chaudhuri

04/17/2024

06:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090 (Feedback): Overcrowding measure in USoc
Dear Michaela,
There is no derived measure of overcrowding but you can try to create one yourself using the follow...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090 (Resolved): Overcrowding measure in USoc
Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering whether there are any resources/code available that would help me...
Michaela Kyclova
04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Sorry, a final question: with regards to cross-sectional weights, if I am matching questions BHPS wave 9 to a ukhls w... Albert Ward
04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Thanks for this! Yes, the earliest wave at least is BHPS wave 9. So the prefix is based on the final wave for longitu... Albert Ward
03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Albert,
Additionally, this can answer many of your questions:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Olena Kaminska
03:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2074: Longitudinal weights
Joe,
In any software, in including R, you would just need a function for running a logistic regression in order to...
Olena Kaminska
03:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2080: Repeated cross-sectional data weighting
Fran Reah,
Thank you for your question. Question 13 here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/upload...
Olena Kaminska
03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083: Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
Isabelle,
My understanding is that while your model allows for missingness, it does not correct for it. Is this ri...
Olena Kaminska
02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2088: Weights for longitudinal analysis with USOC and COVID-19 survey combined
Michael,
You can use wave 9 of the mainstage with any Covid data without additional adjustment. Once you want to u...
Olena Kaminska

04/16/2024

04:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2088 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal analysis with USOC and COVID-19 survey combined
Hi there,
I read a thread on weightings for longitudinal analysis of UKHLS (Support #925) on using the ub weightin...
Michael Francis
04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2087: Values coded as -20 in sex_dv
Thanks for such a swift, clear and reassuring answer, Piotr.
Best
Luis
Luis Ortiz
03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2087 (Feedback): Values coded as -20 in sex_dv
Hi Luis,
-20 is a missing value used only in xwavedat, it is assigned to the BHPS participants who didn't continue...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2087 (Resolved): Values coded as -20 in sex_dv
Dear colleague,
I have proceeded to re-run my do-files to add Wave 13 to my dataset for analysis, profiting from t...
Luis Ortiz

04/15/2024

07:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2086 (Feedback): Questions of Welsh proficiency
Hello,
You're correct, the plan is to next ask this module in wave 20, and then wave 30.
Best wishes,
UKHLS Us...
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2086 (In Progress): Questions of Welsh proficiency
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
11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2086 (Feedback): Questions of Welsh proficiency
Hi,
I was wondering whether there was a timescale for when the next questions of Welsh proficiency (e.g. wlsh1, wl...
Efan Hywel
07:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2084 (In Progress): Linking NPD data with other special licence understanding society data
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
04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2082: "Type of job" variables and how they relate to each other
Hi Laura,
I'm sorry, I forgot to answer this question! There was a plan to release these variables with the update...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/12/2024

01:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2082: "Type of job" variables and how they relate to each other
Hi Piotr,
Thank you very much for your answer. Just one last thing: are there any updates about the "type of job"...
Laura L

04/11/2024

01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2084 (Feedback): Linking NPD data with other special licence understanding society data
Dear support team,
I am writing an application for access to the linked NPD data. As well as the NPD variables we ...
Laura Jones
08:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083 (In Progress): Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
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
08:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078 (Feedback): Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Hi Albert,
We would need some more information to advise on the weight to use. For instance, you would need a more...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/10/2024

05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083 (Resolved): Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
Hello,
I am performing a multilevel growth curve model, using STATA:s mixed command, in which repeated measures o...
Isabelle Munier
11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2080 (Feedback): Repeated cross-sectional data weighting
Hello,
If you are using at least one self-completion variable in your analysis model then the correct weights are ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2082 (Feedback): "Type of job" variables and how they relate to each other
Hello Laura,
w_jbsoc10 will only be populated for individuals who have changed their job since we introduced codi...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/09/2024

07:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2081 (Feedback): Merging parents (or carer) information to youth data
Hello,
It looks like your analysis is at the youth level, so I'd suggest starting from the youth file and then:
...
Understanding Society User Support Team

04/08/2024

08:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2082 (Feedback): "Type of job" variables and how they relate to each other
Good morning,
I am looking at the variables related to job type in the Calendar Year 2020 dataset, specifically t...
Laura L

04/06/2024

06:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2081 (Feedback): Merging parents (or carer) information to youth data
Hi Understanding Society team,
I am studying the relationship between type of rental housing (ie private vs socia...
Lydia Sung

04/05/2024

05:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2079 (Feedback): what is the difference between ethn_dv_all and ethn_dv?
Hello Maya
Variables ending in “_all” are classified as part of the special licence version because they have a hi...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2079 (Feedback): what is the difference between ethn_dv_all and ethn_dv?
Hi
What is the difference between ethn_dv_all and ethn_dv? The descriptions seem very similar, but ethn_dv_all is ...
Maya Middleton-Welch
01:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2080 (Feedback): Repeated cross-sectional data weighting

Hi!
I am a third year student writing my dissertation and I was hoping for some guidance on weighting. I am usin...
Fran Reah

04/04/2024

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078 (In Progress): Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
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
11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2074: Longitudinal weights
I would also just like to ask if you would recommend any resources for coding tailored weights in R Studio?
Joe
Joe Mattock
09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2074: Longitudinal weights
Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for the response, all is clear on the data merging front.
I should clarify that...
Joe Mattock

03/29/2024

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078 (Resolved): Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
Hi,
I'm trying to choose a correct weight for some analysis I'm doing. I'm matching variables from the BHPS to wav...
Albert Ward

03/27/2024

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2077 (Feedback): Using income variables
Dear Mhairi,
Please use the latest 18th November 2023 available here: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalog...
Understanding Society User Support Team
 

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