Activity
From 04/04/2024 to 05/03/2024
05/03/2024
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07:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2102 (Feedback): Partnership
- Hello Michael,
UKHLS has recently released a partnership history file, which includes details about the start and... -
05:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2102 (Feedback): Partnership
- Hi, I'm doing some analysis on partnerships using the USOC data and I had a couple of questions I was hoping you coul...
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04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2006: Longitudinal analysis using calendar year?
- Massive thanks for all of your help! The materials you sent me appear to be very useful and will read them in detail....
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03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2006: Longitudinal analysis using calendar year?
- Marina,
Yes, it is usually 3 waves to create one calendar year. Read more here: question 13 https://www.understand... -
03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2006: Longitudinal analysis using calendar year?
- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your very useful reply. May I ask two follow-up questions:
1) I was under the impress... -
02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2101 (Feedback): Time variant and invariant variables using general UKHLS and Covid-19 survey
- Hello Michael
Our remit is to address questions related to the survey, its details, and the datasets including dat... -
11:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2101 (Feedback): Time variant and invariant variables using general UKHLS and Covid-19 survey
- Hi there,
I was wondering if you could provide some advice about how to treat the Covid-19 survey variables in co...
05/01/2024
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11:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2097 (Feedback): Variable availablility
- Hello Lisa
The Study only includes variable "unisub1 - most preferred subject at university" for respondents aged 16... -
10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2100 (Feedback): Rural local authority data
- Hello Pat
Understanding Society can be linked to geographical data. The Study provides a range of geographical ident...
04/30/2024
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11:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2100 (Feedback): Rural local authority data
- Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope this email finds you well.
First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Pa... -
12:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2099 (Feedback): Merging household info to individual data
- Hello Marina
Some households completed enumeration and at least one individual interview but did not respond to th...
04/29/2024
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06:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2099 (Feedback): Merging household info to individual data
- Hello,
I wish to perform some longitudinal analysis and I aim to append waves 9-13 from UKHLS. Before appending th... -
03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2098 (Feedback): Help with weighting
- Hello Mel
You are correct on both weights you need for your analysis. The identifier “ub” changes to “ui” from Wave ... -
02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2098 (Feedback): Help with weighting
- Hi, I would like to check whether I have understood the weighting guidance correctly. Firstly, I am using individual ...
04/26/2024
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05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2097 (In Progress): Variable availablility
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2097 (Feedback): Variable availablility
- Can you confirm if it is possible to get the subject/programme of degree studied for people with a degree in the Unde...
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12:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2096 (Feedback): hhincome variable in covid wave
- Hello Shiyu
I recommend reviewing the "UKHLS COVID-19 user guide":https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta... -
10:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2096 (Feedback): hhincome variable in covid wave
- Hi there,
I am currently using both the main survey and the covid 19 wave to conduct some analysis, and I would like...
04/25/2024
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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. ... -
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...
04/24/2024
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11:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
- Ah, I see. That makes sense thanks.
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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...
04/23/2024
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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 ... -
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...
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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...
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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...
04/22/2024
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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 ...
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11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2084 (Feedback): Linking NPD data with other special licence understanding society data
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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,... -
11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2094: Universe for macob/pacob in xwavedat
- Hi Piotr,
That's great thanks!
04/19/2024
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
04/18/2024
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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... -
07:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2090: Overcrowding measure in USoc
- Hi Piotr,
This is very helpful, thank you!
Best wishes,
Michaela -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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... -
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...
04/17/2024
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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... -
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... -
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...
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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...
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
04/16/2024
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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 -
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... -
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...
04/15/2024
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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... -
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...
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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... -
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...
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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...
04/12/2024
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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"...
04/11/2024
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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 ... -
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...
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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...
04/10/2024
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05:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2083 (In Progress): 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... -
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 ... -
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...
04/09/2024
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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:
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04/08/2024
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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...
04/06/2024
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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...
04/05/2024
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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... -
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 ... -
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...
04/04/2024
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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...
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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 -
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...
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