Understanding Society User Support

07/04/2024

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2127 (Feedback): Attrition rate for sub-sample of children

Good morning,
I am working on a project with the Welsh Government looking at the impact of childcare on children's... Julia Diniz

07/02/2024

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2126 (Feedback): merging data files

Hello,
I recommend checking our Introduction to Understanding Society Moodle course: https://open.essex.ac.uk/enro... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/01/2024

06:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2126 (Feedback): merging data files

Hello,
I am using R for my work, and I am trying to understand how to merge data files (indresp, hhresp, newborn) ... zhanel kapassova

11:58 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2125: UKHLS pooled OLS weights

Emma,
You aren't using multilevel model. Your set up is fine as it is, and you don't need to include pidp in this ... Olena Kaminska

06/28/2024

02:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2124: Household location information

Thank you Roberto for your helpful reply. Xiaolun Yu

09:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2124 (Feedback): Household location information

Dear Xiaolun,
UKHLS currently does not release postcodes. The list of available geographical identifiers can be fo... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2125: UKHLS pooled OLS weights

Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your response.
In regard to including pidp as a second level after psu in mul... Emma Kemp

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2125: UKHLS pooled OLS weights

Emma,
Thank you for your questions. The answers to all of your questions are yes. A few additional notes.
You don... Olena Kaminska

06/27/2024

08:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2125 (Feedback): UKHLS pooled OLS weights

Dear UKHLS team,
I am currently working on a study where I am looking at the impact of perceived neighbourhood so... Emma Kemp

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2124 (Resolved): Household location information

Hello,
Hope all is well. Could I ask a question on whether the location information (e.g., postcode grid reference... Xiaolun Yu

06/21/2024

01:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection

Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much for your feedback, this is now clear.
All the best,
Laura Laura L

10:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2123: Data on child disability

Hello Chiara,
The Pregnancy and Early Childhood (PEACH) data file is a comprehensive cross-wave file that consolid... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/19/2024

04:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2123: Data on child disability

Thank you, that is really helpful. But then, what is the difference between PEACH and the "self completion child deve... Chiara Guasti

03:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2123 (Feedback): Data on child disability

Hello Chiara,
There are some variables you might want to explore about children's health. Additionally, the varia... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2123 (Feedback): Data on child disability

Good morning.
I am a research assistant at Bocconi University in Italy and I am currently working on several proje... Chiara Guasti

09:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2121: Non-Binary Gender Controls

Thank you for the confirmation and information Piotr, it is most helpful.
Best wishes,
Damien. Damien Cassells

06/18/2024

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2119 (Feedback): Svy Commands and Fixed Effects Regressions

Hello Emma,
Given that two-level models, where the higher level corresponds to clusters in the sample design, are ... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/17/2024

04:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2122 (Resolved): W_hidp not available with variable w_seiss_reciept_dv

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04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2122: W_hidp not available with variable w_seiss_reciept_dv

I've found the issue and the code works now! Feel free to disregard the above Mhairi Webster

03:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2122 (Resolved): W_hidp not available with variable w_seiss_reciept_dv

Hello,
I have encountered a problem in Stata when using the w_hidp variable. I am currently merging household and... Mhairi Webster

06/14/2024

01:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2121 (Feedback): Non-Binary Gender Controls

Dear Damien,
The first time these questions were asked was in wave 12 so there is no earlier data. The questions a... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/13/2024

10:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2121 (Resolved): Non-Binary Gender Controls

Hi. I am researching the mental health of self employed people and I note that in wave 12 of the survey there is a v... Damien Cassells

06/12/2024

03:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2118 (Feedback): Geographical data linkage issue at LSOA11 level

Hello,
1) The number of entries in each geography file (LSOA 11 in this instance) should be the number of matches ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Amy,
Thank you. You have two options. You could either use one of our _lw weights which would be from the last wav... Olena Kaminska

12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Hi Olena,
Analysis is at the person level. We are looking at GHQ score over time in relation to arthritis dia... Amy Taylor

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Amy,
What is your level of analysis? Is it people? And diagnosis etc. are their attributes? Or are you analysing a... Olena Kaminska

06/11/2024

02:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Thanks Olena,
The population of interest is anyone with a new diagnosis of arthritis at some point between 2009 a... Amy Taylor

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Amy,
Thank you for your question. Read questions 14-16 here, which should help you choose the weight you need:
ht... Olena Kaminska

12:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2110: Weights invalid stset

Giovanni,
No, you can't use _xw weights split for just some of the samples as they are created to represent the po... Olena Kaminska

06/07/2024

04:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2118 (In Progress): Geographical data linkage issue at LSOA11 level

Dear Lex,
I can confirm that I can see the same discrepancies. I have contacted our geodata team to investigate.
... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2115 (In Progress): Help with weights for longitudinal analysis

Understanding Society User Support Team

03:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117 (Feedback): Household members in COVID-19 collection

Dear Laura,
For waves 1-2 of the Covid-19 survey linking this from the mainstage data (for different people the ne... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2120 (Feedback): Employment rates at country or county level

Dear Luis,
I am afraid we don't release such derived variables, except for the quintiles of the Index of Multiple ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2119 (In Progress): Svy Commands and Fixed Effects Regressions

Understanding Society User Support Team

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2116 (Feedback): How to select variables to create legacy benefit variables

Hello,
It is true that UKHLS data is very complex, due to the complexity of many areas of social life and people's... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2110: Weights invalid stset

Good morning Olena,
thank you very much. Since my panel is unbalanced, would it make sense to use the three availabl... Giovanni Greco

06/06/2024

05:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2120 (Feedback): Employment rates at country or county level

Dear members of the technical support staff of Understanding Society,
May I ask if, among the derived variables, t... Luis Ortiz

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2119 (Feedback): Svy Commands and Fixed Effects Regressions

Hi there,
I'm using UKHLS panel data for my MSc Behavioural Science dissertation in which I am trying to explore ... Emma Kemp

06/05/2024

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2118 (Feedback): Geographical data linkage issue at LSOA11 level

This issue is about linking understanding society at the LSOA11-level.
Question
Until wave k, the number of geo... Lex Krishnadath

09:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117 (Resolved): Household members in COVID-19 collection

Good morning,
I am trying to reconstruct the household members' relationships in the COVID-19 study. While the CO... Laura L