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09/27/2024

01:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Emma,
Yes, your understanding is correct. In your situation first create a dataset for each year, and then rescale... Olena Kaminska

09/25/2024

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Hi Olena,
I am just working on the weights for pooled analysis by years. When looking at the explanation in Q14 o... Emma Maun

02:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for the clarification of weighting for years and for the detailed information on cap... Emma Maun

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Emma,
What you should do is create a dataset where you combined months 1-12 from wave x with months 13-24 from wav... Olena Kaminska

09/24/2024

04:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Hi Olena,
Thank you for your response. The reason for pooling waves but using calendar years is that one of my re... Emma Maun

08:38 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2156 (Feedback): Gig economy job (wave 13)

Hello,
One fourth of workers (3217 out of 13010 respondents) reported in wave 13 that they are engaged in the gig... Darja Reuschke

09/23/2024

04:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2155 (Feedback): Inquiry Regarding Self-Control and Related Variables

Dear Understanding Society Team,
I hope this message finds you well. My name is Shutian Liu, and I am a PhD studen... Shutian Liu

09/20/2024

06:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Hello Sen,
You are correct, some enumerated respondents are not in xhhrel. The specific case you mentioned was fir... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154: Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Emma,
Thank you for your question. If you use pooled analysis pooling all the waves between wave 9 and 12, why are... Olena Kaminska

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154 (In Progress): Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

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09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2152 (Feedback): Does access require EU-US data bridge?

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09/19/2024

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2154 (Resolved): Scaling weights for pooled calendar year analysis

Hello,
I have pooled data from waves 9 to 12 and am carrying out pooled cross-sectional analysis on people who su... Emma Maun

02:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2153 (Feedback): Household composition BHPS

Hello,
Such a variable is not avaiable but you can construct this variable using the "w_indall" files (w = a b c..... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:41 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2153 (Feedback): Household composition BHPS

Dear Sir, Madam
Using the BHPS I would like to find out the exact composition of a household. More specifically, I... Oscar Frison

09/18/2024

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-5:
> Hello Sen,
>
> I reviewed the pidp you mentioned in... Sen Li

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Hello Sen,

I reviewed the pidp you mentioned in xhhrel file, and there is no indication that the respondent has a b... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/17/2024

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2136 (Feedback): Weights for multiple imputation in Mplus

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05:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2152 (In Progress): Does access require EU-US data bridge?

If you want to access Understanding Society EUL data, please refer to the data access conditions at the UKDS website.... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2143 (Feedback): Weights

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04:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2141 (Feedback): Time-varying weights within the same ID

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03:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-3:
> Hello Sen,
>
> To determine to whom the variables "m... Sen Li

09/16/2024

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2145: Inapplicable values in family relationship variables

Hello Kuoshi,
Thank you for sharing your code, I believe you are correct. I did a similar exercise using the file ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/15/2024

12:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2152 (Feedback): Does access require EU-US data bridge?

Hi! I would love access to the individual level data for my PhD research. Does acces require that my university be un... Kara Liu

09/13/2024

04:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2145: Inapplicable values in family relationship variables

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello Kuoshi
>
> Are you using Stata to process your... Kuoshi Hu

09/12/2024

11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Hello Sen,
To determine to whom the variables "mafar" and "pafar" are asked, it is necessary to review the questio... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/11/2024

08:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2149 (In Progress): Age of entry into parenthood

Hello Luis,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. After running the analysis, I found the issue occurs in ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147: UKHLS variable explanations

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello Sen
>
> The question "lvrel" is coded as "sele... Sen Li

09:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2148 (Feedback): link children's birth year and month with parents

Hello Eve,
I recommend reviewing section "4.2: Using xhhrel to match sample member information with specific rela... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/10/2024

09:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147 (Feedback): UKHLS variable explanations

Hello Sen
The question "lvrel" is coded as "select all that apply" turning to variables lvrel1 to lvrel10 and lvre... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2147 (Feedback): UKHLS variable explanations

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am currently working on a project based on Understanding Society, in which “Lvr... Sen Li

06:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2145 (Feedback): Inapplicable values in family relationship variables

Hello Kuoshi
Are you using Stata to process your data? If so, could you share your code so I can follow along and ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2146 (Feedback): jbterm2 clarification

Hello Kat
Unfortunately, we do not have any further information on what this response option means. There is no fo... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2146 (In Progress): jbterm2 clarification

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

04:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2148: link children's birth year and month with parents

I think I have figure it out by using "rename pidp bcx_pidp_1" in "xwavedat_protect", and then
using "xhhrel_prot... Eve Liu

03:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2148 (Feedback): link children's birth year and month with parents

Dear staff from Understanding Society,
I am currently doing a research which requires to link the parents and chil... Eve Liu

03:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2149 (In Progress): Age of entry into parenthood

Dear colleagues,
I intend to generate a variable that captures the age at which individuals enter into parenthood.... Luis Ortiz

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2144 (Feedback): Creation of a unique calendar year for which information has been collected for a person*year dataset?

Hello Remigiusz
This process is not entirely straightforward. For instance, due to overlapping interviews, you wil... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/09/2024

12:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2146 (Feedback): jbterm2 clarification

Dear Understanding Society team,
I’m doing research on temporary work using Understanding Society. In the survey, ... Kat R

09/06/2024

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2145 (Feedback): Inapplicable values in family relationship variables

Dear Support Team,
Hi! I am investigating variables about the intergenerational relationship between adult and their... Kuoshi Hu

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2136: Weights for multiple imputation in Mplus

Ivelina,
It's likely that you won't be able to include all the variables used in our weighting model as there are ... Olena Kaminska

09:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2144 (Feedback): Creation of a unique calendar year for which information has been collected for a person*year dataset?

Creation of a unique calendar year for which information has been collected for a person*year dataset?
Hi. Could y... Remigiusz Żulicki

09/05/2024

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131: i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases

Hi Roberto
Many thanks for looking into this - that's really useful information and I will follow you strategy you... Rachel Bennett

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131: i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases

Hi Rachel,
We have conducted an internal investigation to identify any patterns behind this error but have not fou... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2143: Weights

Césarine,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you should weight our data for your purpose, it is really crucial for ... Olena Kaminska

10:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2143 (In Progress): 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

09:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2143 (Feedback): Weights

Hi,
I am contacting you as I have a question regarding the use of weights. I would like to provide representativen... Césarine Boinet

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2141: Time-varying weights within the same ID

Lydia,
Thank you for your question. Survival analysis takes care of the attrition and needs only initial (wave 1) ... Olena Kaminska

12:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2142 (Feedback): query about mental health measures

Hello Foteini,
There are several variables related to mental health in the dataset, such as hcond, mhcond, etc. Ad... Understanding Society User Support Team

09/03/2024

01:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2142 (Feedback): query about mental health measures

I am new to the study and trying to familiarise with available measures. I am particularly interested in mental healt... Foteini Tseliou

09/02/2024

09:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131: i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases

Hi Piotr,
Is it possible to provide a timescale for this? I have some analysis due by the end of this week which ... Rachel Bennett