Activity
From 09/23/2024 to 10/22/2024
10/21/2024
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02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2165 (Feedback): Inconsistency between dvage and birthy
- Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
I hope this message finds you well.
I have noticed a few cases where *...
10/19/2024
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12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2164 (Feedback): Merging w_hhresp and w_indresp vars as a function of PNO
- Hello,
Apologies if this is already covered but I haven't been able to find it in the FAQs and user guide. I am lo...
10/18/2024
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08:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2163 (Feedback): Variables question
- Hello Jolly,
I recommend using the “Mainstage Variables search” tool (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/docu...
10/17/2024
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12:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2160: create a tailored weight
- Shiyu,
Couples are a bit complicated entity to study, but here are a few suggestions.
UKHLS represents people l...
10/16/2024
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11:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2163 (Feedback): Variables question
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I am going to conduct a *longitudinal study about "being single is happy"*
So could you please advice which vari... -
- Hello Jolly,
The Study has a question “ypsbfgf - Do you have a steady boyfriend or girlfriend?” that is only aske... -
- Hi
I am interested in details of the romantic relationship status.
Is the participant dating someone? having a stab... -
12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2160: create a tailored weight
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your help!
I just wanted to double-check a couple of things after following y...
10/15/2024
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- Georgina,
Don't use design weights - these will ignore nonresponse completely.
Yes, you can pool. Read about it h...
10/14/2024
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05:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2161: weights query
- *slight amendment to my previous message:
> Hi Olena,
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> Thank you for this. I don't think I explained my rese... -
- Hi Olena,
Thank you for this. I don't think I explained my research design very well so I wanted to give a bit mor... -
- Georgina,
Thank you for your question. If you use information from a later adult interview, it would be best to us... -
- Shiyu,
Yes, this sounds correct.
Olena
10/12/2024
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- Hi Olena,
Thank you for the help. It is very helpful.
I would like to double-check, in this case, am I correct in c...
10/11/2024
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- Hello,
I am looking at weights for my research project. My research follows participants from age 11 through to ea... -
- Shiyu,
Thank you for your question.
1. For base weight it is best to use the first wave in your analysis, wave b... -
- Hello Irene,
There are a couple of approaches you could consider. For example, if you are looking to find the num... -
- Hello Rehana,
You are correct merging by j_hidp and j_rapno8 is the right approach. In the j_child file, the varia...
10/10/2024
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- Hi there,
I am currently working on creating a tailored weight for my unbalanced panel dataset, following the guid... -
- Hello Joe
The order of the questionnaire modules can be found in the questionnaire section at https://www.understa...
10/09/2024
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02:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2159: Order of mainstage interview and self-completion interview
- Thanks Roberto. This is helpful.
Would it therefore be correct to say that in waves 3 onwards, the questions in th... -
- Hello Joe,
Youth self-completion questionnaires are the only ones that may be left behind in cases where the youn...
10/08/2024
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- Hi,
According to the documentation, the study aims to complete the self-completion questionnaire in the same meeti...
10/03/2024
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08:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2157: Merging x_indresp and x_child, then merging across waves
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
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> The individuals in the files j_child are ... -
- Hello,
The individuals in the files j_child are hh members 0-15 year olds. Those in j_indresp are adult respondent... -
- Thank you for your email.
We aim to respond to simple queries within 48 hours and more complex issues within 7 wo... -
- Hello,
Thank you for your questions.
We have passed on your first question about the interpretation of question...
10/02/2024
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02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2158 (Feedback): Number of biological children ever had
- Hello, I am looking for a variable (or alternatively for some help building it), which expresses the number of biolog...
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- Hi,
(Using R)
I'm trying to merge variables from j_child and j_indresp, which I'm able to do using j_hidp - creatin... -
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- Yes, these variables are in the dataset. If you go to our interactive variable search page: https://www.understanding...
09/27/2024
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- Emma,
Yes, your understanding is correct. In your situation first create a dataset for each year, and then rescale...
09/25/2024
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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... -
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for the clarification of weighting for years and for the detailed information on cap... -
- Emma,
What you should do is create a dataset where you combined months 1-12 from wave x with months 13-24 from wav...
09/24/2024
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- Hi Olena,
Thank you for your response. The reason for pooling waves but using calendar years is that one of my re... -
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...
09/23/2024
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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...
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