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03/25/2025

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (Feedback): Help needed with individual variable weighting

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05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2230 (Feedback): Having difficulty to create Tailored weight

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05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2228 (Feedback): Assistance with Extracting Variables from income.dta

Dear Chiara,
I'm guessing this could be because in the income file each row does NOT correspond to a single respon... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2229 (Feedback): jbnssec8_dv

Hi Michael,
Please see the attached file for creating the NS-SEC variables. To quickly get some examples, you can ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/20/2025

02:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (In Progress): Help needed with individual variable weighting

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03/18/2025

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226 (Feedback): svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
Looking at the questionnaire (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/documentation/main... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/14/2025

10:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi
As I mentioned in my initial reply, to verify the universe/routing specified for the variable,
!clip... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi
The variable helpybuy is asked if the house is owned (outright, mortgaged, or shared ownership) at the... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2225 (Feedback): SF-12 missingness wave 2

Hello Verena,
In Wave 2, an unusually high number of "Don't know" responses were recorded for the question items ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Hello Mark,
The released variables follow the structure presented in the survey questionnaire. You can refer to t... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223 (Feedback): Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

Hello Shuqi,
The variable npns_dv accounts not only for biological parents but also for step and adoptive parents.... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/13/2025

11:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224 (Feedback): SF12 coding

Hello Mark,
The response options for four items (scsf1, scsf5, scsf6a, scsf6b) are reverse-coded so that higher v... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222 (Feedback): Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

Hello Jakub,

It will depend on the type of analysis you’re conducting. Some variables and information are only av... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2221 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weights for Ethnicity Representation across the 13 waves of the UKHLS

Hello Sebastian
The best way to determine which weight to use is by following the advice in the “Selecting the Cor... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/07/2025

08:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216 (Feedback): Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Hello Shuqi,
The reason for the difference is that the released data combine ff_hsownd and hsownd into hsownd, whe... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/06/2025

05:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2220 (Feedback): Dealing with the changing numbers of health conditions

Hello Isaac,
I’m attaching a brief guide about health conditions variables. From Wave 10 onwards, questions were ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218: DWP and HMRC data

Hello David,
You may find the US Geographical Lookup Tables useful for identifying the corresponding matches betwe... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hello Verena,
In BHPS Wave 11, a substantial new sample was added in Northern Ireland through the Northern Ireland... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/05/2025

08:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2202 (Feedback): Weight Selection

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08:17 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2219 (Feedback): Household identifier in hhresp datafiles

Hello Milad,
There won’t be a direct match because the household identifier (hidp) is only unique within each wav... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2218 (Feedback): DWP and HMRC data

Hello David,
The Study includes several variables related to "travel to work." For example: jsmainwktrv – Main mo... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213: Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hello Verena,
I’m attaching the syntax file for anychild_dv. This file creates ch1bm_dv and ch1by_dv month and ye... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/04/2025

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2217 (Feedback): Applying for both Special License and Secure Access (SA)?

Hi Eleanor,
Our recommendation is to apply for access to the Secure Access dataset (SN 6676) through the UK Data S... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/02/2025

07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2214 (Feedback): Controlling for Non-Random Attrition Bias with Weights

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07:26 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215 (In Progress): PSU, Strata

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07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2217 (In Progress): Applying for both Special License and Secure Access (SA)?

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

07:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212: Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
You're welcome!
Best wishes,
Piotr Understanding Society User Support Team

07:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216 (In Progress): Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

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

02/25/2025

05:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection

Hi Laura,
In principle, the Calendar Year datasets are derived from the mainstage data, so you shouldn’t expect an... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/24/2025

04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2204 (Resolved): test (genetics)

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04:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213 (Feedback): Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

Hi Verena,
The universe shown in the variable search applies only to the most recent wave, i.e., wave 14 at the m... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2210 (Feedback): Inquiry: Availability of 2010 IMD Quintile Data

Hi Gabriel,
We had to decide on which LSOA to use for the IMDs and we settled on LSOA2011 as that covered the IMDs... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211 (Feedback): Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

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03:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211: Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

Hi Kimberly,
I just wanted to let you know that the updated version of the Marital and Cohabitation Histories will... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212 (Feedback): Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

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02:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2212: Children listed as HRPs in Wave 13

Hi Dan,
I've checked this, and you're right—the HRPID variable is incorrect in some waves. Before we have a chance... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2209 (Feedback): COVID-19 data collection attrition

Hi Laura,
You can use the variable cW_outcome [Outcome of web survey]. Values: 11 Full interview, 12 Partial inter... Understanding Society User Support Team