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From 03/03/2025 to 04/01/2025

12:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231: Partner's information (indresp or indall): Hi Luis,
You're welcome!
Best wishes,
Piotr Understanding Society User Support Team

01:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy: Dear Shuqi Lyu,
It’s possible that there is a small scripting error, and some households are being asked this ques... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231 (Feedback): Partner's information (indresp or indall): Dear Luis,
All these variables are only in indresp, so you will need to use it for your analysis. While indall is ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (Feedback): Help needed with individual variable weighting: Understanding Society User Support Team
05:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2230 (Feedback): Having difficulty to create Tailored weight: Understanding Society User Support Team
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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