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From 03/09/2025 to 04/07/2025

04/04/2025

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2234 (Feedback): Merging Datasets and Missing Variables in UK Household Study
Hello Leon
I recommend taking the self-paced Moodle training "Introduction to Understanding Society" (https://www....
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11:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2232 (Feedback): Respondents own property before they were born
Hello Shuqi,
In the specific cases you mentioned, I’ve identified the following:
• hidp = 430746026 has two owner...
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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

03/31/2025

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

03/26/2025

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

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...
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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 ...
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03/20/2025

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

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,
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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