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04/10/2025

05:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2238 (Feedback): Missing variable in Calendar Year Dataset, 2020

I found that some variables in the study questionnaire document but not in the dataset file. For example the environm... Yuanfei Liu

04:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2237 (Feedback): Investigating fihhmngrs_dv - Gross monthly household income

Good afternoon,
I've looked through the variable details and perhaps I've missed the information, but I have a few... William Pilcher

04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227: Help needed with individual variable weighting

Hi Olena,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - that makes a lot of sense, thank you for the thorough expan... William Pilcher

04:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2236: Problems with partner's information

Many thanks for your swift attention to our query, Alita...¡
Your answer is reassuring. The explanation provided f... Luis Ortiz

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2236 (Feedback): Problems with partner's information

Hello Luis,
I have attempted to replicate this exercise (Stata syntax attached) for Wave 2. I too am getting highe... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2236 (Feedback): Problems with partner's information

Dear colleagues,
[I have previously posted this query as an extension (modification) of a previous one that was so... Luis Ortiz

11:40 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235 (Resolved): Data access following Brexit

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10:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231 (Resolved): Partner's information (indresp or indall)

Hi Luis,
As this is continuing separately as Issue 2236, I setting this to resolved.
Best wishes,
Alita Understanding Society User Support Team

10:03 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2232 (Resolved): Respondents own property before they were born

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09:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2232: Respondents own property before they were born

Very helpful, and many thanks. I forgot the possibility of second owner.
Shuqi SHUQI LYU

04/09/2025

05:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231: Partner's information (indresp or indall)

Luis Ortiz wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Piotr (and colleagues),
>
> I greatly appreciate your support in my previous ... Luis Ortiz

05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231: Partner's information (indresp or indall)

Dear Piotr (and colleagues),
I greatly appreciate your support in my previous query.
As I said then, I'm intere... Luis Ortiz

04/08/2025

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235: Data access following Brexit

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-3:
> We are not aware of any pending changes that will impac... Elias Hofmann

02:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235: Data access following Brexit

We are not aware of any pending changes that will impact your access.
All the best. Understanding Society User Support Team

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235: Data access following Brexit

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
>
> What type of Understanding Society data a... Elias Hofmann

11:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235 (Feedback): Data access following Brexit

Hello,
What type of Understanding Society data are you interested in accessing - End User License, Special License... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2235 (Resolved): Data access following Brexit

Dear UKHLS team,
As a prospective UKHLS user at an EU institution, I was wondering whether I can expect that there w... Elias Hofmann

11:56 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215 (Feedback): PSU, Strata

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11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1289 (Resolved): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable

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11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1289 (New): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable

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11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2191 (Resolved): First job & occupation

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11:52 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2088 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis with USOC and COVID-19 survey combined

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11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117 (Resolved): Household members in COVID-19 collection

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11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2117 (New): Household members in COVID-19 collection

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11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2171 (Resolved): Partnership history variable mismatches between partners

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11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2176 (Resolved): USOC Wave 16 - Enquiry re: questions on employment rights

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2189 (Resolved): Negative values for fimngrs_dv

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2193 (Resolved): Paygu_dv: difference between EUL and special licence data

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11:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2197 (Resolved): Query on the possibility of using the 2023 calendar year (from UKHLS wave 14 data) in some trend analysis

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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2203 (Resolved): Transitions from households to institutions

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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2208 (Resolved): Child passed away during study period

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11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2209 (Resolved): COVID-19 data collection attrition

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11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226 (Resolved): svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

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11:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2211 (Resolved): Using wave 14 Harmonized UKHLS file with Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022 file

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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2213 (Resolved): Routing of variables lprnt, lnprnt, ladopt, lnadopt

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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222 (Resolved): Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

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11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223 (Resolved): Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224 (Resolved): SF12 coding

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11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2233 (Feedback): Blood Biomarker Survey Weights

Hello Rosie,
Which version are you using? I have checked the latest released version and that just has the variabl... Understanding Society User Support Team

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.... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:39 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2234 (Feedback): Merging Datasets and Missing Variables in UK Household Study

hello,
I have two concerns and would like to thank you in advance for your support!
First, a brief description ... Leon Arlt

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/03/2025

01:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2233: Blood Biomarker Survey Weights

Hi,
I think the issue might be a coding problem from uploading the indbdub_xw variable twice.
Let me know if yo... Rosie Mathers

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2233 (Feedback): Blood Biomarker Survey Weights

Hi there,
I am using the blood biomarker survey weights in my analysis for Wave_2: indbdub_xw. However, when I lo... Rosie Mathers

04/02/2025

11:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2232 (Resolved): Respondents own property before they were born

Hello. I have a question about variable hsyrbuy in wave 14 of the UKHLS. Some homeowners own the house before they we... SHUQI LYU

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

03/27/2025

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231: Partner's information (indresp or indall)

Many thanks, Piotr...¡
Your answer is very helpful.
Kind regards
Luis Ortiz
Luis Ortiz

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

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2231 (Resolved): Partner's information (indresp or indall)

Dear colleagues,
For research I'm doing with UKHLS, I'm interested in matching partners' information on gender ega... Luis Ortiz

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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03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2230: Having difficulty to create Tailored weight

Yixuan,
You can start at either at wave 1 or wave 3. Maybe wave 3 is better as it also includes BHPS (so higher sa... Olena Kaminska

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

03/24/2025

05:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2230 (Feedback): Having difficulty to create Tailored weight

Hello,
I am currently working on creating the tailored weight for my unbalanced panel dataset. However, after stud... Yixuan Chen

03:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2223: Questions of variable lvreladp1 and lvrel1

Thanks Roberto, your response is helpful.
Shuqi SHUQI LYU

01:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2229: jbnssec8_dv

Michael Vallely wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am writing regarding the variable jbnssec8_dv. This variable splits NS-S... Michael Vallely

01:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2229 (Feedback): jbnssec8_dv

Hi folks,
I am writing regarding the variable jbnssec8_dv. This variable splits NS-SEC 1 group into two; Large emp... Michael Vallely

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2228 (Feedback): Assistance with Extracting Variables from income.dta

Dear Support Team,
I am using Understanding Society data for my master's thesis and need to separate the unearned ... Chiara Perugini

03/21/2025

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227: Help needed with individual variable weighting

Will,
I am not sure whether this will help, but our weights should be used separately to analytic weights, or weig... Olena Kaminska

03/20/2025

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2222: Merging main survey waves with COVID waves

Hi Roberto!
Thank you very much for your help! This answers my question.
Best,
Jakub Jakub Kowalczyk

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

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12:09 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (Resolved): Help needed with individual variable weighting

Good afternoon everyone,
I hope I'm not repeating a previously discussed question - I have had a look and didn't f... William Pilcher

03/18/2025

01:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226: svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for this, how the savings variables are structured is significantly clearer now (and a... Daniel Pinhay

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

03/17/2025

04:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2226 (Resolved): svb Savings Variables in Wave 13

Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
I hope you are well. I wanted to ask for some clarification concerni... Daniel Pinhay

10:24 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
I still have difficulty in understanding the meaning of "has become owned outright, mortgaged or sha... SHUQI LYU

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

04:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2216: Reasons of inapplicable in variable helpbuy

Dear Roberto,
Thanks for the response, but, the code doesn't completely meet the universe requirement of variable ... SHUQI LYU

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

12:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2225 (Feedback): SF-12 missingness wave 2

Hi,
I noticed there is quite a substantial amount of missingness (-9) on the derived SF12 physical and mental comp... Verena Schneider

08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Thanks for the clarification Robert.
Mark Mark Bryan

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

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224: SF12 coding

Hello Robert
Thanks for the response and code.
In the code, when scsf1 (for example) is reverse coded, a new v... Mark Bryan

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

09:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2224 (Resolved): SF12 coding

Hi,
I am interested in the coding of the SF12 variables, sf12pcs_dv, sf12mcs_dv and their sub-components.
I un... Mark Bryan

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