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05/01/2025

10:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2248 (Feedback): Some queries r.e. issues with SOC 2000 and 2010 variables

Hello Tom,
1. Yes, the issue affecting jbsoc is the same for jbsic07. We observed a significantly higher rate of ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/30/2025

11:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2248 (In Progress): Some queries r.e. issues with SOC 2000 and 2010 variables

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10:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2247 (Feedback): Discontinuation of j2hrs and j2has from Wave 13-onwards

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From Wave 13, the questionnaire design allows up to multiple jobs to be reported and the “Second jobs” m... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245 (Feedback): Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10

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04/28/2025

11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245: Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10

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You're correct that CANCERTYPN_3 (breast cancer) is available from Wave 10 onwards, but cancer data was col... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/25/2025

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245: Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10

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04/23/2025

03:53 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2241 (Feedback): Link COVID-19 Youth postal survey waves (4, 6, 8) to COVID-19 Adult surveys

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01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2243 (Feedback): Groups and organisations module

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I don't think there was any further explanation of what these terms meant. You can also double-check the PD... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2242 (Feedback): Observations for gender egalitarian values

Dear Luis,
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm unaware of any such work.
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
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01:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2244 (Feedback): jbnssec5_dv

Dear Evie,
Perhaps this is about how employment is defined. jbnssec is based on jbsoc, so the universe of the latt... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/17/2025

06:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2241: Link COVID-19 Youth postal survey waves (4, 6, 8) to COVID-19 Adult surveys

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The way you retrieved the responsible adults' identifiers for the children in the youth file is correct.... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2240: Enquiry for a variable and year dataset 2020-2022

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I'm afraid sexuor is not included in the Calendar Year dataset for 2022. The dataset includes all data collect... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/15/2025

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2237: Investigating fihhmngrs_dv - Gross monthly household income

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I’ve discussed this with our income expert, and that’s the guidance they provided: 'UKHLS only ask about... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/14/2025

11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2238 (Feedback): Missing variable in Calendar Year Dataset, 2020

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Please see the user guide for the calendar year data, especially Section 2.2: "As the Calendar Year dataset... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227 (Resolved): Help needed with individual variable weighting

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10:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2237 (Feedback): Investigating fihhmngrs_dv - Gross monthly household income

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1. About the negative values for gross household income, fihhmngrs_dv - that is because of losses reported ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/10/2025

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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09:46 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

04/08/2025

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

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

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

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I recommend taking the self-paced Moodle training "Introduction to Understanding Society" (https://www.... Understanding Society User Support Team

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