Understanding Society User Support Team's activity
From 04/11/2025 to 05/10/2025
05/09/2025
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02:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2250: calculation of number of siblings
- Hello Shuqi,
The study's information is limited to individuals within enumerated households. For those who are abs... -
11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2248: Some queries r.e. issues with SOC 2000 and 2010 variables
- Hello Tom
1. This issue regarding job details only arose from Wave 13 onwards. This is because Wave 13 was the fi... -
12:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2247: Discontinuation of j2hrs and j2has from Wave 13-onwards
- Hello Tom,
You are absolutely right.
While strictly speaking, "zero-hour contracts" don't guarantee any fixed h...
05/08/2025
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11:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2246 (Feedback): Mental health - other diagnosis
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11:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2246: Mental health - other diagnosis
- Hello Emanuele,
Apologies for the delayed response.
Regarding the "other" health condition option, respondents ... -
02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2250 (Feedback): calculation of number of siblings
- Hello Shuqi,
Variables "nnsib_dv" and "nnssib_dv" capture the number of siblings within the household because they... -
01:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2249 (Feedback): Code Creator for BHPS data files
- Hello Serena,
Regarding the code creator, it was initially designed for UKHLS data. However, I've adapted the synt...
05/01/2025
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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 ...
04/30/2025
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11:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2248 (In Progress): Some queries r.e. issues with SOC 2000 and 2010 variables
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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10:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2247 (Feedback): Discontinuation of j2hrs and j2has from Wave 13-onwards
- Hello Tom
From Wave 13, the questionnaire design allows up to multiple jobs to be reported and the “Second jobs” m... -
10:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245 (Feedback): Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10
04/28/2025
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11:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245: Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10
- Hello,
You're correct that CANCERTYPN_3 (breast cancer) is available from Wave 10 onwards, but cancer data was col...
04/25/2025
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05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2245: Women diagnosed with breast cancer since previous wave in wave 10
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2246: Mental health - other diagnosis
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/23/2025
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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
- Hello,
I don't think there was any further explanation of what these terms meant. You can also double-check the PD... -
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
UKHLS User Support -
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...
04/17/2025
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06:48 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2241: Link COVID-19 Youth postal survey waves (4, 6, 8) to COVID-19 Adult surveys
- Hi James,
The way you retrieved the responsible adults' identifiers for the children in the youth file is correct.... -
11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2240: Enquiry for a variable and year dataset 2020-2022
- Hi,
I'm afraid sexuor is not included in the Calendar Year dataset for 2022. The dataset includes all data collect...
04/15/2025
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03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2237: Investigating fihhmngrs_dv - Gross monthly household income
- Hi Will,
I’ve discussed this with our income expert, and that’s the guidance they provided: 'UKHLS only ask about...
04/14/2025
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11:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2238 (Feedback): Missing variable in Calendar Year Dataset, 2020
- Hello,
Please see the user guide for the calendar year data, especially Section 2.2: "As the Calendar Year dataset... -
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
- Hello,
1. About the negative values for gross household income, fihhmngrs_dv - that is because of losses reported ...
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