Understanding Society User Support

06/11/2025

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254: Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Martina,
If you are using each wave cross-sectionally, why do you require for participants to have answers in at l... Olena Kaminska

01:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256: Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change

Many thanks, Piotr
Your answer is very enlightening. Yes, it certainly helps
No, I do not need to capture *work... Luis Ortiz

07:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2257: understanding society waves

Dear Roberto Cavazos,
thanks for your clear reply. I am undertaking a comparative trend analysis between UK and Ja... Raffaele Ciula

06/10/2025

04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2257 (Feedback): understanding society waves

Hello Raffaele,
Each wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is typically associated with a single refe... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254 (Feedback): Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Understanding Society User Support Team

02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255 (Feedback): Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Dear Irene,
We thought that you might find useful the exercise on weighting from our Introduction to Understanding... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:32 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256 (Feedback): Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change

Dear Luis,
Additionally, you could also use wkplsam - same workplace check - https://www.understandingsociety.ac.u... Understanding Society User Support Team

06/09/2025

02:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2257 (Feedback): understanding society waves

Dear Understanding Society staff,
Each BHPS wave has a related reference year, for example BHPS wave18 is related ... Raffaele Ciula

12:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256: Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change

Dear colleagues,
I wish I could change the character of the query, from "Private" to "Open", in case it could be o... Luis Ortiz

06/04/2025

04:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256 (Feedback): Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change

Dear colleagues,
I am trying to generate a variable that captures job change in a broad sense; that is, that infor... Luis Ortiz

05/22/2025

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Dear Olena,
once again, thank you very much for your help and support. I think that yes, my analysis methodology ... Irene Frageri

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Irene,
Psu and strata can be used from any point of time - they don't change, so you can as well take them from th... Olena Kaminska

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254: Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Hi Olena,
Thank you for your reply.
However, since the data is repeated cross-sectional, per each wave not ever... Martina Lippi

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254: Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Martina,
Thank you. If you use information within people longitudinally (e.g. you compare between time points) you... Olena Kaminska

03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251: jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Dear Michael,
The only possible fix for the n_jbsic07_cc variable is to backfill it using data from Wave 13. This ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/21/2025

01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Dear Olena,
thank you very much for your help.
I am conducting a descrete-time event history analysis. Basica... Irene Frageri

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Irene,
Thank you for your question. I can tell you that your current method is wrong as you can't use the last obs... Olena Kaminska

05/20/2025

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255 (Feedback): Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
I am writing to seek your advice on the weighting strategy I am using for... Irene Frageri

09:05 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254 (Feedback): Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Hi,
I am working on Understanding Society as a repeated cross-sectional study looking only for participants betwe... Martina Lippi

05/19/2025

11:28 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251: jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Hi Roberto,
Thanks for your help with this. I tried the lookup from SOC 2000 to SOC 2010, however, the issue is th... Michael Francis

05/16/2025

11:02 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251: jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Hi Michael,
What we’ve found so far is that jbsoc00 appears to be the best option, as it has fewer missing values.... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2253 (Feedback): The connection of variable hsyrbuy and gor_dv

Hello Shuqi,
The interviews are conducted at the household where the respondents are currently living. This means ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/15/2025

11:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2252 (Feedback): Quick query regarding the new UKHLS calendar year datasets

Hello James,
For your first question regarding longitudinal analysis using calendar years, please refer to Issue ... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2252 (Feedback): Quick query regarding the new UKHLS calendar year datasets

Hi there,
I just had a quick question regarding the new UKHLS calendar year datasets that are available. In the us... James Laurence

05:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2253 (Feedback): The connection of variable hsyrbuy and gor_dv

In UKHLS, variable hsyrbuy is "In what year did you buy or first become the owner of this property?" I want to know t... SHUQI LYU

11:37 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251: jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Hi Roberto,
Thanks for the reference - this clarifies what the issue is. However, this does not really resolve the... Michael Francis

05/14/2025

11:37 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251 (Feedback): jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Hello Michael,
For a similar issue, please refer to Issue #2248, which you can access here: https://iserredex.esse... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2248: Some queries r.e. issues with SOC 2000 and 2010 variables

Hello Tom
The different classifications (SOC00, SOC10, SOC20) are provided by the fieldwork agency, which suggests... Understanding Society User Support Team

05/13/2025

05:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2251 (Feedback): jbsic07_cc Missing Data Query

Hi there,
I am using a combination of SIC and SOC codes to delineate between various employment and Covid groups. ... Michael Francis

04:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1832 (Feedback): Highest qualification variables - query about correct variable and coverage of non-UK qualifications

Hello Tom,
The variable qfhigh_dv (highest educational qualification ever reported) is constructed from qfhigh (hi... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2246: Mental health - other diagnosis

Thanks. Emanuele Fino