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From 05/13/2025 to 06/11/2025
06/11/2025
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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... -
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... -
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...
06/10/2025
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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... -
02:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254 (Feedback): Weights for repeated cross sectional study
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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... -
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...
06/09/2025
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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 ... -
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...
06/04/2025
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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...
05/22/2025
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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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 ...
05/21/2025
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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... -
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...
05/20/2025
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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... -
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...
05/19/2025
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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...
05/16/2025
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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.... -
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 ...
05/15/2025
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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 ... -
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... -
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...
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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...
05/14/2025
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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... -
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...
05/13/2025
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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. ... -
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... -
01:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2246: Mental health - other diagnosis
- Thanks.
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