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From 06/03/2025 to 07/02/2025
06/29/2025
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  12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2260: Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Hi,
 Sorry for the late reply. Regarding the variable scghq2_dv, you previously explained that “In Waves 1 and 2, t...
06/24/2025
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  03:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2260: Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Dear Evan,
 Is there a particular element you'd like us to explain further?
 Best wishes,
 UKHLS User Support
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  12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2260: Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Hi Roberto,
 Thanks for your reply. I have the further question about the reasons behind the steadily decreasing pr...
06/18/2025
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  08:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2261 (Feedback): Cross wave with hhresp datafile 
- Hello Adele, 
 Households in UKHLS are uniquely identified in each wave by w_hidp, a wave specific variable with a ...
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  04:27 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2261 (Feedback): Cross wave with hhresp datafile 
- Hello, I have an question about the cross variable identifier in the dataset. For reference I am using the datasets S...
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  04:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2259 (Closed): Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Response is provided in Issue #2260.
 Best wishes,
 Understanding Society User Support Team
 
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  04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2260 (Feedback): Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Hello Evan
 In Waves 1 and 2, the self-completion questionnaire, including the GHQ questions, was administered on p...
06/14/2025
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  03:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2260 (Feedback): Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
 I am currently working with data from the UKHLS and have some questions regarding...
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   02:55 PM
  Understanding Society User Support
  Support #2259 (Closed): Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves 02:55 PM
  Understanding Society User Support
  Support #2259 (Closed): Request for explaining the different missing rates of variables across all waves
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
 I am currently working with data from the UKHLS and have some questions regarding...
06/13/2025
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  08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2258: Longitudinal versus cross-sectional weighting guidance 
- Michael,
 Thank you for your question. The choice of a weight completely depends on the set up of your data and on ...
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  12:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2258 (Feedback): Longitudinal versus cross-sectional weighting guidance 
- Hi Olena,
 I was wondering if you could possibly provide some guidance on weighting in my study in two parts. The f...
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  10:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256: Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change 
- Very reassuring, Roberto. Many thanks for your attention.
 And best wishes
 Luis Ortiz
06/12/2025
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  11:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2256: Creation of a variable broadly capturing job change 
- Hello Luis
 I think your approach is correct.
 Your approach to creating a more inclusive job change variable is s...
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  10:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2257: understanding society waves 
- Hello Raffaele, 
 To make yearly comparisons, you’ll need to combine data from two waves. For example, to construct...
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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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 ...
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  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 (Resolved): 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...
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