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From 08/28/2025 to 09/26/2025
09/26/2025
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05:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2283 (Feedback): Private Rented Sector
- Hi,
According to the ONS, around 20% of people live in private rented sector specifically and you will find a simil...
09/25/2025
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03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2033 (In Progress): Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit
- Dear Tom,
Thank you for the detailed report, this is very helpful. We'll have a look into this.
Best wishes,
P... -
01:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2033: Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit
- Hi,
Just to update you I now seem to have found a workaround which gets this right: I think the only way to do it ... -
03:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2282 (Feedback): Complexity of family life
- Dear Charlie,
Thank you for your question.
“How many adults have dependent children who don’t live with them?”
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09/24/2025
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11:35 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2033: Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit
- Hi,
Firstly thanks so much for this response, very helpful. Sorry to bring this up again but I've been doing some ...
09/23/2025
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01:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2282 (Feedback): Complexity of family life
- Hello,
I am particularly interested in looking at how the complexity of family life is changing. Specifically, I w...
09/19/2025
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11:48 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2281: Weights for longitudinal analysis - high zero-weighted numbers; and selecting weights
- Thomas,
Thank you. Yes, you still need longitudinal weights with your set up of pooled analysis. I suggest you rea... -
10:09 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2281 (In Progress): Weights for longitudinal analysis - high zero-weighted numbers; and selecting weights
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/18/2025
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10:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2281 (In Progress): Weights for longitudinal analysis - high zero-weighted numbers; and selecting weights
- Hi,
I'm carrying out some longitudinal analysis and have two questions about the longitudinal weights. For context...
09/13/2025
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12:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279: inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
- Thank you very much Roberto.
09/11/2025
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11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2280 (Feedback): Linking to EPC data
- Hello Vicki,
UKHLS is currently linking EPC data to Innovation Panel (IP17) participants, but this does not cover ...
09/10/2025
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03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2280: Linking to EPC data
- Hi,
Is it possible to link to EPC rating data in Scotland?
Many thanks,
Vicki -
03:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2280 (Feedback): Linking to EPC data
- Is it possible to link to EPC data in Scotland?
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01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279: inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
Hello Z He
Apologies for my misunderstanding.
The variable “spend” has been removed from the dataset. You can...-
11:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279: inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
- Hi Roberto,
Thank you very much for your reply. But my inquiry was not about the MPC variables.
To clarify, th... -
08:23 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279 (Feedback): inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
- Hello Z He
The variable you are interested in is called “mpc1 – Marginal Propensity to Consume”. You may also want...
09/09/2025
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03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2279 (Feedback): inquiry about "change in spending" variable in the COVID survey
- Hi,
I am writing to inquire about a specific variable in the Understanding Society UKHLS COVID-19 survey.
Accor...
09/08/2025
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05:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2269: Multilevel model guidance
- Hello Verena,
Here are the answers for bullets 1 and 2 that were missing:
1. The design weight is at a household...
09/03/2025
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01:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2278: Effect of self-completion weight on weighted count for sample of people who died
- Emma,
Thank you for your question. You mention two separate issues.
On your sample selection based on valid answe... -
12:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2278 (In Progress): Effect of self-completion weight on weighted count for sample of people who died
- Hello Chloe
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... -
01:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2276: Use of survey weight severely reducing sample size- longitudinal analysis
- Dear Chloe,
Apologies, as I think my answer is too late for you - I have been on leave and just saw this message. ... -
12:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2277 (Resolved): DiD analysis with UKHLS
09/01/2025
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11:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2277: DiD analysis with UKHLS
- Thanks a lot!
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08:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2277: DiD analysis with UKHLS
- Usual gross monthly wage is w_paygu_dv. To get the hourly wage you will need to divide this by the usual hours worked...
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04:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2278 (In Progress): Effect of self-completion weight on weighted count for sample of people who died
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I would like to check the effect of the self-completion weights for my particular...
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