Understanding Society User Support

12/06/2025

07:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2301 (Feedback): Variables for whether respondents were interviewed alone, and death of non-coresident parent

Hello Elias,
You may use the variable ivprsnt, which measures whether someone else was present during the intervie... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/03/2025

03:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2301 (Feedback): Variables for whether respondents were interviewed alone, and death of non-coresident parent

Dear user support,
I am currently looking for two variables ideally capturing:
- Whether respondents were interview... Elias Hofmann

11/29/2025

10:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2299 (Feedback): indresp.dta: hcondn6 and hcondn7 variables discrepancy

Dear Camilla,
This may be related to the change in how some of the health conditions questions were asked. Please ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/27/2025

06:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2299 (Feedback): indresp.dta: hcondn6 and hcondn7 variables discrepancy

Dear Sir/Madame,
I am using the indresp datasets from all the waves. I noticed that the variables hcondn6 and hcond... Camilla Bianchi

02:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2296: Lagging Youth variable -> Adult variable - cross-sectional or longitudinal weight?

Szymon,
Thank you for your question. The weight would depend on whether the model requires complete or incomplete ... Olena Kaminska

11/21/2025

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2298 (Feedback): Covid19 food insecurity data linked to main survey

Dear Akansha,
1. Can the COVID survey data be linked to the main UKHLS survey and to the household, adult and yout... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2298 (Feedback): Covid19 food insecurity data linked to main survey

Hi,
I am currently analysing how household food insecurity is associated with eating disorder pathology in young p... Akansha Naraindas

03:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2297 (Feedback): Conducting quarterly analysis

Dear Thomas,
Thank you for you question – it’s worth having a look at the weighting FAQ (see https://www.understan... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2295 (Feedback): Merging datasets

Dear Yashi,
It’s hard to know for sure without seeing the full data management process that produced these dataset... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/20/2025

04:44 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2296 (In Progress): Lagging Youth variable -> Adult variable - cross-sectional or longitudinal weight?

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/19/2025

05:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2297 (Feedback): Conducting quarterly analysis

Afternoon,
I would like to produce some analysis looking at the use of food banks / food insecurity / material de... Thomas Weekes

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2296 (In Progress): Lagging Youth variable -> Adult variable - cross-sectional or longitudinal weight?

As part of my analysis, I am conducting three lagged general linear models on Youth and Adult surveys. In each model,... Szymon Olejarnik

11/17/2025

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289: Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13

Dear Roberto,
Thank you for your reply. That makes sense to me that the prevhcondno* variables are routing variables... Laurence Rowley-Abel

01:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2295 (Feedback): Merging datasets

I am facing issue while merging the data. I have created one dataset using well-being indicators from indresp files f... Yashi Jain

11/15/2025

09:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289: Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13

Hello Laurence,
That’s correct, the variable prevhcondno is the routing variable that leads into the question hco... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/14/2025

06:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2294 (Feedback): Regarding the variable Livpar

Hello Fernando,
The livpar variable is available in both the child and the indall files. The indall file includes ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2294 (Feedback): Regarding the variable Livpar

Good Morning
I am interested in the variable livpar. Particularly, I would like to know if this variable (or a sim... Fernando Martin

03:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292: extract annual data from a UKHLS wave

Hello Raffaele,
Thank you for your feedback on the documentation, it’s important for us to know that it’s not as ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/13/2025

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2287 (Feedback): ba_xewght not found

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03:58 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2291 (Feedback): Sampling and Analytic Weights

Hello David,
I've included below the reply from one of the team experts.
(1) Matching based on Euclidian/Mahala... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289: Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13

Dear Roberto,
Thank you for your reply and for the PDF with the detailed guidance. You said above that for prevhcond... Laurence Rowley-Abel

09:42 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292: extract annual data from a UKHLS wave

Dear Roberto Cavazos,
thanks or your email,
as I do not understand very well the procedure to extract single ye... Raffaele Ciula

11/12/2025

05:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293: Wages/Pay in Sterling

Thank you Roberto, this is most helpful and appreciated.
Best wishes,
Damien. Damien Cassells

01:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293 (Feedback): Wages/Pay in Sterling

Hello Damien,
You may want to look at “paygl”, which refers to gross pay at last payment, or “payu”, which refers ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2293 (Feedback): Wages/Pay in Sterling

Hi, I am wondering if there is a variable that records respondents pay in £. I note questions on pay periods but have... Damien Cassells

12:11 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292 (Feedback): extract annual data from a UKHLS wave

Hello Raffaele,
I’m sorry to hear you lost the labels when opening the dataset, maybe try again? Sometimes the sof... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:22 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2289 (Feedback): Health condition (hcond) variables in Wave 13

Hello Laurence,
A value of 1 indicates respondents who still have the previously reported condition, while 0 refer... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/10/2025

03:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2292 (Feedback): extract annual data from a UKHLS wave

Dear Roberto Cavazos,

I am trying to use w_month to extract data regarding the year 2016.
First, as I use ... Raffaele Ciula

09:54 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2291 (In Progress): Sampling and Analytic Weights

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/08/2025

02:16 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2291 (Feedback): Sampling and Analytic Weights

Hi all,
I hope you all are well. I will be using the harmonised BHPS data from 1991 to 2015 for a long panel study... David Kong