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From 11/11/2025 to 12/10/2025

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

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

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
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

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

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

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
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

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

01:42 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
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

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