Understanding Society User Support

12/19/2025

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2306 (In Progress): hstotmg outstanding or total mortgage secured?

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

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2305 (In Progress): hsyr04 vs. mgyr04

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

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2304 (Feedback): multiple jobs

Hi Darja,
The information in indresp refers to the main job. Information on multiple jobs is now stored in the "em... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2303 (Feedback): gigempjob2

Hi Daria,
The O_employment file is a long-format dataset in which each row represents a single job. The unique ide... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/12/2025

03:42 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2301: Variables for whether respondents were interviewed alone, and death of non-coresident parent

Hello Elias,
Glad it helped.
The interviewer observation module link points to the Wave 1 information. Here are... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:01 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2301: Variables for whether respondents were interviewed alone, and death of non-coresident parent

Hello Elias,
The variable “wivprsnt” was included in the new Wave 15 release, and you will find it starting from W... Understanding Society User Support Team

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

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

11/21/2025

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

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