Understanding Society User Support

01/12/2026

03:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2311 (Feedback): Food Insecurity Experience Scale scoring

Hello Akansha,
Understanding Society includes all eight items of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES): ateles... Understanding Society User Support Team

01/09/2026

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2310 (Feedback): Why cannot merge indall datasets with hhresp datasets on 2000-3000 obs?

Hello Bing,
Individuals who do not match a household are those who did not respond to a household questionnaire an... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2309 (Feedback): Are samples in indresp datasets nationally representative?

Hello Bing,

As you correctly mentioned, indall contains information for all individuals in the household, includi... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2308 (Feedback): Choose a correct weight for analysis

Hello Bing,
As the user guide mentioned (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/user-guide... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2307 (Feedback): Questions about 'pensioner_dv' and 'pensioner'

Hello Bingqing,
The variables pensioner_dv and pensioner produce different information mainly because *_dv variabl... Understanding Society User Support Team

12/22/2025

02:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2305: hsyr04 vs. mgyr04

Hi Selçuk,
What I wrote applies to the original BHPS variables, I'm sorry for the confusion. I should have noted... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2305 (Feedback): hsyr04 vs. mgyr04

Hi Selçuk,
These questions come from the BHPS household questionnaire, a series of questions about _your household... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2306: hstotmg outstanding or total mortgage secured?

Hi Selçuk,
I will need to check this with the questionnaire team.
Best wishes,
Piotr Understanding Society User Support Team

12:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2306 (Feedback): hstotmg outstanding or total mortgage secured?

Hi Selçuk,
My understanding is that the intention of hstotmg is to capture _the total outstanding amount left at the... Understanding Society User Support Team

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