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ukborn variable
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Hi,
Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm still getting to grips with the dataset and coding with R. I just redownloaded "Understanding Society: Waves 1-15, 2009-2024 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009" to check, but the values given for the ukborn variable on xwavedat.dta (shown below) don't match with the values shown on the ukborn variable on your website. Am I missing something or is this normal?
ukborn n
<dbl+lbl> <int>
1 -9 [missing] 52325
2 1 [Yes, England] 71020
3 2 [Yes, Scotland] 10661
4 3 [Yes, Wales] 7110
5 4 [Yes, Northern Ireland] 6697
6 5 [Not born in the UK] 19395Thank you very much,
Emily
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Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 25 days ago
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Hi Emily,
The numbers in the latest wave files should align with the numbers on the website. From what I can see, the numbers displayed in your table come from the wave 14 release of the xwavedat file, so you can recheck if you haven't accidentally created this table using older data.
Best wishes,
Piotr Marzec
UKHLS User Support
Updated by emily naish 24 days ago
Hi Piotr,
Before I logged this question, I had redownloaded the dataset from data service and it still gave me the same numbers. How do I get the most recent dataset with Wave 15 included?
Best wishes,
Emily
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 24 days ago
Hi Emily,
Below a comparison of the 2024 release of SN6614 and 2025 downloaded yesterday using dta (Stata) files. The latter aligns with the website.
Can I ask you which format are you using, SPSS, Stata, or Tab?
Best wishes,
Piotr
Updated by emily naish 17 days ago
Hi Piotr,
Apologies I can see wave o is actually present in my folder, it must be my code. Sorry for not checking!
Many thanks,
Emily