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From 05/17/2012 to 06/15/2012
06/15/2012
- 06:07 PM Support #54 (Closed): Weights for youth self-completion data
- 05:40 PM Support #62 (Closed): Questionnaire content - Olympics
- 05:40 PM Support #58 (Closed): Youth Wave 1 data
- 05:39 PM Support #57 (Closed): urban rural coding issue
- 05:38 PM Support #53 (Closed): "Events" variable BHPS
- 05:38 PM Support #52 (Closed): Components of weighting variable a_indinus_xw
- 05:37 PM Support #48 (Closed): Height variable in wave 16 of BHPS
- 05:37 PM Support #46 (Closed): Review Board
- 05:36 PM Support #45 (Closed): BHPS year first job
- 05:36 PM Support #55 (Closed): Do weights adjust for non-independence of children within households?
- 05:34 PM Support #63 (In Progress): Identifying Underemployment
- Not a direct question, but the annual event history module of the questionnaire contains questions about whether the ...
- 01:39 PM Support #64: weighting youth data
- Thank you for your questions. Yes, one needs to use all three (weights, strata and clusters) in any analysis. The bes...
06/13/2012
- 02:26 PM Support #64 (Closed): weighting youth data
- I have a quick query regarding the analysis of the UKHLS data - I have been running analysis using the sample weighti...
06/09/2012
- 03:50 PM Support #62: Questionnaire content - Olympics
- Alison,
That's correct - you can find the questionnaire for Wave 4 here:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/doc... - 02:31 PM Support #63 (Closed): Identifying Underemployment
- Dear support team,
I have been looking for a measure of 'underemployment' in the Understanding Society dataset for...
06/08/2012
- 05:22 PM Support #62 (Closed): Questionnaire content - Olympics
- Are there are plans to use Understanding Society to assess what the legacy of the Olympics (e.g. on physical activity...
06/01/2012
- 10:22 AM Support #60 (Closed): SL Version W2 Interim Relaease
- 10:21 AM Support #60: SL Version W2 Interim Relaease
- please see #57
- 10:20 AM Support #57: urban rural coding issue
- The full urban-rural classifications have so far only been released on the full Mainstage Wave 1 Special License data...
05/31/2012
- 01:53 PM Support #61: HOUSEHOLD INCOME
- We are in the process of documenting the methodology for deriving the income variables.
I will send you an email as ... - 11:43 AM Support #61: HOUSEHOLD INCOME
- Ethan, Please see #36
Jakob - 11:06 AM Support #61 (Closed): HOUSEHOLD INCOME
- Please can you tell me how you calculate household income from the understanding society questionnaire? I would be gr...
- 10:48 AM Support #60 (Closed): SL Version W2 Interim Relaease
- Jakob, Which study number holds the SL version of the W2 interim release? I was very pleased when you told me I could...
- 09:54 AM Support #58 (In Progress): Youth Wave 1 data
- 09:52 AM Support #58: Youth Wave 1 data
- Alicia,
The Mainstage Wave 1 Youth file (N=4,899) contains the questionnaire responses from 11-15 year olds in respo... - 09:39 AM Support #59: Linking BHPS - Understanding Society
- NATCHILD records both resident and non-resident children (together identified by childno) - only the former will have...
05/30/2012
- 05:55 PM Support #59: Linking BHPS - Understanding Society
- Thanks, Jacob.
The file a_natchild has 26 observations which are not uniquely identified by hidp and childno (an... - 03:18 PM Support #59 (In Progress): Linking BHPS - Understanding Society
- Melanie,
> 1. Is there any documentation that allows me to easily check whether a BHPS variable is available in Un... - 02:46 PM Support #59 (Closed): Linking BHPS - Understanding Society
- I am using BHPs data and wish to link it a) to the BHPS sample households in Understanding Society, and b) use a pool...
- 09:21 AM Support #58 (Closed): Youth Wave 1 data
- Hello. I have downloaded the Wave 1 youth dataset and have 4,899 individuals. This total does not marry up with the f...
05/29/2012
- 12:00 PM Support #57: urban rural coding issue
- Thank you. Please tell me the SN for the special liceence version with full urbanity classification for the US Wave 2...
- 11:40 AM Support #57 (In Progress): urban rural coding issue
- 11:39 AM Support #57: urban rural coding issue
- Ian,
The full urban-rural classification is only on the "Special License version":https://www.understandingsociety.a... - 10:49 AM Support #57 (Closed): urban rural coding issue
- I am trying to continue analyses I have carried out with the 18 waves of BHPS with the inclusion of the BHPS incorpor...
05/28/2012
- 11:18 AM Support #53 (In Progress): "Events" variable BHPS
- Nicolet,
From the following you can add W11 to the list of waves where Important-Events were collected
https://ww...
05/27/2012
05/25/2012
- 07:47 PM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- Thank you! This makes sense.
- 05:02 PM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- The proxy weight of 0 in indresp is given to temporary sample members whom we will not follow in the future. These ar...
- 01:47 PM Support #56 (Closed): BHPS Variable problem
- I have a problem understanding the data for the BHPS variable on asthma, wHLPRXE, which is available for waves K and ...
05/22/2012
- 01:16 PM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- Thank you for your response! I believe when I compare the a_indinus_xw and the a_indpxus_xw weights, proxy respondent...
- 11:34 AM Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0
- inresp dataset consists of proxy and full respondents. If you are using information available for proxy respondents, ...
- 12:46 PM Support #54: Weights for youth self-completion data
- No such weights were developed for the interim release. We are considering to release such weights in the future, alt...
- 10:41 AM Support #54 (Closed): Weights for youth self-completion data
- I'm interested in looking at the Youth self-completion (10-15 years old) data across wave 1 and wave 2 (interim rel...
- 12:43 PM Support #55: Do weights adjust for non-independence of children within households?
- Peter,
Thank you for your question. Weights do not adjust for so-called clustering or nesting within households. T... - 10:44 AM Support #55 (Closed): Do weights adjust for non-independence of children within households?
- I wanted to know whether the weights provided for the youth self-completion data adjust for the problem of non-indepe...
05/21/2012
- 11:44 AM Support #50 (Closed): Comparison to LFS
- 11:11 AM Support #50: Comparison to LFS
- Thanks, this makes sense.
- 10:14 AM Support #53 (Closed): "Events" variable BHPS
- Hello,
For my research on repossessions in the UK mortgage market I am studying the BHPS SN 5151 database.
In the B...
05/18/2012
- 02:48 PM Support #50: Comparison to LFS
- Sung,
The early findings volume was published in Feb 2011 and the analysis was done in Oct-Nov 2010 using the data... - 10:36 AM Support #52: Components of weighting variable a_indinus_xw
- Sometimes it is indeed a good approach to model nonresponse as part of the model. If you want to do it, please make s...
- 01:00 AM Support #52 (Closed): Components of weighting variable a_indinus_xw
- Hello:
I am considering whether to run my regressions with weight a_indinus_xw vs. running my regressions with unwei...
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