Activity
From 10/07/2012 to 11/05/2012
11/05/2012
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03:55 PM Support #92 (In Progress): Origin of deprivation indicators
- Matt,
The source of the material deprivation questions in the household questionnaire (from matdepa) is the Family R... -
- Alexandru,
The online documentation has something called "Variable occurence", see e.g.
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- Ben,
There are a couple of things you could do to categorise the family background information.
The simplest would...
11/04/2012
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11:23 AM Support #92 (Closed): Origin of deprivation indicators
- Hello User Support Service,
I am a student researching youth poverty in Britain using the
Understanding Society s...
11/01/2012
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11:57 AM Support #91 (Closed): masoc & pasoc
- Hi
Do you have some code (preferably in stata) that I could use to collapse SOC90 information into something useful ...
10/31/2012
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04:06 PM Support #82: Language of translation
- Jakob,
thanks for this detailed explanation. My confusion was based on the fact that there is no variable availabl... -
11:56 AM Support #90 (Closed): Innovation Panel Variables and Wave
- Hello,
I would want to filter variables depending on their presence in certain waves of the innovation panel (e.g....
10/30/2012
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- It was a deliberate decision to route some questions on whether people had changed job, but we reversed it at wave 3 ...
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11:21 AM Support #89 (Closed): variable bjBSECT (sector of current job) appears to be corrupt or anomalous with two thirds of employees being coded not applicable. Is there an explanation please?
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- Dear Steve,
> First, for the purpose of my study, I will only include people from Scotland. Could I ask what is th...
10/29/2012
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- It is an undocumented variable and best ignored.
A couple of links to income variable documentation, which should ... -
10/26/2012
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12:45 PM Support #88 (Closed): about BHPS
- Dear BHPS
I am using BHPS data (wave 13-18) and have some queries.
First, for the purpose of my study, I will o...
10/25/2012
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06:58 PM Support #87 (Closed): labor income
- Question:
The BHPS data sets have a variable "linclastyear" which i am interested on. How is this variable constr...
10/24/2012
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- Dear Gwyther,
You would in that case need the Special License version of the data, please see:
https://www.understa...
10/22/2012
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03:54 PM Support #86 (Closed): Query re: variables in Wave 1 data set
- Dear Sir/Madam,
I am undertaking some analysis using the data from the youth self-completion questionnaire from Wa...
10/18/2012
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04:56 PM Support #85 (Closed): BHPS work history data
- I wondered if you could tell me if there was any work underway to update the BHPS work history files that currently r...
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- yes, and a_indinus_xw (interviewed individual cross-sectional weight) is zero for proxy responses, so you should get ...
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- Thanks for your qustion.
Please see #35
Employment histories will however gradually build up as more waves are ... -
- Instruments and survey materials are translated into eight different languages:
• Bengali
• Punjabi in Urdu or Gur...
10/17/2012
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09:59 AM Support #84 (Closed): Weighting for retrospective data analysis
- I wish to check that I have adopted the correct weighting variable for using the retrospective histories. I have assu...
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- I am using the retrospective union, fertility & employment histories primarily with a selection of cross-sectional va...
10/15/2012
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- Dear User Support
I have trouble understanding how the items Ivlang “Language of translation” and Ivintlang “Lang...
10/09/2012
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- Matthew,
Thanks for your question.
You are correct, the service use questions that were carried in the BHPS
have b... -
10:20 AM Support #81 (Closed): Does Health Visitor data still exist in Understanding Society
- I have been using the BHPS in parts of my analysis and I am hoping to update my analysis using the Understanding Soci...
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