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From 09/09/2015 to 10/08/2015

10/08/2015

05:22 PM Support #424: Proxies in general, how do they work?
Hello Vernon,
As a general rule if any of the response outcomes say proxy (value = -7) it means that this was a pr...
Alita Nandi

10/07/2015

03:30 PM Support #429 (Closed): Calculation of Benefits Income in BHPS and USoc
I am writing with the hopes that someone can clarify precisely how income from benefits is constructed in the BHPS (a... Lori Bougher
09:10 AM Support #412 (Closed): Weights for BHPS and Understanding Society
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09:10 AM Support #414 (Closed): Weights for unbalanced panel
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09:09 AM Support #421: mining of genetic + other data: collaboration?
Just to acknowledge receipt - we hope to have a reply for you soon. On behalf of the team, Jakob Redmine Admin
08:44 AM Support #423 (Closed): Application to use HES data
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08:41 AM Support #427: Income variables' descriptive stats on US website do not match my results
The online documentation is incorrect in these cases. Thanks for making us aware of this.
On behalf of the team,
J...
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10/05/2015

01:35 PM Support #426: Merging youth to family information
Follow these steps:
1. Merge youth questionnaire file, w_youth, to w_indall using pidp. The variables that you nee...
Alita Nandi
11:43 AM Support #428 (Closed): Adult SC Questionnaire Wave 2
hi User support,
i'm using the questions on alcohol drinking from the W2 SC interview. specifically my questions a...
afshin zilanawala

10/02/2015

08:38 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
Olena,
Perfect, thanks. That makes sense. Many thanks for your help with all of this.
Ewan
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Ewan Carr
07:10 PM Support #427 (Closed): Income variables' descriptive stats on US website do not match my results
Dear all,
please, could you kindly clarify the following points?
- The variable b_netinc1 as presented on the w...
Gabriella Melis
10:11 AM Support #426 (Closed): Merging youth to family information
Dear All, could someone please assist me. I have created a file with responses from the youth questionnaire.
I have...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

10/01/2015

09:40 PM Support #424: Proxies in general, how do they work?
Thanks Jakob!
I had begun working with the c_egoalt file. I am adding variables according to suitability on to a s...
Vernon Hedge
08:45 AM Support #424: Proxies in general, how do they work?
This variable is an intermediate variable computed by the interviewing scripts and there are other more comprehensive... Redmine Admin
06:44 PM Support #425: MEMORIG unclear values
The various samples are represented e.g. here: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave11/kindsamp.h... Redmine Admin
06:34 PM Support #425 (Closed): MEMORIG unclear values
Hello I am working with the BHPS, and am trying to learn more about values of the variable MEMORIG. This code the sam... Chris Martin
09:01 AM Support #418: Understanding Society dataset harmonised with GGP
The GGP Harmonized Histories (http://www.ggp-i.org/data/harmhistories.html) are in part based on the predecessor stud... Redmine Admin
08:48 AM Support #419 (Closed): Adult self completion wave 2 and weights
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09/29/2015

03:42 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
Ewan,
You would need a weight called b_psnenub_xw or b_indpxub_xw (or another depending on the variables you are u...
Olena Kaminska
11:12 AM Support #424 (Closed): Proxies in general, how do they work?
I am looking at data from Wave C, file name c_indresp.sav SPSS file.
I am very interested in targeting households ...
Vernon Hedge

09/28/2015

05:21 PM Support #423: Application to use HES data
pls see #306 Redmine Admin
03:02 PM Support #420: NPD linkage
At the moment data have been linked for children, youths and young adults in England with valid consents in wave 1. E... Redmine Admin
02:15 PM Support #416 (Closed): SOC 00 to ISCO 1988 stata dofile (code for 4 digits) Understanding society dataset
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02:14 PM Support #404 (Closed): Where did sceverdrnk go?
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12:15 PM Support #422 (In Progress): SIC 2007 variables in Wave 3
Gundi Knies
12:11 PM Support #422: SIC 2007 variables in Wave 3
Dear Ashwin,
can you confirm that you are using the latest edition of the Understanding Society released data, i.e.,...
Gundi Knies

09/25/2015

10:32 AM Support #423 (Closed): Application to use HES data
Is there an application process to request linked HES data for Understanding Society? Gareth Hagger-Johnson

09/24/2015

03:22 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
Many thanks for your reply, this is very helpful.
> ??You can either use BHPS dataset with the first wave weight a...
Ewan Carr
02:27 PM Support #422 (Closed): SIC 2007 variables in Wave 3
Hi there
I am trying to carry out a set of analyses for specific industry groups but I find that, of the 23,177 sa...
Ashwin Kumar
02:27 PM Support #421 (Closed): mining of genetic + other data: collaboration?
In general my question is whether collaboration on the Understanding Society data is possible.
In particular: I am...
Katrijn Van Deun

09/22/2015

12:09 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
Ewan,
You can either use BHPS dataset with the first wave weight and have information from a longer period, or you...
Olena Kaminska
11:57 AM Support #412: Weights for BHPS and Understanding Society
You can use in-built stata programs to use weights (which are much easier and save you from making mistakes), such as... Olena Kaminska
11:48 AM Support #419: Adult self completion wave 2 and weights
Yes, you are right. You should use b_indscus_lw. Thanks for pointing it.
Olena Kaminska
10:51 AM Support #409 (Closed): Weights for w2 bloods
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10:50 AM Support #411 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic information
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10:49 AM Support #413 (Closed): discovering whether a variable is asked in Round 5 (etc.)
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10:23 AM Support #404: Where did sceverdrnk go?
Just to confirm that this variable has not been released previously and that it has made it into the revision planned... Redmine Admin

09/21/2015

04:46 PM Support #420 (Closed): NPD linkage
is it correct that NPD data is only linked for those individuals in the Und Soc Youth Survey in Wave 1
is it ever go...
Jennifer Roberts

09/16/2015

06:08 PM Support #408 (Closed): mc
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06:08 PM Support #407 (Closed): Missing variables in the UKHLS for the continuing members of the BHPS
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06:07 PM Support #405 (Closed): Data on relationsihp duration
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06:05 PM Support #419: Adult self completion wave 2 and weights
thank you so much for your detailed response. very helpful! i have one follow up question w/r to 2a:
>
> 2. Yes,...
afshin zilanawala
05:01 PM Support #419: Adult self completion wave 2 and weights
1. 16,000 that you mentioned include 4000 proxies (that didn't get self-completion) + nonrespondents to self-completi... Olena Kaminska
12:50 PM Support #419 (Closed): Adult self completion wave 2 and weights
hi user support,
1. i am doing a cross-sectional analysis using the wave 2 adult self completion (SC) interview. w...
afshin zilanawala

09/15/2015

03:42 PM Support #416: SOC 00 to ISCO 1988 stata dofile (code for 4 digits) Understanding society dataset
Please see resources available from CAMSIS: http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/
On behalf of the team, Jakob
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03:31 PM Support #418: Understanding Society dataset harmonised with GGP
Hi Katherine, Is it possible to reveal the source? Many of our questions are taken or adapted from other surveys with... Redmine Admin
10:00 AM Support #418 (Closed): Understanding Society dataset harmonised with GGP
Hi,
I was told there was a special dataset of Understanding Society that has been harmonised with the questionnaire...
Katy Keenan
09:32 AM Support #417 (Closed): Choice of income bands in proxy question on annual earnings
I have a short question regarding the proxy question on annual earnings (Prearna) in the seventh wave of Understandin... Till Hoffmann

09/12/2015

07:49 PM Support #416 (Closed): SOC 00 to ISCO 1988 stata dofile (code for 4 digits) Understanding society dataset
Dear Madam/Sir,
I was wondering if you could provide me the stata code you used to convert the variable current jo...
Albert Arcarons

09/11/2015

05:40 PM Support #412: Weights for BHPS and Understanding Society
Great, thanks.This makes sense in a regression framework, but what if I'd like to plot means of a variable over time,... Andreas Wiedemann
04:08 PM Support #412: Weights for BHPS and Understanding Society
If you are doing longitudinal analysis since 1991, you should use indin91_lw weight. You use the weight once in your ... Olena Kaminska
05:16 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
Many thanks, that's really helpful.
h1. Weights
I'm pretty sure I want scenario (3):
> ??...or does it thi...
Ewan Carr
04:50 PM Support #414: Weights for unbalanced panel
I hope my answer helps to clarify yours and similar questions. There are potentially three scenarios:
1) if you are ...
Olena Kaminska
05:07 PM Support #409: Weights for w2 bloods
can be found on XLABBLOOD_NS.
On behalf of the team,
Jakob
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04:34 PM Support #409: Weights for w2 bloods
Yes, there is a weight called c_indbdub_xw. This is for the use of both, UKHLS GPS sample and BHPS sample. It was sup... Olena Kaminska
01:59 PM Support #415: Question on household income
This update only to acknowledge receipt of your request. It might take us a few weeks at the moment to respond to thi... Redmine Admin
01:50 PM Support #415 (Closed): Question on household income
Hello,
I am a PhD student at the Centre for Health Economics at University of York.
I am currently using BHPS d...
Irene Sanchez

09/10/2015

06:44 PM Support #414 (Closed): Weights for unbalanced panel
My question is very similar to "this one":https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/issues/393#change-1207, post... Ewan Carr
05:21 PM Support #410: Income in Understanding and BHPS
related #406 Redmine Admin
05:21 PM Support #401 (Closed): Weights and finding variables
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10:19 AM Support #413: discovering whether a variable is asked in Round 5 (etc.)
These questions were asked only of 16-19year olds in the extra 5 minute sample OR a recent immigrant. But they should... Alita Nandi

09/09/2015

04:32 PM Support #413 (Closed): discovering whether a variable is asked in Round 5 (etc.)
Hi -- I would be grateful for a bit of help in determining whether the variable EthID3 is asked of all relevant respo... David Bartram
02:04 PM Support #412 (Closed): Weights for BHPS and Understanding Society
Hello,
I’ve merged the BHPS with the BHPS-subset of Understanding Society to create a longitudinal panel of BHPS r...
Andreas Wiedemann
 

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