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From 11/23/2015 to 12/22/2015
12/22/2015
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11:19 AM Support #470 (Closed): Benefit Data
- Hello,
Can you please tell me what information is collected with regards to benefit payments. Is this a simple ye...
12/21/2015
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09:51 AM Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)
- Thanks Olena, it helps a lot !
Thank you again for the time you take to answer me. I better understand the use of ... -
07:41 AM Support #463: Job History Data
- As the reasons for this decision was not dependant on any individual, household or regional characteristics and as th...
12/20/2015
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10:35 PM Support #469 (In Progress): cross tabulation question
- Hi Veronique,
when you look at the online variable level description you will see that _jbnssec_dv is derived from _... -
11:48 AM Support #463: Job History Data
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Anuj,
> You will have to create these variables yourself. We do not provide these derived v...
12/19/2015
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- Hi Anuj,
You will have to create these variables yourself. We do not provide these derived variables as yet.
Best w...
12/18/2015
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02:23 PM Support #469 (Closed): cross tabulation question
- When I cross tabulate c_jbnnssec_dv (NS-SEC of current job) with c_jobstat (current employment status) , some people ...
12/17/2015
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- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Employment histories were collected for the 1-6 month samples in wave 1 and for the remaining 6... -
03:31 PM Support #468: Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed
- Wonderful, many thanks for your response and your help! I am looking forward to analysing the data!
Best wishes,
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02:12 PM Support #468 (Closed): Earlier Version of BHPS consittuency identifiers for SN 6033 needed
- Erroneously, the documentation from the previous deposit is currently the first part of the ducumentation you find. W...
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- Dear Jakob,
thank you for the information. I will hence apply for the special license datasets to obtain ward iden... -
- The most accurate information that we can offer on location is postcode centroids at a single point in time. This inf...
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- All household level questions are asked in the household questionnaire. You can search for these variables by looking...
12/16/2015
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- Dear Jakob,
many thanks for the swift response. As I said, I think it would be an easier solution if I could obtai... -
- Unfortunately, we are not currently able to grant access to Secure Access data to researchers based outside the UK. W...
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- Dear Understanding Society Team mebmers at ISER,
I am currently conducting an analysis of individual voting dynam... -
- Please see this FAQ: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Is_it_possible_to_merge_in_...
12/15/2015
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07:27 PM Support #453: Zero value weight with nurse data combined to blood sample and main sample (w2)
- Dear Gaelle,
First, let me answer a question whether you need weights. You don’t need weights if you want to talk ... -
- "Whether current job NS-SEC is given by c_j1soc10_cc (NS-SEC 10) or c_j1soc00_cc (NS-SEC 2000)?"
These do not ref... -
- ukborn (and other iniital conditions questions) are asked only when first interviewed so they will have a lot of miss...
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12:55 PM Support #467 (Closed): Ns-sec/UKborn and religion
- Please could you just clarify(apologies unfamilar with running these in Understanding society and a colleague has que...
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- Thanks for letting us know. The new link is:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/support/projects/support/wiki/Is...
12/14/2015
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08:39 PM Support #466 (Closed): Deprivation scores
- My enquiry is about IMD/Carstairs scores. As I understand they are not included in the data but should be linked to g...
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- All our weights are designed for analysis of the whole population on any population subgroup. Apologies for taking a ...
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04:33 PM Support #465 (Closed): Immediate - BHPS data access help
- Dear Understanding Society User Support,
I have registered for the UK Data Service and acquired BHPS data for my d... -
- Hello,
I am looking to use the Understanding Society data for a project I am involved in. I wondered if the data ... -
- Please take a look at the variable description in the Online Documentation for the frequency distribution of response...
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- Employment histories were collected for the 1-6 month samples in wave 1 and for the remaining 6-24 month samples in w...
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- >Can I clarify that there is no question asking if the respondents speaks a language other than English at home?
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- Hi Alex,
Proxy interview: When a person is unable to give an interview, in some cases, their spouse or adult child... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for your helpful response.
I already read the User guide of both main stage and nurse h...
12/09/2015
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05:38 PM Support #462: Longitudinal weights
- Thanks Olena- this is a great help.
I think the most suitable solution is to continue to just use the longitudina... -
- Rory,
Cross-sectional weights will be wrong in this situation simply because you can't observe a move in a cross-s... -
- Thanks Olena, this helps a lot.
Just one (hopefully final) clarification regarding pooled analysis. If I were to f... -
- To answer your questions:
1. Yes, and this is a safe option;
2. Pooled analysis is a good option if you want to rep... -
- I've looked at both the BHPS and UKHLS data. Am I correct in saying that BHPS has job history data whilst the UKHLS d...
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12:26 PM Support #449: Sexuality Variable
- Thank you!
I was just wondering how do I find out what the "proxy" answers refer to? I assume proxy means other pe...
12/08/2015
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- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for the very quick reply and advice. I can see that just using the wave 1 weight is not eno... -
- Rory,
You can't use different longitudinal weights for different people in the same analysis - such analysis will ... -
- Hi,
I'm conducting a longitudinal analysis of waves 1-5 using the GPS and EMB samples and have a quick question ab... -
12:53 PM Support #456: comparing across waves
- Thanks Olena.
I realize that if I pool data I would need to have "individuals x wave" as unit of analyses, which mi... -
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- Redmine Admin wrote:
> xwhist is under development and did not make it into the latest release. You are advised to a...
12/07/2015
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- Dear Gaelle,
Indeed, you are right in thinking that generally for most of the studies all people who provide infor...
12/03/2015
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- Dear Carolina,
To select the weights you will need to first decide on what you want to represent: either people ov...
12/02/2015
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- Welcome!
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02:57 PM Support #459: derived variable for total number of children
- Thank you. This answers my questions.
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- Hi Alexey,
apologies, it turns out the _lnprnt is asked of men and women who appear not to have any natural children... -
- Hi Gundi,
Many thanks for your detailed and timely reply. Just a couple of things to clarify. You said that lnprnt... -
- Hi Alexey,
first, to confirm that there is no derived variable which provides this information. Hence, you are rig... -
03:03 PM Support #461 (Closed): Was Maternal BMI or Maternal Weigth and Height Data been recorded?
Hi,
I am a research assistant and I am currently searching for maternal datasets containing maternal BMI or ...
12/01/2015
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05:20 PM Support #460 (Closed): Language variables
- I am interested in exploring the information related to respondents' language in Understanding Society.
It is clea... -
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- Thanks for raising it - now forwarded to the BHPS team. On behalf of the team, Jakob
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- xwhist is under development and did not make it into the latest release. You are advised to apply for access to https...
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- advised to email biomarker team directly by email today.
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11/30/2015
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- Hi,
I'd like to create variables for a total number of biological children for individuals in each wave. My unders... -
- use ukborn in xwavedat
use c_hiqual_dv in c_indresp
c_jlnssec8_dv: is about last job. Information about the las... -
- Hi please could you advise with the following variables. It is similar to the previous request on ethnicity.
We are... -
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03:08 PM Support #446: Childcare analysis
- Thank you for your help on this
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- Please use the variable c_racel_dv. This question was asked of all adult respondents in wave 1 and after that only of...
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- I have a query re an output for ethnicity that a colleague has run.
The output below is for ethnicity. There appea... -
11/27/2015
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- Hello,
I wanted to know if it is possible to compare the effect of a variable in wave 1 with its effect in wave 5.
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- Hello,
I have the latest version (W5 release) of SN6614 and SN7248 and have a question about residential mobility ... -
11:04 AM Support #454 (Closed): BHPS hhch12 variable in INDRESP files
- There is a minor discrepancy between the labelling and text for variable hhch12 in each of the indresp files. An exam...
11/26/2015
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- Olena,
Thanks a lot for your response.
I read the User Guide and several questions on the forum (in particular ...
11/25/2015
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- Hi Alex,
the online data set documentation includes a brief description of the content of the data files which you a...
11/24/2015
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- Thank you, I have read the imputation of income and other variables section. However, it doesn't say which questionna...
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- Gaelle,
We indeed expect some people to have 0 weights in nurse cross-sectional dataset. These are mostly TSMs in ... -
- Hi,
I am working on the nurse health assessment data combined to the blood sample data and the full main interview...
11/23/2015
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- Option 1: Use the w_egoalt file to identify same-sex partners in a household. Specifically, use variables: w_relation...
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