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From 12/10/2015 to 01/08/2016
01/08/2016
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08:08 PM Support #473: Zero income from labour but high job satisfaction
- Victoria
Thanks. There does appear to be one difference--the income from labor in US appears to be top-coded, wherea... -
07:43 PM Support #473: Zero income from labour but high job satisfaction
- Dear Chris,
Based on the information you provided, I think you will find that the those with zero employment incom... -
05:19 PM Support #481: Should household identifier match (for most respondents) across waves?
- Hi Alita,
Fantastic, thanks for your response (and so quickly).
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05:15 PM Support #481 (In Progress): Should household identifier match (for most respondents) across waves?
- Hi Phil,
There is no concept of a longitudinal household in Understanding Society. As households change it is diff... -
- Do household identifiers (b_hidp, and c_hidp) match across waves (for respondents who do not move home)?
I've crea... -
- The best way to find out is to either search in the questionnaire for the wave you are interested in
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04:16 PM Support #463: Job History Data
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Yes, it is called w_gor_dv (w is the wave prefix)
Ahh ok thank you very much. Also, I was st...
01/07/2016
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- Yes, it is called w_gor_dv (w is the wave prefix)
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- Alita Nandi wrote:
> As the reasons for this decision was not dependant on any individual, household or regional cha... -
- Dear Paco,
Yes, this question was only asked of 16-21 year olds in wave 5. Other adult respondents were not asked ... -
- Dear Paco,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I am just following this up with colleagues and I will get back to you w... -
- Dear Veronique,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
qfhigh_dv includes vocational qualifications which could not be f... -
10:52 AM Support #480 (Closed): Analysis by highest educational or vocational qualification
- We are planning to analyse some of the Understanding Society variables by highest educational or vocational qualifica...
01/06/2016
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- Victoria
Thanks for your update. I've been using both BHPS and Understanding Society data. In BHPS, I've been using ... -
03:05 PM Support #477: Childcare module
- Hi Chris,
the w_child.dta files include a number of pointers to the various people who may have provided information... -
- Dear Charlie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to my colleague Gundi who will be able to respond... -
- Dear Kristina,
I have checked with colleagues and we do not carry that question, or anything about life expectancy... -
- Dear Kristina,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I am just following this up with colleagues and I will get back to y... -
- Dear Chris,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I am just following this up with colleagues and I will get back to you ... -
- What data management or statistical softwares do you use? If you use Stata or SPSS then you could download the data i...
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05:31 AM Support #479 (Closed): Urgent - data accesss support
- I am looking to download data in a format that I can ideally use in excel. If not, I am willing to download any softw...
01/05/2016
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10:54 PM Support #478 (Closed): Sexual orientation in Wave e
- Hi there,
I see from the documentation that the variable e_sexuor is available in wave 5 of the panel.
However, i... -
03:44 PM Support #477 (Closed): Childcare module
- Is it possible to find the person number for the person completing the childcare module? The file c_child.sav include...
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- Dear Chris,
Thank you for your request.
Firstly for information, the routing information for each variable is ... -
- Dear Megan,
Mnany thanks for your enquiry.
There are different methods of finding variables available in the da... -
11:41 AM Support #476 (Closed): Variable LVLONG reoccurence
- Dear UKHLS support team,
--- Could I please confirm if a specific question that first occurred in the British Hou... -
- Hi Chris,
As Gundi said, the ECHP sample is not part of Understanding Society. However, if you are using the BHPS ... -
- Dear Chris,
the ECHP subsample did not become part of the Understanding Society sample because data collection for t...
01/04/2016
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- I am trying to understand the values of memorig, which codes the subsample in BHPS. I understand the meaning of value...
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- Hello
I have merged data from the BHPS with Understanding Society and have an issue with income data. In BHPS, two o... -
- There are many cases where income from labor is zero, but the respondent has a high level of job satisfaction. Could ...
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- Hi Alex,
As you can see from the Universe this was asked only of "proxy respondents" who were in paid work in the ... -
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- Hi Alex,
Please see "Example 6: Working with weights and complex survey design" of the "Introduction to Understand... -
12/27/2015
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06:14 PM Support #472 (Closed): Inapplicable Answers
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I looked at the variable c_pjbptft (whether they work full time or part time) in c_indresp (adult self comple... -
- I am doing cross-sectional analysis of wave 3 (adult self completion questionnaire), so I am aware I need to use the ...
12/23/2015
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10:38 AM Support #449 (Closed): Sexuality Variable
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- links should have been prepared. Thanks for making us aware of this problem. Jakob
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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 ... -
- 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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- Hi Veronique,
when you look at the online variable level description you will see that _jbnssec_dv is derived from _... -
- 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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- 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,
Ko... -
- 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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- 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...
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