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From 01/10/2016 to 02/08/2016
02/08/2016
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03:47 PM Support #499: Blood pressure feedback
- Dear Will,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are actively looking into this at the moment and will respond as soon ... -
Thanks Angela for your reply - I've added it here as it is a reply to this post rather than a new issue, and I will...-
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- Garbiella Melis wrote:
thank you very much for your suggestion, although instead of the w_hsownd I have used the d... -
11:14 AM Support #500 (Closed): ever had/fathered children
- In the indresp file there is a variable lprnt: Variable label = ever had/fathered children
I am analysing wave 3 d...
02/05/2016
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05:59 PM Support #487: Understanding Society variable: change jobs
- Dear Victoria and Alita,
Thank you very much for this information!
Best wishes,
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03:00 PM Support #487: Understanding Society variable: change jobs
- Dear Mariska,
There was a scripting error for this routing flag. These cases were assigned a value of -9. This iss... -
11:02 AM Support #499 (Closed): Blood pressure feedback
Hi,
I am working with the blood pressure data from the wave 2/3 nurse health assessment data and I am hoping y...
02/04/2016
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- As explained in Issue# 290
"Both in the BHPS and Understanding Society, the household questionnaire is completed b... -
- Dear Eric,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Primary/Secondary SEN type is a very sensitive data item for DfE and a... -
- Hi Angela,
You are correct it is based on the EW version of the Census ethnic group qusetion. These can still be u... -
- Dear Angela,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are actively looking into this at the moment and we will be able to ... -
- Dear Mariska,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies for the delay in responding.
We are actively looking... -
- Dear Ante,
The correct labels should be
3 ”no”
4 “considered in the past and rejected”
We will be correctin... -
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11:27 AM Support #498: weight youth self-completion + adult
- Many Thanks Olena, found it!
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11:09 AM Support #498: weight youth self-completion + adult
- Carolina,
For w1-w2 analysis you should use b_psnenus_lw weight, and for 1-3 waves, it should be c_psnenus_lw.
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- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for this prompt reply.
Just to make sure I understood, if I use individuals who are 15 in w1 ... -
- Carolina,
The best weight for your analysis is an enumeration longitudinal weight taken from the last wave of your... -
- Hello,
I would like to follow individuals (14-15 yrs) who completed the self-completion youth questionnaire into the... -
- Dear Matteo,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
All the files (Understanding Society waves 1-5, NPD linkage files, s...
02/03/2016
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10:05 PM Support #497 (Closed): NPD linkage to Primary/Secondary SEN type?
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We are contracted through Public Health England to contribute to their Knowledge and Intelligence Directorate ... -
- Gabriella Melis wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for your answer below.
Hence, for UndSoc we must assume that the pers... -
10:48 AM Support #496 (Closed): Clarification Query - Understanding Society linked NPD, and Understanding Society with School Codes
- Dear Understanding Society team,
My name is Matteo and I would like to ask you some clarifications regarding, nam...
02/02/2016
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02/01/2016
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03:32 PM Support #495 (Closed): ethnicity
- Hi all
I think you might need to clarify the Racel variable on your questionnaire. It states in your questionnaire... -
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09:41 AM Support #494 (Closed): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis
- We are aware that some users wish to pool data from multiple waves for the purpose of cross-sectional estimation (for...
01/28/2016
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- Dear Carolina,
In wave 1, these questions were asked of the first six months sample (a_month>=1 & a_month<=6), tha... -
- If there is someone who has completed school but is in further education, for them ascend>0 but afeend==-8. So, by yo...
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- Hello Gabriella,
You can construct the hrp variable for Understanding Society using the variables:
w_hidp, w_pno,... -
11:30 AM Support #492: Identifying HRP in UndSoc - comparable with BHPS HRP
- Gabriella Melis wrote:
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- Hi,
Thank you for your answer below.
Hence, for UndSoc we must assume that the person who answered the HH quest...
01/27/2016
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- Hi Alita,
Stefanie emailed me with the details below - are you able yo follow up? Many thanks, Victoria.
Dear V... -
01:08 PM Support #493 (Closed): Difference in response 3 and 4 for solar questions
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm referring to the summarised responses for variables d_solar1, d_solar2 and d_solar3 in wave... -
- Dear Min Zhang,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Please refer to the variable _hiqual_dv and its description. To cons... -
- Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I am assigning this to my colleague Alita who will be able to get bac... -
- Dear David,
Please refer to this earlier query for a response that hopefully answers your question?
https://www... -
- Dear Gabriella,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies for any confusion. I think in that earlier issue, the ...
01/26/2016
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- Hi,
please, I have already seen that this same query was dealt with around a year ago here: https://www.understand...
01/25/2016
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03:04 PM Support #490 (Resolved): Modified oecd equivalence scale
- Dear David,
for the purpose of deriving this scale Understanding Society currently defines children as persons aged ... -
- Hello,
I am working with Wave 1, and I wanted to know why the number of missing cases is so high for the mother & ...
01/22/2016
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05:00 PM Support #490 (Closed): Modified oecd equivalence scale
- What are the criteria used in this scale? I find the applicable variables in the HH file misleading. eg. wave 'e' ind...
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- How do I identify the HRP? Although the HH data is answered by the HRP ('usually'), there are no details of sex, age,...
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04:46 PM Support #488 (Closed): Matching educational qualification in BHPS and Understanding Society
- Dear Sir/Madam,
Could you please advise me how to match the educational qualification variables in the BHPS and Unde... -
- I was trying to look at who changed jobs using waves 2, 3, and 4 of Understanding Society. For this I looked at wheth...
01/21/2016
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- Hi Sharon,
Sorry about the confusion - the above Stata code was an example to show how to merge the different file... -
12:22 PM Support #482: Siblings variable in BHPS Wave 13
- Hi thanks for the reply,
Unfortunately when I follow those commands for my data I end up only retaining the three ...
01/20/2016
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- Error: For the BHPS the unique cross-wave individual identifier is "pid" and not "pidp" ("pidp" is for Understanding ...
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- Hello,
To merge individual level files from different waves use pidp. For example,
use pidp kmaju using kindresp,... -
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01/19/2016
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- Dear Stefanie,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Would you be able to send on a copy of the syntax that you are usi... -
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01/17/2016
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- Since some variables in Wave 13 do not have enough responses, I am trying to merge variables from other waves into th...
01/14/2016
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- Dear Chris,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.
Annual income is not stric... -
12:25 PM Support #486 (Closed): BHPS education leaving age variables
- Hi, I'm trying to create a variable for bhps that gives an overall 'education leaving age' which takes account of sch...
01/13/2016
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- Dear Jessica,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
There is no problem with you using this education question - it was... -
11:21 AM Support #485 (Closed): Query about adapting and using a question from the survey
I'd like to use an adapted version of this question in an academic research project and I wasn’t sure whether I nee...-
- Dear Jack,
Many thanks - I have passed on your comments to our data linkage team.
Best wishes, Victoria. -
10:10 AM Support #484: Matching data to new administrative datasets
- Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your quick reply. I feared this would be the case, but thought it worth check...
01/12/2016
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- Yes. Indall includes some basic information on every household member (all ages) of every responding household in tha...
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- Thank you for your help Alita & Victoria, that is extremely useful to know!
Additionally, concerning the youth qu... -
- Dear Jack,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, linking respondents to the School Workforce Census woul... -
- I am exploring the prospect of using Understanding Society data for a research project on teachers, as there are arou...
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- Hi Charlie,
I have looked into your follow-up question (posted below for the benefit of other users who may come acr...
01/11/2016
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- Yes the category 'inapplicable' is for individuals with 0 siblings (MSIBS=2). It is also inapplicable for individuals...
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- Dear Sharon,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to my colleague Alita who will be able to respond ... -
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- Dear Chris,
If you would like Understanding Society data with income not top-coded then you would need to apply vi...
01/10/2016
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- Hi I am using the BHPS Wave 13 to undertake some undergraduate research.
I am unclear about the variable 'mnsibs' ...
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