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From 02/22/2016 to 03/22/2016
03/22/2016
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04:10 PM Support #525 (Closed): Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
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- Dear Harini,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please could I direct you to the following datas...
03/21/2016
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06:07 PM Support #534: Using data for fertility factor study
- Dear Victoria,
Thank you for the directions! I am now applying for UK Data Archive username and password.
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- Dear Mikael,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Understanding Society data are accessible from the UK Data Service -... -
- Dear Audrina,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of iden... -
- Dear Declan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of ident... -
11:48 AM Support #535 (Closed): Creating duration of marriage variable
- I am trying to create a variable denoting duration of current marriage (years). The only wave with information on yea...
03/19/2016
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- Dear Sirs,
I work as a physician in Sweden, but I am now interested in the impact of various individual characteri...
03/18/2016
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06:51 PM Support #533 (Closed): Using the ego_alt datafile
- I am trying to examine people who have experienced care. I have attached an excel sheet containing the frequencies f...
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05:17 PM Support #532 (Closed): what is the head of household variable
- I'm trying to identify the variable of the head of household to be combined with the head data from BHPS. BHPS has th...
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- Hi Alita,
I'm sorry for my poorly worded question. I believe that at the present time you have answered this query...
03/17/2016
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- Dear Luke,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The ONS provides the following lookup table between LAD and county:
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- Dear Gaelle,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I am just following this up with collegaues and will get back to you as... -
09:31 AM Support #531 (Closed): Context of blood sampling
- Hi,
I am working on the Nurse Health Assessment database (nurse and blood) combined to the full main interview. I ...
03/16/2016
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- Dear Pauline,
I have consulted with our survey manager, who has provided the following response:
On Understandi... -
09:55 AM Support #530 (Closed): Proxy interview rules
- I work at ONS on the Labour Force Survey
I was just wondering if you could provide me with some details on how yo...
03/15/2016
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04:23 PM Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents
- Hi Zoe,
I am not sure what your question is. Could you please let us know the name of variable you are looking for... -
- Hi Alita,
Thank you for that. Is there a way to create a subsample which would control all the youth 10-15? I trie... -
01:00 PM Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
- Thanks, It has been a great help indeed.
Ujjwal -
- Use w_hiqual_dv.
Read about it in the online documentation.
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12:18 PM Support #527 (Closed): HoH
- In BHPS there was an identifier for head of household (*HOH) in the individual file. Is there an identifier for head ...
03/14/2016
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- Hi, Thanks for this clarification. Any suggestions how I can incorporate the initial academic qualification for those...
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- Hello Ujjwal,
You are correct the BHPS respondents were not asked the initial conditions questions and so this der... -
- Dear all,
After combining wave 2-5 of Understanding Society (US) the -8 (inapplicable)responses of the variable w... -
- No, you don't need secure access to get information about children in the households. But note children under the age...
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- Hi I am trying to identify the child respondents throughout the waves. I want to examine who is in care and who is n...
03/11/2016
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02:52 PM Support #524 (Closed): Geographical identifiers
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I was wondering if there was a restricted dataset that contained information on which county (ceremonial or me...
03/10/2016
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- Sorry the note about this variable in the online documentation was wrong. It mentioned that the variable used informa...
03/09/2016
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- This question is asked of adults (16+) as part of the adult individual questionnaire. It is asked the first time some...
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03:35 PM Support #522: ukborn?
- Victoria,
To clarify, my intention is a longitudinal analysis over several waves of BHPS and US, and I would like t... -
- Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria.
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- Dear Carys,
There are some sections of the questionnaire which are licensed from a third party – the SF12 battery ... -
- Dear Carys,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria
O...
03/08/2016
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11:54 PM Support #523 (Closed): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire
- Can you please advise whether it is possible to use certain items from the BHPS questionnaire to comprise part of a n...
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- Where is this variable located please? in BHPS it's in xwavedat, and your guidance says for US it's in indall, but I ...
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03/07/2016
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- Not everyone gets asked every question. They only get asked the questions that are relevant to them. For example, a p...
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07:57 PM Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicable
- Hello,
For a lot of variables in the survey, there is a value 'inapplicable' for the majority of them. Can you ple... -
10:14 AM Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?
- Till,
Thank you. With regard to people who completed self-completion questionnaire but have 0 weights: this issue ...
03/03/2016
03/02/2016
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- Hello Christopher,
I have just replicated what you have done and I found 10,514 individuals in both waves J and O.... -
08:04 PM Support #515 (Closed): Matching pid across waves
- I have merged whhresp and windresp files using a m:1 match as you mentioned before. However, when matching pid betwee...
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- Apologies, I have re-merged my data and resolved the issue
Thanks
03/01/2016
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- Dear Rachel,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We have checked with the UK Data Service and unfortun... -
10:47 AM Support #513: e_indscus_lw
- Thanks for replying, Olena. I appreciate your help!
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- Orla,
For most of longitudinal analysis one can use only full data, i.e. only people who have responded in all wav...
02/29/2016
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- Hi there,
I am looking at wave O, specifically files ohhresp and oindresp. However, for variables osvack, onvestk,... -
- Thanks for the help. Sorry but I need to clarify. No I am interested in longitudinal analysis - I want to model cha...
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- Orla,
0-weight indicates skipping the whole self-completion questionnaire, not a few questions within. From your c... -
- Thanks Olena.
A few more queries (if I may). I'm trying to analyse data from individuals from the self-completion... -
- Orla,
For most of the 0-cases in lw sc weight there is at least one missing response to self-completion questionna... -
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02/26/2016
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- Hello,
I'm trying to use this longitudinal weight variable for analyzing data across waves 2-5 from the self-compl...
02/25/2016
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- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are looking into this and will get back to you as soon as we can.
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02/24/2016
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12:53 PM Support #512 (Closed): Accessing the linked NPD dataset
- Good afternoon,
I work at the Office for National Statistics on Children's well-being. The Understanding Society dat... -
- Very helpful - thanks a lot!
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- There is almost unlimited number of sets of weights we could provide. Yet providing w2+ longitudinal sc weights can b...
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- Great thanks. I'm not using data from W1 for that reason. I thought the BHPS would be included in the longitudinal ...
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- Yes, the variables are correct. Note, the BHPS sample will be excluded (as it is not in wave 1 of UKHLS). But you sti...
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- thanks - no I had an earlier version of Wave 2 that I downloaded in 2014. I'll download the most recent file.
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- Hello Orla,
The variable b_sceverdrnk is available in b_indresp. Are you looking at the latest version of this fil...
02/23/2016
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- Hello,
I was wondering if there is a variable SCEVERDRNK available for Wave 2? I can't seem to see it in the Stat... -
- Dear Will,
After further investigation we have established that the nurse protocol is correct (feedback is based o... -
- Hi Laia,
This question was asked of female respondents where the newborn child lives with the parent. Most of the ... -
- Dear Tenghao,
Many thanks for your enquiry. For this, you would need to apply via the METADAC for genetics data co... -
- Although issue 509 is about understanding society (ukhls) - the file structures for the two surveys are almost identi...
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- I am not sure why you cannot find pid but here are two possible reasons:
(1) In the BHPS all variables are lower c... -
- The reason for this difference is that in the second method you are only selecting individual adult respondents from ...
02/22/2016
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01:11 PM Support #510 (Closed): Phenotype variables availablit Genetic data application
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We are a research group planning to carry out a GWAS project and would like to apply for the genetic data of U... -
12:26 PM Support #503: Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?
- Dear Olena and Alita,
Thank you for the updates. I will omit these cases for now.
It also appears that there a... -
11:53 AM Support #509 (Closed): Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves
- Hello,
Please could you let me know if the following way is valid for merging household data into individual files. ...
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