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From 03/06/2016 to 04/04/2016

04/04/2016

04:17 PM Support #538 (Closed): missing proxy interviews in wave 1
Hi, I have been using UKHLS dataset, and I found a few (six cases I found) proxy interview information is missing in ... Yujung Whang
03:49 PM Support #534 (Closed): Using data for fertility factor study
Victoria Nolan
03:49 PM Support #532 (Closed): what is the head of household variable
Victoria Nolan
03:49 PM Support #527 (Closed): HoH
Victoria Nolan
03:48 PM Support #526 (Closed): Identifying Child Respondents
Victoria Nolan
03:48 PM Support #524 (Closed): Geographical identifiers
Victoria Nolan
03:47 PM Support #530 (Closed): Proxy interview rules
Victoria Nolan
03:46 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
About whether you should use lvag14 or relationship_dv - depends on who you are analysing. relationship_dv tells you ... Alita Nandi
01:02 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi alita,
I am trying to examine those who experienced care versus those who have not by examining educational attai...
zoe young
08:58 AM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Zoe,
Which software are you using for Data Management? We offer guides to merging data files across many waves ...
Alita Nandi
03:25 PM Support #531 (Feedback): Context of blood sampling
Dear Gaelle,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this. We have gone back to the ...
Victoria Nolan

03/29/2016

05:55 PM Support #537 (Closed): Merged File Request
I am wondering if there is a merger file or a way to obtain a merged file for waves 1-5 including the files _egoalt a... zoe young

03/23/2016

12:06 PM Support #533 (Feedback): Using the ego_alt datafile
Dear Zoe,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
You should use the relationship_dv variable – this corrects a couple of...
Victoria Nolan
11:59 AM Support #535: Creating duration of marriage variable
Dear Harini,
One possibility is that the cases that you have cited dropped out of the panel before 2008 and the st...
Victoria Nolan
11:14 AM Support #535: Creating duration of marriage variable
Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your help - the dataset you have guided me towards is exactly what I need. I ...
Harini Annadanam

03/22/2016

04:10 PM Support #525 (Closed): Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
04:09 PM Support #522 (Closed): ukborn?
Victoria Nolan
04:09 PM Support #523 (Closed): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire
Victoria Nolan
04:09 PM Support #520 (Closed): Variable Value : Unapplicable
Victoria Nolan
04:05 PM Support #503 (Closed): Inconsistencies in self-completion module of wave three?
Victoria Nolan
04:04 PM Support #535 (Feedback): Creating duration of marriage variable
Dear Harini,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please could I direct you to the following datas...
Victoria Nolan

03/21/2016

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.

Bes...
Mikael Haggstrom
02:21 PM Support #534 (Resolved): Using data for fertility factor study
Dear Mikael,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Understanding Society data are accessible from the UK Data Service -...
Victoria Nolan
02:13 PM Support #532 (Feedback): what is the head of household variable
Dear Audrina,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of iden...
Victoria Nolan
02:12 PM Support #527 (Feedback): HoH
Dear Declan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Two previous posts in the forum have responded to the question of ident...
Victoria Nolan
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... Harini Annadanam

03/19/2016

05:59 PM Support #534 (Closed): Using data for fertility factor study
Dear Sirs,
I work as a physician in Sweden, but I am now interested in the impact of various individual characteri...
Mikael Haggstrom

03/18/2016

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... zoe young
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... audrina li
12:52 PM Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents
Hi Alita,
I'm sorry for my poorly worded question. I believe that at the present time you have answered this query...
zoe young

03/17/2016

10:10 AM Support #524 (Feedback): Geographical identifiers
Dear Luke,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The ONS provides the following lookup table between LAD and county:
ht...
Victoria Nolan
09:57 AM Support #531 (In Progress): Context of blood sampling
Dear Gaelle,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I am just following this up with collegaues and will get back to you as...
Victoria Nolan
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 ...
Gaelle Albertus

03/16/2016

11:54 AM Support #515 (Closed): Matching pid across waves
Victoria Nolan
11:54 AM Support #512 (Closed): Accessing the linked NPD dataset
Victoria Nolan
11:53 AM Support #513 (Closed): e_indscus_lw
Victoria Nolan
10:59 AM Support #530 (Resolved): Proxy interview rules
Dear Pauline,
I have consulted with our survey manager, who has provided the following response:
On Understandi...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Pauline Beck

03/15/2016

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...
Alita Nandi
02:51 PM Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents
Hi Alita,
Thank you for that. Is there a way to create a subsample which would control all the youth 10-15? I trie...
zoe young
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
Ujjwal Kumar Das
11:15 AM Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
Use w_hiqual_dv.
Read about it in the online documentation.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation...
Alita Nandi
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 ... declan french

03/14/2016

07:47 PM Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
Hi, Thanks for this clarification. Any suggestions how I can incorporate the initial academic qualification for those... Ujjwal Kumar Das
05:33 PM Support #525: Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
Hello Ujjwal,
You are correct the BHPS respondents were not asked the initial conditions questions and so this der...
Alita Nandi
11:19 AM Support #525 (Closed): Inapplicable responses are so high for academic qualification- BHPS cohort of Understanding Society
Dear all,
After combining wave 2-5 of Understanding Society (US) the -8 (inapplicable)responses of the variable w...
Ujjwal Kumar Das
05:16 PM Support #526: Identifying Child Respondents
No, you don't need secure access to get information about children in the households. But note children under the age... Alita Nandi
11:43 AM Support #526 (Closed): Identifying Child Respondents
Hi I am trying to identify the child respondents throughout the waves. I want to examine who is in care and who is n... zoe young

03/11/2016

02:52 PM Support #524 (Closed): Geographical identifiers
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a restricted dataset that contained information on which county (ceremonial or me...
Luke Munford

03/10/2016

12:35 PM Support #522: ukborn?
Sorry the note about this variable in the online documentation was wrong. It mentioned that the variable used informa... Alita Nandi

03/09/2016

05:20 PM Support #522: ukborn?
This question is asked of adults (16+) as part of the adult individual questionnaire. It is asked the first time some... Alita Nandi
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...
david rhodes
08:47 AM Support #522 (In Progress): ukborn?
Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria.
...
Victoria Nolan
02:42 PM Support #523 (Resolved): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire
Dear Carys,
There are some sections of the questionnaire which are licensed from a third party – the SF12 battery ...
Victoria Nolan
08:48 AM Support #523 (In Progress): Using BHPS items in new questionnaire
Dear Carys,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes, Victoria
O...
Victoria Nolan

03/08/2016

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... Carys Chainey
04:27 PM Support #522 (Closed): ukborn?
Where is this variable located please? in BHPS it's in xwavedat, and your guidance says for US it's in indall, but I ... david rhodes
04:05 PM Support #506 (Closed): weights and design variables query Waves 2-5
Victoria Nolan
04:05 PM Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
Victoria Nolan
04:05 PM Support #507 (Closed): 'inapplicable' on newborn.dta
Victoria Nolan
04:04 PM Support #510 (Closed): Phenotype variables availablit Genetic data application
Victoria Nolan
04:04 PM Support #508 (Closed): BHPS identifying households or individuals across waves
Victoria Nolan
03:57 PM Support #509 (Closed): Using household identifier from xwaveid.dta to merge data across waves
Victoria Nolan

03/07/2016

10:36 PM Support #520: Variable Value : Unapplicable
Not everyone gets asked every question. They only get asked the questions that are relevant to them. For example, a p... Alita Nandi
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...
claudia cuchi
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 ...
Olena Kaminska
 

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