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From 03/23/2016 to 04/21/2016

04/21/2016

10:08 PM Support #550 (Closed): Interview date
Hi,
I am wondering how interview dates came about mainly in the BHPS, but also US.
How much control over interv...
Christoph Kronenberg
12:58 PM Support #548 (Feedback): Age variables BHPS and UKHLS
Hi Christa,
the variables wage in the BHPS and w_dvage in the UKHLS report the respondent's age at the time of the i...
Gundi Knies
11:03 AM Support #549 (Closed): self employment
Is e_jb2pay_dv a gross figure - it doesn't say on your web, as neither does it in the datafile, p90 of the user guide... david rhodes

04/20/2016

03:31 PM Support #548 (Closed): Age variables BHPS and UKHLS
Dear,
I was wondering which age-variables to use in my analyses of both the BHPS and UKHLS data? The BHPS provides...
Christa Hubers
02:50 PM Support #547 (Resolved): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS
Dear Christa,
masoc and pasoc on the BHPS data file XWAVEDAT report the 3-digit SOC 1990. The corresponding variable...
Gundi Knies
01:50 PM Support #547 (Closed): Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS
Dear,
I would like to compare 18-39 year old respondents from BHPS waves 13-17 with those from UKHLS waves 1-5. On...
Christa Hubers
09:31 AM Support #511 (In Progress): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
Dear Orla,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are just consulting with colleagues on this and will get backto you as...
Victoria Nolan
07:07 AM Support #537: Merged File Request
Dear Zoe,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gener...
Alita Nandi

04/19/2016

04:29 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Dear Zoe,
Many thanks for your email.
The status of all posts is changed to public after we have verified that ...
Victoria Nolan
03:19 PM Support #543: household income
Thank you. Could you confirm that BHPS does not have an equivalent variable - it appears that the household level var... david rhodes
02:08 PM Support #541: Health conditions module
This doesn't appear to be the case with the health questions in BHPS - HLPRBA to HLPRBM, as these appear (by the lack... david rhodes
10:51 AM Support #541: Health conditions module
Thank you. As there do not appear to be these health questions in the xwave data compiled for all respondents, does t... david rhodes
09:14 AM Support #541 (Feedback): Health conditions module
Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - I was consulting with c...
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Support #533 (Closed): Using the ego_alt datafile
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Support #535 (Closed): Creating duration of marriage variable
Victoria Nolan
09:20 AM Support #531 (Closed): Context of blood sampling
Victoria Nolan

04/18/2016

09:42 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Gundi
Re your message:
I am not familiar with SPSS but I have written Stata code to identify all those respond...
zoe young
01:54 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita,
I am having trouble still with the merge. I have been able to do the merge for a and b but when i try to ...
zoe young
02:33 PM Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
hello,
I just wanted to follow-up on my earlier question relating to variable SCEVERDRNK (Wave 2). I've downloaded...
Orla McBride

04/15/2016

02:42 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
I am sorry Zoe we are not allowed to send these data directly. You should be able to do this appending without using ... Alita Nandi
01:23 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita
I have already changed the macro to say indall as instructed in the documents to merge multiple files
Is...
zoe young
12:37 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hello Zoe,
The macro ukhlscombine allows you to combine different wave indresp files. You are using indall files. ...
Alita Nandi
11:39 AM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alia,
I have tried throughout the night and I still get an error message when I run the syntax, however the files...
zoe young

04/14/2016

06:18 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita,
I am having trouble running the macro. I keep getting line 45 REN Var - Undefined variable name. I have ...
zoe young
05:17 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
It has now been uploaded and you will find it in the online Moodle course "Introduction to Understanding Society Usin... Alita Nandi
04:55 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Gundi,
Can you please tell me where I can get UKHLScombine.sps?
thanks
Zoe
zoe young
04:25 PM Support #545: I would like data for C-reactive protein
Just to add:
If you go to the Understanding Society website and use the search function, you can get to any variab...
Victoria Nolan
04:22 PM Support #545 (Resolved): I would like data for C-reactive protein
Dear Gemma,
The C-Reactive protein data can be found in the nurse health assessment data (collected at waves 2 and...
Victoria Nolan
03:44 PM Support #545 (Closed): I would like data for C-reactive protein
Hello,
I would like to access the data for C-reactive protein as I wish to look at its association with job charac...
Gemma Daly
04:04 PM Support #539 (Resolved): matlv: Had period of maternity/paternity leave
Dear Muzhi,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This may have been done to reflect maternity and paternity leave rules a...
Victoria Nolan

04/13/2016

09:42 AM Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality
Hi,
I'm using the British Household Panel data 1991-2007 in my master thesis. I'm especially interested in the sur...
Thea Elnan

04/12/2016

04:55 PM Support #537 (In Progress): Merged File Request
Hi Zoe,
you are right; it is very difficult to explain all this in text. The process of identifying those in care/fo...
Gundi Knies
03:45 PM Support #543 (Resolved): household income
Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
hhnetinc1 does not include additional deductions from income over and...
Victoria Nolan
02:55 PM Support #543 (Closed): household income
The on-line documentation says that hhnetinc1 is the monthly total household net income - no deductions; and that fih... david rhodes
09:56 AM Support #542 (Feedback): Partner Relationship Quality Measure
Dear Meg,
Many thanks for your enquiry. These questions were taken from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) - unfort...
Victoria Nolan

04/11/2016

03:56 PM Support #542 (Closed): Partner Relationship Quality Measure
Hello,
I am enquiring about the questions relating to partner relationship quality as part of the adult self-compl...
Meg Stapleton
03:34 PM Support #541 (Closed): Health conditions module
Who is asked about their health (Hcond) please?
The questionnaire indicates that -8=n/a, but the data records 80%+ ...
david rhodes
09:07 AM Support #538: missing proxy interviews in wave 1
Thanks for identifying these cases. xwaveid is the file that provides interview outcomes for all waves. So, I identif... Alita Nandi

04/07/2016

04:55 PM Support #539 (Closed): matlv: Had period of maternity/paternity leave
I have just checked the questionnaire for waves involved and noticed this question is only asked when:
If (ff_ivlolw...
Muzhi ZHOU
02:22 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Hi Alita,
I have further examined the EGOALT file and believe that I can not use this file for the intended purpose....
zoe young

04/06/2016

12:59 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
Thank you for the above information. I have examined the EGOALT and I have a question regarding pidp and apidp varia... zoe young

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
 

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