Activity
From 04/08/2016 to 05/07/2016
05/06/2016
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05:25 PM Support #511: SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
- Note that 959 persons had left both boxes of Q23 blank (so -9 was coded) but had filled in b_scfalcdrnk categories 1-...
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- B_SCEVERDRNK was mislabelled: 1 means they ticked the "Have never had an alcoholic drink" box. We will revise it. Tha...
05/04/2016
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- Thanks for letting us know that m_rename is not available in the Moodle course. It has now been uploaded. Check the f...
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06:52 PM Support #537: Merged File Request
- Hi Gundi,
can you please post the m_rename.sps macro for exercise 8? i am reworking through the exercises.
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02:44 PM Support #537 (Resolved): Merged File Request
- Further to my last post, it has puzzled me why your interpretation of Stata code does not yield the same number of in...
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- Hi Christa,
when you are unsure about which relationships are covered in a variable pointing to a significant other ... -
03:23 PM Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS
- Hello,
Just for clarification: is the hgspn variable in BHPS waves 1-18 the same as ppno in UKHLS? It is not exact...
05/03/2016
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- Hi Zoe,
as we have said before, it is bejond the remit of this support forum to work through individual user's code ... -
09:51 AM Support #556 (In Progress): Death in BHPS and US
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04/29/2016
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06:08 PM Support #554: Special license data for non-UK issues
- Hi Victoria,
Thank you very much for your reply. I read through the links you gave me, I still have 3 more quest... -
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I have managed to finally perform steps 1 and 2. In case other people read this feed you need to:
ADD FILES for... -
12:34 PM Support #556: Death in BHPS and US
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each i...
04/28/2016
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04:54 PM Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold
- Is it correct that to obtain the original purchase price and the amount borrowed at purchase for mortgagors it is nec...
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- Dear Moyin,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the broken link, we will get this fixed.
Medium level g... -
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- Dear Alba,
The great majority of differences are proxy cases for which we do include the component values in the d... -
- Please note that the data structure of indsamp is different from indresp or indall. Here each individual can have mor...
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- Additionally:
In the BHPS, as in UKHLS, you can also identify deceased respondents using "wivfio" variable in "winds... -
10:53 AM Support #556: Death in BHPS and US
- Emily,
There is a cross-wave variable indicating final known status of respondents: it is astat in xwlsten.dta dat... -
09:30 AM Support #550: Interview date
- Great, thanks Victoria!
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- Hi Christoph,
In the BHPS, the respondent never reports the date of interview, it’s always done by the interviewer...
04/27/2016
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- Thanks Vicotria,
that is helpful, as a follow up:
At least in the BHPS (haven't checked US yet) there are vars wh... -
- How can I determine whether an individual in BHPS has died at following waves, including during their time in Underst...
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03:22 PM Support #555 (Closed): Household and individual income components
- We are researching changes in household income over time, and are interested in determining which components (labour ...
04/26/2016
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- Hi Vanessa,
further to Victoria's response, I am now uploading the code that we run to create a proxy for the Unders... -
- Hi Vanessa,
Many thanks for your enquiry and for transferring it to the user support forum.
Please can I refer ... -
03:38 PM Support #553 (Closed): Measuring highest level of education in both the BHPS and US data
- Dear Victoria,
I noted that you responded to a colleague’s question on this matter, but provided the solution via... -
- Hi there,
I'm a PhD student from the U.S.. I'm working with my professors on a social exclusion project that co... -
- Hi Alita,
I have been trying to do the steps Gundi mentioned was done in stata in spss. Is there a possibility of g...
04/25/2016
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- Hi Emily,
we are aware that there are, unfortunately, problems with the correct display of some of the variable note... -
09:22 AM Support #551 (Closed): Hiqual_dv derivation
- I am looking for information about how the hiqual_dv variable is derived. I have found on the website the following i...
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- Dear Christoph,
Advance letters are sent to adults living in households that we are issuing to field. The advance ... -
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- Dear Thea,
Many thanks for your enquiry and I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
These questions are...
04/23/2016
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- Hi Alita,
Thank you for you help.
zoe
04/22/2016
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- The variable w_Jb2pay_dv relates to second job, not self-employment, and it is monthly gross income.
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- 1. For net income for BHPS please take a look at the net income files also available from the UKDA Study Number 3909
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- I think I need to compute equivalent variables to netinc1 and hhnetinc1 with the BHPS - can you clarify what '31 rent...
04/21/2016
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- Hi,
I am wondering how interview dates came about mainly in the BHPS, but also US.
How much control over interv... -
- 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... -
- 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...
04/20/2016
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- Dear,
I was wondering which age-variables to use in my analyses of both the BHPS and UKHLS data? The BHPS provides... -
- Dear Christa,
masoc and pasoc on the BHPS data file XWAVEDAT report the 3-digit SOC 1990. The corresponding variable... -
- Dear,
I would like to compare 18-39 year old respondents from BHPS waves 13-17 with those from UKHLS waves 1-5. On... -
- Dear Orla,
Many thanks for your enquiry. We are just consulting with colleagues on this and will get backto you as... -
- Dear Zoe,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gener...
04/19/2016
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- Dear Zoe,
Many thanks for your email.
The status of all posts is changed to public after we have verified that ... -
- Thank you. Could you confirm that BHPS does not have an equivalent variable - it appears that the household level var...
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- This doesn't appear to be the case with the health questions in BHPS - HLPRBA to HLPRBM, as these appear (by the lack...
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- Thank you. As there do not appear to be these health questions in the xwave data compiled for all respondents, does t...
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- Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - I was consulting with c... -
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04/18/2016
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- Hi Gundi
Re your message:
I am not familiar with SPSS but I have written Stata code to identify all those respond... -
- 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 ... -
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...
04/15/2016
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- I am sorry Zoe we are not allowed to send these data directly. You should be able to do this appending without using ...
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- Hi Alita
I have already changed the macro to say indall as instructed in the documents to merge multiple files
Is... -
- Hello Zoe,
The macro ukhlscombine allows you to combine different wave indresp files. You are using indall files. ... -
- Hi Alia,
I have tried throughout the night and I still get an error message when I run the syntax, however the files...
04/14/2016
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- Hi Alita,
I am having trouble running the macro. I keep getting line 45 REN Var - Undefined variable name. I have ... -
- It has now been uploaded and you will find it in the online Moodle course "Introduction to Understanding Society Usin...
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- Hi Gundi,
Can you please tell me where I can get UKHLScombine.sps?
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- Just to add:
If you go to the Understanding Society website and use the search function, you can get to any variab... -
- Dear Gemma,
The C-Reactive protein data can be found in the nurse health assessment data (collected at waves 2 and... -
03:44 PM Support #545 (Closed): I would like data for C-reactive protein
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I would like to access the data for C-reactive protein as I wish to look at its association with job charac... -
- Dear Muzhi,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This may have been done to reflect maternity and paternity leave rules a...
04/13/2016
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09:42 AM Support #544 (Closed): Background informations on the questions in BHPS/US data regarding gender equality
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I'm using the British Household Panel data 1991-2007 in my master thesis. I'm especially interested in the sur...
04/12/2016
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- Hi Zoe,
you are right; it is very difficult to explain all this in text. The process of identifying those in care/fo... -
- Dear David,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
hhnetinc1 does not include additional deductions from income over and... -
- The on-line documentation says that hhnetinc1 is the monthly total household net income - no deductions; and that fih...
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- Dear Meg,
Many thanks for your enquiry. These questions were taken from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) - unfort...
04/11/2016
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03:56 PM Support #542 (Closed): Partner Relationship Quality Measure
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I am enquiring about the questions relating to partner relationship quality as part of the adult self-compl... -
- Who is asked about their health (Hcond) please?
The questionnaire indicates that -8=n/a, but the data records 80%+ ... -
- Thanks for identifying these cases. xwaveid is the file that provides interview outcomes for all waves. So, I identif...
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