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From 04/18/2016 to 05/17/2016
05/17/2016
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02:46 PM Support #511 (Closed): SCEVERDRNK variable Wave 2
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05/16/2016
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10:11 PM Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health
- Dear Understanding Society,
I wanted to ask about the process of applying to access the data for a research proje... -
12:56 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- I have previously asked ISER for the meaning of the alwstat codes in the egoalt file, but did so via email (not on th...
05/12/2016
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07:42 PM Support #564 (Closed): Is there an Opportunity to get the BHPS Waves 1-18 and BHPS data that's integrated in UKHLS as one big dataset?
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If I understood coorectly, the BHPS got completely integrated into UKHLS. So that the variables and questionair... -
04:46 PM Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel
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I'm wondering which are the most appropriate weights for my analysis. I'm analysing employment transitions betwe... -
- Hi Moyin,
Apologies for the delay. Please find attached details of the 2a/2b classificaitons for BHPS and UKHLS.
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- Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in responding. We do not currently provide a summary measure of housing/mortga... -
- Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your follow-up. My colleague Olena, who is responsible for weighting, is currently on le...
05/11/2016
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- Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for posting as an attachment! I have read the worksheets on weight...
05/10/2016
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05:16 PM Support #556: Death in BHPS and US
- Hi Emily,
"ret'ing" stands for "retiring" and "ret'd" for "retired". If you cross-tabulate astat with the variable l... -
- Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. In the first instance, please have a look at the worksheets on weighting i... -
- Hi all!
My questions are in the attached pdf file. Thanks very much for your help!
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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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- 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
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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 ... -
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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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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.
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- 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...
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