Understanding Society User Support

06/23/2016

06:25 PM Support #585 (Closed): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed

I have a question relating to respondents living in households which were contacted by an interviewer but with whom n... Sanne Velthuis

03:28 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

yes.
Alita Nandi

01:59 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your reply. So I think that I need to use the egoalt file, because I want to consider only ch... Dan Brown

01:40 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Following up on point 4 above - As children of OSM fathers or TSM mothers are not OSMs, their newborns will not have ... Alita Nandi

01:43 PM Support #584 (Feedback): New births in understanding society

Victoria Nolan

01:32 PM Support #584: New births in understanding society

Hi Emma,
please take a look at table 66 in the Understanding Society Quality Profile. It reports, among other stats,... Gundi Knies

12:09 PM Support #578 (Closed): physical activity data

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables

Victoria Nolan

12:08 PM Support #571 (Closed): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Victoria Nolan

06/22/2016

11:00 AM Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society

I would like to know how many new births there are for the sample, in each wave. Emma Tominey

06/21/2016

08:40 AM Support #581 (In Progress): bensta_tfalimony variables

Hi Debs,
Just to let you know we are looking into this - I have passed it on to Nick and hopefully will get a resp... Victoria Nolan

06/20/2016

04:06 PM Support #583 (In Progress): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Dear Pilar,
Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it here and will get back to you as soon as we can.... Victoria Nolan

06/18/2016

09:45 AM Support #583 (Closed): BHPS merging job history and interview data

Reposting because I am not sure my previous post is public/can be seen
Hi,
I am using the BHPS and merging job ... Pilar Gonalons Pons

06/14/2016

02:28 PM Support #581 (Closed): bensta_tfalimony variables

Dear Support,
We have received a query from one of our data users regarding the recording of maintenance/alimony p... Deborah Wiltshire

06/13/2016

04:15 PM Support #565 (In Progress): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Victoria Nolan

01:51 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes

Hi Alita,
Sorry to bother you again, but I have a follow up question relating to this thread from before:
I am ... Dan Brown

03:19 PM Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Victoria Nolan

03:18 PM Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS

Victoria Nolan

06/11/2016

04:37 PM Support #579 (In Progress): attrition question

Assuming you are Stata, some common minor mistakes that could have led to this problem:
(i) You coded the dummy var... Alita Nandi

03:49 PM Support #579 (Closed): attrition question

Hi I have merged 3 variables from wave3 to wave 5 they are : c_cgwri_dv, c_cgvfc_dv, and c_cgna_dv. I want to obtain... zoe young

06/08/2016

04:47 PM Support #575 (Resolved): Institutional accommodation definition

Dear Galit,
there are no exclusions of any type of institution. Interviews may take place in student halls, hospit... Gundi Knies

01:13 PM Support #578 (Feedback): physical activity data

Dear Christine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This would be covered in wave 5 via the Leisure, Culture and Sport m... Victoria Nolan

09:24 AM Support #571: routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Zoe,
the next release is planned for end of November 2016. We publish the latest plans here
https://www.underst... Gundi Knies

06/07/2016

11:39 AM Support #578 (Closed): physical activity data

I see that you have collected data for ‘type of exercise or sport’ for youth. Could you please tell me if anything li... christine roberts

11:12 AM Support #571: routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Hi Gundi,
Thanks for your reply.
Do you know shen is the next data release schedule for? Zoe Oldfield

06/06/2016

10:42 AM Support #574 (In Progress): Labour income variables

Dear Catherine,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Total labour income is the sum of income as an employee, income f... Victoria Nolan

09:52 AM Support #567 (Closed): Household Income vs. Housing costs

Victoria Nolan

09:51 AM Support #572 (Closed): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Support #563 (Closed): Weights when using the youth panel

Victoria Nolan

09:50 AM Support #561 (Closed): Survey design and longitudinal weight choice in unbalanced panels

Victoria Nolan

06/05/2016

08:29 AM Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition

I am looking for the definitions used for institution (type of dwelling) and for the categories of institutional acco... Galit Gordoni

06/04/2016

08:18 AM Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables

Hi,
I am doing some research which involves looking at wages. In the data for the variable "total monthly labour ... Catherine Taylor

06/03/2016

03:01 PM Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Megan,
1. Parental education was asked of the first 6 months sample (that is a quarter of the UKHLS sample) in ... Alita Nandi

01:34 PM Support #573 (In Progress): citizenship in BHPS

The individual cross-wave identifier is PID. You can use that to attach these variables to all waves.
Alternative... Alita Nandi

06/02/2016

01:10 PM Support #568 (Closed): BHPS: analysing results from children who have left the household and matching them to their parents

Victoria Nolan

06/01/2016

10:02 AM Support #571 (Feedback): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy

Dear Zoe,
further to my previous reply, I can now confirm that there has been a data processing error in Wave 2. The... Gundi Knies

05/31/2016

03:17 PM Support #566 (Closed): Data on children's mental health

Victoria Nolan

03:17 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?

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #557 (Closed): hscost mgold

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #556 (Closed): Death in BHPS and US

Victoria Nolan

03:16 PM Support #554 (Closed): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Support #554 (Resolved): Special license data for non-UK issues

Victoria Nolan

03:15 PM Support #560 (Closed): PNO of spouse in BHPS and UKHLS

Victoria Nolan

05/30/2016

04:33 PM Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS

Hi there
I am looking for a variable Nationality / Citizenship in the BHPS.
So far I only found Country Born or ... Matthias Buser

05/27/2016

01:17 PM Support #567: Household Income vs. Housing costs

Hi Emily,
sorry this took a bit longer to reply.
We have checked with experts on income and expenditure data to s... Gundi Knies

12:55 PM Support #547: Socio-economic status parents BHPS and UKHLS

Dear Victoria,
Many thanks for your reply. I have noticed that there are a lot of missing values on the PASOC vari... Christa Hubers

11:58 AM Support #570: Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat

Hi Alita,

Thanks for your quick response.

I understand that this question would not be asked of children 11-1... Megan Scott

05/25/2016

01:00 PM Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Great!
FYI you won't find any information about derived variables / weights in the questionnaire because these var... Gundi Knies

12:57 PM Support #572: No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Gundi
Sorry, that’s me using the wrong terminology! I meant the PDF of the questionnaire that is downloaded wit... Rachel Sumner

12:49 PM Support #572 (In Progress): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi Rachel,
I am not sure what you mean by the "codebook"?
Have you tried the online dataset documentation? The vari... Gundi Knies

12:08 PM Support #572 (Closed): No description of difference between b_nqfhigh_dv and b_qfhigh_dv in Wave 2

Hi
I'm struggling to work with the above two variables. Their difference is not delineated in the code book/docume... Rachel Sumner