Activity
From 06/07/2016 to 07/06/2016
07/06/2016
- 01:27 PM Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00
- Hi,
For yasoc00 (and yasoc90/yasoc10), what occupation would you like to do, there are zero 'don't know' responses...
07/05/2016
- 01:08 PM Support #587: Education category "Other school cert"
- Hi Rachel,
Many thanks for your follow-up email on this:
_Thanks very much for your response. This has clarifie... - 01:00 PM Support #586 (Closed): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society
- 12:58 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- 12:57 PM Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society
07/03/2016
- 05:19 PM Support #591 (In Progress): Downloaded waves 1-7
- Hello Gemma,
As you have mentioned 1-7 waves of data, I am guessing that you have downloaded Innovation Panel data...
06/30/2016
- 01:53 PM Support #592: Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
- Dear Tomos,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to my colleague Olena who will look into it and res... - 01:25 PM Support #592 (Closed): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
- Dear Understanding Society.
I'm having trouble working out which survey weights to use for my empirical analysis.
... - 12:23 PM Support #590 (Feedback): guests staying with the household
- Dear Sait,
No, we do not interview guests and other people who are in the household just for a short period. There... - 10:20 AM Support #587 (Feedback): Education category "Other school cert"
- Dear Rachel,
Taking a look at the questionnaire, the response option this category relates to is “Other school (in... - 10:18 AM Support #581 (Feedback): bensta_tfalimony variables
- Hi Debs,
Sorry again for the delay, we have been trying to get to the bottom of what the issue is. Jon has provide... - 09:18 AM Support #583: BHPS merging job history and interview data
- Dear Victoria,
This is clarifying. I have checked the age distribution of those not matched to job history record...
06/29/2016
- 05:11 PM Support #591 (Closed): Downloaded waves 1-7
- Hello,
I'm pretty sure ive downloaded waves 1-7. However, when i open the file it doesn't seem to say which wave i...
06/28/2016
- 08:03 PM Support #590 (Closed): guests staying with the household
- Hi,
I have looked into the data documentation but did not see any explanation on the following issue. Does Unders... - 03:11 PM Support #583 (Feedback): BHPS merging job history and interview data
- Dear Pilar,
We have now finished looking into this and can offer the following advice:
We think that there are tw...
06/27/2016
- 04:11 PM Support #579 (Closed): attrition question
- 03:03 PM Support #583: BHPS merging job history and interview data
- Dear Pilar,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this - we are still investigating. One question -... - 10:09 AM Support #588: Locating Data
- Dear Grace,
ONS use the standard end-user licence version of Understanding Society, so that is what you should be ac...
06/26/2016
- 06:15 PM Support #588 (Closed): Locating Data
- Hi,
I have been awarded a scholarship from the University of Sheffield to do a short research project on Well-bei...
06/24/2016
- 04:17 PM Support #586 (In Progress): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society
- Hi Sait,
All existing BHPS members in Understanding Society will have their original PID. But new entrants who joi... - 02:16 PM Support #586 (Closed): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society
- Hi,
I am working on the attrition in BHPS and UKHLS.
I realised some cases in UKHLS (around 400 in each wave) ... - 03:00 PM Support #587 (Closed): Education category "Other school cert"
- Hi
From Wave 2 variables qfhigh/nqfhigh there is an option "Other school cert". At what academic level would this ... - 09:06 AM Support #585: Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed
- Dear Alita,
Thanks for your response. I understand that because of changes in household composition household ide... - 03:17 AM Support #585 (In Progress): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed
- Household Identifiers, W_HIDP are unique within a wave but not across wave. the individual identifier PIDP is unique ...
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...
- 03:28 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- yes.
- 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... - 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 ...
- 01:43 PM Support #584 (Feedback): New births in understanding society
- 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,... - 12:09 PM Support #578 (Closed): physical activity data
- 12:08 PM Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition
- 12:08 PM Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables
- 12:08 PM Support #571 (Closed): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy
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.
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
06/13/2016
- 04:15 PM Support #565 (In Progress): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- 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 ... - 03:19 PM Support #570 (Closed): Missing stable characteristics data in xwavedat
- 03:18 PM Support #573 (Closed): citizenship in BHPS
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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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...
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...
- 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?
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