Activity
From 06/19/2016 to 07/18/2016
07/18/2016
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04:57 PM Support #605 (In Progress): IMD
- Dear Emily Marie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to myself and will respond once I have checke... -
10:41 AM Support #605 (Closed): IMD
- I am working with Understanding data and am interested in matching the data to the Index of multiple deprivation (IMD...
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04:47 PM Support #594 (In Progress): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00
- Hi Megan,
thanks for making us aware of this cross-wave data inconsistency.
The way the question is asked has not c... -
02:03 PM Support #606 (Feedback): Employment status for waves 2 & 3
- Hi Gemma,
I am not sure which employment status variables you are referring to that are only available in the data i... -
01:22 PM Support #606 (Closed): Employment status for waves 2 & 3
- Hello,
I'm a researcher doing a cross-sectional analysis and i'm trying to find employment status for waves 2 and ...
07/13/2016
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03:54 PM Support #602 (Closed): BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp
- The Understanding Society file b_indresp.dta appears to have 12036 individuals that originate from the BHPS (via hhor...
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10:14 AM Support #601 (Closed): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
- Hello,
In the wave 2 data file b_indresp there is no cross-sectional weight [b_ind5mus_xw]. Only the longitudinal we... -
09:32 AM Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- I suggest you use W_indin01_lw. This is a longitudinal weight but it also represents the cross-sectional population. ...
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08:32 AM Support #599 (Feedback): highest educational level
- Dear Sait,
Producing educational outcome in ISCED or Casmin scales is not something that we currently do - it is h...
07/12/2016
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04:27 PM Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for the quick response.
However we are still a little unsure how to proceed. We ... -
03:27 PM Support #600 (Closed): qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not
- Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, first of all thank you very much for dealing with my inquiry. My question concerns qualoc ...
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03:04 PM Support #596 (Feedback): employment spells
- Dear Pilar,
You could have a look at the BHPS employment spell data reports as examples of how this can be done.
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02:54 PM Support #599 (In Progress): highest educational level
- Dear Sait,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies that your previous post had been overlooked.
We are just... -
02:40 PM Support #599 (Closed): highest educational level
- Hi,
I posted this issue previously, but I believe I made a mistake and flagged it as private. So I am report it ag...
07/11/2016
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04:22 PM Support #598 (Feedback): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
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04:20 PM Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- For how to scale the 'ub' weight please see our reply to issue #228.
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04:18 PM Support #598: crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- Thanks for your question. Yes, we do not provide separate cross-sectional weights for separate samples simply because...
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03:33 PM Support #598 (Closed): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- Hi,
I am working on an analysis which follows BHPS 2001 sample into Understanding Society (without including the U... -
01:24 PM Support #587: Education category "Other school cert"
- Hi Rachel,
Apologies for the delay - we have been looking into this, hopefully the information below will help.
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12:13 PM Support #591 (Closed): Downloaded waves 1-7
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12:12 PM Support #581: bensta_tfalimony variables
- Hi Debs,
Just checking if we can close this issue, or if you are still discussing it with the data user?
Thanks... -
12:11 PM Support #590 (Closed): guests staying with the household
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12:11 PM Support #583 (Closed): BHPS merging job history and interview data
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12:10 PM Support #588 (Closed): Locating Data
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12:09 PM Support #592 (Feedback): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
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11:05 AM Support #592: Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
- Tom,
Indeed, you are one of our users who use an unusual combination of waves and questionnaires. We don't provide... -
11:35 AM Support #585: Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed
- Dear Sanne,
As HIDP are not consistent across waves you cannot use that to directly identify individuals in Wave 1...
07/08/2016
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03:06 PM Support #597 (Closed): some incorrect value lables - wave 5
- Hi!
The scwhoru* variables in wave 5 have strange value labels with @ inside, for instance:
1 @bvery important@b...
07/07/2016
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05:22 PM Support #596 (Closed): employment spells
- Hi,
I am preparing employment spells data using the Understanding Society survey. I have successfully obtained mos...
07/06/2016
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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
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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
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12:58 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
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12:57 PM Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society
07/03/2016
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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04:11 PM Support #579 (Closed): attrition question
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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...
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03:28 PM Support #565: Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
- yes.
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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 ...
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01:43 PM Support #584 (Feedback): New births in understanding society
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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
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12:08 PM Support #575 (Closed): Institutional accommodation definition
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12:08 PM Support #574 (Closed): Labour income variables
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12:08 PM Support #571 (Closed): routing for a_jbhad and b_jbbgd/b_jbbgm/b_jbbgy
06/22/2016
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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
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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
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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....
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