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From 06/30/2016 to 07/29/2016

07/29/2016

02:39 PM Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
Hello,
I'm using W1-W5 and keeping all individuals aged less than 30 in W1 that are present in all the 5 waves (ba...
Rita Bussi

07/28/2016

06:59 PM Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp
Thanks very much for this - which has (of course) solved the problem. I can see that the information to remove my dif... Michael Nolan

07/26/2016

03:05 PM Support #601 (Resolved): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
Victoria Nolan
02:30 PM Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
thanks! Renee Luthra
02:27 PM Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
Renee,
The questionnaire by mistake was not asked to TSMs in wave 2. For this reason cross-sectional analysis woul...
Olena Kaminska
11:19 AM Support #600: qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not
Dear Nico,
From onwards Wave 2, only new entrants or those who have never been interviewed are asked the highest e...
Alita Nandi
11:02 AM Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp
Hello,
PIDP are cross-wave unique individual identifiers for UKHLS. To allow matching of the BHPS sample members i...
Alita Nandi

07/25/2016

01:01 PM Support #596: employment spells
Dear Pilar,
Do let me know if you would like me to put you in touch with my colleague Nicole about discussing this...
Victoria Nolan
12:57 PM Support #599 (Closed): highest educational level
This has been followed up independently by Karon, hence closing this issue. Victoria Nolan
12:55 PM Support #592 (Closed): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
Victoria Nolan
12:54 PM Support #587 (Closed): Education category "Other school cert"
Victoria Nolan
12:54 PM Support #585 (Closed): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed
Victoria Nolan
12:53 PM Support #581 (Closed): bensta_tfalimony variables
Victoria Nolan
10:09 AM Support #605: IMD
Hi Gundi,
Thankyou for your help so far.
I will look into using the Townsend deprivation score as this could b...
Emily McDool
09:57 AM Support #610 (Closed): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size
Having looked over your website, it would seem that there is a wide range of family characteristics as well as inform... Carla Cebula

07/22/2016

03:49 PM Support #605: IMD
emily marie wrote:
> Hi Gundi,
>
> Thankyou for your response.
>
> At present, this is only a control variabl...
Gundi Knies
03:21 PM Support #605: IMD
Hi Gundi,
Thankyou for your response.
At present, this is only a control variable within our model and not the...
Emily McDool
03:09 PM Support #605: IMD
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Emily Marie,
>
> Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to myself and will ...
Gundi Knies
03:28 PM Support #607 (Feedback): File name issue for my Stata do file
Hi Gemma,
this error occurs because Stata struggles to read spaces and hyphens in path names. Having said that, UKDA...
Gundi Knies
02:52 PM Support #609 (Feedback): Missing Variable: jbsoc00, jbsoc90
Hi David,
for confidentiality resasons we cannot release all information in the Standard End-user Licence - so techn...
Gundi Knies
02:28 PM Support #609 (Closed): Missing Variable: jbsoc00, jbsoc90
I have observed that the data includes the condensed 3-digit version of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC... David Pichler
01:19 PM Support #608 (Closed): Housing benefits' variable: coding
I am currently working on a project in which we are using the Secure Lab version of Understanding Society. We are int... Maria Sanchez-Vidal

07/21/2016

01:48 PM Support #607 (Closed): File name issue for my Stata do file
Hello,
This may be a silly question but i'm struggling.
I am creating a do file for the nurse assessment data....
Gemma Daly

07/18/2016

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...
Gundi Knies
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... Emily McDool
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...
Gundi Knies
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...
Gundi Knies
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 ...
Gemma Daly

07/13/2016

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... Michael Nolan
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...
Renee Luthra
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. ... Olena Kaminska
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...
Victoria Nolan

07/12/2016

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 ...
Sait Bayrakdar
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 ... Nico Ochmann
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.
...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Sait Bayrakdar

07/11/2016

04:22 PM Support #598 (Feedback): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
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.
Olena
Olena Kaminska
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... Olena Kaminska
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...
Sait Bayrakdar
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.
...
Victoria Nolan
12:13 PM Support #591 (Closed): Downloaded waves 1-7
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
12:11 PM Support #590 (Closed): guests staying with the household
Victoria Nolan
12:11 PM Support #583 (Closed): BHPS merging job history and interview data
Victoria Nolan
12:10 PM Support #588 (Closed): Locating Data
Victoria Nolan
12:09 PM Support #592 (Feedback): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
Victoria Nolan
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...
Olena Kaminska
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...
Alita Nandi

07/08/2016

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...
Renee Luthra

07/07/2016

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...
Pilar Gonalons Pons

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...
Megan Scott

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...
Victoria Nolan
01:00 PM Support #586 (Closed): BHPS sample members without pids in Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
12:58 PM Support #565 (Closed): Egoalt file and meaning of alwstat codes
Victoria Nolan
12:57 PM Support #584 (Closed): New births in understanding society
Victoria Nolan

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...
Alita Nandi

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...
Victoria Nolan
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.
...
Tomos Robinson
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Pilar Gonalons Pons
 

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