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From 07/07/2016 to 08/05/2016
08/04/2016
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03:22 PM Support #614 (Closed): Occupation codes
- Hi there,
I am re-posting this as I think I somehow marked it as "private" last time - apologies for any duplicati... -
01:49 PM Support #602: BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp
- Hi Mike,
Thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it on to the data management team and also include this issue on ... -
- Hello Nico,
It is difficult to give a general answer to your question. If you are then interested in doing longitu...
08/03/2016
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11:48 AM Support #613: how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?
- Dear Alita,
thank you so much for your fast reply, of course I appreciate that very much.
What you write above cl... -
- The fieldwork period for each wave stretches over two years. While the aim is to interview everyone one year apart, t...
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- Hi Renee,
Thanks for highlighting these issues.
1. We will aim to improve the labels in future releases
2. In ...
08/02/2016
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- Hi everybody,
I have a quick question concerning the time dimension of the panel data set when using Understandin... -
09:27 AM Support #611 (Feedback): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
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09:17 AM Support #611: longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
- Rita,
Very good question. In both situations you should use longitudinal weights. This is because people who were ...
08/01/2016
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- Dear Carla,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Yes, educational data (English National Pupil Datab... -
- Dear Maria,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your query, we have been looking into it here.
About 90% o... -
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09:53 AM Support #605: IMD
- Hi Emily,
sorry for causing a confusion by mistyping: you do have access to LSOA 2011 not 2001. Whichever version yo... -
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07/29/2016
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02:39 PM Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
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I'm using W1-W5 and keeping all individuals aged less than 30 in W1 that are present in all the 5 waves (ba...
07/28/2016
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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...
07/26/2016
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02:30 PM Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
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- Renee,
The questionnaire by mistake was not asked to TSMs in wave 2. For this reason cross-sectional analysis woul... -
- Dear Nico,
From onwards Wave 2, only new entrants or those who have never been interviewed are asked the highest e... -
- Hello,
PIDP are cross-wave unique individual identifiers for UKHLS. To allow matching of the BHPS sample members i...
07/25/2016
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- Dear Pilar,
Do let me know if you would like me to put you in touch with my colleague Nicole about discussing this... -
- This has been followed up independently by Karon, hence closing this issue.
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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... -
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...
07/22/2016
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- emily marie wrote:
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> Thankyou for your response.
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- Hi Gundi,
Thankyou for your response.
At present, this is only a control variable within our model and not the... -
- Gundi Knies wrote:
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> Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to myself and will ... -
- Hi Gemma,
this error occurs because Stata struggles to read spaces and hyphens in path names. Having said that, UKDA... -
- Hi David,
for confidentiality resasons we cannot release all information in the Standard End-user Licence - so techn... -
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...
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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...
07/21/2016
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01:48 PM Support #607 (Closed): File name issue for my Stata do file
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This may be a silly question but i'm struggling.
I am creating a do file for the nurse assessment data....
07/18/2016
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- Dear Emily Marie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have assigned this to myself and will respond once I have checke... -
- I am working with Understanding data and am interested in matching the data to the Index of multiple deprivation (IMD...
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- Hi Megan,
thanks for making us aware of this cross-wave data inconsistency.
The way the question is asked has not c... -
- Hi Gemma,
I am not sure which employment status variables you are referring to that are only available in the data i... -
- 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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- The Understanding Society file b_indresp.dta appears to have 12036 individuals that originate from the BHPS (via hhor...
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- Hello,
In the wave 2 data file b_indresp there is no cross-sectional weight [b_ind5mus_xw]. Only the longitudinal we... -
- I suggest you use W_indin01_lw. This is a longitudinal weight but it also represents the cross-sectional population. ...
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- 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 ... -
- Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, first of all thank you very much for dealing with my inquiry. My question concerns qualoc ...
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- 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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- Dear Sait,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies that your previous post had been overlooked.
We are just... -
- 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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- For how to scale the 'ub' weight please see our reply to issue #228.
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- Thanks for your question. Yes, we do not provide separate cross-sectional weights for separate samples simply because...
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I am working on an analysis which follows BHPS 2001 sample into Understanding Society (without including the U... -
- Hi Rachel,
Apologies for the delay - we have been looking into this, hopefully the information below will help.
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- Hi Debs,
Just checking if we can close this issue, or if you are still discussing it with the data user?
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- Tom,
Indeed, you are one of our users who use an unusual combination of waves and questionnaires. We don't provide... -
- 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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- 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
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I am preparing employment spells data using the Understanding Society survey. I have successfully obtained mos...
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