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From 07/12/2016 to 08/10/2016
08/10/2016
- 02:25 PM Support #538 (Closed): missing proxy interviews in wave 1
- 02:24 PM Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
- 02:23 PM Support #600 (Closed): qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not
- 02:22 PM Support #596 (Closed): employment spells
- Dear Pilar,
I will close this issue now but please do get in touch if you have further queries.
Best wishes, Vi... - 01:17 PM Support #615: Derived variables
- You're right... just me being an idiot then. Sorry.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Hannah - 01:07 PM Support #615: Derived variables
- it looks like you included " " in the search term. Have you tried searching for just the following: *_dv
- 12:17 PM Support #615: Derived variables
- Chrome.
Screenshots attached...
- 11:55 AM Support #615: Derived variables
- Hi Hannah,
searching for *_dv does work fine in my Internet browser, see jpeg attached. I am not sure why it does no... - 11:46 AM Support #615: Derived variables
- Thank you for your quick reply.
The tip about the dv files being at the end is useful, thanks, though I was ideally ... - 08:54 AM Support #615 (Feedback): Derived variables
- Hi Hannah,
to find derived variables that end on "dv", try looking for "*_dv", or to find pointers look for "*pno"... - 11:37 AM Support #616 (Closed): LSOA Data in Understanding Society Survey
- Dear USS Team,
I wish to develop indicates of social cohesion at the small are level, preferably the LSOA level. If ...
08/09/2016
- 10:00 PM Support #615 (Closed): Derived variables
- Hi. Is there anywhere I can see a list of derived variables and their definitions? I'm search across the site and in ...
- 12:23 PM Support #614 (Feedback): Occupation codes
- Hi Emma,
we do not (yet) have plans to code occupations held in W1-W3 to SOC 2010, and, as you say, there is to our ...
08/04/2016
- 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 ... - 07:49 AM Support #613: how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?
- Hello Nico,
It is difficult to give a general answer to your question. If you are then interested in doing longitu...
08/03/2016
- 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... - 08:21 AM Support #613 (In Progress): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?
- The fieldwork period for each wave stretches over two years. While the aim is to interview everyone one year apart, t...
- 08:30 AM Support #597 (In Progress): some incorrect value lables - wave 5
- Hi Renee,
Thanks for highlighting these issues.
1. We will aim to improve the labels in future releases
2. In ...
08/02/2016
- 09:47 PM Support #613 (Closed): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?
- 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
- 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
- 10:17 AM Support #610 (Feedback): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size
- Dear Carla,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Yes, educational data (English National Pupil Datab... - 10:02 AM Support #608 (Feedback): Housing benefits' variable: coding
- Dear Maria,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your query, we have been looking into it here.
About 90% o... - 09:56 AM Support #611 (In Progress): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
- 09:55 AM Support #601 (Closed): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
- 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... - 09:51 AM Support #607 (Closed): File name issue for my Stata do file
- 09:51 AM Support #609 (Closed): Missing Variable: jbsoc00, jbsoc90
- 09:50 AM Support #606 (Closed): Employment status for waves 2 & 3
- 09:50 AM Support #598 (Closed): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
- 09:48 AM Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00
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...
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...
07/26/2016
- 03:05 PM Support #601 (Resolved): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
- 02:30 PM Support #601: cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
- thanks!
- 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 12:57 PM Support #599 (Closed): highest educational level
- This has been followed up independently by Karon, hence closing this issue.
- 12:55 PM Support #592 (Closed): Sampling weights when using the Youth Survey
- 12:54 PM Support #587 (Closed): Education category "Other school cert"
- 12:54 PM Support #585 (Closed): Identifying individuals with whom an interview could not be completed
- 12:53 PM Support #581 (Closed): bensta_tfalimony variables
- 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
- 03:49 PM Support #605: IMD
- emily marie wrote:
> Hi Gundi,
>
> Thankyou for your response.
>
> At present, this is only a control variabl... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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...
- 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
- 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....
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... - 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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. ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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.
... - 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...
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