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From 07/19/2016 to 08/17/2016

08/17/2016

02:19 PM Support #619 (Closed): Cost of obtaining the data at Local Authority level: I work as a researcher at Centre for Cities and we're interested in using data from Understanding Society in one of o... Maire Williams

08/16/2016

02:36 PM Support #618: W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?: Hello Gundi,
These details are very helpful, thank you. Due to these limitations we've decided against constructi... Dan Philo
11:36 AM Support #616 (Feedback): LSOA Data in Understanding Society Survey: Dear Karyn,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
The data are not robust at the LSOA level. We have no more than a han... Victoria Nolan

08/15/2016

03:46 PM Support #602 (Closed): BHPS pid versus Understanding Society (UKHLS, with BHPS hhorig) pidp: Victoria Nolan
03:46 PM Support #597 (Closed): some incorrect value lables - wave 5: Victoria Nolan
03:45 PM Support #613 (Closed): how do I transform waves as time measurement into years?: Victoria Nolan
03:44 PM Support #610 (Closed): Information on Educational Attainment and Sample Size: Victoria Nolan
03:44 PM Support #608 (Closed): Housing benefits' variable: coding: Victoria Nolan
03:44 PM Support #605 (Closed): IMD: Victoria Nolan
03:41 PM Support #618: W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?: Hi Dan,
we cannot comment on which is "the best way" to derive your desired indicator seeing as that is something on... Gundi Knies
02:11 PM Support #618 (Closed): W5 mainstage: NS-SEC for all respondents?: Hi,
I am after a W5 derived variable giving ns-sec for all respondents, including retired people and other 'econo... Dan Philo

08/11/2016

02:22 PM Support #617: "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio: Helena Retamal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to know if the the individual interview outcome with code 9 (Lost CAPI... Helena Retamal
02:06 PM Support #617: "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio: Just one more thing... if these cases answered, were they proxy interviews or full interviews? Thanks!! Helena Retamal
01:42 PM Support #617 (Closed): "Lost CAPI intvw" in e_ivfio, f_ivfio and g_ivfio: Hello,
I need to know if the the individual interview outcome with code 9 (Lost CAPI intvw) is a complete intervi... Helena Retamal
08:28 AM Support #611: longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights: Dear Olena,
Sorry for this late reply. Thanks a lot for your advice.
Best regards,
Rita Rita Bussi

08/10/2016

02:25 PM Support #538 (Closed): missing proxy interviews in wave 1: Victoria Nolan
02:24 PM Support #611 (Closed): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights: Victoria Nolan
02:23 PM Support #600 (Closed): qualoc variable, qualification from the UK or not: Victoria Nolan
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... Victoria Nolan
01:17 PM Support #615: Derived variables: You're right... just me being an idiot then. Sorry.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Hannah Hannah Fountain
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 Gundi Knies
12:17 PM Support #615: Derived variables: Chrome.
Screenshots attached...
Hannah Fountain
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... Gundi Knies
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 ... Hannah Fountain
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"... Gundi Knies
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 ... Karyn Morrissey

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 ... Hannah Fountain
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 ... Gundi Knies

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... Emma Gorman
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 ... Alita Nandi
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... Alita Nandi

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... Nico Ochmann
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... Alita Nandi
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 ... Alita Nandi

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

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