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From 07/23/2016 to 08/21/2016

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

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...
Nico Ochmann
09:27 AM Support #611 (Feedback): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
Victoria Nolan
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 ...
Olena Kaminska

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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
09:56 AM Support #611 (In Progress): longitudinal weights or cross-sectional weights for descriptive with index constructed with longitudinal weights
Victoria Nolan
09:55 AM Support #601 (Closed): cross-sectional weight for xtra five minute sample missing from wave 2 datafile
Victoria Nolan
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...
Gundi Knies
09:51 AM Support #607 (Closed): File name issue for my Stata do file
Victoria Nolan
09:51 AM Support #609 (Closed): Missing Variable: jbsoc00, jbsoc90
Victoria Nolan
09:50 AM Support #606 (Closed): Employment status for waves 2 & 3
Victoria Nolan
09:50 AM Support #598 (Closed): crosssectional BHPS sample weights in Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
09:48 AM Support #594 (Closed): Discrepancy in 'don't know' responses to yasoc00
Victoria Nolan

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
 

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