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From 10/28/2016 to 11/26/2016

11/25/2016

09:57 AM Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
Hi all
I'm using the understanding society variables: ypfght (fights); ypvand (vandalises); ypshop (shoplifts) and ...
James Oswald
12:42 AM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
I just went back to the questionnaire of wave 2 of Understanding Society and I just want to confirm that the wording ... King Fok
12:04 AM Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
Hi, my current research requires me to create a measure of proportion of household joblessness a respondent experienc... King Fok

11/24/2016

04:20 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
So, take for example your analysis based on all respondents who have at least one interview at which they were aged o... Peter Lynn
04:19 PM Support #662 (Feedback): Households: Geographical Coordinates
Dear Christian,
These are also available for BHPS from wave 1 (1991) onwards. Please see: https://discover.ukdatas...
Victoria Nolan
02:34 PM Support #663 (Feedback): Weighting
Victoria Nolan
02:31 PM Support #663: Weighting
Jane,
There are no longitudinal weights for the youth self-completion, primarily because this instrument on its ow...
Peter Lynn
12:23 PM Support #663 (In Progress): Weighting
Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
Be...
Victoria Nolan
12:07 PM Support #663 (Closed): Weighting
Please could you let me know if there are longitudinal weights available for the youth self-completion questionnaires? Jane Lakey

11/23/2016

02:23 PM Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates
Dear Understanding Society Team,
(This is not really an "issue", but I hope I can post my question here as well.)
...
Christian Krekel
11:07 AM Support #659 (Feedback): Data linkage
Dear Nic,
While we have obtained consent from participants to link to HES data, the Understanding Society team has...
Victoria Nolan

11/22/2016

02:44 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Hello Peter,
Many thanks for your reply.
1. Yes the analysis units are the respondents.
2. Sorry that I did...
Min Zhang
02:24 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Hi. Could you clarify:
1. I understand the analysis units are the "respondents", yes? (the information about the ...
Peter Lynn
01:32 PM Support #658 (In Progress): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Dear Min,
Many thanks for your enquiry - it has been passed on to our weighting team who will respond as soon as p...
Victoria Nolan
01:07 PM Support #657 (In Progress): NPD SDS data
Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Ideally, you mention upfront all Understanding Society data that you ...
Victoria Nolan
01:05 PM Support #656 (Closed): Own first job
Victoria Nolan
01:05 PM Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household
Victoria Nolan
01:04 PM Support #653 (Closed): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS
Victoria Nolan
01:04 PM Support #651 (Closed): tnc variable
Victoria Nolan
01:04 PM Support #654 (Closed): Wave 6 Release Date
Victoria Nolan
01:03 PM Support #650 (Feedback): anwstat
Victoria Nolan
01:03 PM Support #648 (Closed): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?
Victoria Nolan
12:28 PM Support #660 (Closed): Private Education Variable?
To whom it may concern,
I am currently in the process of writing my dissertation on the impact of private educatio...
Kasperi Lewis

11/18/2016

02:58 PM Support #659 (Closed): Data linkage
Hi,
I was just wondering whether it's possible at present to link Understanding Society data with Hospital Episode...
Nic Murray

11/17/2016

09:22 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
I am sorry that I forgot to mention our data structure which may further complicate the questions regarding weights. ... Min Zhang
09:09 PM Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Dear Support team,
I have two questions with weights. Our data is based on a sub-population (respondents whose par...
Min Zhang

11/16/2016

04:27 PM Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data
Hello
I have recently received access to the NPD-Und soc linked data on the SDS.
I have looked at the data and...
Emily McDool

11/14/2016

09:21 AM Support #650: anwstat
Thank you very much for your reply.
Just to be on the safe side then, I would like to ask whether this statement i...
Sait Bayrakdar

11/11/2016

03:06 PM Support #656 (In Progress): Own first job
Dear Emma,
the question regarding the first job is part of the initial conditions module and not asked of everybody....
Gundi Knies
02:24 PM Support #656 (Closed): Own first job
Hi there,
I would like to ask about the own first job question: x_j1soc10
I see there is a large proportion of...
Emma Gorman

11/10/2016

10:24 AM Support #655 (Feedback): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household
Hi Megan,
the variables mnpid and fnpid refer to the natural mother/father’s PIDP in the UKHLS. That PIDP may change...
Gundi Knies

11/09/2016

02:48 PM Support #652 (Closed): Crp Biormarker
Victoria Nolan
02:48 PM Support #642 (Closed): LAD Codes
Victoria Nolan
11:59 AM Support #653 (Feedback): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS
Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Q1. We are not aware of any such user groups. In the future we will ...
Victoria Nolan

11/08/2016

12:14 PM Support #654: Wave 6 Release Date
Information about data releases are posted here:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/data-releases
Alita Nandi
12:00 PM Support #654: Wave 6 Release Date
24th November Alita Nandi

11/04/2016

03:23 PM Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household
Hi,
I am using BHPS together with UKHLS and I am trying to match children and young people to their parents in th...
Megan Scott
12:52 PM Support #654 (Closed): Wave 6 Release Date
Hello,
Please can you tell me when Wave 6 will be released?
Thanks,
Dharmi
Dharmi Kapadia
12:31 PM Support #648: how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?
Thanks for the useful reply!
Cheers,
Christoph
Christoph Kronenberg

11/03/2016

06:34 PM Support #650: anwstat
If the whole household drops out of the survey and so we do not know whether they are still living together then beca... Alita Nandi
03:02 PM Support #650 (In Progress): anwstat
Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
T...
Victoria Nolan
06:30 PM Support #648: how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?
See the Quality Profile (pg 79) for information on the source of these questions.
https://www.understandingsociety....
Alita Nandi
03:01 PM Support #648 (In Progress): how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?
Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
T...
Victoria Nolan
03:00 PM Support #642 (Feedback): LAD Codes
Dear Matthias,
Apologies, again, for the long delay in getting back to you. This is a complex issue - my collegaue...
Victoria Nolan
02:46 PM Support #649 (Closed): Personal Health Insurance
Victoria Nolan
02:39 PM Support #645 (Closed): lifetime depression diagnosis rates
Victoria Nolan
02:39 PM Support #630 (Closed): weight with fixed-effects
Victoria Nolan
02:38 PM Support #646 (Closed): Forms for Special Access Data
Victoria Nolan
02:38 PM Support #643 (Closed): Linking local labour market statistics to Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
02:38 PM Support #644 (Closed): Households Below Average Income
Victoria Nolan
10:53 AM Support #651: tnc variable
Thank you very much. This helps a lot!
Best, Sait
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Sait,
> the zero category also capt...
Sait Bayrakdar

11/02/2016

01:11 PM Support #653 (Closed): R users, scaling UKHLS for use with BHPS
Hello,
1. I am an R user and wondered whether there are any online courses/discussion groups (Understanding Society...
Glenna Nightingale

11/01/2016

09:39 PM Support #651 (Feedback): tnc variable
Hi Sait,
the zero category also captures cases for whom the call record was lost. We will add a note to this effect ...
Gundi Knies
10:07 AM Support #651 (Closed): tnc variable
Hi when I tabulate tnc (the number of calls from callrec dataset by ivfio and ivhio, I see that some a big portion of... Sait Bayrakdar
09:24 PM Support #652: Crp Biormarker
Thank you very much for this. It was really helpful.
Dora.
Theodora Kokosi
09:09 PM Support #652 (Feedback): Crp Biormarker
Dear Theodora,
the data file contains the variable "wave"; it assumes a value of 2 if the information relating to ...
Gundi Knies
08:46 PM Support #652 (Closed): Crp Biormarker
Hello,
I would like to know if there is any specific indicator that shows us which wave the biomarkers are obtaine...
Theodora Kokosi

10/28/2016

11:52 AM Support #650 (Closed): anwstat
Hi,
I try to understanding the share of the individuals who move away from their parents in the following wave. I ...
Sait Bayrakdar
 

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