Understanding Society User Support

11/27/2016

08:43 PM Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am trying to find the gender of the children in a given household.
The children ... Nico Ochmann

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