Activity
From 11/01/2016 to 11/30/2016
11/30/2016
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04:35 PM Support #666 (Feedback): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household
- Dear Nico,
the gender of all children enumerated in the household is included in the following files: _indall, _chil... -
- Hi King Fok,
you are right, these questions draw on information collected during the last (full adult) interview wit... -
04:01 PM Support #665 (Feedback): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
- Dear James,
There has been some research on bullying:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/search?a=Di... -
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- Dear Katrina,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user guide, plea... -
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12:44 PM Support #670: weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- Jane,
All 16/17 year-olds, when they first complete the main (adult) interview receive the adult longitudinal weig... -
- Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your message - I will assign this to Peter for a reply.
Best wishes, Victoria. -
09:35 AM Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
- Many thanks for previous advice on how to construct longitudinal weights for linking youth self-completion datasets. ...
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- Dear Dan,
Nurse data were only collected at waves 2 and 3 of Understanding Society.
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12:19 PM Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data
- Hi there,
I am trying to download the data from the Nurse Health Assessment for Wave's 1, 4 and 5. I can only find... -
- sorry, meant to say f_indinui_xw!
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- Tess,
We took the decision to discontinue producing an adult self-completion cross-sectional weight, given that th... -
- Dear Tess,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed this on to my colleague and we will reswpond as soon as pos...
11/29/2016
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08:04 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
- Dear Peter,
Many thanks for your suggestions. They are very helpful. I apologize for my late reply. I spent a few ... -
11:36 AM Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable
- Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me with a query I have about your Wave 6 income data.
We are wishing... -
11:36 AM Support #668 (Closed): Weights
- I am looking for the cross sectional adult self-completion weight (var - e_indscub_xw on wave e), however it doesn’t ...
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- Jane,
The best way would be to start with the wave 2 cross-sectional weight and then make an adjustment to it, to ... -
- Dear Jane,
I've passed on your query to Peter and he will reply shortly.
Best wishes, Victoria
11/28/2016
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- This is a further question for Peter Lynn, following on from his response to my previous question.
I am doing an l... -
- Dear King Fok,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will respond to you as soon as we can. Please note our 10 working-... -
11:48 AM Support #660 (In Progress): Private Education Variable?
- This was asked of adult respondents about their children (4-15 year old) but not of the adult respondents themselves....
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11/27/2016
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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 ...
11/25/2016
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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 ... -
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 ...
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- Hi, my current research requires me to create a measure of proportion of household joblessness a respondent experienc...
11/24/2016
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- So, take for example your analysis based on all respondents who have at least one interview at which they were aged o...
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- Dear Christian,
These are also available for BHPS from wave 1 (1991) onwards. Please see: https://discover.ukdatas... -
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- Jane,
There are no longitudinal weights for the youth self-completion, primarily because this instrument on its ow... -
- Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
Be... -
- Please could you let me know if there are longitudinal weights available for the youth self-completion questionnaires?
11/23/2016
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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.)
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- Dear Nic,
While we have obtained consent from participants to link to HES data, the Understanding Society team has...
11/22/2016
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- Hello Peter,
Many thanks for your reply.
1. Yes the analysis units are the respondents.
2. Sorry that I did... -
- Hi. Could you clarify:
1. I understand the analysis units are the "respondents", yes? (the information about the ... -
- Dear Min,
Many thanks for your enquiry - it has been passed on to our weighting team who will respond as soon as p... -
- Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Ideally, you mention upfront all Understanding Society data that you ... -
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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...
11/18/2016
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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...
11/17/2016
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- I am sorry that I forgot to mention our data structure which may further complicate the questions regarding weights. ...
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- Dear Support team,
I have two questions with weights. Our data is based on a sub-population (respondents whose par...
11/16/2016
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04:27 PM Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data
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I have recently received access to the NPD-Und soc linked data on the SDS.
I have looked at the data and...
11/14/2016
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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...
11/11/2016
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- Dear Emma,
the question regarding the first job is part of the initial conditions module and not asked of everybody.... -
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...
11/10/2016
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- Hi Megan,
the variables mnpid and fnpid refer to the natural mother/father’s PIDP in the UKHLS. That PIDP may change...
11/09/2016
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- Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Q1. We are not aware of any such user groups. In the future we will ...
11/08/2016
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- Information about data releases are posted here:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/data-releases -
- 24th November
11/04/2016
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03:23 PM Support #655 (Closed): Matching children and young people to parents no longer in the same household
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I am using BHPS together with UKHLS and I am trying to match children and young people to their parents in th... -
12:52 PM Support #654 (Closed): Wave 6 Release Date
- Hello,
Please can you tell me when Wave 6 will be released?
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12:31 PM Support #648: how much of the time has your job made you feel tense?
- Thanks for the useful reply!
Cheers,
Christoph
11/03/2016
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- If the whole household drops out of the survey and so we do not know whether they are still living together then beca...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
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- See the Quality Profile (pg 79) for information on the source of these questions.
https://www.understandingsociety.... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry - we are looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
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- Dear Matthias,
Apologies, again, for the long delay in getting back to you. This is a complex issue - my collegaue... -
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- Thank you very much. This helps a lot!
Best, Sait
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Sait,
> the zero category also capt...
11/02/2016
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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...
11/01/2016
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- Hi Sait,
the zero category also captures cases for whom the call record was lost. We will add a note to this effect ... -
- Hi when I tabulate tnc (the number of calls from callrec dataset by ivfio and ivhio, I see that some a big portion of...
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09:24 PM Support #652: Crp Biormarker
- Thank you very much for this. It was really helpful.
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- Dear Theodora,
the data file contains the variable "wave"; it assumes a value of 2 if the information relating to ... -
- Hello,
I would like to know if there is any specific indicator that shows us which wave the biomarkers are obtaine...
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