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From 11/23/2016 to 12/22/2016

12/22/2016

04:55 PM Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
Hi, we are trying to derive a longitudinal weight for linked youth datasets, following guidance given by Peter Lynn p... Jane Lakey

12/21/2016

11:56 AM Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
Dear US user support team,
I am using the secure access releases of BHPS (6340) and US (6670) to track the origina...
Sam Wilding

12/19/2016

12:34 PM Support #687 (Closed): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
Conditioning on the variable `wJBSTATT` (https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave18/rindresp18.html#... Till Hoffmann

12/16/2016

12:08 PM Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS
My research topic is about the labour force participation, and so I collected some dataset from BHPS dataset, I have ... suleyman bolat
09:24 AM Support #685 (Feedback): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
Hi King Fok,
that's almost correct. To be precise: there are two different versions of the socio-economic classifica...
Gundi Knies
02:51 AM Support #685: jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
Update: upon further investigation, the consistency is in naming conventions. In earlier waves, this variable is name... King Fok
01:25 AM Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
Just want to report that the variable jbsic07 is missing for wave 3 of Understanding Society but according to the onl... King Fok

12/15/2016

12:57 PM Support #681 (Feedback): Variable construction: employment duration
Hi,
to learn more about the meaning of variables it is best to look at the questionnaire, which has the question wor...
Gundi Knies
10:30 AM Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Victoria Nolan
10:29 AM Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
Victoria Nolan
10:29 AM Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Victoria Nolan
10:29 AM Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure
Victoria Nolan

12/14/2016

03:26 PM Support #680: Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
Dear Heinrich,
Just to follow up on the cognitive ability query, if it's ok I will email you directly about this s...
Victoria Nolan
11:47 AM Support #679 (Feedback): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
Victoria Nolan
11:46 AM Support #683 (Feedback): Weights for combined measures and data files
Victoria Nolan
11:45 AM Support #684 (Feedback): Survey question - people to rely on
Dear Amanda,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The questions that you are referring to come from the ‘Self-completion ...
Victoria Nolan
10:57 AM Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Hi Peter
Thanks for your reply and for the link to the weighting document.
I am a bit confused about the way tha...
Megan Scott

12/13/2016

03:47 PM Support #683: Weights for combined measures and data files
Hi,
Guidance on what weights to use when you are combining data from different files is given at the start of sect...
Peter Lynn
02:50 PM Support #683 (In Progress): Weights for combined measures and data files
Dear Theodora,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I'm passing this on to our weighting team who will respond shortly.
...
Victoria Nolan
02:46 PM Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files
Hi all,
I am using data from wave 2 & 3 from the main respondent's interview, the household data file and the heal...
Theodora Kokosi
03:43 PM Support #658: Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Min,
Apologies for the slow reply.
1. You should not need to do any further scaling, as each weight is independ...
Peter Lynn
03:04 PM Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on
Hi,

I am trying to measure change in social capital as a result of taking part in a sport.

I have been told t...
Amanda Seims
02:22 PM Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Meg,
(1) For pooled cross-sectional (CS) analysis, you should use the CS weight from each respective wave. Each se...
Peter Lynn
12:00 PM Support #682 (In Progress): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Dear Megan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I will pass this on to our weighting team who will be able to respond.
...
Victoria Nolan
11:48 AM Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Hi,
I am using a combined dataset of the youth panel and main adult survey for BHPS 1-18 and UKHLS 2-6.
My units...
Megan Scott
11:57 AM Support #681: Variable construction: employment duration

I saw that there are some variables like this one: Pos. = 1515 Variable = b_nmpsp_dv Variable label = No. employmen...
Italo Franca

12/12/2016

09:29 PM Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration
Hi,
I want to create a variable using wave 2 of Understanding Society: the time that a person is in the curren...
Italo Franca
11:46 AM Support #680 (Feedback): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
Dear Heinrich,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed on your questions about the cognitive ability measures ...
Victoria Nolan
09:04 AM Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to ask you the following questions concerning variables in wave 3 of Understanding...
Heinrich Kögel
09:40 AM Support #665 (Closed): Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
Victoria Nolan
09:40 AM Support #666 (Closed): gender of the children under 16 years of age in a given household
Victoria Nolan
09:39 AM Support #664 (Closed): linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
09:39 AM Support #669 (Closed): Assistance with income variable
Victoria Nolan
09:39 AM Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
Victoria Nolan
09:38 AM Support #670 (Closed): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
Victoria Nolan
09:38 AM Support #668 (Closed): Weights
Victoria Nolan

12/08/2016

05:00 PM Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
Glenna,
I think that using the cross-sectional weight for either t or t-1 is reasonable (but not a mixture of them...
Peter Lynn
10:17 AM Support #679 (In Progress): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
Dear Glenna,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I will pass this on to our weighting team for a reply.
Best wishes,...
Victoria Nolan
10:12 AM Support #679: paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
I have used the cross sectional weight at wave t-1 as the weight for each individual row. I have used the weights for... Glenna Nightingale
10:11 AM Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
Hello,
I am modelling data from both the UKHLS and BHPS and my dataset is constructed so that I can compare pairs of...
Glenna Nightingale
10:21 AM Support #671 (Closed): Nurse Survey Data
Victoria Nolan
10:20 AM Support #660 (Closed): Private Education Variable?
Victoria Nolan
10:05 AM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Thank you very much, we wanted to make sure that release date would stay the same for the following waves.
Best wi...
Al Lo
08:51 AM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Dear Al,
We release our data annually in November each year. We have just released wave 6 (https://www.understandi...
Victoria Nolan
09:15 AM Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable
Hi,
I'm working with W1-6 of UKHLS and have noticed that in W6 there are 4656 cases where fimngrs_dv==-9. Accordin...
Rory Coulter

12/07/2016

05:18 PM Support #672: Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Dear Victoria,
Thank you very much, that's very helpful.
Do you have information on when data from Waves 9 and ...
Al Lo
03:12 PM Support #677: Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
That should say CAMSIS linking file, which is found here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/CAMSIS/occunits/distribution... Megan Scott
03:11 PM Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
Hi,
I would like to recode the yasoc00 and ypsoc00 variables, which use SOC2000 from UKHLS to RGSC categories, an...
Megan Scott
03:08 PM Support #673 (Feedback): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
Dear Naz,
Please see the following Stata code:
gen occ_dummy=(<your occupation variable>==<values of whichever ...
Victoria Nolan

12/06/2016

12:54 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Kenisha,
Create a data set consisting of wave 1 respondents aged 10 or 11 and a 0/1 indicator of whether or not th...
Peter Lynn
09:12 AM Support #674: Family Structure
Thank you Gundi.
I will try that.
Best,
Kenisha
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson
08:57 AM Support #662 (Closed): Households: Geographical Coordinates
Victoria Nolan
08:57 AM Support #663 (Closed): Weighting
Victoria Nolan
08:56 AM Support #659 (Closed): Data linkage
Victoria Nolan

12/05/2016

07:20 PM Support #674 (Feedback): Family Structure
Hi Kenisha,
you may want to look at derived variables in the following files: _indall, _child, _egoalt.
The first t...
Gundi Knies
06:40 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Dear Peter,
Yes, it was my plan to assess if youth reporting of happiness changed between the wave 1 and wave 5.
C...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

12/02/2016

02:23 PM Support #675: Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Hello,
1) If your units of analysis are the children, and you are treating the parental characteristics as attribu...
Peter Lynn
02:04 PM Support #675 (In Progress): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Dear Kenisha,
I have added Peter Lynn as a watcher for this post and he will be able to get back to you about your...
Victoria Nolan
10:02 AM Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
Dear support team,
I have another query regarding the use of weights in the youth data.
I am looking at reported h...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson
06:54 AM Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure
Dear Support team,
I am interested to examine the relationship between family structures and a range of youth outco...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

12/01/2016

04:03 PM Support #665: Research Using Understanding Society's anti-social behaviour (ASB) variables
Dear James,
Just to add, you could also look at:
Scott JL and Chaudhary C (2003) Beating the odds: youth and fa...
Victoria Nolan
01:49 PM Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
I would like to generate a ındustry and occupational dummy.
would you tell me process step by step.

many than...
nazire begen
09:26 AM Support #672 (Feedback): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Dear Al,
Many thanks for your query.
Unfortunately we don't yet have information about expected sample sizes in...
Victoria Nolan
07:20 AM Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
Hi,
Is there information available on expected sample sizes for households in Scotland for Waves 9 and 10?
Man...
Al Lo

11/30/2016

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...
Gundi Knies
04:28 PM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
Hi King Fok,
you are right, these questions draw on information collected during the last (full adult) interview wit...
Gundi Knies
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...
Victoria Nolan
03:56 PM Support #657 (Closed): NPD SDS data
Victoria Nolan
03:54 PM Support #669 (Feedback): Assistance with income variable
Dear Katrina,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user guide, plea...
Victoria Nolan
12:47 PM Support #667 (Resolved): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
Victoria Nolan
12:47 PM Support #670 (Feedback): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
Victoria Nolan
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...
Peter Lynn
12:29 PM Support #670 (In Progress): weighting for youths moving to adult surveys
Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your message - I will assign this to Peter for a reply.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
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. ... Jane Lakey
12:28 PM Support #671 (Feedback): Nurse Survey Data
Dear Dan,
Nurse data were only collected at waves 2 and 3 of Understanding Society.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
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...
Dan Barraclough
10:06 AM Support #668: Weights
sorry, meant to say f_indinui_xw! Peter Lynn
09:40 AM Support #668: Weights
Tess,
We took the decision to discontinue producing an adult self-completion cross-sectional weight, given that th...
Peter Lynn
08:59 AM Support #668 (In Progress): Weights
Dear Tess,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed this on to my colleague and we will reswpond as soon as pos...
Victoria Nolan

11/29/2016

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 ...
Min Zhang
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...
Katrina Morrison
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 ... Tess Carter
11:22 AM Support #667: how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
Jane,
The best way would be to start with the wave 2 cross-sectional weight and then make an adjustment to it, to ...
Peter Lynn
08:02 AM Support #667 (In Progress): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
Dear Jane,
I've passed on your query to Peter and he will reply shortly.
Best wishes, Victoria
Victoria Nolan

11/28/2016

05:07 PM Support #667 (Closed): how best to weight USOC youth data when linking waves for longitudinal analysis
This is a further question for Peter Lynn, following on from his response to my previous question.
I am doing an l...
Jane Lakey
12:17 PM Support #664: linking employment/joblessness history between BHPS and Understanding Society
Dear King Fok,
Many thanks for your enquiry, we will respond to you as soon as we can. Please note our 10 working-...
Victoria Nolan
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.... Alita Nandi
11:15 AM Support #658 (Feedback): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Victoria Nolan

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
 

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