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From 12/07/2016 to 01/05/2017

01/05/2017

01:33 PM Support #691 (Closed): Merge BHPS file before analysis for BHPS dataset
Dear Dr. Bolat,
I assume this is a duplicate of your earlier issue to which we responded yesterday?
We provide ...
Victoria Nolan
01:31 PM Support #693 (Feedback): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear Sabine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. Unfortunately it won’t be possible until wave 9 of Understanding Societ...
Victoria Nolan
08:54 AM Support #689 (Feedback): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
Victoria Nolan
08:53 AM Support #682 (Feedback): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Victoria Nolan
08:53 AM Support #688 (In Progress): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
Dear Sam,
Many thanks for your enquiry - I have passed this on to the team who are looking into it for you.
Bes...
Victoria Nolan
08:48 AM Support #687 (In Progress): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
Dear Till,
Many thanks for your enquiry, and apologies for our delay in responding over the holiday break. I have ...
Victoria Nolan

01/04/2017

05:53 PM Support #695 (Closed): NWSTAT_BHPS
Dear all,
I am currently dealing with the variable `w'NWSTAT of BHPS. In UKHLS, I have the possibility of understa...
Valeria Milani
04:28 PM Support #689: Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
Jane,
It looks to me that the weight is present for 95% of respondents. Specifically, b_ythscus_xw is missing for ...
Peter Lynn
01:42 PM Support #689 (In Progress): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
Dear Jane - many thanks for your query and for bearing with us over the Christmas holiday period. I have passed on yo... Victoria Nolan
04:02 PM Support #682: Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Meg,
merge and append should achieve the same thing.
Whether you want to scale depends a bit on what, conceptua...
Peter Lynn
03:41 PM Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
Hi, is there, anywhere, a derived variable for 'ever divorced' or 'ever widowed' and ages at last divorce or last wid... Debora Price
01:55 PM Support #686 (Feedback): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS
Dear Dr. Bolat,
We provide online training to use the BHPS with Stata. This provides an overview of the survey, th...
Victoria Nolan
01:38 PM Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
Victoria Nolan
01:38 PM Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on
Victoria Nolan
01:37 PM Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files
Victoria Nolan
01:36 PM Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration
Victoria Nolan
01:32 PM Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
Victoria Nolan
01:31 PM Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
Victoria Nolan
01:29 PM Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
Victoria Nolan

01/03/2017

07:21 PM Support #693 (Closed): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear support team,
I am working on a German-British comparison. Therefore I need comparable information on ISCED. ...
Sabine Hübgen
05:37 PM Support #692 (Closed): merging _indresp and _child across all waves
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hope this question is USoc-specific enough to post it here. With Stata, I would like...
Nico Ochmann
02:42 PM Support #691 (Closed): Merge BHPS file before analysis for BHPS dataset
My research topic is about the labour force participation, and so I collected some dataset from BHPS dataset, I have ... suleyman bolat

01/02/2017

05:37 PM Support #690 (Closed): Cohabitation history
Dear all,
I am dealing with the cohabitation histories of UKHLS (first wave) and the spells of cohabitation withi...
Lydia Palumbo

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
 

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