Activity
From 12/13/2016 to 01/11/2017
01/11/2017
- 08:27 PM Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves
- Thank you very much once again!
Just as a note, it seems to me that I need to merge these two files using PIDP an... - 11:43 AM Support #692 (In Progress): merging _indresp and _child across all waves
- Dear Nico,
The pidp in w_child file is the pidp of the child (< 16 year olds). The pidp in w_indresp is the pidp o... - 02:48 PM Support #694: "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
- Hi Alita
Thank you, that's very helpful to know.
Are you able to give me an indication of when those might be avai... - 10:21 AM Support #694 (In Progress): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
- Hello Debora,
These are currently not available. We are in the process of producing partnership history files and ... - 11:45 AM Support #650: anwstat
- If the Ego is in a responding household next wave but the alter is not, then they are necessarily in different househ...
- 11:21 AM Support #690 (In Progress): Cohabitation history
- Hi Lydia,
Yes you are correct in assuming that cohabitation spells with end month and year = -8 are ongoing cohabi... - 10:22 AM Support #695 (In Progress): NWSTAT_BHPS
- Hello Lydia,
This category means the the Ego/Alter are in different households in the next wave and both household... - 08:51 AM Support #699 (Closed): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
- I’m a researcher working on a longitudinal questionnaire study and are very interested in including the SF-12 in our ...
01/10/2017
- 04:40 PM Support #698 (Closed): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records
- When merging wave 6 individual respondents(all f_indresp records) to wave 6 houshold respondents (all f_hhresp record...
- 03:22 PM Support #697 (Closed): LDA sample
I have a question on LDA sample (low density area non-white background sample). I found many extra 5 min questions ...- 10:10 AM Support #677 (Feedback): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
- Hi Megan,
sorry for the delay in response. All our code to derive socio-economic classifications relies on SOC 2000....
01/06/2017
- 01:50 PM Support #696 (Closed): New wave of biomarker data
- Dear all,
Do you know when we'll have another wave of biomarker data?
Thank you for your support.
Best wish...
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 ... - 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... - 08:54 AM Support #689 (Feedback): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
- 08:53 AM Support #682 (Feedback): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- 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... - 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 ...
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... - 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 ... - 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...
- 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... - 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...
- 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... - 01:38 PM Support #685 (Closed): jbsic07 variable missing in wave 3
- 01:38 PM Support #684 (Closed): Survey question - people to rely on
- 01:37 PM Support #683 (Closed): Weights for combined measures and data files
- 01:36 PM Support #681 (Closed): Variable construction: employment duration
- 01:32 PM Support #680 (Closed): Questions on the pay period variables and the serial 7 subtraction test
- 01:31 PM Support #679 (Closed): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- 01:29 PM Support #658 (Closed): Weights, BHPS and USoc pooled
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. ... - 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... - 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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#...
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 ...
- 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... - 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...
- 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...
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... - 10:30 AM Support #672 (Closed): Expected sample size in Scotland for propensity score matching Waves 9 and 10
- 10:29 AM Support #673 (Closed): generating ındustry and occupatıonal dummy
- 10:29 AM Support #675 (Closed): Weighting youth data and average parental characteristics
- 10:29 AM Support #674 (Closed): Family Structure
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... - 11:47 AM Support #679 (Feedback): paired balanced panel in UKHLS/BHPS
- 11:46 AM Support #683 (Feedback): Weights for combined measures and data files
- 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 ... - 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...
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... - 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.
... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.
... - 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... - 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...
Also available in: Atom