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From 12/15/2016 to 01/13/2017

01/13/2017

11:38 PM Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child
Hi,
I am trying to identify if/when someone in the BHPS gives birth to their first child (during the panel). I am ...
Jenny Shen
03:23 PM Support #701 (Closed): plbornc_all missing labels

I found the value label for "plbornc_all" variable is not complete.
Value 28 and 29 are not labelled both in the d...
Yujung Whang
01:35 PM Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Correction -- the mean of f_indinus_lw for the sub-sample is 1.0347, not 0.7254. (I had been including the zero valu... David Bartram
01:01 PM Support #700 (Closed): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Some questions re longitudinal weights. Having read “Weighting Strategy for Understanding Society”, I gather that ab... David Bartram

01/12/2017

03:34 PM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Josh,
>
> We also use SF12v2. We do the scoring here ourselves, and have not found i...
Josh Turner
03:14 PM Support #699 (Feedback): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
Dear Josh,
We also use SF12v2. We do the scoring here ourselves, and have not found it problematic.
Best wishes...
Victoria Nolan
03:30 PM Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear Victoria,
sorry for the late response. I am working on a German-British comparison of lone mothers' poverty r...
Sabine Hübgen
03:18 PM Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear Sabine,
Just following up on this - let us know if we can help with any further advice. We would be happy to ...
Victoria Nolan
03:21 PM Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS
Victoria Nolan
03:17 PM Support #696 (Feedback): New wave of biomarker data
Dear Miguel,
We do not currently have any firm plans for another wave of biomarker collection.
Please keep an ...
Victoria Nolan

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...
Nico Ochmann
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Debora Price
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 ...
Alita Nandi
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... Alita Nandi
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ... Josh Turner

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... FRANCESCA ZANTOMIO
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 ...
Yujung Whang
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....
Gundi Knies

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...
Miguel Ramos

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
 

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