Activity
From 12/18/2016 to 01/16/2017
01/16/2017
- 03:45 PM Support #688 (Feedback): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
- Dear Sam,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you while we have been looking into this.
On balance we wo... - 03:33 PM Support #703 (In Progress): Longitudinal weights for periods of years
- Dear Agnes,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have passed it on to our weighting team who will look into it and resp... - 03:22 PM Support #703 (Closed): Longitudinal weights for periods of years
- Hi,
I'm working on a project that examines changes in individual incomes over different periods of years.
I'm ... - 11:32 AM Support #687: Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
- Dear Victoria,
Thanks very much for the update!
Till - 10:42 AM Support #687 (Feedback): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
- Dear Till,
I'm sorry for the delay in responding to you about this query.
This issue arises from some errors in... - 10:46 AM Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves
- You can either
(i) do the merge exercise separately for each wave, save the final file as a wave specific file and t... - 10:44 AM Support #701 (In Progress): plbornc_all missing labels
- Hello,
In Wave 6: Portugal = 28 & 312, Brazil = 29 & 142
In Waves 1-5: Portugal = 312, Brazil = 142
In future ... - 10:31 AM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
- Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> We took the code from: Ware, J.E., Kosinski, M., Turner-Bowker, D.M. and Ga... - 10:03 AM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
- Hi Josh,
We took the code from: Ware, J.E., Kosinski, M., Turner-Bowker, D.M. and Gandek, B. (2001), How to Score... - 09:01 AM Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
- 09:01 AM Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
- 09:00 AM Support #700 (In Progress): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
- Dear David,
Many thanks for your query. I have passed this on to our weighting team who will look into it for you....
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 ... - 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...- 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...
- 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...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 03:21 PM Support #686 (Closed): BHPS data merge or append before analysis the BHPS
- 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 ...
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#...
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