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02/08/2017

05:10 PM Support #720: GPS & BHPS sample
Hi Theodora,
can you be more specific please. Which two pieces of information are you comparing exactly? And which v...
Gundi Knies
04:59 PM Support #720 (Closed): GPS & BHPS sample
Dear all,
I would like to ask what is the sample size of the respondents in wave 2 and wave 3 (the productive case...
Theodora Kokosi
03:56 PM Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search
Hi,
I’ve just realised that the variable search on the Understanding Society website is case sensitive. When I searc...
Libby Webb
03:37 PM Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Hi Peter

Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply. What you suggest makes perfect sense. Yes I did wo...
Matt Barnes
12:34 PM Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Matt,
I suggest a different approach. Let me first describe the approach and then explain why.
Start with the s...
Peter Lynn
09:48 AM Support #716 (In Progress): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Dear Matt,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I have passed it on to our weighting team.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
01:54 PM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Hi,
Sorry again for the delayed response - I was finalising exactly what sort of analysis I will be undertaking. If ...
Agnes Norris Keiller
01:09 PM Support #703 (Feedback): Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Dear Agnes,
Just checking if we can help you any further with this query?
Many thanks.
Victoria Nolan
01:21 PM Support #704: output area cods and names
Dear Gundi and Victoria,
Thanks very much for your response.
I checked my dataset and the odd codes only show up fo...
Glenna Nightingale
01:07 PM Support #704: output area cods and names
Hi Glenna,
Just checking if there's anything more we can help you with on this query?
Many thanks, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
01:13 PM Support #718 (In Progress): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Tenghao,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Be...
Victoria Nolan
09:39 AM Support #718 (Closed): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Hi,
I am now working on GWAS data of understanding society cohort, and would like to add age as a covariate in ass...
Tenghao Zheng
01:12 PM Support #715 (In Progress): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Dear Ben,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best w...
Victoria Nolan
01:11 PM Support #714 (In Progress): Missing values
Dear Luca,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best ...
Victoria Nolan
12:02 PM Support #717 (Feedback): Deriving hourly wage variable
Dear Nia,
Unfdortunately we do not provide that conversion with our data, but there should be plenty of online res...
Victoria Nolan
09:45 AM Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248
Victoria Nolan
09:42 AM Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves
Victoria Nolan
09:42 AM Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates
Victoria Nolan

02/07/2017

02:03 PM Support #717 (Closed): Deriving hourly wage variable
I am currently writing my dissertation on the Impact of Obesity on Wages in the UK Labour Market using Waves 2 and 3.... nia kennedy
01:12 PM Support #716 (Closed): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
I’m exploring the wellbeing of secondary school children with a Special Educational Need (SEN) using the linked Under... Matt Barnes
10:29 AM Support #715: Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa...
Ben Clark

02/06/2017

02:34 PM Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa...
Ben Clark

02/02/2017

12:10 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
You mentioned that the conjecture...
Yujung Whang
12:07 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
(1)
I am using a special license...
Yujung Whang

02/01/2017

03:42 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Great - thank you for your help, Victoria!
Best wishes,
Jenny
Jenny Shen
09:01 AM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Dear Jenny,
No, there is no way of picking up these cases for children born after the participant joined the panel...
Victoria Nolan
11:31 AM Support #714 (Closed): Missing values
Hello, I kindly have a specific question related to the "inapplicable" category within the missing values. Let me ple... Luca Bernardi
10:10 AM Support #713 (Feedback): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Victoria Nolan
09:23 AM Support #713: Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Jane,
Always use the "ub" weights (not "us") for longitudinal analysis starting at wave 2, otherwise the BHPS samp...
Peter Lynn
09:03 AM Support #713 (In Progress): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your query, which has been passed on to the weighting team to look into.
Best wishes...
Victoria Nolan

01/31/2017

11:54 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Hi Victoria,
Yes! This helps a lot. Thank you so much!
I have a follow-up question: using the household grid in...
Jenny Shen
11:39 AM Support #702 (Feedback): Date of birth of first child
Dear Jenny,
I'm sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this for you.
There are a number of differe...
Victoria Nolan
07:05 PM Support #713 (Closed): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Hi, I just wanted to clarify which weight I should use for a longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5 please, in or... Jane Lakey
10:43 AM Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data
Dear Hong,
These variables are available in a_indresp and d_indresp files as these were asked in Waves 1 and 4. Pl...
Alita Nandi
09:41 AM Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable
Victoria Nolan
09:40 AM Support #712 (Feedback): Attrition Rate
Dear Stuart,
Attrition rates/ wave-on-wave response rates can be found in the Understanding Society Quality Profil...
Victoria Nolan

01/30/2017

11:22 PM Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello Hong,
>
> All responses from adult respondents including proxy and self-completion are...
Hong Eng Goh
07:51 PM Support #711 (In Progress): Adult Self Completion Data
Hello Hong,
All responses from adult respondents including proxy and self-completion are included in the INDRESP f...
Alita Nandi
06:38 PM Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves
A quick look at your syntax suggests that you have only matched with fathers and so are missing all children living i... Alita Nandi
06:15 PM Support #710 (In Progress): variable `w'lcoh
Hi Lydia,
In Understanding Society Wave 1, all adult respondents were asked this question.
In Understanding Socie...
Alita Nandi
06:00 PM Support #706 (In Progress): Religious sample across all waves
Hi Andrew,
You will first have to pick up this variable from every wave, merge those files together and then creat...
Alita Nandi
03:30 PM Support #712 (Closed): Attrition Rate
I would like to know, as far as possible, the attrition rate of the Understanding Society panel. Ideally, it would be... Stuart Fox
01:29 PM Support #707: Scottish datazones in SN7248
Dear Victoria,
Thank you for responding so quickly and clarifying this for me.
Best wishes
Rory
Victoria N...
Rory Coulter
11:52 AM Support #707 (Feedback): Scottish datazones in SN7248
Dear Rory,
Thank you for your query and for pointing out that SN7248 (LSOA 2011 Special Licence) does not contain ...
Victoria Nolan
11:55 AM Support #709 (Feedback): how to match spouses across waves
Dear Nico,
We offer an online training course via Moodle which will copefully help with your query:
https://www.u...
Victoria Nolan
11:51 AM Support #700 (Closed): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Victoria Nolan
11:50 AM Support #698 (Closed): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records
Victoria Nolan
11:50 AM Support #697 (Closed): LDA sample
Victoria Nolan

01/29/2017

11:38 PM Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data
I would appreciate your advice. Hong Eng Goh
11:37 PM Support #711 (Closed): Adult Self Completion Data
I have downloaded the data from UK Data Service, however, the data from the adult self completion section are missing. Hong Eng Goh

01/28/2017

07:53 PM Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh
Dear UKHLS/BHPS users,
I am uncertain on the meaning of the inapplicable variable in the variable `w'lcoh (presen...
Lydia Palumbo

01/27/2017

01:39 PM Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves
Hi,
I would like to match partners for a given wave and ideally across waves.
There is _ppid, the cross wave pe...
Nico Ochmann
09:59 AM Support #708 (Feedback): Youth response rates
Hi Rebecca,
all information collected in the youth questionnaires is stored in the data file _youth. And each data ...
Gundi Knies
09:25 AM Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates
I’m looking at the understanding society data for youths in 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2013/14. Could you tell me how many ... Rebecca Cox

01/26/2017

04:55 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
Thanks a lot !! This is really helpful !
Yujung
Yujung Whang
03:44 PM Support #705 (Feedback): Emigration Status
Hi Yujung,
It just depends what the interviewer can find out on the door-step. It’s easier with split-off househol...
Victoria Nolan
03:07 PM Support #705: Emigration Status

Thanks very much for your kind explanation.
In fact, I have a follow-up question on this issue.
How do the in...
Yujung Whang
04:38 PM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Sadly not. But I could copy and paste a list of variables from our syntax files if you let me know which longitudinal... Peter Lynn
10:21 AM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Dear Peter,
Thanks for your advice and apologies for not getting back to you sooner. What you suggest is very help...
Agnes Norris Keiller
03:34 PM Support #699 (Closed): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
Victoria Nolan
03:34 PM Support #693 (Closed): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Victoria Nolan
03:33 PM Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
Victoria Nolan
03:33 PM Support #701 (Closed): plbornc_all missing labels
Victoria Nolan
02:51 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Thank you for the update Victoria. I was wondering if the team has made any progress regarding my inquiry?
Best w...
Jenny Shen
11:41 AM Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248
Dear Support Team,
I'm currently working with the latest six wave version of Understanding Society and have a spec...
Rory Coulter
11:23 AM Support #678: fimngrs_dv variable
Dear Victoria
Thanks for your reply. Your explanation makes sense and is very helpful.
Best wishes,
Rory
V...
Rory Coulter

01/25/2017

05:15 PM Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves
Hi
I am looking to see the politics module questions broken down by religion (x_oprlg1) across all 6 waves. Howeve...
Andrew Barclay
02:13 PM Support #705 (In Progress): Emigration Status
Hello Yujung,
There are no specific questions asked of ethnic minorities about whether they have left the country....
Alita Nandi

01/24/2017

02:21 PM Support #704 (Feedback): output area cods and names
Hi Glenna,
we checked the UKHLS OAC 2011 data and they appear to use the correct OAC 2011 code frame. Are the odd co...
Gundi Knies

01/23/2017

01:17 PM Support #678 (Feedback): fimngrs_dv variable
Dear Rory,
Again, apologies for the delay in responding to this.
The reason is that those 4656 cases are the n...
Victoria Nolan
01:00 PM Support #692: merging _indresp and _child across all waves
Dear Dr Nandi,
I do have a short follow up question before you close this one. In the cild file I have 90,000 obs...
Nico Ochmann
12:45 PM Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Thank you Peter -- that's a very helpful response.
David Bartram
12:31 PM Support #705 (Closed): Emigration Status

Hi, I have a question about emigration of panel sample members.
I was looking for a variable that might give i...
Yujung Whang
10:41 AM Support #704 (Closed): output area cods and names
I am analysing BHPS and UKHLS data and am using the ONS output area classifications as a variable in my analyses.
I'...
Glenna Nightingale

01/20/2017

02:21 PM Support #678 (In Progress): fimngrs_dv variable
Dear Rory,
I'm very sorry for the delay in replying to this message. We are looking into this issue and should be ...
Victoria Nolan
01:23 PM Support #698 (Feedback): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records
Hi Francesca,
there were always some individuals for whom we do not have a household interview. Until Wave 6 this wa...
Gundi Knies
01:16 PM Support #697 (Feedback): LDA sample
Hi Yujung,
the LDA indicator refers a characteristic of the neighbourhood in which households lived in wave 1 (propo...
Gundi Knies

01/19/2017

04:11 PM Support #702 (In Progress): Date of birth of first child
Dear Jenny,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
Be...
Victoria Nolan
04:10 PM Support #698 (In Progress): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records
Dear Francesca,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
...
Victoria Nolan
04:10 PM Support #697 (In Progress): LDA sample
Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will respond as soon as they can.
B...
Victoria Nolan
03:33 PM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Hi.
I think the best way to do this would be to start with the year X weight, derived as in our note on pooling, a...
Peter Lynn
02:44 PM Support #700 (Feedback): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Victoria Nolan
02:35 PM Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
Hello David.
To my mind the best solution would be for you to use a_indinus_xw as a base weight and then multiply ...
Peter Lynn
02:00 PM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Yes, version 2.
>
> Victoria.
Thanks Victoria
Kind regards, Josh
Josh Turner
01:16 PM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
Hi Josh,
Yes, version 2.
Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
01:15 PM Support #696 (Closed): New wave of biomarker data
Victoria Nolan
01:14 PM Support #650 (Closed): anwstat
Victoria Nolan
01:14 PM Support #690 (Closed): Cohabitation history
Victoria Nolan
01:13 PM Support #695 (Closed): NWSTAT_BHPS
Victoria Nolan
01:12 PM Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
Victoria Nolan

01/18/2017

02:03 PM Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear Victoria,
thank you for your help. It would be really helpful to get in touch with this colleague of yours wh...
Sabine Hübgen

01/17/2017

07:09 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Hi - just to rephrase a little (in case the above was too detailed):
I am trying to identify if/when someone in th...
Jenny Shen
03:54 PM Support #693: conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
Dear Sabine,
Deriving measures of educational qualifications that map onto the ISCED framework is not currently po...
Victoria Nolan

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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
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 ...
Agnes Norris Keiller
11:32 AM Support #687: Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
Dear Victoria,
Thanks very much for the update!
Till
Till Hoffmann
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
Alita Nandi
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...
Josh Turner
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...
Victoria Nolan
09:01 AM Support #689 (Closed): Weighting on youth self-completion datasets
Victoria Nolan
09:01 AM Support #682 (Closed): Weights for combined youth panel and main adult panel, BHPS and UKHLS
Victoria Nolan
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....
Victoria Nolan

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
 

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