Activity
From 01/10/2017 to 02/08/2017
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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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. - 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 ... - 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. - 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... - 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. - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 09:45 AM Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child
- 09:43 AM Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh
- 09:43 AM Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves
- 09:43 AM Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248
- 09:42 AM Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves
- 09:42 AM Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates
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....
- 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...
- 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...
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...
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... - 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...
02/01/2017
- 03:42 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
- Great - thank you for your help, Victoria!
Best wishes,
Jenny - 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... - 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...
- 10:10 AM Support #713 (Feedback): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
- 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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 09:41 AM Support #678 (Closed): fimngrs_dv variable
- 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...
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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 11:51 AM Support #700 (Closed): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
- 11:50 AM Support #698 (Closed): wave 6 - individual records apparently unmatched to household records
- 11:50 AM Support #697 (Closed): LDA sample
01/29/2017
- 11:38 PM Support #711: Adult Self Completion Data
- I would appreciate your advice.
- 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.
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...
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... - 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 ... - 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 ...
01/26/2017
- 04:55 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
- Thanks a lot !! This is really helpful !
Yujung - 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... - 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...- 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...
- 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... - 03:34 PM Support #699 (Closed): Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
- 03:34 PM Support #693 (Closed): conversion from national educational classification to ISCED
- 03:33 PM Support #688 (Closed): Inconsistency between movest/origadd and grid references
- 03:33 PM Support #701 (Closed): plbornc_all missing labels
- 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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....
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...
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... - 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... - 12:45 PM Support #700: longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
- Thank you Peter -- that's a very helpful response.
- 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...- 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'...
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 ... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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.
... - 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... - 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... - 02:44 PM Support #700 (Feedback): longitudinal weights for small sub-samples
- 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 ... - 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 - 01:16 PM Support #699: Query about scoring method used for the SF-12
- Hi Josh,
Yes, version 2.
Victoria. - 01:15 PM Support #696 (Closed): New wave of biomarker data
- 01:14 PM Support #650 (Closed): anwstat
- 01:14 PM Support #690 (Closed): Cohabitation history
- 01:13 PM Support #695 (Closed): NWSTAT_BHPS
- 01:12 PM Support #677 (Closed): Mapping SOC2000 and SOC1990 to RGSC
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...
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... - 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...
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....
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