Activity
From 02/16/2017 to 03/17/2017
03/17/2017
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10:02 AM Support #750 (Closed): Industry codes
- Are there cross-walk that map the 1980 and 1992 industry classifications used in the BHPS?
I need to create a vari... -
08:28 AM Support #749 (In Progress): w_scparoutint
- Dear Ian,
thank you for making us aware of this dicrepancy. We have not concluded our investigation but there appear... -
- Yes, you arrived at the correct conclusion! Information from the proxy informant about the proxy respondent is alread...
03/16/2017
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05:14 PM Support #739: Proxy variables
- Hi Gundi,
Yes, I think you have clarified this issue for me. At first I thought that those cells labeled 'proxy' cou... -
- Hi Julia,
we have not heard back from you. Did you manage to link information for the person providing the proxy int... -
04:10 PM Support #749 (Closed): w_scparoutint
- The question "Do you and your partner engage in outside interests together?" has 6 valid answers ('never' to 'all the...
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03:15 PM Support #748 (Closed): GHQ-12 results
- I am trying to make some comparisons across data for the GHQ-12 (including publications using the previous BHPS) and ...
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12:27 PM Support #694: "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
- We are very sorry for the delay in responding to this.
We are aiming to provide these in the separate partnership... -
- Dear Yujung,
We apologise for the delay in responding.
The file you should look at is W_INDSAMP. This file incl... -
11:58 AM Support #746: Household relatives
- Dear Gundi,
thank you very much for your prompt reply. I will have a look on what you suggested and hopefully will... -
- Hi Dora,
there is no specific variable reporting this at the household level. But there is an entire dataset that st... -
- Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is any variable that tell us in which households there are relatives and wh... -
11:12 AM Support #742 (In Progress): Income
- Dear Gloria,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have paassed this on to our income team who are looking into it for y... -
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- Dear Ben,
Could I please just check whether you still need our help with this issue? If you could provide some mor... -
10:16 AM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
- Dear Victoria,
Thank you for your reply. I hadn't noticed the ff_allmoved indicator, so this is very helpful.
H...
03/15/2017
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- Hi Yigit,
the linkage process in this area has not advanced as much as other data linkage projects (such as linkage ...
03/14/2017
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03:56 PM Support #745: Interviewer number query
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I've had a look at the h_intnum variable on the h_indresp_ip data and this is "inapplicable" for 2267 out ... -
- Hi,
I received this (below) - I can look into it, but wanted to post it here in case it's come up before (I did a...
03/13/2017
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02:44 PM Support #743: Education Information
- Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Yes, I'll wait for it. Do you think it would take more than a year?
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- Hi Yigit,
we collect some information about the highest educational qualification (the information is stored in the ... -
- Emily Midouhas wrote:
> I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is f... -
11:10 AM Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage
- I am developing a grant proposal that would use US, and I am wondering what the process is for having geographical da...
03/11/2017
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- Hi,
I am new and trying to get used to Innovation Panel. I've read the manual and checked all the variables avail...
03/10/2017
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07:07 PM Support #742 (Closed): Income
- I need to build a gross annual labor income variable and a gross weekly labor income variable. These should be compar...
03/09/2017
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11:01 AM Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- Thank you for your answer, Victoria. Always very precise.
Yes, that would be helpful.
Best,
Lydia
03/07/2017
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04:22 PM Support #729: modetype variable
- Thanks for the clarification !!
Best,
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- Dear Yujung,
The description of the universe for the variable ethid4a on the online documentation does not need to... -
- Dear Rory,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at the... -
- DEar Leanne,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at t... -
- I meant cognitive ability module. (not cognitive development module).
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- Hi Michaela,
all questions asked in the interview are included in the questionnaire which we make available online ... -
03:43 PM Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
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I would like to use data on cognitive abilities. Questions should be included in W3 and should be in the c_indre...
03/06/2017
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05:14 PM Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
- David,
1. n_ythscub_xw exists from wave 3 onwards, but not for wave 2.
2. I don't know the answer and I am conc... -
- Julia Borodina wrote:
> Dear Gundi,
> Thanks a lot for the answer! I'd also like to find out how I can link the a... -
- There will be an indicator variable in the data that tells you the person number of the person providing the proxy re...
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- Hi Julia,
not all questions are addressed to all people during the interview, and in the data we use negative values... -
- Dear Support Team,
I am going to write a bachelor thesis using Understanding society and I would like to know how ... -
- Thank you very much for this clarification. This really helps understanding better the codebook and the dataset.
B... -
- Dear Yujung,
There is no typo. The ff type variables are ones that are fed forward (ff) into a subsequent wave to ... -
- Hi, many thanks for the clarification.
Then I'm afraid some of the descriptions on the universe of the variables o... -
- Dear Yujung,
Modetype is only available in wave 6 in the hhresp, indall and child data files as f_modetype and is ... -
- Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your message.
We cannot create these cross tabulations, this is something you wou... -
- Dear Lydia,
Re: point 1, I think it is the other way around - there is a BHPS ISCED classification already, but th... -
- Dear Dan,
Apologies for the delay while we were looking into this.
The reason that these variables are not incl...
03/03/2017
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07:05 AM Support #737 (Closed): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society
- Hello
I'm a researcher at the University of Sheffield currently working on fuel poverty suffered by people with lear...
03/02/2017
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- Dear Leanne,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we c... -
- Dear Rory,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can... -
01:32 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- Thanks for the clarification Peter - much appreciated. That answers all my questions! Thanks again for being so swi...
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- Most of these (4,656) are the IEMB sample, who by definition do not have any of the "ub" weights. The other 15 are od...
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- Thanks for the quick response Peter - much appreciated. I've downloaded the data and 4,671 of the rows in the weight...
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- Dear Mark,
We decided to discontinue indscub_xw, but following various enquiries from users we have subsequently p... -
- Dear Mark,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you sh... -
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- Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... -
- Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... -
- Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as we ... -
- Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately this report won't be available until after our next data release (which will be in Nove... -
- Dear Kirsty,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you ...
03/01/2017
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- Hi there,
I've been working with the 'satisfaction' questions from the adult self-completion questionnaire, lookin... -
10:43 AM Support #735 (Closed): Weighting reducing sample numbers
- Hi,
As advised in the user guide, if you want to generalise to the UK population then weighting should be applied....
02/28/2017
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03:10 PM Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
Dear technical support team,
I would like to enquire about identifying if participants have moved location in th...-
- Dear Support Team,
I am working on a project where we would like to identify people who change address over any di... -
09:52 AM Support #732 (Closed): Net income variables
- The wave 1-6 user guide says that there is a technical working paper under preparation that will provide details of t...
02/27/2017
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- Dear Victoria,
Let me be clearer!
1)I am not English-native, so I am not aware very carefully of the British q... -
- Dear Lydia,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
For your first question, I think that the definiti... -
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02:32 PM Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
- Many thanks for the reply. I have a couple of follow-up questions re point (1):
1) May I just clarify that there i... -
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- Dear Kirsty,
these variables are "derived variables" - indicated by the _dv suffix - and as such not asked in the qu... -
- Hi,
I hope you are well.
I am doing a project from using your Wave 5, Individual Adult Interview Data e_indresp... -
- Dear Lindsay,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
A couple of things we can point out -
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02/23/2017
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Hi, I wonder if there is a typo for the universe of "ethid4a" variable in wave 5.
The online documentation says th...-
Hi,
I am looking for "modetype" variable from the dataset but I could not find where the variable is stored at....-
02:03 PM Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
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I am just starting to work with the new wave 6 data (having previously worked with waves 1-5 in a panel study)... -
- Dear Libby,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you while we were looking into this. We discovered that there w...
02/22/2017
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- Dear Ben,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you, while we have been looking into this.
Re: Missing val... -
10:33 AM Support #727: Follow up moved out participants
- Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Emily,
> the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website a... -
- Hi Emily,
the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website and the UKDS data series ... -
- I am looking into using your dataset (waves 1 – 6, end user license version) however, I am slightly confused how you ...
02/21/2017
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- Hi Nick,
yes, that seems to be a glitsh in the online dataset documentation. The variables are definitely included...
02/20/2017
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09:55 AM Support #722: end date of union and how the union ended
- Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your response. I indeed refer to the family data produced by Pronzato, and I w... -
08:55 AM Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items
- Browsing your website, the matdep items a-c in wave 1 are shown as ‘special licence version’ only, but I don’t think ...
02/17/2017
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11:04 AM Support #725 (Closed): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples
- Dear Understanding Society team,
My colleague and I have recently started working with the nurse and biomarker dat...
02/16/2017
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- Hello Sait,
There is no BHPS file called fertility.dta. My guess is that you are referring to the file family.dta.... -
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- Dear Libby,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best... -
- Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best... -
- Dear Luca,
There should not be many inapplicables for the hcond variables in wave one. The inapplicables resulting...
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