Activity
From 02/27/2017 to 03/28/2017
03/28/2017
- 07:31 PM Support #755 (In Progress): non-coresident adult children
- Dear Jingyi
there are different ways to identify the gender of respondent's non co-resident children, and which way ... - 01:46 PM Support #739 (Closed): Proxy variables
- 01:45 PM Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
- 01:45 PM Support #705 (Closed): Emigration Status
- 01:44 PM Support #746 (Closed): Household relatives
- 01:44 PM Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
- 01:43 PM Support #743 (Closed): Education Information
- 01:43 PM Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage
- 01:42 PM Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
03/23/2017
- 07:07 PM Support #755 (Closed): non-coresident adult children
- Dear Support team,
I have a question about Understanding Society, I would be appreciated if you can give me some a... - 09:03 AM Support #750 (Feedback): Industry codes
- Dear Aina,
to our knowledge there is no exact mapping of SIC 1980 to SIC 1992. In some waves of the BHPS responses w...
03/22/2017
- 01:02 PM Support #754: Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
- Thank you very much.
Best, Sait - 12:01 PM Support #754 (Feedback): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
- Dear Sait,
you are right. the label was misleading. The variable is derived from JBNSSEC_DV, which in turn is derive... - 10:45 AM Support #754 (Closed): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
- Hi,
I try to make use of jbnnsec3_dv variable. According to the value labels, three categories are (1) management ... - 11:37 AM Support #742 (Feedback): Income
- Dear Gloria,
The Understanding Society measure of labour income is a current measure. It asks for the “usual” amou...
03/21/2017
- 04:07 PM Support #753 (Feedback): Temporary Accommodation
- Dear Helen,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
1 – we would include respondents in these types of accommodation, tha... - 02:18 PM Support #753 (Closed): Temporary Accommodation
- Hi there! I'm trying to understand whether the survey tracks temporary accomodation, and if so where I could find thi...
- 03:36 PM Support #752: Weights
- Thank you Peter.
It would be really useful to have the weights earlier please, since I am putting together some fi... - 03:24 PM Support #752: Weights
- Nicola,
Yes, we can supply the weight. However, it will be included in an update to the data that will be released... - 12:47 PM Support #752 (Closed): Weights
- Hello,
I notice from a previous posting on the User Support site (#736), that the weight f_indscub_xw for the adul... - 03:15 PM Support #735: Weighting reducing sample numbers
- Kirsty,
Sorry for slow reply. The provision of weights requires the ability to estimate probabilities of continuin...
03/20/2017
- 01:57 PM Support #748 (Feedback): GHQ-12 results
- Dear Gillian,
it appears you are comparing results published using GHQ-12 caseness scores with results using GQH-12 ... - 09:17 AM Support #751 (In Progress): Confusing data on rjbstat
- Hi Julia,
we cannot reproduce your analysis data set from the description you have sent. We can only recommend that ...
03/18/2017
- 08:33 PM Support #751 (Closed): Confusing data on rjbstat
- Dear Support Team,
I'm having a problem interpreting the Stata output attached.
I am working with a merged file (Wa...
03/17/2017
- 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... - 08:03 AM Support #739 (Resolved): Proxy variables
- Yes, you arrived at the correct conclusion! Information from the proxy informant about the proxy respondent is alread...
03/16/2017
- 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... - 11:34 AM Support #739: Proxy variables
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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... - 11:59 AM Support #705: Emigration Status
- 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... - 11:46 AM Support #746 (In Progress): Household relatives
- Hi Dora,
there is no specific variable reporting this at the household level. But there is an entire dataset that st... - 11:36 AM Support #746 (Closed): Household relatives
- 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... - 11:11 AM Support #724 (Closed): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- 11:11 AM Support #729 (Closed): modetype variable
- 11:10 AM Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
- 11:09 AM Support #737 (Closed): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society
- 11:08 AM Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
- 11:07 AM Support #715: Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
- 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
- 09:32 AM Support #743: Education Information
- Hi Yigit,
the linkage process in this area has not advanced as much as other data linkage projects (such as linkage ...
03/14/2017
- 03:56 PM Support #745: Interviewer number query
- Update:
I've had a look at the h_intnum variable on the h_indresp_ip data and this is "inapplicable" for 2267 out ... - 09:27 AM Support #745 (Closed): Interviewer number query
- 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
- 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?
--Yigit - 02:08 PM Support #743 (Feedback): Education Information
- Hi Yigit,
we collect some information about the highest educational qualification (the information is stored in the ... - 11:21 AM Support #744: geographical data linkage
- 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
- 06:53 PM Support #743 (Closed): Education Information
- 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
- 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
- 03:23 PM Support #730 (Closed): ff_newimm
- 03:22 PM Support #736 (Closed): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- 03:22 PM Support #732 (Closed): Net income variables
- 03:21 PM Support #731 (Closed): De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived
- 03:11 PM Support #725 (Closed): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples
- 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
- 04:22 PM Support #729: modetype variable
- Thanks for the clarification !!
Best,
Yujung - 04:15 PM Support #729: modetype variable
- Dear Yujung,
The description of the universe for the variable ethid4a on the online documentation does not need to... - 04:13 PM Support #733 (Feedback): Identifying residential movers
- Dear Rory,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at the... - 04:11 PM Support #734 (Feedback): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
- DEar Leanne,
There is a question asked at the “household” level about whether the household is still residing at t... - 04:00 PM Support #741: data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
- I meant cognitive ability module. (not cognitive development module).
- 03:59 PM Support #741 (Feedback): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
- 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
- Hi,
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
- 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... - 04:46 PM Support #739: Proxy variables
- Julia Borodina wrote:
> Dear Gundi,
> Thanks a lot for the answer! I'd also like to find out how I can link the a... - 04:44 PM Support #739: Proxy variables
- There will be an indicator variable in the data that tells you the person number of the person providing the proxy re...
- 03:44 PM Support #739: Proxy variables
- Hi Julia,
not all questions are addressed to all people during the interview, and in the data we use negative values... - 03:20 PM Support #739 (Closed): Proxy variables
- Dear Support Team,
I am going to write a bachelor thesis using Understanding society and I would like to know how ... - 01:59 PM Support #730: ff_newimm
- Thank you very much for this clarification. This really helps understanding better the codebook and the dataset.
B... - 09:33 AM Support #730 (Feedback): ff_newimm
- Dear Yujung,
There is no typo. The ff type variables are ones that are fed forward (ff) into a subsequent wave to ... - 01:58 PM Support #729: modetype variable
- Hi, many thanks for the clarification.
Then I'm afraid some of the descriptions on the universe of the variables o... - 09:32 AM Support #729 (Feedback): modetype variable
- Dear Yujung,
Modetype is only available in wave 6 in the hhresp, indall and child data files as f_modetype and is ... - 01:10 PM Support #737 (Feedback): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society
- Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your message.
We cannot create these cross tabulations, this is something you wou... - 11:41 AM Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- Dear Lydia,
Re: point 1, I think it is the other way around - there is a BHPS ISCED classification already, but th... - 09:31 AM Support #728 (Feedback): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
- Dear Dan,
Apologies for the delay while we were looking into this.
The reason that these variables are not incl...
03/03/2017
- 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
- 04:17 PM Support #734 (In Progress): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
- 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... - 04:16 PM Support #733 (In Progress): Identifying residential movers
- 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...
- 01:03 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- 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...
- 12:34 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- Thanks for the quick response Peter - much appreciated. I've downloaded the data and 4,671 of the rows in the weight...
- 11:06 AM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- Dear Mark,
We decided to discontinue indscub_xw, but following various enquiries from users we have subsequently p... - 10:37 AM Support #736 (In Progress): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- Dear Mark,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you sh... - 10:53 AM Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search
- 10:53 AM Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items
- 10:52 AM Support #730 (In Progress): ff_newimm
- Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... - 10:52 AM Support #729 (In Progress): modetype variable
- Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ... - 10:51 AM Support #728 (In Progress): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
- 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 ... - 10:50 AM Support #732 (Feedback): Net income variables
- Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately this report won't be available until after our next data release (which will be in Nove... - 10:37 AM Support #735 (In Progress): Weighting reducing sample numbers
- 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
- 10:18 PM Support #736 (Closed): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
- 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
- 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...- 12:18 PM Support #733 (Closed): Identifying residential movers
- 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
- 03:06 PM Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- Dear Victoria,
Let me be clearer!
1)I am not English-native, so I am not aware very carefully of the British q... - 11:13 AM Support #724 (Feedback): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
- Dear Lydia,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
For your first question, I think that the definiti... - 02:34 PM Support #723 (In Progress): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
- 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... - 09:46 AM Support #723 (Closed): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
- 11:42 AM Support #731: De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived
- Dear Kirsty,
these variables are "derived variables" - indicated by the _dv suffix - and as such not asked in the qu... - 09:34 AM Support #731 (Closed): De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived
- Hi,
I hope you are well.
I am doing a project from using your Wave 5, Individual Adult Interview Data e_indresp... - 11:24 AM Support #725 (Feedback): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples
- Dear Lindsay,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
A couple of things we can point out -
If you ... - 09:55 AM Support #727 (Closed): Follow up moved out participants
- 09:53 AM Support #722 (Closed): end date of union and how the union ended
- 09:50 AM Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS
- 09:47 AM Support #714 (Closed): Missing values
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