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From 03/15/2017 to 04/13/2017

04/13/2017

02:42 PM Support #767: Work experience in UKHLS
Dear Victoria,
many thanks for your quick and detailed answer! This is already very helpful.
What you describe ab...
Sabine Hübgen
01:15 PM Support #767 (Feedback): Work experience in UKHLS
Dear Sabine,
I'm not sure exactly which variables you're trying to use, but below is some essential information fo...
Victoria Nolan
02:23 PM Support #756 (Closed): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society
Victoria Nolan
02:23 PM Support #763 (In Progress): question about b_mever and b_mvyr
Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we c...
Victoria Nolan
02:19 PM Support #764 (In Progress): Reward variables
Dear Roxana,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can...
Victoria Nolan
02:15 PM Support #766 (In Progress): USoc wave 4 investment questions
Dear Laura,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can....
Victoria Nolan
02:14 PM Support #762 (In Progress): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?
Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we c...
Victoria Nolan
12:15 PM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Agnes,
The attached extract from our weighting programmes shows the input variables for the models for each of the...
Peter Lynn
11:56 AM Support #752: Weights
Nicola,
I'm so sorry. For some reason the system did not notify me of your reply so I've only just seen this! The ...
Peter Lynn

04/12/2017

04:24 PM Support #733 (Closed): Identifying residential movers
Victoria Nolan
04:22 PM Support #757 (Closed): Young mothers data
Victoria Nolan
04:21 PM Support #759 (Closed): SF-12
Victoria Nolan
12:34 PM Support #767 (Closed): Work experience in UKHLS
Dear support team,
I have a question regarding work experience in UKHLS.
I try to generate a work experience va...
Sabine Hübgen
11:35 AM Support #766 (Closed): USoc wave 4 investment questions
Hi

I have a specific question about the investment data in the USoc wave 4 household file:

The variables d_n...
Laura Gardiner
11:16 AM Support #765 (Feedback): Pay variables for Immigrant and ethnic minority boost
Dear Steve,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
We don’t currently produce derived income variables for the IEMB - ou...
Victoria Nolan
08:38 AM Support #765 (Closed): Pay variables for Immigrant and ethnic minority boost
If there a reason why the variables for monthly labour income are not present for the IEMB, even though there is data... Stephen McKay

04/11/2017

07:30 PM Support #494 (Feedback): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis
Victoria Nolan
04:33 PM Support #494: Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis
Carolina,
For this kind of data I see no conceptual logic in pooling the waves for cross-sectional analysis. You c...
Peter Lynn
06:07 PM Support #764 (Closed): Reward variables
Hi, my name is Roxana and I am a Management PhD researcher currently working on a project in the area of employee wor... Roxana Corduneanu

04/10/2017

06:39 PM Support #494: Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis
Hello,
From what I understand, I cannot use this syntax to pool waves 2 and 4 (which are the ones that have gender ...
Carolina Zuccotti
04:18 PM Support #755 (Closed): non-coresident adult children
Victoria Nolan
04:17 PM Support #761 (Feedback): Why monthly gross income is negative?
Dear Ujjwal Kumar Das,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user gu...
Victoria Nolan
01:14 PM Support #763 (Closed): question about b_mever and b_mvyr
Hello,
From my understanding, b_mvever and b_mvyr refer to new entrants only; however, some people who have data on ...
Carolina Zuccotti

04/08/2017

05:13 PM Support #762 (Closed): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?
Hello,
I am a bit puzzled with the parental information contained in the indresp file and in the xwavedat file.
T...
Carolina Zuccotti

04/07/2017

12:21 PM Support #761: Why monthly gross income is negative?
> I can see for many, individual monthly gross income is negative which is unusual.
> Variable | Obs ...
Ujjwal Kumar Das
12:20 PM Support #761 (Closed): Why monthly gross income is negative?
I can see for many, individual monthly gross income is negative which is unusual.
a_fimngrs_dv | 50,994 14...
Ujjwal Kumar Das

04/06/2017

02:26 PM Support #756 (Feedback): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society
Dear Johannes,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
The following paper summarises the provenance of...
Victoria Nolan

04/05/2017

03:15 PM Support #760 (In Progress): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
Dear Gibran,
Many thanks for your enquiry. It has been passed on to our genetics and biomarkers team, who will be ...
Victoria Nolan
03:13 PM Support #687 (Closed): Unusual age distribution after conditioning on wJBSTATT in wave `R`
Dear Till,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you - unfortunately we have been unable to identify a s...
Victoria Nolan
03:12 PM Support #750 (Closed): Industry codes
Victoria Nolan
03:11 PM Support #754 (Closed): Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
Victoria Nolan
03:11 PM Support #742 (Closed): Income
Victoria Nolan
03:11 PM Support #753 (Closed): Temporary Accommodation
Victoria Nolan
03:10 PM Support #749 (Closed): w_scparoutint
Victoria Nolan
03:10 PM Support #751 (Closed): Confusing data on rjbstat
Victoria Nolan
03:09 PM Support #748 (Closed): GHQ-12 results
Victoria Nolan
03:09 PM Support #735 (Closed): Weighting reducing sample numbers
Victoria Nolan

04/04/2017

01:39 PM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
Thanks Victoria. I think that clears things up for now.
Best wishes
Rory
Rory Coulter
09:38 AM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
Hi Rory,
It was not always the case that the ONSPD for the closest point to each survey sweep was used to assign s...
Victoria Nolan
08:59 AM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
Dear Victoria
Thanks for your very detailed response to my questions.
From what you say, I agree that the only...
Rory Coulter

04/03/2017

07:18 PM Support #757 (Feedback): Young mothers data
Hi Marsha,
Understanding Society data are made available through the UK Data Service and can be downloaded from thei...
Gundi Knies
06:48 PM Support #759 (Feedback): SF-12
Hi Maria,
in Wave 1 the SF12 was carried in the face-to-face (f2f) questionnaire but it was decided that it should b...
Gundi Knies
04:15 PM Support #760 (Closed): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
Hi I'm trying to find out how many pairs of siblings exist where both individuals have genotype data. Is this (or an ... Gibran Hemani

03/31/2017

04:22 PM Support #759 (Closed): SF-12
Hello,
I wonder why SF-12 variables are available twice in Waves 2 to 5: as usual variables and as self-completion. ...
Maria Pavlova

03/30/2017

09:59 AM Support #758 (In Progress): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Dear Nico,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I am passing it on to our weighting team to look into.
Best wishes, Vi...
Victoria Nolan

03/29/2017

06:32 PM Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Hi there,
I am running hourly wage (constructed with w_paygu_dv) on a number of regressors in a pooled cross-sect...
Nico Ochmann
03:27 PM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
Dear Rory,
Just a brief update:
We can now confirm that the BHPS individual level variable wMOVEST was compute...
Victoria Nolan
08:18 AM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
Dear Rory,
Sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this.
We have tried to respond as far as possibl...
Victoria Nolan
11:58 AM Support #757 (Closed): Young mothers data
Hello
I am interested in using Understanding Society data to explore data around teenage and young mothers. More s...
Marsha Wood
08:27 AM Support #756 (Closed): Questions regarding the cognitive ability measures in understand society
Hi, my name is Johannes Bennetzen and I am looking through the cognitive ability measures in understand society. As f... Johannes Emil Bennetzen

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 ...
Gundi Knies
01:46 PM Support #739 (Closed): Proxy variables
Victoria Nolan
01:45 PM Support #694 (Closed): "Ever divorced" and "Ever widowed" in Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
01:45 PM Support #705 (Closed): Emigration Status
Victoria Nolan
01:44 PM Support #746 (Closed): Household relatives
Victoria Nolan
01:44 PM Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Victoria Nolan
01:43 PM Support #743 (Closed): Education Information
Victoria Nolan
01:43 PM Support #744 (Closed): geographical data linkage
Victoria Nolan
01:42 PM Support #741 (Closed): data on cognitive abilities and physical exercise
Victoria Nolan

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...
Jingyi Wang
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...
Gundi Knies

03/22/2017

01:02 PM Support #754: Three Class NS-SEC - jbnssec3_dv
Thank you very much.
Best, Sait
Sait Bayrakdar
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...
Gundi Knies
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 ...
Sait Bayrakdar
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...
Victoria Nolan

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...
Victoria Nolan
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... Helen Robb
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...
Nicola Spencer Godfrey
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...
Peter Lynn
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...
Nicola Spencer Godfrey
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...
Peter Lynn

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 ...
Gundi Knies
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 ...
Gundi Knies

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...
Julia Borodina

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...
Aina Gallego
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...
Gundi Knies
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... Gundi Knies

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...
Julia Borodina
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...
Gundi Knies
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... Ian Alcock
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 ... Gillian Bentley
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Theodora Kokosi
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...
Gundi Knies
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...
Theodora Kokosi
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...
Victoria Nolan
11:11 AM Support #724 (Closed): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
Victoria Nolan
11:11 AM Support #729 (Closed): modetype variable
Victoria Nolan
11:10 AM Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
Victoria Nolan
11:09 AM Support #737 (Closed): Cross tabulations in Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
11:08 AM Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
Victoria Nolan
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...
Victoria Nolan
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...
Rory Coulter

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 ...
Gundi Knies
 

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