Activity
From 03/23/2017 to 04/21/2017
04/21/2017
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02:21 PM Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions
- Thanks very much!
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02:20 PM Support #769 (Closed): number of siblings ever had
- Hi,
I see that in BHPS there is a question about the total number of siblings respondents ever had (NSIBS). Is the...
04/20/2017
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11:47 AM Support #752: Weights
- From: <n.spencergodfrey@surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Understanding Society User S... -
09:25 AM Support #764 (Feedback): Reward variables
- Dear Roxana,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Your first place to look would be in our long term...
04/18/2017
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06:58 PM Support #767: Work experience in UKHLS
- Yes, you are correct. The start date of the current employment status is asked every wave (w_jbbgd w_jbbgm w_jbbgy in...
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04:09 PM Support #763: question about b_mever and b_mvyr
- Thanks for the clarification Alita!
Best wishes,
Carolina -
- Hi Carolina,
These happen when the person was interviewed by proxy in the last wave. The "never interviewed/new en... -
- Thanks for highlighting this issue. The online documentation will be updated to reflect these value labels.
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- Hello Laura,
Here is the value label for nvestbrt1-3, 97
-8 "inapplicable" -9 "missing" -7 "proxy respondent" /... -
- Just to add - if you have further queries, our genetics and biomarkers team may be able to help: genetics@understandi...
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- Dear Gibran,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you about this, due to holiday commitments over the e... -
01:11 PM Support #768 (Closed): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?
- Hi,
I was wondering if there is anticipated completion date of the Wave 4 to National Pupil Database linkage?
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04/13/2017
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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... -
- Dear Sabine,
I'm not sure exactly which variables you're trying to use, but below is some essential information fo... -
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- Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we c... -
- Dear Roxana,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can... -
- Dear Laura,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we can.... -
- Dear Carolina,
Many thanks for your enquiry - the team is looking into it and will get back to you as soon as we c... -
- Agnes,
The attached extract from our weighting programmes shows the input variables for the models for each of the... -
- 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 ...
04/12/2017
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- Dear support team,
I have a question regarding work experience in UKHLS.
I try to generate a work experience va... -
- Hi
I have a specific question about the investment data in the USoc wave 4 household file:
The variables d_n... -
- Dear Steve,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
We don’t currently produce derived income variables for the IEMB - ou... -
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...
04/11/2017
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- Carolina,
For this kind of data I see no conceptual logic in pooling the waves for cross-sectional analysis. You c... -
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...
04/10/2017
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- Hello,
From what I understand, I cannot use this syntax to pool waves 2 and 4 (which are the ones that have gender ... -
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- Dear Ujjwal Kumar Das,
Negative numbers are a result of a self-employment loss. More information is in the user gu... -
- Hello,
From my understanding, b_mvever and b_mvyr refer to new entrants only; however, some people who have data on ...
04/08/2017
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- Hello,
I am a bit puzzled with the parental information contained in the indresp file and in the xwavedat file.
T...
04/07/2017
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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 ... -
- I can see for many, individual monthly gross income is negative which is unusual.
a_fimngrs_dv | 50,994 14...
04/06/2017
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- Dear Johannes,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
The following paper summarises the provenance of...
04/05/2017
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- Dear Gibran,
Many thanks for your enquiry. It has been passed on to our genetics and biomarkers team, who will be ... -
- Dear Till,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you - unfortunately we have been unable to identify a s... -
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04/04/2017
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01:39 PM Support #733: Identifying residential movers
- Thanks Victoria. I think that clears things up for now.
Best wishes
Rory -
- Hi Rory,
It was not always the case that the ONSPD for the closest point to each survey sweep was used to assign s... -
- Dear Victoria
Thanks for your very detailed response to my questions.
From what you say, I agree that the only...
04/03/2017
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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... -
- Hi Maria,
in Wave 1 the SF12 was carried in the face-to-face (f2f) questionnaire but it was decided that it should b... -
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 ...
03/31/2017
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04:22 PM Support #759 (Closed): SF-12
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I wonder why SF-12 variables are available twice in Waves 2 to 5: as usual variables and as self-completion. ...
03/30/2017
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- Dear Nico,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I am passing it on to our weighting team to look into.
Best wishes, Vi...
03/29/2017
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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... -
- Dear Rory,
Just a brief update:
We can now confirm that the BHPS individual level variable wMOVEST was compute... -
- Dear Rory,
Sorry for the delay while we have been looking into this.
We have tried to respond as far as possibl... -
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... -
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...
03/28/2017
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- Dear Jingyi
there are different ways to identify the gender of respondent's non co-resident children, and which way ... -
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03/23/2017
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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... -
- Dear Aina,
to our knowledge there is no exact mapping of SIC 1980 to SIC 1992. In some waves of the BHPS responses w...
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