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From 03/28/2017 to 04/26/2017

04/26/2017

10:39 AM Support #770 (Closed): Social background indicators/ parents education level
Hi Understanding Society Team,
I have a question about possible social background characteristics, particularly x...
Natasha Codiroli Mcmaster

04/25/2017

10:58 AM Support #745 (Closed): Interviewer number query
This will be addressed for the release of IP9 data. Victoria Nolan

04/24/2017

01:57 PM Support #752 (Closed): Weights
Victoria Nolan
01:56 PM Support #763 (Closed): question about b_mever and b_mvyr
Victoria Nolan
01:55 PM Support #760 (Closed): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
Victoria Nolan
01:55 PM Support #703 (Closed): Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Victoria Nolan
01:54 PM Support #765 (Closed): Pay variables for Immigrant and ethnic minority boost
Victoria Nolan
01:53 PM Support #494 (Closed): Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis
Victoria Nolan
01:45 PM Support #761 (Closed): Why monthly gross income is negative?
Victoria Nolan
01:34 PM Support #768 (Feedback): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?
Dear Nick,
I'm sorry but we do not have a date timetabled - we are dependent on working with DfE and there are a l...
Victoria Nolan

04/21/2017

02:21 PM Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions
Thanks very much! Laura Gardiner
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...
Sait Bayrakdar

04/20/2017

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...
Peter Lynn
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...
Victoria Nolan

04/18/2017

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... Alita Nandi
04:09 PM Support #763: question about b_mever and b_mvyr
Thanks for the clarification Alita!
Best wishes,
Carolina
Carolina Zuccotti
03:36 PM Support #763: question about b_mever and b_mvyr
Hi Carolina,
These happen when the person was interviewed by proxy in the last wave. The "never interviewed/new en...
Alita Nandi
03:32 PM Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions
Thanks for highlighting this issue. The online documentation will be updated to reflect these value labels. Alita Nandi
03:31 PM Support #766: USoc wave 4 investment questions
Hello Laura,
Here is the value label for nvestbrt1-3, 97
-8 "inapplicable" -9 "missing" -7 "proxy respondent" /...
Alita Nandi
03:11 PM Support #760: Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
Just to add - if you have further queries, our genetics and biomarkers team may be able to help: genetics@understandi... Victoria Nolan
03:10 PM Support #760 (Feedback): Number of sibling pairs with genetic data
Dear Gibran,
I'm very sorry for the delay in getting back to you about this, due to holiday commitments over the e...
Victoria Nolan
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?
...
Nick Garnett

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
 

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