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From 05/03/2017 to 06/01/2017

06/01/2017

01:08 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Hi Peter,
thanks a lot for your reply. I pooled the data for all six waves and added for each record a wave variabl...
Nico Ochmann

05/30/2017

10:22 AM Support #789 (In Progress): Identifying UK citizens
Dear Marceline,
You are correct respondents born in the UK are not asked the citizenship questions. But as anyone ...
Alita Nandi

05/26/2017

04:43 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Nico,
When you pool the data, let's assume you add to each record a variable, wave, to indicate from which wave th...
Peter Lynn
04:06 PM Support #789 (Closed): Identifying UK citizens
Hello,
I am trying to identify UK citizens in this dataset for my research. However, the nationality of the parti...
Marceline Noumoe Feze
12:52 PM Support #773: Is information on day of birth available as a variable?
Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
>
> Many thanks for your enquiry. For exact date of birth you would need ...
Sebastian Barfort

05/25/2017

11:14 AM Support #786 (In Progress): gender of non-coresident adult children
Hello Jingyi,
The file A_INDALL includes basic biographical info about all individuals in the households, that is,...
Alita Nandi
10:24 AM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Glad we could help!
Gundi
Gundi Knies
10:17 AM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Dear Gundi, I think I have got the information - hrpno defines which pno is the household reference.
Thanks for y...
Ujjwal Kumar Das
10:17 AM Support #788 (Feedback): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables
Hi John,
these questions are asked only of people who agreed to a self-completion and who are not currently co-habit...
Gundi Knies

05/24/2017

03:11 PM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Hi Ujjwal,
we cannot provide feedback on assumptions you want to make in your analysis. Acceptability of assumptions...
Gundi Knies

05/22/2017

09:59 PM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Ujjwal Kumar Das wrote:
> Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume househ...
Ujjwal Kumar Das
09:58 PM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume household reference person (hrpno)... Ujjwal Kumar Das

05/19/2017

11:14 PM Support #788 (Closed): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables
There are two Tables I've derived from Wave 6 of Understanding Society from which I wish to draw some conclusions -... John Haskey

05/18/2017

03:57 PM Support #776 (Feedback): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database
Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
FSM is linked from the NPD data and not available on Understanding So...
Victoria Nolan
12:38 PM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
Dear Ujjwal,
if you are interested in the household reference person, there are two derived variables in the Underst...
Gundi Knies
10:38 AM Support #787 (Feedback): Household head in understanding society survey
Dear Ujjwal,
There is no comparative variable (to HOH in BHPS) in Understanding Society. HOH was used in the BHPS ...
Victoria Nolan
10:49 AM Support #781 (Feedback): Data on couple finances
Dear Charlotte,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Is there any reason you are interested in the IP data? As the sam...
Victoria Nolan
10:43 AM Support #774 (Closed): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Thanks for letting us know, best wishes, Victoria. Victoria Nolan
10:39 AM Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Good morning,
Everything is good. We were just using the wrong pid variable. Thank you so much for your time.
Kin...
Sonia Turrero
09:41 AM Support #774 (Feedback): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Dear Sonia,
We'd just like to check whether there's anything else we can help you with, before closing this issue ...
Victoria Nolan

05/17/2017

09:20 PM Support #787 (Closed): Household head in understanding society survey
Dear forum,
I understand, BHPS, Indall module has a variable HOH - which helps identify conventional head in a ho...
Ujjwal Kumar Das
02:46 PM Support #784 (Feedback): self-completion questionnaires
Dear Daniele,
Self-completion questionnaires – the adult self-completion section would have been completed at the ...
Victoria Nolan
02:21 PM Support #782 (Feedback): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis
Dear Orla,
Unfortunately this is not possible at present via the publications search on the UKHLS website.
Best...
Victoria Nolan
02:17 PM Support #778 (Closed): Funding
Victoria Nolan
02:16 PM Support #773 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?
Victoria Nolan
02:15 PM Support #771 (Closed): Interviewers' observations about the household
Victoria Nolan
02:15 PM Support #772 (Closed): training interviewers to make observations
Victoria Nolan
02:14 PM Support #770 (Closed): Social background indicators/ parents education level
Victoria Nolan
02:14 PM Support #769 (Closed): number of siblings ever had
Victoria Nolan
02:12 PM Support #779: BHPS file KLIFEMST
Many thanks for your follow-up question, which I will add here (and close the new issue):
Many thanks! Just to cla...
Victoria Nolan
02:11 PM Support #777 (Feedback): Clarifications
Victoria Nolan
02:10 PM Support #777: Clarifications
Dear Niamh,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.
1. The mainstage user guide provides these ...
Victoria Nolan
02:05 PM Support #775 (Feedback): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
Dear Fiona,
Apologies for the delay, while we have been looking into this.
Those individuals with a nurse id =9...
Victoria Nolan

05/16/2017

04:57 PM Support #786 (Closed): gender of non-coresident adult children
Dear Support team,
I tried the ways you suggest me in #755. Through using the variables from fertility module in w...
Jingyi Wang
02:40 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
Ok, that makes sense.
I did want to include waves 1,2,4 and 6 to look at different time points of traumatic event...
Emily Lowthian
02:29 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
The choice of weights depends on the set of analysis units that you want to include in the analysis, i.e. the definit... Peter Lynn
02:20 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
I will be controlling for age, yes.
Ok that makes sense - although, it does specify that weights using wave 1 dat...
Emily Lowthian
02:07 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
OK, so let's assume the unit of analysis is the child and your outcome measures will come from wave 6. This seems sen... Peter Lynn
01:42 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
Hi Peter,
Thank you for getting back to me so soon, much appreciated.
Ok - I will admit here that I am a 1+3 ...
Emily Lowthian
12:03 PM Support #785: Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
Hi Emily,
I doubt that there exists a weight that is perfect for your analysis, but there may be a reasonable solu...
Peter Lynn
11:29 AM Support #785 (Closed): Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
Hi there,
I have read the user guide 1-6 section on weighting (pages 56 - 83), however I am still slightly lost i...
Emily Lowthian
10:33 AM Support #784 (Closed): self-completion questionnaires
Hi,
my name is Daniele Guariso and I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Sussex. For my research I am...
Daniele Guariso

05/12/2017

03:33 PM Support #782 (Closed): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis
Hello,
I was wondering if there any way of identifying from the website (or other source) all the research publica...
Orla McBride
09:57 AM Support #781 (Closed): Data on couple finances
Hi- apologies for bothering you, but I am currently researching couple finances and have found the variables wealthas... Charlotte Bendall

05/10/2017

10:41 AM Support #779 (Feedback): BHPS file KLIFEMST
Dear Julia,
The variable kleslen shows the length of each spell. So creating a variable for total work experience...
Victoria Nolan

05/09/2017

04:20 PM Support #779 (Closed): BHPS file KLIFEMST
Dear Support Team,
I'm currently looking for a variable that could proxy an individual's working experience. I found...
Julia Borodina
11:13 AM Support #778: Funding
Victoria
Thanks for the very prompt reply and for all your help
Best wishes
Gary
GARY ADAMSON
09:01 AM Support #778 (Feedback): Funding
Dear Gary,
Understanding Society data are available via the UK Data Service. https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/...
Victoria Nolan
09:03 AM Support #775 (In Progress): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This is something we are going to investigate here with our health and b...
Victoria Nolan

05/08/2017

02:55 PM Support #778 (Closed): Funding
We’re considering submitting a research proposal to the ESRC SDAI, with the intention of using the Understanding Soci... GARY ADAMSON
01:50 PM Support #777 (Closed): Clarifications
Dear Madam/Sir
I would like to enquire about the US survey. I have been exploring the website but would like clari...
Niamh Shortt
11:28 AM Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database
Hi there,
I am a Masters student at Cardiff University currently using the Understanding Society (USoc) data for ...
Emily Lowthian

05/06/2017

02:32 PM Support #775 (Feedback): Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
Dear Understanding Society Team,
In the nurse visit file for wave 2 individuals, b_indsamp_ns, there are 3827 reco...
Fiona Pashazadeh

05/04/2017

08:03 PM Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Hi Sonia,
my log file shows two diffrent data merges: once using indall and once using indresp. Both show that there...
Gundi Knies
06:18 PM Support #774: Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Good afternoon, thank you for your answer,
we are using the files Xindresp, may they be different than Xindall in th...
Sonia Turrero
12:50 PM Support #774 (In Progress): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Hi Sonia,
in general terms, I cannot confirm your finding that none of the BHPS members in Wave 14-18 are included i...
Gundi Knies
11:51 AM Support #774 (Closed): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
Good morning,
we are working on our Master project using BHPS panel data, and we wanted to add the Understanding Soc...
Sonia Turrero

05/03/2017

02:44 PM Support #764 (Closed): Reward variables
Victoria Nolan
02:43 PM Support #773 (Feedback): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?
Dear Sebastian,
Many thanks for your enquiry. For exact date of birth you would need to apply for access to Unders...
Victoria Nolan
11:08 AM Support #773 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?
Hi Understanding Society,
I have downloaded the Understanding Society: Waves 1-6, 2009-2015 and also the British H...
Sebastian Barfort
 

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