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From 05/09/2017 to 06/07/2017
06/07/2017
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07:26 PM Support #790: Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
- Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
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> We do not currently provide a BHPS equivalent file. We will note the... -
04:16 PM Support #790 (Feedback): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
- Dear Sebastian,
We do not currently provide a BHPS equivalent file. We will note the request and consider whether... -
- Dear Carolina,
Further to your separate correspondence with us, we are now closing this issue, as it has been reso... -
04:16 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- Looks fine!
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04:14 PM Support #791: Lone Parents
- Sorry - I meant the longitudinal weight e_psnenub_lw~=0
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- Hi Helen,
I am assuming you are working with the e_indall file and that you are looking for dependent children who l... -
- Dear Julia,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your follow-up question.
Yes , their work experience would... -
- Dear Fiona,
We will have to take this query back to the fieldwork agency that originally conducted the interviews.... -
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- Dear Charlotte,
Just checking whether there is anything more we can help you with on this? We are happy to discuss... -
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03:22 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
- Stata code:
use d_indresp, clear
sort pidp
describe
save "H:\My Documents\SSRM\Dissertation\Data\Work... -
- Hi there,
My name is Emily - I am a MSc student, currently working on a dissertation looking at how socioeconomic...
06/05/2017
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04:38 PM Support #791 (Closed): Lone Parents
- Hi there,
I've been working in Wave 5 of Understanding society, and trying to understand how many HHs have one ad... -
- Hi Understanding Society,
I have asked before whether date of birth was available as a variable in Understanding ... -
02:57 PM Support #775: Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
- Dear Victoria.
Thank you for your reply. I am interested in the criteria for assigning the nurse ID 9999 and in pa...
06/01/2017
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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...
05/30/2017
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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 ...
05/26/2017
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- Nico,
When you pool the data, let's assume you add to each record a variable, wave, to indicate from which wave th... -
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... -
- Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
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> Many thanks for your enquiry. For exact date of birth you would need ...
05/25/2017
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- Hello Jingyi,
The file A_INDALL includes basic biographical info about all individuals in the households, that is,... -
- Glad we could help!
Gundi -
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... -
- Hi John,
these questions are asked only of people who agreed to a self-completion and who are not currently co-habit...
05/24/2017
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- Hi Ujjwal,
we cannot provide feedback on assumptions you want to make in your analysis. Acceptability of assumptions...
05/22/2017
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- Ujjwal Kumar Das wrote:
> Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume househ... -
- Dear Victoria and Gundi, Thanks for this information. Does this mean, I can assume household reference person (hrpno)...
05/19/2017
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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 -...
05/18/2017
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- Dear Emily,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
FSM is linked from the NPD data and not available on Understanding So... -
- Dear Ujjwal,
if you are interested in the household reference person, there are two derived variables in the Underst... -
- Dear Ujjwal,
There is no comparative variable (to HOH in BHPS) in Understanding Society. HOH was used in the BHPS ... -
- Dear Charlotte,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Is there any reason you are interested in the IP data? As the sam... -
- Thanks for letting us know, best wishes, Victoria.
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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.
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- Dear Sonia,
We'd just like to check whether there's anything else we can help you with, before closing this issue ...
05/17/2017
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- Dear forum,
I understand, BHPS, Indall module has a variable HOH - which helps identify conventional head in a ho... -
- Dear Daniele,
Self-completion questionnaires – the adult self-completion section would have been completed at the ... -
- Dear Orla,
Unfortunately this is not possible at present via the publications search on the UKHLS website.
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- Many thanks for your follow-up question, which I will add here (and close the new issue):
Many thanks! Just to cla... -
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- Dear Niamh,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.
1. The mainstage user guide provides these ... -
- Dear Fiona,
Apologies for the delay, while we have been looking into this.
Those individuals with a nurse id =9...
05/16/2017
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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... -
- Ok, that makes sense.
I did want to include waves 1,2,4 and 6 to look at different time points of traumatic event... -
- The choice of weights depends on the set of analysis units that you want to include in the analysis, i.e. the definit...
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- I will be controlling for age, yes.
Ok that makes sense - although, it does specify that weights using wave 1 dat... -
- OK, so let's assume the unit of analysis is the child and your outcome measures will come from wave 6. This seems sen...
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- Hi Peter,
Thank you for getting back to me so soon, much appreciated.
Ok - I will admit here that I am a 1+3 ... -
- Hi Emily,
I doubt that there exists a weight that is perfect for your analysis, but there may be a reasonable solu... -
- Hi there,
I have read the user guide 1-6 section on weighting (pages 56 - 83), however I am still slightly lost i... -
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...
05/12/2017
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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... -
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...
05/10/2017
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- Dear Julia,
The variable kleslen shows the length of each spell. So creating a variable for total work experience...
05/09/2017
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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... -
11:13 AM Support #778: Funding
- Victoria
Thanks for the very prompt reply and for all your help
Best wishes
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- Dear Gary,
Understanding Society data are available via the UK Data Service. https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/... -
- Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This is something we are going to investigate here with our health and b...
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