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From 05/09/2017 to 06/07/2017

06/07/2017

07:26 PM Support #790: Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
Victoria Nolan wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
>
> We do not currently provide a BHPS equivalent file. We will note the...
Sebastian Barfort
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...
Victoria Nolan
04:21 PM Support #762 (Closed): inconsistency between xwavedat and indresp on parental occupation?
Dear Carolina,
Further to your separate correspondence with us, we are now closing this issue, as it has been reso...
Victoria Nolan
04:16 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Looks fine! Peter Lynn
04:14 PM Support #791: Lone Parents
Sorry - I meant the longitudinal weight e_psnenub_lw~=0
Gundi Knies
04:12 PM Support #791 (Feedback): Lone Parents
Hi Helen,
I am assuming you are working with the e_indall file and that you are looking for dependent children who l...
Gundi Knies
04:00 PM Support #779: BHPS file KLIFEMST
Dear Julia,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your follow-up question.
Yes , their work experience would...
Victoria Nolan
03:52 PM Support #775: Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
Dear Fiona,
We will have to take this query back to the fieldwork agency that originally conducted the interviews....
Victoria Nolan
03:50 PM Support #788 (Closed): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables
Victoria Nolan
03:49 PM Support #786 (Closed): gender of non-coresident adult children
Victoria Nolan
03:48 PM Support #787 (Closed): Household head in understanding society survey
Victoria Nolan
03:48 PM Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database
Victoria Nolan
03:47 PM Support #781: Data on couple finances
Dear Charlotte,
Just checking whether there is anything more we can help you with on this? We are happy to discuss...
Victoria Nolan
03:45 PM Support #784 (Closed): self-completion questionnaires
Victoria Nolan
03:45 PM Support #782 (Closed): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis
Victoria Nolan
03:43 PM Support #777 (Closed): Clarifications
Victoria Nolan
03:42 PM Support #785 (Closed): Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
Victoria Nolan
03:40 PM Support #768 (Closed): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?
Victoria Nolan
03:22 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
Stata code:
use d_indresp, clear
sort pidp
describe
save "H:\My Documents\SSRM\Dissertation\Data\Work...
Emily Lowthian
03:21 PM Support #792 (Closed): Merging datasets
Hi there,
My name is Emily - I am a MSc student, currently working on a dissertation looking at how socioeconomic...
Emily Lowthian

06/05/2017

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...
Helen Robb
03:58 PM Support #790 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
Hi Understanding Society,
I have asked before whether date of birth was available as a variable in Understanding ...
Sebastian Barfort
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...
Fiona Pashazadeh

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
 

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