Activity
From 05/17/2017 to 06/15/2017
06/15/2017
- 04:39 PM Support #797 (In Progress): Youth Database - All waves
- Hi Lena,
there are no particular skip patterns other than the ones indicated in the youth questionnaire (which you h... - 10:47 AM Support #797 (Closed): Youth Database - All waves
- I am currently working with understanding society youth database. I have a question about question 29: Q29: Would yo...
- 04:11 PM Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
- Hi Julia,
sorry. I seem to have overlooked your follow-up question here when replying to your follow-up question #79... - 03:08 PM Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- 03:06 PM Support #790 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
- 03:05 PM Support #791 (Closed): Lone Parents
- 03:05 PM Support #779 (Closed): BHPS file KLIFEMST
- 03:04 PM Support #789 (Closed): Identifying UK citizens
06/14/2017
- 03:32 PM Support #796: #794 continued
- Hi Julia,
no problem, we are here to help. To understand better why some of the people with "degrees" have no inform... - 02:07 PM Support #796: #794 continued
- Those people have to be those that never entered further education but why do some of them have a degree or other hig...
- 02:04 PM Support #796: #794 continued
- Thanks again! I'm sorry for so many questions but I really find some data confusing. Could you please clarify who can...
- 11:27 AM Support #796: #794 continued
- The questions that were asked are listed in the wave-specific questionnaires. SCEND is school leaving age; FEEND is f...
- 11:17 AM Support #796: #794 continued
- Thanks! And what'a the difference in the definition of further and full-time education in your dataset? I mean can I ...
- 11:11 AM Support #796 (In Progress): #794 continued
- FEEND on XWAVEDAT reports the age at which the respondent ended further education. There is also a variable SCEND whi...
- 10:56 AM Support #796 (Closed): #794 continued
- Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an age when a respondent is supposed to leave further education while...
- 11:26 AM Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
- Also you meantioned that 'inapplicable' means that question wasn't asked by design. Could you please clarify why so m...
- 11:14 AM Support #794: BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
- copying over content from #796
Follow-up question (J Borodina)
Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an...
06/13/2017
- 09:15 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- Thanks a lot Peter!
I appreciate your help and expertise very much.
Have a great week.
- 05:39 PM Support #794 (In Progress): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
- Hi Julia,
generally, the meaning of missing values is consistent across all variables. -9 means the information has ... - 11:04 AM Support #794 (Closed): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
- Dear Support team,
Could you please clarify the difference between 'inapplicable' and 'missing' in 'further educatio... - 05:23 PM Support #793 (In Progress): Merging Household response data and Individual response data
- Hi Daniel,
I am not sure which tutorial on UoE you are following but if you look at the Understanding Society online... - 04:54 PM Support #795 (Closed): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society
- Afternoon
We are looking to assess the extent to which consumers are saving. As part of the research, we are look...
06/12/2017
- 04:49 PM Support #793 (Closed): Merging Household response data and Individual response data
- I have recently been preparing data for analysis in SPSS and I've successfully merged 6 waves of INDRESP data, after ...
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... - 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... - 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... - 04:16 PM Support #758: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
- Looks fine!
- 04:14 PM Support #791: Lone Parents
- Sorry - I meant the longitudinal weight e_psnenub_lw~=0
- 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... - 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... - 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.... - 03:50 PM Support #788 (Closed): Why so many "inapplicables" when tabulating on two specific variables
- 03:49 PM Support #786 (Closed): gender of non-coresident adult children
- 03:48 PM Support #787 (Closed): Household head in understanding society survey
- 03:48 PM Support #776 (Closed): Access to Understanding Society and National Pupil Database
- 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... - 03:45 PM Support #784 (Closed): self-completion questionnaires
- 03:45 PM Support #782 (Closed): research publications - cross-sectional or longitudinal analysis
- 03:43 PM Support #777 (Closed): Clarifications
- 03:42 PM Support #785 (Closed): Weighting for a complex sub-merged dataset
- 03:40 PM Support #768 (Closed): Data linkage - NPD & Wave 4 - ETA?
- 03:22 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
- Stata code:
use d_indresp, clear
sort pidp
describe
save "H:\My Documents\SSRM\Dissertation\Data\Work... - 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...
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... - 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 ... - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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... - 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... - 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 ...
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,... - 10:24 AM Support #787: Household head in understanding society survey
- 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... - 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...
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...
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... - 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)...
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 -...
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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 10:43 AM Support #774 (Closed): Merging BHPS and Understanding Society stata
- Thanks for letting us know, best wishes, Victoria.
- 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... - 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 ...
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... - 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 ... - 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... - 02:17 PM Support #778 (Closed): Funding
- 02:16 PM Support #773 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable?
- 02:15 PM Support #771 (Closed): Interviewers' observations about the household
- 02:15 PM Support #772 (Closed): training interviewers to make observations
- 02:14 PM Support #770 (Closed): Social background indicators/ parents education level
- 02:14 PM Support #769 (Closed): number of siblings ever had
- 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... - 02:11 PM Support #777 (Feedback): Clarifications
- 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 ... - 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...
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