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From 05/28/2017 to 06/26/2017

06/26/2017

02:42 PM Support #803 (Closed): Tracking parental death
Hi there,
I'm looking to create a variable of parental death. However, I am having trouble of finding cases where...
Emily Lowthian
12:40 PM Support #802 (Closed): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv
Hello,
I would like to construct hourly wages with w_paygu_dv and w_jbhrs/w_jshrs for the employed and self-employe...
Nico Ochmann

06/25/2017

07:03 PM Support #801 (Closed): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall
Hello,
I would like to use pidp for the household reference person in data file c_indall, but it seems that the va...
Fiona Steele

06/22/2017

11:43 AM Support #800: Net Income
Rafael Vassiliou wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
At the moment I work on my dissertation based on the impact of minimu...
Rafael Vassiliou
11:42 AM Support #800 (Closed): Net Income
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol. At the moment I work on my dissertation ...
Rafael Vassiliou

06/20/2017

03:33 PM Support #795 (Feedback): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society
Dear Damian,
Understanding Society contains some useful information on savings behaviour, although the detail is n...
Victoria Nolan

06/19/2017

03:39 PM Support #799 (Closed): Parent sample for research project
Hello,
I was wondering if you might be able to help me. I am trying to get a better understanding of the responde...
Daniel Breslin
01:54 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
Hi Alita,
Thank you for getting back to me.
My apologies but I realised that I did not need to merge these in...
Emily Lowthian

06/17/2017

01:27 PM Support #792 (In Progress): Merging datasets
Hello Emily,
Each row in INDSAMP is uniquely identified by PIDP and D_FINLOC
Each row in INDALL is uniquely ident...
Alita Nandi

06/16/2017

03:30 PM Support #798 (Closed): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta
In the data file a_income_protect.dta, what is the format of the data for the variable a_frmnthimp.dv? I am asking th... Myera Rashid

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...
Gundi Knies
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... Lena Hassani Nezhad
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...
Gundi Knies
03:08 PM Support #758 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Victoria Nolan
03:06 PM Support #790 (Closed): Is information on day of birth available as a variable (in BHPS)?
Victoria Nolan
03:05 PM Support #791 (Closed): Lone Parents
Victoria Nolan
03:05 PM Support #779 (Closed): BHPS file KLIFEMST
Victoria Nolan
03:04 PM Support #789 (Closed): Identifying UK citizens
Victoria Nolan

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...
Gundi Knies
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... Julia Borodina
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... Julia Borodina
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... Gundi Knies
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 ... Julia Borodina
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... Gundi Knies
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... Julia Borodina
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... Julia Borodina
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...
Gundi Knies

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.
Nico Ochmann
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 ...
Gundi Knies
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...
Julia Borodina
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...
Gundi Knies
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...
Damian Finlayson

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 ... Daniel Okoli

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
 

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