Activity
From 05/30/2017 to 06/28/2017
06/28/2017
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03:10 PM Support #804 (Closed): Missing Value Analysis
- I'm currently attempting missing value analysis of merged data which comprises HHRESP and INDRESP data from waves 1 -...
06/27/2017
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06:13 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Ok that's perfect I can definitely use that then - I will ju... -
02:58 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
- FNSPID and MNSPID are the PIDP of the father and mother not PID (even though the variable name as PID instead of PIDP...
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- Hi Alita,
Thank you for your detailed reply. I completely understand and I am sorry to have burdened you with all ... -
- Hello Emily
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gen... -
- Hello
This file contains one row for each source of income for each person. This variable shows the total income f... -
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAM... -
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- Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAMP file of the wave aft...
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- >> Parents
This will have to be constructed from either W_INDALL or W_EGOALT files
>> Parents with a child aged 1...
06/26/2017
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- Hi there,
I'm looking to create a variable of parental death. However, I am having trouble of finding cases where... -
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...
06/25/2017
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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...
06/22/2017
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11:43 AM Support #800: Net Income
- Rafael Vassiliou wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
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At the moment I work on my dissertation based on the impact of minimu... -
- Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol. At the moment I work on my dissertation ...
06/20/2017
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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...
06/19/2017
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03:39 PM Support #799 (Closed): Parent sample for research project
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I was wondering if you might be able to help me. I am trying to get a better understanding of the responde... -
- Hi Alita,
Thank you for getting back to me.
My apologies but I realised that I did not need to merge these in...
06/17/2017
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- Hello Emily,
Each row in INDSAMP is uniquely identified by PIDP and D_FINLOC
Each row in INDALL is uniquely ident...
06/16/2017
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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...
06/15/2017
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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...
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- Hi Julia,
sorry. I seem to have overlooked your follow-up question here when replying to your follow-up question #79... -
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06/14/2017
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- 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...
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- Thanks again! I'm sorry for so many questions but I really find some data confusing. Could you please clarify who can...
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- The questions that were asked are listed in the wave-specific questionnaires. SCEND is school leaving age; FEEND is f...
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- Thanks! And what'a the difference in the definition of further and full-time education in your dataset? I mean can I ...
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- FEEND on XWAVEDAT reports the age at which the respondent ended further education. There is also a variable SCEND whi...
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- Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an age when a respondent is supposed to leave further education while...
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- Also you meantioned that 'inapplicable' means that question wasn't asked by design. Could you please clarify why so m...
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- copying over content from #796
Follow-up question (J Borodina)
Thanks! So as far as I understood 'feend' gives an...
06/13/2017
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- Thanks a lot Peter!
I appreciate your help and expertise very much.
Have a great week.
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- Hi Julia,
generally, the meaning of missing values is consistent across all variables. -9 means the information has ... -
- Dear Support team,
Could you please clarify the difference between 'inapplicable' and 'missing' in 'further educatio... -
- 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
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- I have recently been preparing data for analysis in SPSS and I've successfully merged 6 waves of INDRESP data, after ...
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... -
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Dear Marceline,
You are correct respondents born in the UK are not asked the citizenship questions. But as anyone ...
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