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From 06/08/2017 to 07/07/2017

07/06/2017

04:29 PM Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Understood. Thank you Alita.
Best,
Kenisha
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson
02:13 PM Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
But in that case while you can find information about the two non-resident parents in Wave C, you will not be able to... Alita Nandi
02:13 PM Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
I see what you mean.
In Wave 3, any person who has a child <18, whose other parent is not co-resident and not dece...
Alita Nandi
12:24 PM Support #805 (Feedback): YPSOC in BHPS
Dear Megan,
We had a policy in BHPS of continuing to code to the original SOC classification, in this case SOC1990...
Victoria Nolan

07/05/2017

10:20 PM Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Dear Alita,
If I understand you correctly, using a_egoalt I will have information on whether a respondent lives in ...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson
12:58 PM Support #810 (In Progress): Data and merge with BHPS
Hello Jyang,
There are different measures of subjective wellbeing in Understanding Society: Life satisfaction, GHQ...
Alita Nandi
11:28 AM Support #810 (Closed): Data and merge with BHPS
Dear Sir or Madam,
I don’t have access to Understanding Society data now and so was wondering if I can ask a coupl...
J Zhong

07/04/2017

06:53 PM Support #806 (In Progress): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Hello Kenisha,
Using a_egoalt, you will be able to identify if a person is living in a household with his/her natu...
Alita Nandi
01:29 PM Support #809 (Closed): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
I want to know the method for deriving the Big5 components you have calculated. The brief explanation provided talks... Tim Hinks

07/03/2017

04:06 PM Support #804 (Feedback): Missing Value Analysis
Dear Daniel,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide ge...
Victoria Nolan
03:51 PM Support #801 (Feedback): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall
Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry - you have indeed highlighted an error, which will be resolved in our nex...
Victoria Nolan
03:49 PM Support #807 (Feedback): special licence variable
Dear Victoria,
This variable is only available in the Special License version of the Waves 1-6 Understanding Socie...
Victoria Nolan
02:00 PM Support #808 (Closed): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
Hi
When comparing the variable b_ff_oprlg with information merged in directly from Wave 1 using variable a_oprlg -...
Andy Ross
09:47 AM Support #795 (Closed): Savings Variables in Wave A of Understanding Society
Victoria Nolan
09:47 AM Support #797 (Closed): Youth Database - All waves
Victoria Nolan
09:47 AM Support #793 (Closed): Merging Household response data and Individual response data
Victoria Nolan
09:46 AM Support #796 (Closed): #794 continued
Victoria Nolan
09:46 AM Support #794 (Closed): BHPS: variable 'feend' from xwavedat
Victoria Nolan
09:45 AM Support #781 (Closed): Data on couple finances
Victoria Nolan
09:45 AM Support #802 (Feedback): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv
Dear Nico,
Unfortunately this variable does not exist.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan

06/30/2017

05:33 PM Support #807 (Closed): special licence variable
Hello,
I would like to use the variable plbornc_all for my analysis. How may I request it?
Many thanks,
Victoria
victoria donnaloja
07:56 AM Support #806 (Closed): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Dear Support Team,
I am interested in matching respondents who have a child/children living in the household at wav...
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson

06/29/2017

05:00 PM Support #805: YPSOC in BHPS
Wave 17 (2007) has the SOC2000 coding but waves 12 (2002) and 13 (2003) are missing it.
Thanks
Meg
Megan Scott
04:55 PM Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPS
Hi,
I am still using the YPSOC variable from the Youth modules in BHPS but I noticed that it is only coded using ...
Megan Scott

06/28/2017

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 -... Daniel Okoli

06/27/2017

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...
Emily Lowthian
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... Alita Nandi
02:39 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
Hi Alita,
Thank you for your detailed reply. I completely understand and I am sorry to have burdened you with all ...
Emily Lowthian
12:58 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
Hello Emily
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gen...
Alita Nandi
05:12 PM Support #798 (In Progress): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta
Hello
This file contains one row for each source of income for each person. This variable shows the total income f...
Alita Nandi
02:01 PM Support #803: Tracking parental death
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAM...
Emily Lowthian
01:05 PM Support #803 (In Progress): Tracking parental death
Alita Nandi
01:04 PM Support #803: Tracking parental death
Use INDSAMP file to identify people who have died. Deceased persons will appear in the W_INDSAMP file of the wave aft... Alita Nandi
01:12 PM Support #799 (In Progress): Parent sample for research project
>> Parents
This will have to be constructed from either W_INDALL or W_EGOALT files
>> Parents with a child aged 1...
Alita Nandi

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
 

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