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From 06/25/2017 to 07/24/2017

07/24/2017

09:01 PM Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
Hi Stephanie
Thanks for your swift and detailed reply (I hope this is the proper way to reply!).
I will try the mer...
Andrew Brown
09:17 AM Support #816 (Feedback): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
Hi Andrew,
We are aware of some inconsistencies in relationships recorded in the data. As with all data collection...
Stephanie Auty
04:52 PM Support #814 (Closed): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
Peter Lynn
03:31 PM Support #819 (In Progress): Gender identity
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
03:15 PM Support #819 (Closed): Gender identity
Is there information about participants' gender identity (not sex, thys beyond the male vs. female binary) in any of ... Manuela Barreto
10:15 AM Support #817 (Feedback): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
Hello Daniel,
Yes, the order of questions in the questionnaire corresponds to the order in which they were asked.
...
Stephanie Auty

07/21/2017

02:10 PM Support #818 (In Progress): Exact numbers of children
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
11:55 AM Support #818 (Closed): Exact numbers of children
Dear team of the support service,
for a research project at the Lifbi(Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajector...
Elisa Himbert

07/20/2017

03:47 PM Support #816 (In Progress): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
Stephanie Auty
11:39 AM Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
11:20 AM Support #816 (Closed): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
Hi
I'm currently trying to identify respondents to the Youth questionnaire who are adopted, across all waves. I woul...
Andrew Brown
03:46 PM Support #817 (In Progress): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
03:23 PM Support #817 (Closed): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
Hello
I'm using the innovation panel for my masters dissertation. Currently i'm looking at the satisfaction varia...
Daniel Malocco

07/19/2017

02:47 PM Support #811 (Feedback): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
Hi Emily,
This means that the participant had coded “Never” at Q44 (YPDKLM) but had then put something into Q45, i...
Stephanie Auty
09:47 AM Support #811: Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
09:10 AM Support #811 (In Progress): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
Stephanie Auty
12:08 PM Support #808 (Resolved): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
Stephanie Auty
11:50 AM Support #808: b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
No problem - many thanks Victoria
All best
Andy
Andy Ross
12:07 PM Support #814 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
Stephanie Auty
10:36 AM Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
That's great. Thank you very much for your help!
Kind regards,
Eleonora
Eleonora Iob
10:05 AM Support #812 (Feedback): BHPS TTWA codes
Stephanie Auty
10:00 AM Support #812: BHPS TTWA codes
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The first page of the User Guide, as you have pointed out, is incorrect... Stephanie Auty
09:47 AM Support #812: BHPS TTWA codes
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty
09:11 AM Support #812 (In Progress): BHPS TTWA codes
Stephanie Auty

07/18/2017

05:31 PM Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
Yes. As described in the User Guide, the longitudinal weights are defined for sample members who participated in *all... Peter Lynn
12:19 PM Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
Hello Peter,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm using f_indnsub_lw as I have data from the nurse and adult main ...
Eleonora Iob
11:52 AM Support #814: Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
I would have thought that the longitudinal weight should be perfectly appropriate for this case, e.g. f_indinub_lw or... Peter Lynn
10:44 AM Support #814 (Closed): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
Dear UKHLS User Support team,
I'm conducting a latent growth curve analysis using waves 2-6 in R. The dataset is ...
Eleonora Iob
03:56 PM Support #809 (In Progress): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
Hi Tim,
sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Each of the 5 trait scores is derived from the responses to t...
Gundi Knies
03:39 PM Support #792: Merging datasets
Hello Emily,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
You should remove the finloc=0 cases at the beginning, that is fi...
Alita Nandi
12:11 PM Support #813 (Feedback): Match of sex across waves
Dear Michael,
We are aware of some inconsistencies in sex (and age) recorded in the data. As with all data collect...
Victoria Nolan
11:46 AM Support #808 (Feedback): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
Dear Andy,
Apologies for the delay - we would recommend using a_oprlg.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
11:33 AM Support #806 (Closed): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Victoria Nolan
11:32 AM Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPS
Victoria Nolan
11:32 AM Support #810 (Closed): Data and merge with BHPS
Victoria Nolan
11:29 AM Support #804 (Closed): Missing Value Analysis
Victoria Nolan
11:28 AM Support #801 (Closed): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall
Victoria Nolan
11:28 AM Support #807 (Closed): special licence variable
Victoria Nolan
11:26 AM Support #802 (Closed): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv
Victoria Nolan
11:25 AM Support #803 (Closed): Tracking parental death
Victoria Nolan
11:25 AM Support #800 (Feedback): Net Income
Dear Rafael,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Unfortunately we have not included individual net ...
Victoria Nolan
11:23 AM Support #799 (Feedback): Parent sample for research project
Dear Daniel,
Apologies for not assigning this back to you. We hope this helps,
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
11:22 AM Support #798 (Closed): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta
Victoria Nolan

07/17/2017

03:39 PM Support #813 (Closed): Match of sex across waves
Is there a source of definitive information about the gender of individuals from the BHPS part of Understanding Socie... Michael Nolan

07/13/2017

07:06 PM Support #812 (Closed): BHPS TTWA codes
In the user guide for the BHPS' TTWA identifiers it says "Travel-to-work areas are as defined in 1998 and are based o... Steven Ram
01:03 PM Support #811 (Closed): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
Hi USoc,
Thank you for all of the previous help you have kindly offered.
I am just looking at the variables I...
Emily Lowthian

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
 

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