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From 07/03/2017 to 08/01/2017
08/01/2017
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04:15 PM Support #826 (Feedback): transformed HH income measure?
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- Dear Seok Woo Kwon,
We do not include an adjustment factor for comparability purposes across time. It should be s... -
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07/31/2017
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11:38 PM Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
- Dear Peter,
Thank you for the reply. Currently, we're not conducting longitudinal analysis. Maybe I have confused ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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11:37 AM Support #827 (Closed): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
- Hi,
What is the definition used for the derived lone parent flag "nonepar_dv"?
I've been unable to find this i... -
- Dear Elisa,
If you already have access to the data, you can look at the variable w_birthy on the w_indall record. ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/30/2017
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11:31 AM Support #821: Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
- Hello Charlotte,
1. Data management issue
From your description below it is not clear what data management step...
07/28/2017
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07:58 PM Support #826 (Closed): transformed HH income measure?
- Does anyone have suggestions on how to make household incomes comparable across years in the BHPS survey? Is there a ...
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02:32 PM Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
- Thanks Peter for your clarification.
So data about the referendum will be published after W8 fieldwork, guess it w... -
12:51 PM Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
- Christoph,
The question is asked only in wave 8. Wave 8 fieldwork started in January 2016, so this means that the ... -
- Hello,
For analysis A, if you are using data from 1991-2015, you should use f_indin91.lw.
For B, if you are usi... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Our team is analysing gender pay gap using BHPS samples. We require two separate weights, A and B, and we exclude Nor...
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- Liviu,
Your question is clear. The BHPS longitudinal weights are indeed designed for analysis of sample members wh... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/27/2017
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07:25 PM Support #824 (Closed): Question on individual saving
- Dear Support Team,
I am using the US wave 4 to analyze households' saving decisions. I am looking at the questions... -
- Dear Manuela,
Whilst we do not currently carry question items about gender identity, it is an area that is schedul... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/26/2017
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04:44 PM Support #823 (Closed): BHPS Weights
- Ispoke briefly on the phone to one of your IESR colleagues about getting some information about weights in the BHPS. ...
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- I wonder why the question if someone thinks UK should remain/leave the EU is not asked in W7, but next year in W8?
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07/25/2017
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- Olly,
Yes, if your regression uses variables from two consecutive waves (even if it is only the dependent variable... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- I am performing a regression analysis, assessing which characteristics in one wave influence outcomes in the next
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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10:55 AM Support #821 (Closed): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
- Hi,
I've been using Understanding Society data to look at parental separation and have been trying to match child...
07/24/2017
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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... -
- Hi Andrew,
We are aware of some inconsistencies in relationships recorded in the data. As with all data collection... -
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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 ...
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- Hello Daniel,
Yes, the order of questions in the questionnaire corresponds to the order in which they were asked.
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07/21/2017
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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...
07/20/2017
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Hi
I'm currently trying to identify respondents to the Youth questionnaire who are adopted, across all waves. I woul... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:23 PM Support #817 (Closed): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
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I'm using the innovation panel for my masters dissertation. Currently i'm looking at the satisfaction varia...
07/19/2017
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- Hi Emily,
This means that the participant had coded “Never” at Q44 (YPDKLM) but had then put something into Q45, i... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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 -
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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 -
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- Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The first page of the User Guide, as you have pointed out, is incorrect...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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07/18/2017
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- Yes. As described in the User Guide, the longitudinal weights are defined for sample members who participated in *all...
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- Hello Peter,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm using f_indnsub_lw as I have data from the nurse and adult main ... -
- I would have thought that the longitudinal weight should be perfectly appropriate for this case, e.g. f_indinub_lw or...
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- Dear UKHLS User Support team,
I'm conducting a latent growth curve analysis using waves 2-6 in R. The dataset is ... -
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... -
- Hello Emily,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
You should remove the finloc=0 cases at the beginning, that is fi... -
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... -
- Dear Andy,
Apologies for the delay - we would recommend using a_oprlg.
Best wishes, Victoria. -
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- Dear Rafael,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Unfortunately we have not included individual net ... -
- Dear Daniel,
Apologies for not assigning this back to you. We hope this helps,
Best wishes, Victoria. -
07/17/2017
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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...
07/13/2017
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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...
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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...
07/06/2017
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04:29 PM Support #806: Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
- Understood. Thank you Alita.
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- But in that case while you can find information about the two non-resident parents in Wave C, you will not be able to...
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- 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... -
- Dear Megan,
We had a policy in BHPS of continuing to code to the original SOC classification, in this case SOC1990...
07/05/2017
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- Dear Alita,
If I understand you correctly, using a_egoalt I will have information on whether a respondent lives in ... -
- Hello Jyang,
There are different measures of subjective wellbeing in Understanding Society: Life satisfaction, GHQ... -
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...
07/04/2017
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- Hello Kenisha,
Using a_egoalt, you will be able to identify if a person is living in a household with his/her natu... -
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...
07/03/2017
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- Dear Daniel,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide ge... -
- Dear Fiona,
Many thanks for your enquiry - you have indeed highlighted an error, which will be resolved in our nex... -
- Dear Victoria,
This variable is only available in the Special License version of the Waves 1-6 Understanding Socie... -
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When comparing the variable b_ff_oprlg with information merged in directly from Wave 1 using variable a_oprlg -... -
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- Dear Nico,
Unfortunately this variable does not exist.
Best wishes, Victoria.
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