Activity
From 07/11/2017 to 08/09/2017
08/09/2017
- 03:27 PM Support #832 (In Progress): age and ethnicity of participants
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 02:50 PM Support #832 (Closed): age and ethnicity of participants
- I would like to carry out some research on dementia across different ethnic groups. I cannot find information on the ...
- 12:01 PM Support #824 (Feedback): Question on individual saving
- Dear Lucyna,
The question aims to exclude mortgage payments. Mortgage payments wouldn’t usually be considered as s...
08/08/2017
- 04:46 PM Support #827 (Feedback): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
- Hi Olly,
The variable level documentation available online includes information on which variables are used in the... - 03:57 PM Support #821 (Feedback): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
- 03:56 PM Support #817 (Resolved): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
- 03:55 PM Support #813 (Resolved): Match of sex across waves
- 03:55 PM Support #812 (Resolved): BHPS TTWA codes
- 03:55 PM Support #811 (Resolved): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
- 03:54 PM Support #808 (Closed): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
- 03:53 PM Support #792 (Resolved): Merging datasets
- 12:56 PM Support #816: Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
- Hi Andrew,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
The w_adopt file is created from questions in the fe...
08/07/2017
- 09:20 AM Support #831 (In Progress): Care recipient
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/05/2017
- 06:27 PM Support #831 (Closed): Care recipient
- Hi, I am interested in caregivers as well as care recipients, in particular the relationship between the two, i.e. wh...
08/04/2017
- 04:03 PM Support #829 (In Progress): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/03/2017
- 06:46 PM Support #829 (Closed): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f
- Dear Alita,
I have been using the qualoc variable for the different waves. However, I am curious about the derive...
08/01/2017
- 04:15 PM Support #826 (Feedback): transformed HH income measure?
- 03:50 PM Support #826: transformed HH income measure?
- Dear Seok Woo Kwon,
We do not include an adjustment factor for comparability purposes across time. It should be s... - 02:02 PM Support #800 (Resolved): Net Income
- 02:02 PM Support #799 (Resolved): Parent sample for research project
07/31/2017
- 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 ... - 01:55 PM Support #827 (In Progress): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 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... - 09:31 AM Support #818: Exact numbers of children
- Dear Elisa,
If you already have access to the data, you can look at the variable w_birthy on the w_indall record. ... - 09:05 AM Support #826 (In Progress): transformed HH income measure?
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ... - 12:43 PM Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
- Hello,
For analysis A, if you are using data from 1991-2015, you should use f_indin91.lw.
For B, if you are usi... - 09:45 AM Support #825 (In Progress): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:40 AM Support #825 (Closed): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
- Our team is analysing gender pay gap using BHPS samples. We require two separate weights, A and B, and we exclude Nor...
- 12:37 PM Support #823: BHPS Weights
- Liviu,
Your question is clear. The BHPS longitudinal weights are indeed designed for analysis of sample members wh... - 09:45 AM Support #824 (In Progress): Question on individual saving
- 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
- 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... - 02:05 PM Support #819 (Feedback): Gender identity
- Dear Manuela,
Whilst we do not currently carry question items about gender identity, it is an area that is schedul... - 11:46 AM Support #823 (In Progress): BHPS Weights
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:46 AM Support #822 (In Progress): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
- 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
- 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. ...
- 02:10 PM Support #822 (Closed): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
- I wonder why the question if someone thinks UK should remain/leave the EU is not asked in W7, but next year in W8?
...
07/25/2017
- 02:12 PM Support #809 (Feedback): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
- 12:14 PM Support #820: Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice
- Olly,
Yes, if your regression uses variables from two consecutive waves (even if it is only the dependent variable... - 10:23 AM Support #820 (In Progress): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:01 AM Support #820 (Closed): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice
- I am performing a regression analysis, assessing which characteristics in one wave influence outcomes in the next
... - 11:05 AM Support #821 (In Progress): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 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
- 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... - 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... - 04:52 PM Support #814 (Closed): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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.
...
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...
- 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
- 03:47 PM Support #816 (In Progress): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
- 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...
- 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... - 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...
- 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...
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... - 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...
- 09:10 AM Support #811 (In Progress): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
- 12:08 PM Support #808 (Resolved): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
- 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 - 12:07 PM Support #814 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight in R with - wide datset
- 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 - 10:05 AM Support #812 (Feedback): BHPS TTWA codes
- 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...
- 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...
- 09:11 AM Support #812 (In Progress): BHPS TTWA codes
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...
- 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 ... - 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...
- 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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. - 11:33 AM Support #806 (Closed): Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
- 11:32 AM Support #805 (Closed): YPSOC in BHPS
- 11:32 AM Support #810 (Closed): Data and merge with BHPS
- 11:29 AM Support #804 (Closed): Missing Value Analysis
- 11:28 AM Support #801 (Closed): coding of w_hrpid in w_indall
- 11:28 AM Support #807 (Closed): special licence variable
- 11:26 AM Support #802 (Closed): Construction of hourly wage with paygu_dv
- 11:25 AM Support #803 (Closed): Tracking parental death
- 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 ... - 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. - 11:22 AM Support #798 (Closed): Variable a_frmnthimp.dv in the protected file a_income_protect.dta
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...
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...
- 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...
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