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From 07/16/2017 to 08/14/2017

08/11/2017

04:59 PM Support #835 (In Progress): Individuals falling out of the survey
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
04:43 PM Support #835 (Closed): Individuals falling out of the survey
Hi,
Are there resources on individuals who fall out of the survey? (i.e. are missing in one wave)
In particular...
Oliver Southwick
04:58 PM Support #834 (In Progress): Existence of siblings
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
03:59 PM Support #834 (Closed): Existence of siblings
Hi,
I am interested in whether respondents in Understanding Society have siblings. I am not interested in the numbe...
Lea Samek
04:40 PM Support #827: Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
Thanks Stephen,
I can't find this documentation for nonepar_dv
Does the documentation cover how the variable is...
Oliver Southwick
03:52 PM Support #823 (Feedback): BHPS Weights
Stephanie Auty
03:51 PM Support #820 (Feedback): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice
Stephanie Auty
03:51 PM Support #819 (Resolved): Gender identity
Stephanie Auty
03:49 PM Support #831: Care recipient
Thank you. That was very helpful. Lea Samek
03:49 PM Support #809 (Resolved): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
Stephanie Auty
03:48 PM Support #832 (Feedback): age and ethnicity of participants
Dear Naaheed,
You can find the frequencies by age group in 5 year intervals for the most recent wave at:
https://...
Stephanie Auty
09:02 AM Support #833 (In Progress): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
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

08/10/2017

09:56 PM Support #833 (Closed): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
I was wondering if you could provide some guidance on how the derived monthly labour income variable in UKHLS (w_fiml... Peter Spittal
04:31 PM Support #831 (Feedback): Care recipient
Hi Lea,
The variables which state which of the household members are cared for by the respondent are w_aidhua1-w_a...
Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty
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 ... Naaheed Mukadam
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...
Stephanie Auty

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...
Stephanie Auty
03:57 PM Support #821 (Feedback): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
Stephanie Auty
03:56 PM Support #817 (Resolved): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
Stephanie Auty
03:55 PM Support #813 (Resolved): Match of sex across waves
Stephanie Auty
03:55 PM Support #812 (Resolved): BHPS TTWA codes
Stephanie Auty
03:55 PM Support #811 (Resolved): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
Stephanie Auty
03:54 PM Support #808 (Closed): b_ff_oprlg - feed forward variable for whether belong to a religion
Stephanie Auty
03:53 PM Support #792 (Resolved): Merging datasets
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Lea Samek

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... Stephanie Auty

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...
Nico Ochmann

08/01/2017

04:15 PM Support #826 (Feedback): transformed HH income measure?
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty
02:02 PM Support #800 (Resolved): Net Income
Stephanie Auty
02:02 PM Support #799 (Resolved): Parent sample for research project
Stephanie Auty

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 ...
Sook Kim
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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Oliver Southwick
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. ...
Stephanie Auty
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... Stephanie Auty

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...
Alita Nandi

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 ... Seok Woo Kwon
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...
Christoph Thewes
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 ...
Peter Lynn
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...
Peter Lynn
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... Stephanie Auty
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... Sook Kim
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...
Peter Lynn
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... Stephanie Auty

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...
Lucyna Gornicka
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...
Stephanie Auty
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... Stephanie Auty
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... Stephanie Auty

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. ... Liviu Nafornita
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?
...
Christoph Thewes

07/25/2017

02:12 PM Support #809 (Feedback): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
Stephanie Auty
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...
Peter Lynn
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... Stephanie Auty
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
...
Oliver Southwick
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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Charlotte Edney

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
 

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