Activity
From 08/12/2017 to 09/10/2017
09/08/2017
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01:01 PM Support #844 (Feedback): BHPS inverview translation
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01:01 PM Support #844: BHPS inverview translation
- Dear Yujung Whang,
The BHPS was translated, but only into Welsh. In some cases an interpreter was used. The follow...
09/07/2017
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04:25 PM Support #850 (In Progress): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)
- 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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04:06 PM Support #850 (Closed): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)
- Hello Understanding Society team,
I am working on a project in which (amongst other variables) we are using parent... -
03:04 PM Support #845: Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics
- Dear Alex,
I'm sorry to say we do not have a ballpark date. Progress has been halted on so many occasions, often a... -
03:02 PM Support #845: Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexander Turner <alexander.turner@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Sep 5... -
12:15 PM Support #848 (Feedback): Clinical Depression H_COND variables
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12:15 PM Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables
- Dear Luca,
In Wave 1 respondents were asked to report whether they’d ever been diagnosed with clinical depression ...
09/06/2017
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02:08 PM Support #847: Complex samples suite in SPSS
- Peter Lynn wrote:
> I can confirm that, if you are using variables that are collected in both the individual and pro... -
09:24 AM Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)
- Hello Peter,
what I do now, I take the HHORIG variable and drop subsamples 2,4,5, and 6 and then use the GOR vari...
09/05/2017
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02:58 PM Support #845 (Feedback): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics
- Dear Alex,
NHS digital has a large backlog of applications for data and so we are still waiting for ours to be pro... -
02:41 PM Support #842: Marital status variable - mlstat
- Hi Charlotte,
There are two sources of information which you need to combine to answer your question. First, there... -
11:27 AM Support #841 (Feedback): Genetics and diagnosis data
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11:26 AM Support #835 (Resolved): Individuals falling out of the survey
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11:25 AM Support #833 (Resolved): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
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11:24 AM Support #827 (Resolved): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
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11:23 AM Support #826 (Closed): transformed HH income measure?
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11:23 AM Support #825 (Feedback): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
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11:22 AM Support #818 (Resolved): Exact numbers of children
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10:10 AM Support #849 (In Progress): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/04/2017
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07:46 PM Support #849 (Closed): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS
Dear Sir/Madam,
Hi, I have a question on the universe of indall files. To investigate the reason for sample attr...-
05:08 PM Support #847: Complex samples suite in SPSS
- I can confirm that, if you are using variables that are collected in both the individual and proxy interview, f_indpx...
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05:05 PM Support #847 (In Progress): Complex samples suite in SPSS
- 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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04:52 PM Support #847 (Closed): Complex samples suite in SPSS
- Hello,
I am carrying out an analysis of people who's income changed between wave 5 and 6. I have followed the 'Int... -
05:06 PM Support #848 (In Progress): Clinical Depression H_COND variables
- 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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04:55 PM Support #848 (Closed): Clinical Depression H_COND variables
- Dear Support group,
I am measuring clinical depression and I would kindly need your advice on a couple of question... -
04:18 PM Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)
- First, no! You should still use weights, even if restricting the analysis to England only. There are big differences ...
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11:52 AM Support #843 (Resolved): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
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11:50 AM Support #843: w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
- Dear Stephanie,
I appreciate your reply and your comments on my imputation method. That is a valid point, I might... -
09:23 AM Support #843 (Feedback): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
- Dear Nico,
We have noticed a couple of typos in the syntax above. The second section of the code should have been:...
08/30/2017
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03:39 PM Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked
- Dear Ray,
One solution to this would be to code everyone who was not asked at waves 1-5 (i.e. -8, inapplicable) as... -
09:58 AM Support #834 (Resolved): Existence of siblings
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09:58 AM Support #832 (Resolved): age and ethnicity of participants
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09:57 AM Support #831 (Resolved): Care recipient
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09:55 AM Support #824 (Resolved): Question on individual saving
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09:54 AM Support #823 (Resolved): BHPS Weights
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09:54 AM Support #821 (Resolved): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents
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09:54 AM Support #820 (Resolved): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice
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09:53 AM Support #819 (Closed): Gender identity
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09:52 AM Support #817 (Closed): Satisfaction questions wave 3 - missing C_FF_LIFESATW3 variable
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09:52 AM Support #816 (Resolved): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted
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09:52 AM Support #813 (Closed): Match of sex across waves
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09:51 AM Support #812 (Closed): BHPS TTWA codes
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09:51 AM Support #811 (Closed): Wave 6 youth questionnaire confusion
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09:50 AM Support #809 (Closed): Deriving the persontality traits for Understanding Soc
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09:50 AM Support #792 (Closed): Merging datasets
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09:49 AM Support #846 (In Progress): BHPS job history file
- 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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09:48 AM Support #845 (In Progress): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/29/2017
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11:30 PM Support #846 (Closed): BHPS job history file
- Hi, I was looking into job history file (JOBHIST) for BHPS. I was wondering why so many respondents in the main indiv...
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11:21 PM Support #845 (Closed): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics
- On your data linkage page (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/data-linkage) it states that consent for link...
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12:37 PM Support #844 (In Progress): BHPS inverview translation
- 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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12:26 PM Support #844 (Closed): BHPS inverview translation
- Hi, I was looking for whether any BHPS interview was translated in any other language than english. I found the varia...
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12:34 PM Support #842: Marital status variable - mlstat
- Hi,
Thanks a lot. Could I also ask if there is such a variable for the number of biological children an individual...
08/27/2017
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06:55 PM Support #843: w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
- Dear Alita,
thank you very much for your reply.
In order to learn, I would like to share with you how I have do... -
05:05 PM Support #843 (In Progress): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
- Hello Nico,
This was asked:
In Wave 1 - Everyone
In Wave 5 - Only those in the EMBoost, GP Comparison or LDA s... -
05:07 PM Support #842 (In Progress): Marital status variable - mlstat
- Hello Charlotte,
Yes, it is w_mastat_dv (w = a...f)
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainst...
08/26/2017
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03:13 PM Support #843 (Closed): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f
- Dear Alita,
if I understand the variable description correctly, englang is unfortunately not part of xwavedat. Wh... -
02:41 PM Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)
- Dear Peter,
now this reply helps a lot. I have decided to restrict my sample to England only. This should be the ...
08/25/2017
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03:19 PM Support #842 (Closed): Marital status variable - mlstat
- Hi,
I am using the individual response data with all waves pooled together. I'm trying to get an idea of individu... -
12:31 PM Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked
- Is there anyway I get comparable bases between W1-5 and W6 on the bendis question
08/24/2017
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04:54 PM Support #839 (Feedback): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)
- Nico,
I think the time variable might cause you problems. The weight should be fine for a genuine cross-sectional ... -
11:02 AM Support #829 (Resolved): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f
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10:25 AM Support #838: dietary fat intake
- Questions were asked about selected broad food groups, the only one relating to fat is type of milk, asked at Waves 2...
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10:19 AM Support #840 (Resolved): Labels on service use
- User has communicated that this issue has been resolved.
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10:18 AM Support #841: Genetics and diagnosis data
- To know about diagnosed conditions please look at the health condition questions, but dementia is not one of them. W_...
08/22/2017
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12:53 PM Support #838 (In Progress): dietary fat intake
- 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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12:48 PM Support #837: Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked
- Hello Ray,
The filtering of this question BENDIS was changed in Wave 6 as you can check from the questionnaire. As... -
12:24 PM Support #841 (In Progress): Genetics and diagnosis data
- 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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11:28 AM Support #841 (Closed): Genetics and diagnosis data
- Please can you tell me if people were asked about their medical diagnoses? This does not seem to be the case based on...
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12:11 PM Support #840 (In Progress): Labels on service use
- Hello Ray,
Thanks for pointing out this issue. This will be taken care of in the future.
The label for 7 is "c...
08/21/2017
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12:09 PM Support #840 (Closed): Labels on service use
- The labels in W4 and W6 for opserv variables have 'completely dissatisfied- for both values 1 and 7
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11:54 AM Support #839 (Closed): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)
- Dear Peter,
sorry to bother you again, but we had that exchange in support #758.
I have been implementing your ... -
11:21 AM Support #829: What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f
- Many thanks, Alita did contact me and the issue has been settled.
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09:32 AM Support #838 (Closed): dietary fat intake
- Dear Understanding Society Team
For a sensitivity analyses we require information on dietary fat intake in order t...
08/18/2017
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04:34 PM Support #827: Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition
- Dear Oliver,
Apologies, I seem to have posted the wrong link. Please try https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/do... -
03:16 PM Support #833: How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
- Dear Peter,
You are correct in your second assumption. On the first assumption, the variables for self-employment... -
02:38 PM Support #826 (Resolved): transformed HH income measure?
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02:36 PM Support #818 (Feedback): Exact numbers of children
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02:35 PM Support #800 (Closed): Net Income
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02:34 PM Support #799 (Closed): Parent sample for research project
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02:22 PM Support #837 (In Progress): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked
- 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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12:34 PM Support #837 (Closed): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked
- I have been running a query vis a cross-tabulation between _ff_bentype09 BY w_bendis8 filtering on w_ff_bentype09 = 0...
08/17/2017
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11:11 AM Support #835: Individuals falling out of the survey
- Olly,
Just to add to this.... outcome codes (w_ivfio and w_ivfho) for all individuals from whom we attempted to c... -
11:04 AM Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general population
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ray Storry <raystorry@incomesdataresearch.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2... -
10:37 AM Support #836: Weighting for general population
- Ray,
Apologies, where I wrote "(base in table)", I meant "(cell count in table)".
Peter
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10:34 AM Support #836: Weighting for general population
- Hello Ray,
Yes, all weights are designed for estimation of ratio estimates (proportions, means, regression coeffic... -
10:24 AM Support #825: BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6
- Sook,
Apologies if i had misunderstood. Yes, if your analysis uses only variables from wave 6, then a cross-secti... -
09:41 AM Support #822 (Closed): Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
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09:40 AM Support #822: Brexit variable not in Wave 7?
- To be clear, the question 'Eumem' is included in the self-completion of all wave 8 interviews, involving fieldwork fr...
08/16/2017
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12:22 PM Support #833: How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
- Dear Stephanie
Many thanks for your fast response, it is very helpful. Just to check I've understood two points co... -
10:06 AM Support #836 (In Progress): Weighting for general population
- 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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10:05 AM Support #835 (Feedback): Individuals falling out of the survey
- Hi Olly,
Whether members of couples who split are followed depends on their status as Original Sample Members (OSM...
08/15/2017
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04:31 PM Support #836 (Closed): Weighting for general population
- I have run a query on persons employed who expect to move in the next year Yes/No. I have weighted the data in Wave ...
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03:56 PM Support #833 (Feedback): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?
- Dear Peter,
The calculation of this variable is basically the same that of the BHPS equivalent (except that self-... -
03:54 PM Support #834 (Feedback): Existence of siblings
- Hi Lea,
This question is part of the Family Networks module. As you can see in the long term content plan (https:/...
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