Understanding Society User Support

10/02/2017

01:45 PM Support #850 (Resolved): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Stephanie Auty

01:42 PM Support #849 (In Progress): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Support #847 (Resolved): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Support #846 (Resolved): BHPS job history file

Stephanie Auty

01:40 PM Support #839 (Resolved): Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Stephanie Auty

01:39 PM Support #838 (Resolved): dietary fat intake

Stephanie Auty

01:39 PM Support #837 (Resolved): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Stephanie Auty

09/29/2017

03:52 PM Support #854 (Feedback): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Stephanie Auty

03:51 PM Support #854: Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Dear Helena,
You will not need to pool the race data yourself, as the information is already collated in f_racel_d... Stephanie Auty

03:48 PM Support #851: Components of net monthly income

Dear Olly,
The values should add up correctly subject to a bit of rounding error (maximum value 1.25p), but it doe... Stephanie Auty

03:46 PM Support #855 (Feedback): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

Dear Min,
Thank you, we are aware of this problem and it is on the list of issues to deal with.
For the moment,... Stephanie Auty

12:07 PM Support #857: Merging datasets

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for confirming the identifier, which will help me for future analysis as well.... Nasima Akhter

11:16 AM Support #857 (Feedback): Merging datasets

Dear Nasima,
You are correct that pidp is the unique identifier for respondents, but the race variable is already ... Stephanie Auty

09/28/2017

02:21 PM Support #858 (In Progress): Date of Birth variables

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

02:15 PM Support #858 (Closed): Date of Birth variables

Hi! I am trying to merge the Understanding Society data with another data-set on pensionable age, based on the date o... Elena Pupaza

10:55 AM Support #857 (In Progress): Merging datasets

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

10:49 AM Support #857: Merging datasets

Hello,
I have now found the 'racel_dv' variable in the 'xwavedat' data file and that the variable 'pidp' = cross-wav... Nasima Akhter

10:35 AM Support #857 (Closed): Merging datasets

Hello, I plan to analyse the Understanding society wave 5 data (e_indresp) and need to add the 'racel_dv' variable av... Nasima Akhter

10:54 AM Support #856 (In Progress): how to deal with contradictory records

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

10:19 AM Support #856 (Closed): how to deal with contradictory records

Dear Understanding Society team,
I am writing to seek your suggestions about contradictory data.
The first ex... Min Zhang

09/25/2017

04:27 PM Support #855 (In Progress): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

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

09/22/2017

09:02 PM Support #855 (Closed): Drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion

Dear USoc team,
I have a question with drinking variables in wave 2, adult self-completion. The variable value lab... Min Zhang

03:14 PM Support #845 (Resolved): Linkage of Understanding Society to Hospital Episodes Statistics

Stephanie Auty

03:13 PM Support #844 (Resolved): BHPS inverview translation

Stephanie Auty

03:13 PM Support #843 (Closed): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Stephanie Auty

03:12 PM Support #842 (Feedback): Marital status variable - mlstat

Stephanie Auty

03:12 PM Support #841 (Resolved): Genetics and diagnosis data

Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Support #835 (Closed): Individuals falling out of the survey

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Support #833 (Closed): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Support #827 (Closed): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Stephanie Auty

03:10 PM Support #825 (Resolved): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Stephanie Auty

03:09 PM Support #818 (Closed): Exact numbers of children

Stephanie Auty

01:42 PM Support #854: Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

UPDATE- I have just read through the Ethnicity Research User Guide and found that the ethnic group question is asked ... Helena Dare-Edwards

01:03 PM Support #854 (In Progress): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

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

12:23 PM Support #854 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Hi,
I am trying to put together profile data for respondents with dependent children involved in wave 6 (using the... Helena Dare-Edwards

09/20/2017

02:55 PM Support #852: Empstat / employment history

Sorry - just to add to my previous question.
Aside from having never left FT education or a having proxy responden... Emily McDool

10:43 AM Support #853 (In Progress): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

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

09/19/2017

10:24 PM Support #853 (Closed): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Hi
I am interested in analysing responses the self esteem measure from the Youth self-completion questionnaire used ... Andrew Brown

05:18 PM Support #852 (In Progress): Empstat / employment history

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

02:01 PM Support #852 (Closed): Empstat / employment history

Hello
I am interested in looking at employment histories for respondents. I understand that around 1/4 of the samp... Emily McDool

09:20 AM Support #851 (In Progress): Components of net monthly income

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

09/18/2017

05:16 PM Support #851 (Closed): Components of net monthly income

Hi,
I have noticed some cases of individuals where the components of net monthly income (e.g. labour income, socia... Oliver Southwick

11:07 AM Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Email received from user:
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Peter,
thank you very much for your patience throughout... Stephanie Auty

09/17/2017

08:37 PM Support #849: universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Hi, Thank you for your kind reply.
I have checked xwaveid data to see if interview outcome was recorded for every ... Yujung Whang

09/15/2017

04:57 PM Support #839: Pooling data from all waves, 1-6, using all subsamples of USoc (GPS, EMBS, BHPS, IEMB)

Nico,
The non-response pattern in your analysis data will be very different from that in a truly longitudinal (bal... Peter Lynn

09/14/2017

05:29 PM Support #837 (Feedback): Industrial Injury Disability Benefit - who is asked

Stephanie Auty

05:28 PM Support #834 (Closed): Existence of siblings

Stephanie Auty

05:28 PM Support #832 (Closed): age and ethnicity of participants

Stephanie Auty

05:27 PM Support #831 (Closed): Care recipient

Stephanie Auty

05:27 PM Support #824 (Closed): Question on individual saving

Stephanie Auty

05:26 PM Support #823 (Closed): BHPS Weights

Stephanie Auty

05:26 PM Support #821 (Closed): Surveying methods of tracking separated parents

Stephanie Auty

05:25 PM Support #820 (Closed): Longitudinal vs cross-sectional weight choice

Stephanie Auty

05:25 PM Support #816 (Closed): Identifying youth Questionnaire respondents who are adopted

Stephanie Auty

05:11 PM Support #850 (Feedback): Non-overlapping data query (waves a to c)

Dear Emma,
First I want to confirm that I understand how you are combining the data from waves 1 and 2. a_paedqf a... Stephanie Auty

11:43 AM Support #847 (Feedback): Complex samples suite in SPSS

Dear Carla,
I can confirm that you need to account for the complex survey design using f_strata and f_psu as well ... Stephanie Auty

09/13/2017

04:24 PM Support #846 (Feedback): BHPS job history file

Dear Yujung Whang,
The Job History file is only for those respondents who have changed jobs in the last year – so ... Stephanie Auty

09/12/2017

03:13 PM Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bernardi, Luca <lb350@leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:50... Stephanie Auty

03:11 PM Support #849 (Feedback): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Dear Yujung Whang,
The w_indall files contain everybody who is enumerated in a responding household in that wave, ... Stephanie Auty

09/11/2017

10:58 AM Support #840 (Closed): Labels on service use

Stephanie Auty

10:58 AM Support #838 (Feedback): dietary fat intake

Stephanie Auty

10:57 AM Support #829 (Closed): What is the difference between qualoc_dv from xwavedat and qualoc from wave a,b,c,d,e,f

Stephanie Auty

09/08/2017

01:01 PM Support #844 (Feedback): BHPS inverview translation

Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

09/07/2017

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Emma Bridger

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

12:15 PM Support #848 (Feedback): Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Stephanie Auty

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 ... Stephanie Auty

09/06/2017

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... Carla Ayrton

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... Nico Ochmann

09/05/2017

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

11:27 AM Support #841 (Feedback): Genetics and diagnosis data

Stephanie Auty

11:26 AM Support #835 (Resolved): Individuals falling out of the survey

Stephanie Auty

11:25 AM Support #833 (Resolved): How is monthly labour income (w_fimnlabgrs_dv) derived?

Stephanie Auty

11:24 AM Support #827 (Resolved): Lone parent flag nonepar_dv definition

Stephanie Auty

11:23 AM Support #826 (Closed): transformed HH income measure?

Stephanie Auty

11:23 AM Support #825 (Feedback): BHPS weights for BHPS components in UKHLS wave 6

Stephanie Auty

11:22 AM Support #818 (Resolved): Exact numbers of children

Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty

09/04/2017

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... Yujung Whang

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... Peter Lynn

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Carla Ayrton

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... Stephanie Auty

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... Luca Bernardi

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 ... Peter Lynn

11:52 AM Support #843 (Resolved): w_englang is not part of xwavedat, but available for wave a, e, f

Stephanie Auty

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... Nico Ochmann

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:... Stephanie Auty