Understanding Society User Support

11/15/2017

04:13 PM Support #880 (Closed): Genetic data linked to NPD

Is genetic data available for individuals with linked National Pupil Database Wave 1 data, if so, what is the sample ... Michelle Luciano

11:26 AM Support #873 (Feedback): Westminster constituency identifiers

Dear Quinton,
Thank you, we are aware of this issue. The information is not currently available but we are conside... Stephanie Auty

11/14/2017

03:15 PM Support #877 (Feedback): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Stephanie Auty

11/13/2017

10:47 AM Support #879 (In Progress): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available

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

10:47 AM Support #878 (In Progress): employment histories

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

11/12/2017

02:54 PM Support #879 (Closed): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available

Dear Alita,
I hope you are doing well. I have noticed that macob_all and pacob_all are not available in xwavedat_... Nico Ochmann

11/10/2017

05:01 PM Support #878 (Closed): employment histories

Hello,
I try to reconstruct employment histories in wave 1 to analyse implications on health in the later waves. Sin... marco tosi

04:48 PM Support #877: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Nico,
1. The provision of weights requires the ability to estimate probabilities of continuing to respond over mul... Peter Lynn

02:55 PM Support #877 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Dear Peter,
I have a few more questions with regard to my original support #758.
1. When I generate my new weight... Nico Ochmann

03:23 PM Support #876 (In Progress): Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?

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

10:26 AM Support #876 (Closed): Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?

Hi
Is there a cross wave (xwave) derived variable available for father's and mother's occupation when respondent ... nicola brimblecombe

11/09/2017

04:19 PM Support #848: Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Luca,
I will try to answer some of your questions in terms of weighting. But please if my response is not sufficie... Olena Kaminska

09:53 AM Support #869 (Feedback): Unexpectedly strong gender homophily in Understanding Society compared with the BHPS

Dear Till,
There are several differences in the way these questions were asked from Wave 18 of the BHPS to Wave 3 ... Stephanie Auty

11/07/2017

06:32 PM Support #870 (Feedback): Change in boundaries of Local Authority Districs

Dear Jascha,
There is a pdf document called “Understanding Society Innovation Panel Geographical Lookup Tables”, w... Stephanie Auty

11/05/2017

02:33 PM Support #860: Length of time for interview

Dear Dana,
There are three timings files included in the data download of the IP data, one for the household grid,... Stephanie Auty

11/02/2017

04:32 PM Support #875 (In Progress): Veterans employment

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

04:09 PM Support #875 (Closed): Veterans employment

I hope to use US to identify the labour market experience of former members of the UK armed forces, with a particular... David Owen

04:31 PM Support #874 (In Progress): try to link the birthweight to each child

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

03:30 PM Support #874 (Closed): try to link the birthweight to each child

There is a file called a_natchild containing the information about the natural children including birth weight, gesta... YIN XU

11/01/2017

01:11 PM Support #872 (Feedback): Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

12:21 PM Support #867 (Feedback): Wave 6 f_hhnetinc1 set to zero rather than missing for iemb sample

Dear David,
It is correct that all IEMB household income values should be missing on the wave 1-6 release. On the ... Stephanie Auty

11:11 AM Support #867: Wave 6 f_hhnetinc1 set to zero rather than missing for iemb sample

Hi,
Is it possible to advise when I might hear back on this?
Thanks,
David David Leese

10/31/2017

07:43 PM Support #873 (In Progress): Westminster constituency identifiers

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

06:18 PM Support #873 (Closed): Westminster constituency identifiers

I am looking for information that will allow me to identify the individual parliamentary constituencies that responde... Quinton Mayne

10/30/2017

05:40 PM Support #861 (Feedback): number of questions respondents are asked

Dear Dana,
You could calculate this by removing any derived variables, weights and linking identifiers, only keepi... Stephanie Auty

04:05 PM Support #862 (Feedback): interviewer identification numbers

Dear Dana,
The interviewer numbers are consistent across waves, so the answer to your question is yes. However, at... Stephanie Auty

03:48 PM Support #863 (Resolved): People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK

Stephanie Auty

03:47 PM Support #858 (Resolved): Date of Birth variables

Stephanie Auty

03:47 PM Support #857 (Closed): Merging datasets

Stephanie Auty

03:47 PM Support #856 (Resolved): how to deal with contradictory records

Stephanie Auty

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

Stephanie Auty

03:46 PM Support #854 (Closed): Ethnicity and Socio-economic group - inapplicable data

Stephanie Auty

03:46 PM Support #853 (Resolved): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire

Stephanie Auty

03:45 PM Support #851 (Resolved): Components of net monthly income

Stephanie Auty

03:45 PM Support #849 (Feedback): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS

Stephanie Auty

03:44 PM Support #842 (Closed): Marital status variable - mlstat

Stephanie Auty

10:34 AM Support #871 (Feedback): Confirmation Wave 1 -9

Dear Victoria,
The currently available published data is waves 1-6, but in a few weeks the next data release is du... Stephanie Auty

10:32 AM Support #868 (Feedback): wealthassetsanddebt

Dear Jia,
Please refer to the long term content plan, which you can download here: https://www.understandingsociet... Stephanie Auty

10/29/2017

12:14 PM Support #866 (Feedback): Stratification information

Dear Dora,
We have an exercise of how to deal with this problem in example 6 in our training materials, which you ... Stephanie Auty

12:03 PM Support #863: People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK

From: Charlotte Pierzchniak [mailto:c.pierzchniak@students.rave.ac.uk]
Sent: 20 October 2017 15:44
To: usersupport... Stephanie Auty

10/27/2017

12:15 PM Support #872: Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into UKHLS

Lawrence,
For analysis of BHPS members who have participated since 1991 you should use the relevant weight with zz... Peter Lynn

10/26/2017

04:15 PM Support #852 (Feedback): Empstat / employment history

Dear Emily Marie,
Apologies for the late response on this issue.
1. There may be various reasons why a person ... Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Support #870 (In Progress): Change in boundaries of Local Authority Districs

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

10:52 AM Support #870 (Closed): Change in boundaries of Local Authority Districs

Hi,
I am working on a project linking survey respondents to Local Authority Districts (LAD). I have access to the ... Jascha Tutt

02:37 PM Support #872 (In Progress): Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into 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

02:23 PM Support #872 (Closed): Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into UKHLS

To whom it may concern,
I am using the BHPS sample, from its first wave (1991) through to the most recent wave of ... Lawrence Sacco

02:37 PM Support #871 (In Progress): Confirmation Wave 1 -9

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 #871 (Closed): Confirmation Wave 1 -9

I just want to confirm - that to date there are only waves 1-6. The information on the website which shows waves 1-... Victoria Thompson

10/25/2017

04:38 PM Support #869 (In Progress): Unexpectedly strong gender homophily in Understanding Society compared with the BHPS

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

03:46 PM Support #869 (Closed): Unexpectedly strong gender homophily in Understanding Society compared with the BHPS

h1. Summary
I am interested in homophily effects that can be derived from the social network questions in waves B,... Till Hoffmann

10/20/2017

04:33 PM Support #865 (Feedback): Change in question on occupation in Questionnaire in 2005 and 2006

Dear Glenna,
Weights are intended to correct for unequal selection probability and non-response/attrition. If you ... Stephanie Auty

02:54 PM Support #868 (In Progress): wealthassetsanddebt

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

10:47 AM Support #868 (Closed): wealthassetsanddebt

Dear staff,
Do you have any information on when the next time data on assets and debt will be collected (the "weal... Anonymous

02:53 PM Support #864 (Feedback): filterring

Dear Olga,
You can find this information by looking for the universe in the questionnaire:
https://www.understand... Stephanie Auty

02:51 PM Support #863 (Feedback): People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK

Dear Charlotte,
We don’t have a variable which records multi-generational households, but it would be possible to ... Stephanie Auty

02:49 PM Support #859 (Feedback): Adoption status

Dear Andrew,
As we discussed in #816, there are data inconsistencies. This is quite common with survey data as res... Stephanie Auty