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From 11/19/2017 to 12/18/2017

12/18/2017

05:14 PM Support #882 (Resolved): scprely, scrrely and scfrely
Stephanie Auty
02:40 PM Support #879 (Closed): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available
Stephanie Auty
02:39 PM Support #878 (Feedback): employment histories
Stephanie Auty
02:39 PM Support #877 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Stephanie Auty
02:39 PM Support #876 (Closed): Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?
Stephanie Auty
02:38 PM Support #875 (Resolved): Veterans employment
Stephanie Auty
02:38 PM Support #873 (Resolved): Westminster constituency identifiers
Stephanie Auty
02:38 PM Support #872 (Closed): Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
02:37 PM Support #871 (Closed): Confirmation Wave 1 -9
Stephanie Auty
02:37 PM Support #870 (Resolved): Change in boundaries of Local Authority Districs
Stephanie Auty
02:37 PM Support #869 (Resolved): Unexpectedly strong gender homophily in Understanding Society compared with the BHPS
Stephanie Auty
02:37 PM Support #868 (Closed): wealthassetsanddebt
Stephanie Auty
02:36 PM Support #867 (Closed): Wave 6 f_hhnetinc1 set to zero rather than missing for iemb sample
Stephanie Auty
02:36 PM Support #866 (Closed): Stratification information
Stephanie Auty
02:36 PM Support #865 (Closed): Change in question on occupation in Questionnaire in 2005 and 2006
Stephanie Auty
02:35 PM Support #862 (Closed): interviewer identification numbers
Stephanie Auty
02:35 PM Support #861 (Closed): number of questions respondents are asked
Stephanie Auty
02:35 PM Support #860 (Resolved): Length of time for interview
Stephanie Auty
02:34 PM Support #859 (Closed): Adoption status
Stephanie Auty
02:34 PM Support #852 (Closed): Empstat / employment history
Stephanie Auty
02:33 PM Support #849 (Closed): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
11:28 AM Support #848 (Resolved): Clinical Depression H_COND variables
This issue has been resolved outside of the forum. Stephanie Auty

12/15/2017

12:29 PM Support #890 (Feedback): SDQ variables
Dear Charlotte,
To understand these values, please look at the the online documentation for g_ypsdqtd_dv here: htt...
Stephanie Auty
09:37 AM Support #890 (In Progress): SDQ 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
11:52 AM Support #889 (Feedback): Wave 2 main interview & nurse assessment data
Dear Rachel,
According to the online documentation, this variable can be found in the b_indresp_ns datafile:
http...
Stephanie Auty
09:37 AM Support #889 (In Progress): Wave 2 main interview & nurse assessment 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
09:27 AM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Will do. Many thanks again.
Eric
Eric Emerson

12/14/2017

10:47 AM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Eric,
My understanding is that re-release is not going to be before May next year - and likely later.
Hope this...
Olena Kaminska
09:24 AM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Hi Olena
Many thanks for this suggestion and news regarding a new extra 5 min weight. Any idea when the next relea...
Eric Emerson

12/13/2017

01:19 AM Support #887: Treatment of student sample members
Dear Gundi,
Many thanks, this is very helpful.
To check I have understood correctly: so individuals living away...
Lewis Anderson

12/12/2017

04:09 PM Support #890 (Resolved): SDQ variables
My query relates to the SDQ variable scales. It is my understanding that the total SDQ score is calculated by summin... Charlotte Hassell

12/11/2017

04:43 PM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Eric,
Thank you for your kind response and for providing the numbers. Most importantly, I would like to warn you t...
Olena Kaminska
11:48 AM Support #889 (Resolved): Wave 2 main interview & nurse assessment data
I am interested in using the wave 2 main interview data linked to the nurse assessment data on biomarkers for this sa... Rachel Bennett
10:08 AM Support #888: Teacher reported NPD measures
Hi Stephanie,
That's great and has answered my question - thanks so much for your help
best wishes
tim
Tim Morris

12/10/2017

02:57 PM Support #885 (Feedback): Shapefile for RREGION (BHPS)
Dear Mirco,
As this variable is based on a classification which has not been in general use since the mid-1990s, t...
Stephanie Auty

12/08/2017

04:58 PM Support #883: a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data
Thank you Stephanie,
That is really helpful. I will take a read and see how the data was used and log a new query if...
Sharon Blake
12:39 PM Support #888 (Feedback): Teacher reported NPD measures
Dear Tim,
Please download the NPD User Guide from this page (at the bottom of the list on the left side): https://...
Stephanie Auty
11:52 AM Support #888 (In Progress): Teacher reported NPD measures
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 #888 (Resolved): Teacher reported NPD measures
Hi, I would like to know if the NPD data linked to Understanding Society includes measures of teacher reports of abil... Tim Morris
11:50 AM Support #880: Genetic data linked to NPD
Dear Michelle,
The sample size is different for each of the outcomes we have (e.g. test scores at end of primary s...
Stephanie Auty

12/07/2017

02:48 PM Support #887: Treatment of student sample members
Dear Lewis,
the general following rules and definitions apply to students: If the young person is an OSM and moves t...
Gundi Knies
11:45 AM Support #883: a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data
Dear Sharon,
A colleague has let me know about two more publications using these variables:
1) The social conte...
Stephanie Auty

12/06/2017

03:39 PM Support #883 (Feedback): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data
Stephanie Auty
03:39 PM Support #883: a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data
Dear Sharon,
These variables were not added for a specific project, but they have been used by Relate. You can rea...
Stephanie Auty
03:31 PM Support #887 (In Progress): Treatment of student sample members
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
02:53 AM Support #887 (Resolved): Treatment of student sample members
Hello,
I have some questions about how the study treats sample members who are university students. Is there any g...
Lewis Anderson
03:30 PM Support #886 (In Progress): Zero weights and statistical power
Stephanie Auty
02:20 PM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Hi Olena
Many thanks for this. I am aware of the purposive oversampling of specified minority ethic groups. Howeve...
Eric Emerson
10:45 AM Support #886: Zero weights and statistical power
Eric,
You are correct about the 'loss' of statistical power in the analysis of extra five minutes. This loss is al...
Olena Kaminska

12/05/2017

12:47 PM Support #864 (Resolved): filterring
From: Maslovskaya O. [mailto:om206@soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 28 November 2017 12:45
To: usersupport@understandingsociety....
Stephanie Auty
12:40 PM Support #880: Genetic data linked to NPD
From: LUCIANO Michelle [mailto:michelle.luciano@ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 04 December 2017 22:47
To: usersupport@understandi...
Stephanie Auty

12/04/2017

09:17 PM Support #882 (Feedback): scprely, scrrely and scfrely
Stephanie Auty
09:17 PM Support #882: scprely, scrrely and scfrely
Dear Chris,
These questions are part of the Social Support self-completion module, as shown here: https://www.unde...
Stephanie Auty
09:11 PM Support #880 (Feedback): Genetic data linked to NPD
Dear Michelle,
I have spoken with the teams responsible for both the NPD and genetic datasets. The genetic data re...
Stephanie Auty
05:45 PM Support #886 (Closed): Zero weights and statistical power
Hi
I'm interested in data contained the harassment modules (in Waves 1, 3, 5 and 7), but am concerned about the si...
Eric Emerson

11/28/2017

12:36 PM Support #864 (Feedback): filterring
Dear Olga,
Yes, that's right. The Universe is the group of respondents who are asked that question.
In the poli...
Stephanie Auty
12:27 PM Support #864: filterring
From: Maslovskaya O. [mailto:om206@soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 November 2017 13:46
To: usersupport@understandingsociety....
Stephanie Auty
12:27 PM Support #864 (In Progress): filterring
From: Maslovskaya O. [mailto:om206@soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 November 2017 12:00
To: usersupport@understandingsociety....
Stephanie Auty
12:30 PM Support #879 (Resolved): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available
From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 27 November 2017 18:38
To: usersupport@understandi...
Stephanie Auty
12:28 PM Support #876 (Resolved): Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?
From: Brimblecombe,NS [mailto:N.S.Brimblecombe@lse.ac.uk]
Sent: 21 November 2017 10:53
To: usersupport@understandi...
Stephanie Auty
12:22 PM Support #877: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 10 November 2017 18:24
To: usersupport@understandi...
Stephanie Auty
12:21 PM Support #881 (In Progress): weighting values of zero
Stephanie Auty
12:20 PM Support #848 (In Progress): Clinical Depression H_COND variables
From: Bernardi, Luca (Dr.) [mailto:lb388@leicester.ac.uk]
Sent: 09 November 2017 19:48
To: usersupport@understandi...
Stephanie Auty
12:04 PM Support #885 (In Progress): Shapefile for RREGION (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
12:39 AM Support #885 (Resolved): Shapefile for RREGION (BHPS)
Hi there,
I would like to map some of the information in the BHPS at regional level.
How do I go about finding ...
Mirko Moro

11/27/2017

10:30 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Dear Olena
Yes, this helps greatly!
I was thinking that a simple analysis of just the wave 1 data might be a su...
Andrew Brown
03:18 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Andrew,
No, you can't just multiply weights - it does not work like that.
Yes, the enumeration weight to use is ...
Olena Kaminska
04:24 PM Support #879 (Feedback): macob_all and pacob_all in xwavedat_protect are not available
Dear Nico,
Please download the newly released Wave 7 Special Licence data and these variables will be available.
...
Stephanie Auty

11/23/2017

12:52 PM Support #884 (In Progress): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visits
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
12:04 AM Support #884 (Closed): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visits
Dear Understanding Society Team,
I am hoping to investigate the usefulness of call records from the nurse visits i...
Fiona Pashazadeh
12:32 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
P.S. After looking through the weighting section of the user guide I'm wondering if an appropriate weight to use woul... Andrew Brown

11/22/2017

11:20 PM Support #775: Nurse interviewer ID number 9999
Dear Victoria,
Is there any update on this issue?
Thanks,
Fiona.
Fiona Pashazadeh
04:33 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Dear Olena
Thanks again for such a quick reply. So just to double check, I shouldn't use the cross wave weights as...
Andrew Brown
11:59 AM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Andrew,
Your situation is one of the complex ones for which we don't have ready weights. You could use your approa...
Olena Kaminska
03:28 PM Support #883 (In Progress): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality 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
03:18 PM Support #883 (Closed): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data
I am writing in respect of your data set a_indrep.sav as available via UK Data Service. I noticed that in this wave y... Sharon Blake

11/21/2017

10:30 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Dear Olena
Many thanks for your swift reply. I wonder if you would be able to provide further clarification regard...
Andrew Brown
04:40 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
Andrew,
They should not be included in the analysis, as weighted analysis will compensate for them being missing.
...
Olena Kaminska
01:34 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero
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
11:51 AM Support #881 (Closed): weighting values of zero
Hi
Could I ask a question related to issue #877?
For those cases not assigned a weight because 'a person in a h...
Andrew Brown
04:31 PM Support #878: employment histories
Dear Marco,
Your problem is common for any researcher who studies elderly population. So, indeed the drop out betw...
Olena Kaminska
01:39 PM Support #882 (In Progress): scprely, scrrely and scfrely
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
01:34 PM Support #882 (Closed): scprely, scrrely and scfrely
Could i just check that these variables are not included in the survey after wave 5? Can't find them on the questionn... Chris Randall
11:44 AM Support #877: weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)
Hi
Could I ask a related question to this?
For those cases not assigned a weight because 'a person in a house...
Andrew Brown

11/20/2017

04:33 PM Support #878 (In Progress): employment histories
Dear Marco,
I'll assign this to Peter for some weighting advice.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understanding S...
Stephanie Auty
04:04 PM Support #878: employment histories
Dear Stephanie,
My sample includes people aged 65-74 in wave 1 (n=5,371). 3,705 respondents have information about t...
marco tosi
03:03 PM Support #878 (Feedback): employment histories
Dear Marco,
The first six months is a representative sample, but does not include the Ethnic Minority Boost sample...
Stephanie Auty
03:17 PM Support #875 (Feedback): Veterans employment
Dear David,
There is not a specific variable which identifies these people. You can start with job codes 1171 and ...
Stephanie Auty
03:04 PM Support #876: Cross wave (xwave) variable for parents occupations NSSEC 5 cats?
Dear Nicola,
w_manssec5_dv and w_panssec5_dv are available in the w_indresp files. Individuals are asked for their p...
Gundi Knies
02:57 PM Support #872 (Resolved): Weights of the continuation of the BHPS sample into UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
02:57 PM Support #871 (Resolved): Confirmation Wave 1 -9
Stephanie Auty
02:56 PM Support #868 (Resolved): wealthassetsanddebt
Stephanie Auty
02:56 PM Support #867 (Resolved): Wave 6 f_hhnetinc1 set to zero rather than missing for iemb sample
Stephanie Auty
02:56 PM Support #866 (Resolved): Stratification information
Stephanie Auty
02:55 PM Support #865 (Resolved): Change in question on occupation in Questionnaire in 2005 and 2006
Stephanie Auty
02:55 PM Support #864 (Resolved): filterring
Stephanie Auty
02:55 PM Support #863 (Closed): People living in Multi-generational homes in the UK
Stephanie Auty
02:54 PM Support #862 (Resolved): interviewer identification numbers
Stephanie Auty
02:53 PM Support #861 (Resolved): number of questions respondents are asked
Stephanie Auty
02:53 PM Support #860 (Feedback): Length of time for interview
Stephanie Auty
02:52 PM Support #859 (Resolved): Adoption status
Stephanie Auty
02:52 PM Support #858 (Closed): Date of Birth variables
Stephanie Auty
02:51 PM Support #856 (Closed): how to deal with contradictory records
Stephanie Auty
02:51 PM Support #853 (Closed): Self-esteem measure in Youth Questionnaire
Stephanie Auty
02:51 PM Support #852 (Resolved): Empstat / employment history
Stephanie Auty
02:50 PM Support #851 (Closed): Components of net monthly income
Stephanie Auty
02:50 PM Support #849 (Resolved): universe of indall files in BHPS UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
10:14 AM Support #880 (In Progress): Genetic data linked to NPD
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
 

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