Understanding Society User Support

01/19/2018

11:09 AM Support #899 (Feedback): introduction to understanding society Example 3

Dear Maria,
xtset should be used after appending all of the waves. Please check that each wave only appears once i... Stephanie Auty

10:40 AM Support #901 (In Progress): Question by an Msc student

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

10:04 AM Support #901 (Resolved): Question by an Msc student

Dear Understanding Society Study,
I am an MSc student at the LSHTM, and am wanting to do my MSc research project ... Benjamin Woolf

10:27 AM Support #898 (Feedback): Pay data - include or exclude overtime payment?

Dear Jack,
Yes, w_paygu_dv includes pay for usual amounts of overtime.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understan... Stephanie Auty

01/17/2018

04:10 PM Support #896 (Feedback): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing data

Dear Olga,
I will email you about the procedure for requesting this data.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Unders... Stephanie Auty

02:46 PM Support #897 (Feedback): device used data in Wave 7

Dear Olga,
At Wave 7, those who were invited to participate online first were advised to use a computer rather tha... Stephanie Auty

02:28 PM Support #900 (In Progress): 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

02:11 PM Support #900 (Resolved): BHPS

To whom it may concern,
I am using the BHPS to conduct research on income, house tenure and job history, for all w... Maria Elena Garcia Reyes

02:26 PM Support #899 (In Progress): introduction to understanding society Example 3

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

11:56 AM Support #899 (Resolved): introduction to understanding society Example 3

Hi,
I had the chance to attend the course. I am on exercise 3 matching individual data in long format which I can d... Maria Elena Garcia Reyes

01/15/2018

06:54 PM Support #705: Emigration Status

Hi, thank you for your kind answer. I do have a follow-up question on this issue. May I ask what other cases the "out... Yujung Whang

01:42 PM Support #898 (In Progress): Pay data - include or exclude overtime payment?

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

01:24 PM Support #898 (Resolved): Pay data - include or exclude overtime payment?

Please could you advise me on whether usual pay for overtime is included in the variable paygu_dv? I am trying to con... Jack Worth

01:40 PM Support #897 (In Progress): device used data 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

12:17 PM Support #897 (Resolved): device used data in Wave 7

I would like to ask where I can find “device used” variable in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. I was also not able ... Olga Maslovskaya

01:40 PM Support #896 (In Progress): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing 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

12:16 PM Support #896 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 7 timing data

I would like to request access to the timing data in Wave 7 of Understanding Society. We would like to analyse lengt... Olga Maslovskaya

01/11/2018

12:37 PM Support #895 (Feedback): data release mental health and social media

Dear Danilo,
Please could you give more information on which link you are clicking which leads you to 'variable 16... Stephanie Auty

10:26 AM Support #895 (In Progress): data release mental health and social media

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

10:28 AM Support #893 (Rejected): Urgent/ish data mental health and social media

This is a duplicate of issue #895, replies will be posted under that issue.
Stephanie Auty

01/09/2018

06:10 PM Support #895: data release mental health and social media

* missing link I should have cut and paste in the penultimate paragraph:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/do... danilo di emidio

05:19 PM Support #895 (Resolved): data release mental health and social media

I'm in a very urgent/immediate situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) t... danilo di emidio

05:50 PM Support #893 (In Progress): Urgent/ish data mental health and social media

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

05:18 PM Support #893 (Rejected): Urgent/ish data mental health and social media

I'm in a very urgent situation so if you could direct me or find me a dataset (or tell me how to find it) that looks ... danilo di emidio

01:53 PM Support #889 (Resolved): Wave 2 main interview & nurse assessment data

Stephanie Auty

01:52 PM Support #888 (Resolved): Teacher reported NPD measures

Stephanie Auty

01:51 PM Support #886 (Resolved): Zero weights and statistical power

Stephanie Auty

01:51 PM Support #885 (Resolved): Shapefile for RREGION (BHPS)

Stephanie Auty

01:51 PM Support #883 (Resolved): a_indrep.sav Rel Quality Data

Stephanie Auty

01:51 PM Support #882 (Closed): scprely, scrrely and scfrely

Stephanie Auty

01:50 PM Support #878 (Resolved): employment histories

Stephanie Auty

01:48 PM Support #877 (Closed): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(f)

Stephanie Auty

01:47 PM Support #875 (Closed): Veterans employment

Stephanie Auty

01:47 PM Support #873 (Closed): Westminster constituency identifiers

Stephanie Auty

01:47 PM Support #870 (Closed): Change in boundaries of Local Authority Districs

Stephanie Auty

01:47 PM Support #869 (Closed): Unexpectedly strong gender homophily in Understanding Society compared with the BHPS

Stephanie Auty

01:46 PM Support #864 (Closed): filterring

Stephanie Auty

01:46 PM Support #860 (Closed): Length of time for interview

Stephanie Auty

01:46 PM Support #848 (Closed): Clinical Depression H_COND variables

Stephanie Auty

01/08/2018

08:08 PM Support #892 (Feedback): Wave 7 Variables: nutrition_w7, scawembs_w7 and exercise_7

Dear Emma,
All of the variables from these modules will be in the g_indresp file, as this datafile contains all re... Stephanie Auty

10:41 AM Support #892 (In Progress): Wave 7 Variables: nutrition_w7, scawembs_w7 and exercise_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

06:22 PM Support #874: try to link the birthweight to each child

We sincerely apologise for the delay in responding to this issue. The delay was partly due to investigating this issu... Alita Nandi

03:01 PM Support #884 (Feedback): Missing call records for the wave 2 and wave 3 nurse visits

Dear Fiona,
I am aware you have been in contact with the team regarding this issue and am copying the reply you ha... Stephanie Auty

01/05/2018

01:48 PM Support #892 (Resolved): Wave 7 Variables: nutrition_w7, scawembs_w7 and exercise_7

Good afternoon,
I apologise in advance if this is simply down to my inexperience with the data set, but I'm tryin... Emma Cook

01/02/2018

01:45 PM Support #890: SDQ variables

Dear Charlotte,
further to our previous response we can confirm that the SDQ derived variables are incorrect in Wave... Gundi Knies

12:50 PM Support #881: weighting values of zero

Andrew,
This is how Peter Lynn explained adjusting the weights in his reply to issue num 703.
"... This would inv... Olena Kaminska