Activity
From 03/12/2018 to 04/10/2018
04/10/2018
- 09:39 PM Support #952 (Feedback): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- Dear Simone,
The error on g_frjtpn will not have affected either of these variables.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Au... - 09:10 PM Support #955 (In Progress): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:40 PM Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income
- Hi,
I am using individual level net monthly income (w_fimnnet_dv) and am looking at the different income componen... - 08:43 PM Support #948: Impevents question transcripts
- Dear Thiemo,
We do not release the free-text responses as it’s possible they would include something disclosive ab... - 01:22 PM Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units
- (As another thought: since the DrinkFreq (g_auditc3) categories are measured in proportions of a year - it may be bet...
- 10:10 AM Support #947 (Feedback): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- In Wave 1, a_natchild will have birth year information for all children ever born to the respondent. After Wave 1, w_...
04/09/2018
- 05:13 PM Support #954 (In Progress): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:01 PM Support #954 (Resolved): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures
- I am analysing data from the Understanding society Nurse Health assessment. To evaluate kidney function I aim to use ...
- 05:13 PM Support #953 (In Progress): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:30 PM Support #953 (Resolved): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
- Dear all,
I am looking for a variable indicating whether respondents intent to leave/quit their job.
Does UKHLS c... - 05:12 PM Support #952: variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:30 AM Support #952 (In Progress): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- 10:29 AM Support #951 (In Progress): Deriving alcohol consumption units
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/08/2018
- 11:22 AM Support #952 (Resolved): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
- Hi,
A few days ago I received an email from Graham Jolliffe about an error of the variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint...
04/07/2018
- 11:48 PM Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units
- Dear USoc Team,
My research is examining the impact of alcohol consumption on individual earnings.
With regards...
04/05/2018
- 03:51 PM Support #946 (Feedback): hiqual_dv values
- Dear Rory,
Yes, this is because we have re-released the data but the online documentation is not yet updated.
B... - 03:10 PM Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS
- Dear Nirosha,
Please contact the UKDS helpdesk if you believe you are receiving this message in error:
https://ww... - 12:29 PM Support #910: How to download NPD linked UKHLS
- From: NIROSHA ELSEM VARGHESE [mailto:nirosha.varghese@phd.unibocconi.it]
Sent: 06 February 2018 12:27
To: usersupp... - 01:21 PM Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
- Unfortunately, subtracting 21000000 from all eligible (not missing, -9/-1) h_intnum in the wave 8 household data from...
- 01:19 PM Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
- Jonathan Burton wrote:
> You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are abov... - 12:46 PM Support #950 (Feedback): IP8 interviewer numbers
- 12:22 PM Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
- i_intnum in i_indresp_ip is not correct at all – this will be addressed at IP10 release
- 12:20 PM Support #950: IP8 interviewer numbers
You should be able to fix it by subtracting 21000000 from positive numbers if they are above 42000000. This will br...- 09:28 AM Support #950 (Resolved): IP8 interviewer numbers
- Hi,
I am raising this on behalf of Dana Garbarski who contacted me directly - dgarbarski@luc.edu
It's a follow ... - 12:58 PM Support #895: data release mental health and social media
- Dear Danilo,
If you read the questionnaire as above, you will see question 27 contains the SDQ variables, and they... - 12:34 PM Support #895: data release mental health and social media
- From: danilo di emidio [mailto:danilo_di_emidio@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 February 2018 18:16
To: usersupport@understa... - 12:36 PM Support #944 (Resolved): Lowest level reliability with spatial data
- From: Paul Downward [mailto:P.Downward@lboro.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 April 2018 11:52
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... - 12:35 PM Support #939 (Resolved): Northern Irish Sample
- From: Tara McNeill [mailto:tara.mcneill7@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 March 2018 16:00
To: usersupport@understandingsociety... - 12:35 PM Support #919 (Resolved): weights for pooled cross-sections over waves (a)-(g)
- From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 14 February 2018 12:24
To: usersupport@understandi... - 12:31 PM Support #906: Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants
- From: Nico Ochmann [mailto:nico.ochmann@manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 February 2018 11:47
To: usersupport@understandi... - 10:11 AM Support #949 (In Progress): Total length of interview time for individual interviews
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/04/2018
- 05:13 PM Support #949 (Resolved): Total length of interview time for individual interviews
- Hello,
I'm trying to figure out whether there is a variable that gives the total length of time in which an individu... - 03:30 PM Support #948 (In Progress): Impevents question transcripts
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:32 AM Support #948 (Resolved): Impevents question transcripts
- Dear USOC support team,
I am looking to see if its possible to access the transcribed data for the following quest... - 01:20 PM Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hi Alice,
In the BHPS, everyone was asked about all natural children (co-resident or non-resident) in Wave B for t...
04/03/2018
- 05:31 PM Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hi Alice,
I have asked our BHPS experts to answer your question.
In the meantime you could take a look at the ... - 05:29 PM Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hi Nico,
1. Good idea to include ceasarian birth - thanks for spotting that.
2. The number of pregout variables d... - 12:38 PM Support #947 (In Progress): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 12:23 PM Support #947 (Resolved): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- Hi Alita,
this is my last question for you for a while, promised. I would like to get your general take on it tho... - 11:52 AM Support #945: total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help.
I think I can do it now.
Best wishes.
Nico - 10:52 AM Support #945 (Feedback): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- Dear Nico,
The variables you have found give the number of siblings the respondent is not living with, so you will... - 09:50 AM Support #945 (In Progress): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:38 AM Support #944: Lowest level reliability with spatial data
- Dear Paul,
Thank you for your question. If you mean a unit of analysis - there isn't any restriction. You can use ... - 09:50 AM Support #946 (In Progress): hiqual_dv values
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
03/31/2018
- 04:44 AM Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hi Alita,
Thank you so much for the information and code.
I am utilising the original BHPS sample (hhorig==3) a...
03/28/2018
- 03:26 PM Support #937: Merge children to parents
- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks a lot that is very useful. We converted children into wide format and then matched them with t...
03/27/2018
- 09:35 AM Support #946 (Resolved): hiqual_dv values
- Hello,
I am preparing a datafile and have noticed that the frequencies I obtain when tabulating the hiqual_dv vari...
03/25/2018
- 05:40 PM Support #945: total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- My apologies, I must be blind. I did find a_nrelsw12, c_nrels2, e_nrels2, and g_nrels4.
I guess my follow-up ques... - 04:59 PM Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
- Dear Support Team,
I am looking for the total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant).
...
03/23/2018
- 08:25 PM Support #943 (Feedback): g_indresp - exercise variable
- Dear Emma,
The variables you are looking at for time spent exercising, g_vwhrs, g_vwmin, g_mwhrs and g_mwmin, are ... - 02:59 PM Support #939 (Feedback): Northern Irish Sample
- Dear Tara,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The description on the UKDS site is out of date and we wi... - 02:44 PM Support #944 (In Progress): Lowest level reliability with spatial data
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:39 AM Support #944 (Resolved): Lowest level reliability with spatial data
- I am currently supervising a PhD student who is very interested in exploring the environmental influences on individu...
03/22/2018
- 12:48 PM Support #918: lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Dear Alita,
I am looking at the number of children a women had. For that purpose, I am very interested in the cod...
03/21/2018
- 12:59 PM Support #943 (In Progress): g_indresp - exercise variable
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 12:53 PM Support #943 (Resolved): g_indresp - exercise variable
- Good afternoon,
I'm hoping to use US to look at the correlations between mood and exercise for different cohorts ...
03/20/2018
- 04:15 PM Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders
- nevermind. I couldn't delete this comment but i figured out my problem
- 04:05 PM Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders
- Thanks for the feedback. I tried out this variable, unfortunately, it didn't work for a panel I'm constructing. When ...
- 10:22 AM Support #942 (Feedback): Net income of multiple job holders
- 10:22 AM Support #942: Net income of multiple job holders
- Dear G F,
The following variables should help:
w_j2pay_dv is gross pay in second job (see questionnaire for cla... - 09:37 AM Support #942 (In Progress): Net income of multiple job holders
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:44 AM Support #942 (Resolved): Net income of multiple job holders
- I'm a researcher doing a project on income of single vs. multiple job holders in the Understanding Society dataset an...
- 01:43 PM Support #937 (Feedback): Merge children to parents
- Dear Karl,
You will need to merge this data using the parent identifiers in the child's record. If you are only in... - 09:57 AM Support #941 (Feedback): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007
- Dear Amin,
We don't hold this information, but I have found this page on the ONS website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/m...
03/14/2018
- 04:33 PM Support #941 (In Progress): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:53 AM Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007
- Dear Understanding Societ team,
I am looking for a concordance from the SIC 1980 used in the BHPS to more recent i... - 02:44 PM Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- Alita,
you are fantastic, thanks for clearing that up.
Have a great day.
Nico - 12:19 PM Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- Hi Nico,
Your code is fine and the data is fine.
As you know XWAVEDAT includes everyone who has ever been enume... - 11:58 AM Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- Hi Alita,
thank you very much for working on this issue now.
Here we go:
tab hhorig if _wemerge_2==2
Sam... - 10:44 AM Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- Hi Nico,
Could you please provide the frequency distribution of HHORIG for _m==2 cases?
Thanks,
Alita - 10:24 AM Support #917: how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
- Dear Alita,
I have notified you a few weeks ago, but my reply might have gone missing. At any rate, No this is no... - 11:34 AM Support #932: Weighting
- Wonderful, thanks.
- 11:32 AM Support #932: Weighting
- Elena,
Yes this is correct. With one exception: the weight should be from the last wave in your analysis - so if y... - 10:42 AM Support #932: Weighting
- Hi Olena,
Again, thanks for your help. One last clarification.
I am using longitudinal data from wave a to f.... - 09:59 AM Support #932: Weighting
- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your help.
Elena - 08:53 AM Support #918 (Feedback): lnprnt - number of children ever had
- Hello Alice,
No. While the routing into LNPRNT is different in the BHPS and Understanding Society, LNPRNT is asked...
03/13/2018
- 04:26 PM Support #926: Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC
- Many thanks Stephanie,
Rossella - 11:29 AM Support #928: Merging Youth.
- Vicky,
This is a response with regard to weighting. I am not sure about how you are doing your analysis.
If you a... - 10:54 AM Support #928: Merging Youth.
- Dear Vicky,
Apologies for the delay in responding.
There is infomation regarding choosing a weight in the Mains... - 11:22 AM Support #939 (In Progress): Northern Irish Sample
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:31 AM Support #939 (Resolved): Northern Irish Sample
- Hello
I am currently looking at wellbeing inequality in Northern Ireland in conjunction with national, political a...
03/12/2018
- 04:12 PM Support #938: Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Olayiwola,
>
> We don't have this variable in UKHLS, and the closest alternative is ... - 04:00 PM Support #938 (Feedback): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data
- Dear Olayiwola,
We don't have this variable in UKHLS, and the closest alternative is to use w_hrpid which is the H... - 03:55 PM Support #934 (Feedback): Household representative person
- Hi Martin,
I can see these variables in the latest version of the data, in the datafiles w_indresp, w_indall and w...
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