Activity
From 04/13/2018 to 05/12/2018
05/12/2018
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06:22 PM Support #976 (Resolved): Month of birth
- Hi,
I'm creating activity histories for participants using Understanding Society data. To do this, I would like to...
05/11/2018
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05:21 PM Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- Hi Nico,
The INDALL file includes everyone in the household. So, birthy can range from early 20th century. The cod... -
03:14 PM Support #949: Total length of interview time for individual interviews
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Dana - Are you ok with us contacting with you via the email address you have provided when y... -
- Hi Dana - Are you ok with us contacting with you via the email address you have provided when you signed up for this ...
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11:44 AM Support #975 (Resolved): Health condition variables in GPS
- Dear all,
I would like to ask what is the difference in the health condition variables in the main respondents fil... -
- Dear Gundi,
Thank you very much for your reply. This is really helpful.
Best wishes,
Dora -
10:41 AM Support #971: Merging Parents with SDQ
- Hi Gundi,
Thank you so much for your reply. It is wonderfully clear and incredibly informative. It is greatly app...
05/10/2018
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05:55 PM Support #971: Merging Parents with SDQ
- Hi Vicky,
generally, if you want to attach the child's information to the mother's record in indresp, the typical st... -
- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your response. When merging the PSDQ with the SDQ data - the w_mnpid or w_fnpid doesnt ma... -
12:25 PM Support #971 (Feedback): Merging Parents with SDQ
- Dear Vicky,
Yes, using w_mnpid and w_fnpid from the youth dataset would be an option to add youth sdq to the paren... -
03:17 PM Support #969: Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores
- Perfect, thanks Stephanie, I followed this approach and it worked perfectly.
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- Dear Twylla,
The aggregate scores are calculated by reverse coding the appropriate variables (scptrt5a1, scptrt5c2... -
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Dana,
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> The self-completion module of the SF-12 was not asked at IP9 (but as you s... -
- Dear Dana,
The self-completion module of the SF-12 was not asked at IP9 (but as you say, SF1 was asked of proxy re... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Dana,
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> Apologies for the delayed response. IP10 release is scheduled for 29th Jun... -
- Thank you. Is there any way I could get a pre-release version of just the end times for the wave 8 data for analysis?...
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- Dear Dana,
Apologies for the delayed response. IP10 release is scheduled for 29th June.
Best wishes,
Stephanie... -
- Dear Kirsty,
Understanding Society is a longitudinal study where the fieldwork for each wave takes two years. The ... -
- Dear Paul,
The income values in w_paygu_dv are valid, and should only be excluded if they are causing problems in ... -
- Dear Liam,
In general, it seems useful to stress that for much of the annual employment history module, there are ...
05/09/2018
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09:39 PM Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- Dear Alita,
thanks again for your kind reply. As to step 2, that is clear now, thanks a lot. With regard to the I... -
- Hi Nico,
In the first step when you are extracting the child's pidp and their parents's pidp (mnpid, fnpid) from I... -
- Hello,
I don't see self-rated health ("in general would you say your health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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02:54 PM Support #973 (Resolved): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)
- To whom it may concern,
I am working with the BHPS data and came across what might be a data error. Very briefly put...
05/04/2018
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- Dear Alita,
this is what I thought, that I now have the birthyear of the parents. What I do need, if you are so k... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:07 AM Support #972 (Resolved): Merging house price data with panel BHPS
- Hi Stephanie
I have merged individual level data on the BHPS across waves and am having difficulty merging with th... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
05/03/2018
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- Hi,
I was wondering if I could get some clarification. I am wanting to merge parenting styles data with the SDQ d... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:53 PM Support #970 (Resolved): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24
- I am currently writing a systematic review looking at time-trends in the prevalence of mental health difficulties in ...
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- Hi Nico,
In the resulting files w_paernts there are 5 variables: pidp of the child (pidp), the mother and father p...
05/02/2018
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- A little extra info:
The previous answer given for a similar question, directing to the online documentation does no... -
- Hello, The methodology used to score the big 5 personality scores in UKHLS is not clear. Due the nature of the scorin...
04/30/2018
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- Dear Paul,
There is no official way to create years of education in Understanding Society. The reason is probably ...
04/28/2018
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- Dear Richard,
The data includes respondents from all four countries of the UK, and you can use the variable w_coun...
04/27/2018
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- Thanks, Stephanie.
Just to add to this, I'm interested in how the following fed forward variables are calculated: ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Thank you! Do you know when the IP10 release will be? I am in need of the end times for the Wave 8 data rather immedi...
04/25/2018
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- *Hi,
I've also raised this issue in #957, but am not sure how to change assignee and not sure if you will get it.*...
04/24/2018
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04:41 PM Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data
- Dear Understanding Society members,
I am contacting you on behalf of the Active Healthy Kids Wales report card exp... -
- Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for the information. I'd rather not exclude these participants as, though they are small in n... -
01:34 PM Support #962: NPD Organisation linking
- Dear Stephanie,
Great, that answers my question, thanks very much for your help.
Best regards,
Liam
04/23/2018
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- Dear Liam,
Yes, you will be able to use the linked NPD data to obtain primary school for groups (a) and (b) as lae... -
- This issue continues in #957.
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- Dear Liam,
There is indeed a small group of people that are sent through two bits of routing that are almost alway... -
- Dear Dana,
The variables for end time at Wave 8 will be included in the IP10 release, as will start and end times ... -
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10:48 AM Support #965: Sample weights
- Jason,
Thanks for your question. The best weights for you are: for cross-sectional analysis it is g_indinui_xw (th... -
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- Amy,
Yes, the reason is that there is no one person that will be in your analysis as we interview youth between 10-1...
04/21/2018
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- Dear Alita,
first of all, thank you very much for your helpful code. I ran it and it works. And I did append the ...
04/20/2018
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10:44 PM Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units
- Thank you! This is just the response I needed.
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- Dear Jason,
In most cases during self-completion questions only one question is shown at once, and since g_auditc... -
- Thank you so much!!!
(This left me with just 2 options and both produced almost identical results so I am going wi... -
- Dear Jason,
I'm not sure if Olena will see this in time to answer you before the weekend, so I wanted to provide a... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear USoc Team,
Slightly more urgently than my previous question (I have reconciled it now) I was wondering what p...
04/19/2018
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:16 PM Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights
- Dear US support,
I want to use wave 1-7 youth data in a longitudinal analysis. I can, however, only find cross-se... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear Understanding Society,
I would like to link as many people as possible in the Understanding Society survey to... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/18/2018
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03:55 PM Support #960: pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows
- That helps a lot.
Thank you so much for your help!
Best regards,
Gabriele -
- Hello Gabriele,
The row in indresp is uniquely identified by pid/pidp but the rows in files income & jobhist are u... -
- Dear Nico,
Sorry, yes you are right.
1. birthyear of co-resident children can be identified using A_INDALL and ...
04/17/2018
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02:32 PM Support #961 (Resolved): Number of years in education and individual income
- I am currently writing my dissertation on the impact of occupation on the self-rated health outcomes of British worke...
04/16/2018
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08:32 PM Support #953: Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
- Dear Stephanie
thank you for your reply and for sending the link. Much appreciated.
This variable may be an adequat... -
- Dear Zoé,
We do not have exactly that question, but you may find some of the questions asked in the Work Condition... -
- Dear Dana,
Interview start time and interview end time are available in w_indresp_ip in Waves 7 and 9, with the fo... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Greetings,
I'm trying to use the BHPS armonised files, and wanted to merge files in the same waves (I need to merg... -
- Dear Joe,
Do you mean the Time and risk preference module, questions listed here?
https://www.understandingsociet... -
- Dear Lana,
The height and weight questions you can see on the questionnaire for Wave B18 are part of the youth que... -
- Dear Anisa,
There are two parts to answer to this.
Firstly, the data are collected at the individual level but ... -
- Dear Dr Per-Ola Sundin,
The water percentage was collected and can be found with the variable name wtpc. The other...
04/13/2018
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- Dear Dora,
we do indeed have plenty of other information about neighbourhoods! We also collect information about nei... -
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- Dear all,
I would like to ask whether there are *any* neighbourhood data available apart from the self-reported qu... -
- Dear Liam,
Apologies, you're right - the status and assignee were not updated so we didn't see your response to #9... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:18 PM Support #958 (Resolved): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.
- In wave 6 of the innovation panel, there were a series of risk questions added to the survey.
See this paper for a... -
- Dear Alita,
I believe I spotted yet another issue here in the context of generating the number of children ever b... -
- Dear Alita,
please no hurry, I just want to write this because I want to have it out there. I am trying to find t...
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