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From 04/23/2018 to 05/22/2018
05/22/2018
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03:14 PM Support #962: NPD Organisation linking
- Dear Stephanie,
A quick follow-up on this. You mention that access to this data would have to be through the secu...
05/21/2018
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03:29 PM Support #977: Merging a_child with a_indresp
- Hi Gundi,
That post has explained the mechanics of what I need to do precisely, thank you!
Best wishes,
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11:20 AM Support #977 (Feedback): Merging a_child with a_indresp
- Hi Jesse,
please take a look at my response to https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/971 -- it explains how yo... -
- Hi,
I'm Jesse, a PhD researcher based at the University of Southampton currently using USoc as part of a mixed-met...
05/16/2018
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05:14 PM Support #976: Month of birth
- Dear Stephanie,
Oh, I should have spotted that, sorry! Thanks for the response.
Best wishes,
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04:15 PM Support #976 (Feedback): Month of birth
- Dear Liam,
We don't have a variable for school year, but month of birth is available on Special Licence, so you wo... -
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- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for taking the time to respond but you haven’t answered the questions I asked. I would ... -
11:59 AM Support #975: Health condition variables in GPS
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for your reply. Although I always read the universe of the questions, this is ...
05/15/2018
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- Dear Dana,
No, it wasn't asked in IP9, along with the rest of the SF-12 module.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty -... -
- Dear Theodora,
Yes, the questions are asked of different respondents, and you can see who was asked by looking at ... -
- Dear Philipp,
We have checked the original data and there are no problems, and the data are consistent within inst... -
04:15 PM Support #947: the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
- Dear Alita,
you have been once again of tremendous help.
This is what I am looking for.
Thank you very mu... -
- Dear Thiemo,
At the moment there are no plans to code the responses to these questions in Waves 6 and 7.
Best w... -
- Dear Oluwaseun Fajana,
Your datafile shows that the region variable is missing so please try creating it again.
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05/14/2018
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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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- 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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05/12/2018
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- 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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- 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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- 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... -
- 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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- 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... -
- 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...
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