Understanding Society User Support

07/03/2018

03:18 PM Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Dear Olena,
This helps. Thank you very much for your support.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

07/02/2018

12:29 PM Support #989 (Feedback): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing

Dear EK,
Have you had a look at the callrec data file? This has a variable (a_issueno) which identifies the initia... Stephanie Auty

10:23 AM Support #992 (Feedback): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Stephanie Auty

10:21 AM Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Ante,
We are aware of the importance of the list of variables for all the weights models. We do not have these cur... Olena Kaminska

10:03 AM Support #992: Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

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

07/01/2018

01:41 PM Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment

Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm referring to the Understanding Society, Waves1-5, User Manual. According to the Manual, th... Ante B

06/29/2018

12:43 PM Support #991 (Feedback): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha

Dear Lydia,
The value 3 in these questions is labelled "doesn't apply" in the datasets and the questionnaire. This... Stephanie Auty

09:38 AM Support #991: Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha

Thank you for your answer.
It is related to the waves of BHPS (from the 8th on) and the 6th of UKHLS.
Lydia Palumbo

09:34 AM Support #991 (In Progress): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha

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

08:52 AM Support #991 (Resolved): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha

Dear US User Support,
I have a minor question on the recode of jbxpcha and jblkcha questions, but, since I am dea... Lydia Palumbo

06/27/2018

05:10 PM Support #982 (Feedback): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society

Dear Richard,
You are correct, our fieldwork agency should have recoded these responses for Northern Ireland and d... Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Support #980: parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks very much for the detailed response - that clears that up!
Cheers,
Rob Robert de Vries

03:59 PM Support #980 (Feedback): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Dear Rob,
There are a variety of reasons for these missing values as follows:
As you say, some are rising 16s w... Stephanie Auty

04:18 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your fast clarification.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

04:01 PM Support #987 (Feedback): Weighting of sub-sample

Stephanie Auty

03:23 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

Ante,
Yes, you should use the longitudinal weight for wave 4, and the choice of d_indscus_lw is correct.
Olena Olena Kaminska

12:37 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample

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

02:54 PM Support #990 (In Progress): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

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

02:18 PM Support #990 (Resolved): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

At waves 1, 3 and 6 the variables w_scopngbha, w_scopngbhb, w_scopngbhc, w_scopngbhd, w_scopngbhe, w_scopngbhf, w_sco... Natalie Bennett

02:49 PM Support #989 (In Progress): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing

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

01:28 PM Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing

We are doing some research on the effect of interviewers on the effectiveness of incentives, one of the data sets we ... Eliud Kibuchi

06/26/2018

11:51 PM Support #987 (Resolved): Weighting of sub-sample

Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to compare the means of several variables of a sub-sample (e.g. income, education)... Ante B

06/25/2018

02:39 PM Support #985 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Stephanie Auty

02:26 PM Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Great, thank you very much, Olena! This is indeed very helpful.
Nhat An Nhat An Trinh

12:30 PM Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Nhat An,
Thanks. Yes, your selection of weights looks fine. Ideally you would want to scale your weights such that... Olena Kaminska

12:10 PM Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Dear Olena,
Yes, you are right: for each individual information is only taken from one wave and each individual on... Nhat An Trinh

11:49 AM Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Dear Nhat An,
Thank you for your question. You suggest that it is a pooled cross-sectional analysis, yet you menti... Olena Kaminska

06/22/2018

08:30 PM Support #980: parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Dear Rob,
Apologies for the delay in response. We are still investigating some of these cases and should be back w... Stephanie Auty

08:28 PM Support #984: Variables Only Available in IEMB

Dear Haydn,
The IEMB sample had a slightly different questionnaire in Wave 6, so some questions were asked of just... Stephanie Auty

08:19 PM Support #986 (In Progress): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise

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

07:35 PM Support #986 (Resolved): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise

I am working with the Wave 6 Indresp file using Stata. I have limited the sample to respondents who have a paid job r... Nhlanhla Ndebele

05:10 PM Support #985: Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

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 #985 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves

Hello,
Although this issue has already been discussed a couple of times, I would like to address the selection and... Nhat An Trinh

06/21/2018

10:27 AM Support #979: Country of Birth - Special Licence

Dear Simone,
Please note that this problem was corrected from Wave 3 onwards, so those entering the adult survey f... Stephanie Auty

06/20/2018

08:20 PM Support #979 (Feedback): Country of Birth - Special Licence

Dear Simone,
Apologies for the delay in response.
I have investigated these cases, and the majority of these re... Stephanie Auty

06/19/2018

11:17 AM Support #982: Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society

Dear Richard,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are currently in communication with our fieldwork a... Stephanie Auty

11:15 AM Support #984 (In Progress): Variables Only Available in IEMB

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

06/18/2018

12:41 PM Support #984 (Resolved): Variables Only Available in IEMB

HI
A number of variables I need for some work I'm doing using Understanding Society Wave 6 are flagged as "Only Av... Haydn Brown

06/14/2018

01:18 PM Support #978: different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"

Thanks a lot, Stephanie.
I understand now the "previous wave".
Rgds,
Eduwin
Eduwin Pakpahan

06/12/2018

08:57 AM Support #981: Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Thank you very much, this helps me a lot!
Best regards,
Sina Sina Chen

06/11/2018

05:37 PM Support #981 (Feedback): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Stephanie Auty

11:04 AM Support #981: Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Sina,
Please use the variables a_hhno, a_duno, d_hhno and d_duno from the respective hhsamp_ip files. Unfortunatel... Olena Kaminska

05:31 PM Support #978 (Feedback): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"

Dear Eduwin,
Looking at the variable b_hhorig will help you to answer this question. This is the sample origin. If... Stephanie Auty

06/08/2018

01:15 PM Support #981: Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

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

01:15 PM Support #982 (In Progress): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society

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

12:18 PM Support #982 (Resolved): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society

I am using the UK Data Archive Understanding Society data for Stata (UKDA-6614-stata). I think the labels associated... Richard Upward

06/06/2018

11:01 AM Support #980: parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Thanks Stephanie,
I have a quick update to this. I found the syntax Alita Nandy helpfully uploaded (https://discov... Robert de Vries

10:32 AM Support #980 (In Progress): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

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

10:37 AM Support #981 (Resolved): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings

Dear all,
I need to compute design weights solely based on the selection probability for the IP9.
For this purpo... Sina Chen

06/05/2018

03:24 PM Support #980 (Resolved): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r

Hi,
I'm currently working with Wave R of the BHPS, and I have a query about missingness in the parental occupation... Robert de Vries