Activity
From 06/10/2018 to 07/09/2018
07/09/2018
- 06:18 PM Support #998 (In Progress): Finding Medication types
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 05:31 PM Support #998 (Resolved): Finding Medication types
- Hello,
I am working with the biomarker and nurse health assessment data for waves 2 and 3 of understanding society... - 02:48 PM Support #997 (In Progress): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/07/2018
- 09:20 AM Support #997 (Resolved): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
- Dear office,
could I ask a question about the variable ''drinking'', which means the consumption of alcohol? It be...
07/06/2018
- 05:40 PM Support #995 (Feedback): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
- Dear Amanda,
The IEMB respondents joined the survey at Wave 6, so the responses for this question at Wave 6 will b... - 04:44 PM Support #994 (Feedback): Info on household variables
- Dear Giorgio,
Have you read the section of the User Guide on following rules (Section 2.2.6)? In some cases we wil... - 04:32 PM Support #990 (Feedback): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure
- Dear Natalie,
We did not have space for all 18 items in Buckner’s paper, but given he suggests the measures load o...
07/05/2018
- 04:33 PM Support #996 (In Progress): LAD identifiers starting with N0
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 04:19 PM Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0
- Hello,
There are some LAD identifies starting with "N0" in waves 6 and 7 of the special licence data 6666. The doc... - 12:01 PM Support #995 (In Progress): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:52 AM Support #995 (Resolved): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
- I am interested in examining trends in job satisfaction over time using data from all Waves of Understanding Society....
- 11:34 AM Support #994 (In Progress): Info on household variables
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:09 AM Support #994 (Resolved): Info on household variables
- I am Giorgio Piccitto, an Italian young research (University of Bologna). I am interested in using the data of 'Under...
- 10:02 AM Support #993 (In Progress): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:52 AM Support #993 (Resolved): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
- Hello,
I am using the Harmonised BHP and Understanding Society dataset to evaluate the impact of raising the minim...
07/04/2018
- 11:21 AM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
- Dear Olena,
I have a follow-up question.
If I choose d_indscus_lw to compare the sub-sample with the original sa...
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
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... - 10:23 AM Support #992 (Feedback): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment
- 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... - 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...
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...
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... - 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.
- 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...
- 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...
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... - 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 - 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... - 04:18 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your fast clarification.
Best regards,
Ante - 04:01 PM Support #987 (Feedback): Weighting of sub-sample
- 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 - 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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)...
06/25/2018
- 02:39 PM Support #985 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-section over all waves
- 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 - 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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...
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...
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... - 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...
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...
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
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
06/11/2018
- 05:37 PM Support #981 (Feedback): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings
- 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... - 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...
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