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From 06/25/2018 to 07/24/2018

07/24/2018

01:33 PM Support #957 (Feedback): Annual History Routing
Dear Katy,
We have now been able to check what happens in the case you mention. In the case that EmpChk and NotEmp...
Stephanie Auty
01:15 PM Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
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
11:07 AM Support #1008 (Resolved): Creating longitudinal weights
I'm doing analysis using harmonised BHPS and USoc to look at the impact of tax / benefit policy over several years. I... Joseph Woods

07/23/2018

03:39 PM Support #957 (In Progress): Annual History Routing
Dear Katy,
On order to check this for up to Wave 6 we have to load the old scripts. Unfortunately we are having a ...
Stephanie Auty
12:30 PM Support #1005 (Feedback): Parents-children dyads
Dear Giorgio,
To solve this problem, you can split the file into male and female respondents. Then use the male fi...
Stephanie Auty
10:02 AM Support #1007 (In Progress): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
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
09:22 AM Support #1007 (Resolved): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Dear,
I am reading your documentation about the Harmonised US-BHPS data (https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cata...
Luis Valenzuela

07/21/2018

04:58 PM Support #998: Finding Medication types
Thanks for providing this information. As a follow up is there also data available on other healthcare utilisation, e... Luke Barry

07/20/2018

04:38 PM Support #1006 (In Progress): Variable livepar
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
03:02 PM Support #1006 (Resolved): Variable livepar
Dear US support,
I am trying to understand whether respondents are living with their parents or not in a file whi...
Lydia Palumbo
12:22 PM Support #1005 (In Progress): Parents-children dyads
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
12:04 PM Support #1005: Parents-children dyads
Sorry, I attach the two tables (the first what we have, the second what we want) because they came up not well-align... Giorgio Piccitto
12:01 PM Support #1005 (Resolved): Parents-children dyads
Dear all,
I would like to know your advise about the following issue:
I need to create dyads for each parents-ch...
Giorgio Piccitto
12:20 PM Support #1004 (Feedback): Ammendment
Stephanie Auty

07/19/2018

03:31 PM Support #1004: Ammendment
Hello Rita,
The files you have downloaded include wave specific files. If you want to do cross-sectional analysis ...
Alita Nandi
02:41 PM Support #1004 (In Progress): Ammendment
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
02:09 PM Support #1004 (Resolved): Ammendment
Hello,
I applied and obtained the panel data set. However, I need the cross sectional data set (due to the higher ...
Rita Pereira

07/18/2018

09:08 PM Support #1002 (Feedback): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
Dear Lydia,
The straightforward answer is that it was much more difficult to get all household members to cooperat...
Stephanie Auty
05:22 PM Support #1002: Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
The variable which I am mostly concerned about is the one regarding savings (b`w'_save and `w'_save).
It presents qu...
Lydia Palumbo

07/17/2018

04:37 PM Support #1003 (Feedback): Id Pno
Dear Giorgio,
The pno has no meaning, it is just how the household members happen to be listed. To find out about ...
Stephanie Auty
10:49 AM Support #1003 (In Progress): Id Pno
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

07/16/2018

07:08 PM Support #1003 (Resolved): Id Pno
Dear Users,
I would like to know your advise on how identifying the progressive number of each member of household ...
Giorgio Piccitto
05:33 PM Support #997 (Feedback): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
Dear Yuting,
Alcohol consumption was not addressed in BHPS, so the only questions we have involving alcohol are wL...
Stephanie Auty
12:20 PM Support #1002 (In Progress): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
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
12:02 PM Support #1002 (Resolved): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
Dear US help forum,
I merged the files of BHPS and UKHLS. When I did my computations, I noticed that there is an ...
Lydia Palumbo
12:19 PM Support #1001 (Feedback): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
Stephanie Auty
11:08 AM Support #1001: Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
Natalie,
Yes, the choice of the weight is correct and it should come from wave 7. By the way the weight will autom...
Olena Kaminska

07/13/2018

09:59 AM Support #1000 (Feedback): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
Dear Amy,
The value 9 is a code for "invalid answer" and should be recoded to missing for analysis. In the next re...
Stephanie Auty
09:28 AM Support #998 (Feedback): Finding Medication types
Dear Luke,
These variables are available in the SL version of the files, available here: https://discover.ukdatase...
Stephanie Auty

07/12/2018

04:15 PM Support #986 (Feedback): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise
Dear Nhlanhla Ndebele,
Apologies for the delayed response.
At the beginning of Wave 6 there was an error in the...
Stephanie Auty
01:02 PM Support #957: Annual History Routing
Note: this issue was continued into #968. Stephanie Auty
12:57 PM Support #996 (Feedback): LAD identifiers starting with N0
Dear Cristina,
These are codes for Northern Ireland. Looking at the ONS documentation the values changed from the ...
Stephanie Auty
12:48 PM Support #993 (Feedback): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
Dear Yaroslava,
As the long file format you create in the first three steps above will have more than one observat...
Stephanie Auty
11:46 AM Support #1001: Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
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
11:43 AM Support #1000 (In Progress): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
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

07/11/2018

12:52 PM Support #1001 (Resolved): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
I currently carrying out an analysis where I am looking only at people coded 'OSM' at wave 1 who participated in wave... Natalie Bennett
09:35 AM Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
Dear US Team,
I am working with the life satisfaction (hsw, hsc, hlf, hap, hfr, hfm) and self-esteem (estk, estj, ...
Amy Orben

07/10/2018

04:33 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
Dear Olena,
I appreciate your patience in this matter. Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,
Ante
Ante B
03:33 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
Ante,
Yes, the easiest way is a) - the weight will automatically select the correct IDs - just by using the weight...
Olena Kaminska
02:26 PM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
Dear Olena,
Thanks for your comment.
I agree that the subpopulation should be compared with population excludin...
Ante B
11:51 AM Support #987: Weighting of sub-sample
Ante,
Your problem is not weights but as far as I understand your suggested analysis violates iid assumption - bec...
Olena Kaminska
02:39 PM Support #957: Annual History Routing
Following on from Liam's query:
For respondents who go through both empchk==2 and notempck==2 loops, which one of...
Katy Morris
11:38 AM Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure
Dear Stephanie
Thank you for that. Could you give me some more information on the methods used to select the eight...
Natalie Bennett

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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Luke Barry
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... Stephanie Auty

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...
Yuting Deng

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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Cristina Sechel
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... Stephanie Auty
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.... Amanda Sheely
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... Stephanie Auty
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... Giorgio Piccitto
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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Yaroslava Zemlyanska

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...
Ante B

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
 

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