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From 07/06/2018 to 08/04/2018

08/04/2018

10:35 AM Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Thanks Stephanie.
So, to put it differently, whereas in BHPS waves pretty much align with years (e.g. in a panel d...
Luis Valenzuela

08/03/2018

10:23 AM Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
Many thanks Olena.
For this analysis I am looking to exploit the longitudinal aspect of the data. Essentially, I'...
Joseph Woods
09:39 AM Support #1013 (Resolved): Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data
I am using data from the wave 2 mainstage interview and self-completion questionnaire together with the nurse assessm... Rachel Bennett

08/02/2018

06:00 PM Support #1012 (Resolved): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves
Hello folks,
First of all, congratulation for the fantastic database and space for discussion.
I have been work...
Felippe Oliveira
11:40 AM Support #968: Wording of Annual History Questions
Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for this and apologies for delay in replying. I've also replied to Query #957 which restates ...
Liam Wright
11:27 AM Support #957: Annual History Routing
Hi Stephanie,
Did you have the wording for the other questions too please?
Thanks,
Liam
Liam Wright

07/30/2018

02:42 PM Support #1010 (Feedback): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?
Dear Nico,
There are no cognition tests in Wave 9, but there are some in the Youth questionnaire at Wave 10, in th...
Stephanie Auty
02:36 PM Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Dear Luis,
BHPS ended in 2008 and the last interview was the 18th wave of BHPS. The interviews were conducted most...
Stephanie Auty
02:30 PM Support #1008 (Feedback): Creating longitudinal weights
Stephanie Auty
12:40 PM Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
Joseph,
If you design your own nonresponse correction I would expect the 'weights' to look different to ours but i...
Olena Kaminska
02:29 PM Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure
Dear Natalie,
Here is a response from the team involved in this part of the questionnaire:
These questions were c...
Stephanie Auty

07/27/2018

02:05 PM Support #1006 (Feedback): Variable livepar
Stephanie Auty
02:05 PM Support #1006: Variable livepar
Dear Lydia,
w_livpar is calculated from the relationship grid during the interview, and is then used during the in...
Stephanie Auty
01:09 PM Support #1011 (In Progress): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g
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
01:04 PM Support #1010 (In Progress): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?
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
01:03 PM Support #1009 (In Progress): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable
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

07/26/2018

08:00 PM Support #1011 (Resolved): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g
Hello Alita,
hope you are fine. I do have a question with regard to merging the above files. It is my understandi...
Nico Ochmann
02:23 PM Support #1010 (Resolved): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?
Hello user support,
I am hoping to get data on cognition for the subsample introduced in wave 6 (IEMB). For that ...
Nico Ochmann

07/25/2018

07:26 PM Support #1009 (Resolved): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable
I am using the f_paygu_dv variable in my analysis but struggling to find details of how it was derived. The user guid... Nhlanhla Ndebele
06:36 PM Support #986: Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise
Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for that, it has clarified my query.
Regards,
Nhlanhla
Nhlanhla Ndebele

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
 

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