Understanding Society User Support

08/08/2018

05:29 PM Support #1017 (In Progress): Creating synthetic households

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

05:17 PM Support #1017 (Resolved): Creating synthetic households

I am trying to create synthetic households by LSOA for the UK population for health modelling. I have data on househo... Andrew Ibbetson

08/07/2018

03:14 PM Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
We have the following answers to your questions:
nxtst: if both conditions are true, the wording is,... Stephanie Auty

03:04 PM Support #1011 (Feedback): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Stephanie Auty

08/06/2018

06:12 PM Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

I see - yes, in that case ignore step2 Alita Nandi

06:10 PM Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Hi,
I appreciate your interest.
I want to generate hundreds of local districts fixed effects to control for loc... Nico Ochmann

05:39 PM Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Why do you need the district codes if you are not going to match district level information? Are you planning to prod... Alita Nandi

05:35 PM Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Dear Alita,
no worries about the delay, I had a number of other things to do anyhow. At any rate, I do not have s... Nico Ochmann

11:03 AM Support #1011: merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g

Hi Nico,
I am very sorry for the delay in responding. So, your objective is to have an individual level dataset in... Alita Nandi

05:23 PM Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Stephanie,
Great. Thanks for this.
Best wishes,
Liam Liam Wright

01:37 PM Support #957: Annual History Routing

Dear Liam,
Apologies for the confusion between question routing and the question wording which depends on previous... Stephanie Auty

04:56 PM Support #1015 (In Progress): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & 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

12:35 PM Support #1015 (Resolved): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)

Hello,
I am trying to create a dataset with women who were emloyed in the year when their first biological child was... Darya Vanchugova

12:52 PM Support #968: Wording of Annual History Questions

Dear Liam,
I'll reply on issue #957 to keep all the answers together.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understand... Stephanie Auty

11:24 AM Support #1012: Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

Hello Felippe,
Thanks!
The ethnic group information is collected only once for each adult (16+), the first tim... Alita Nandi

10:43 AM Support #1012 (In Progress): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other 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

10:44 AM Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

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

08/04/2018

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