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08/14/2018

06:29 PM Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Dear Luis,
This is not a sampling dip as the sample is not drawn each year, it is just a longer time between inter...
Stephanie Auty
05:48 PM Support #1006 (Resolved): Variable livepar
Stephanie Auty
05:48 PM Support #1005 (Resolved): Parents-children dyads
Stephanie Auty
05:48 PM Support #1004 (Resolved): Ammendment
Stephanie Auty
05:47 PM Support #1003 (Resolved): Id Pno
Stephanie Auty
05:47 PM Support #1002 (Resolved): Proxy respondents between BHPS and UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
05:47 PM Support #1001 (Resolved): Weights for UKHLS waves 1, 6 and 7
Stephanie Auty
05:47 PM Support #1000 (Resolved): Irregular responses in Well-being questions
Stephanie Auty
05:46 PM Support #997 (Resolved): how to find the variable ''drinking'' in the BHPS?
Stephanie Auty
05:46 PM Support #996 (Resolved): LAD identifiers starting with N0
Stephanie Auty
05:46 PM Support #995 (Resolved): Questions not asked of IEMB respondents in Wave 6
Stephanie Auty
05:46 PM Support #994 (Resolved): Info on household variables
Stephanie Auty
05:45 PM Support #993 (Resolved): merging birth month and birth year to idresp and youth surveys
Stephanie Auty
05:45 PM Support #992 (Resolved): Individual-level Nonresponse Adjustment
Stephanie Auty
05:45 PM Support #991 (Resolved): Variables jbxpcha and jblkcha
Stephanie Auty
05:45 PM Support #989 (Resolved): Initial Outcomes for Innovation Panel Wave 1 Before Re-issuing
Stephanie Auty
05:44 PM Support #987 (Resolved): Weighting of sub-sample
Stephanie Auty
05:44 PM Support #986 (Resolved): Missing Values: Inapplicables for f_jbrise
Stephanie Auty
05:44 PM Support #984 (Resolved): Variables Only Available in IEMB
Stephanie Auty
05:44 PM Support #982 (Resolved): Coding of -vote3- and -vote4- variables in wave 7 of Understanding Society
Stephanie Auty
05:43 PM Support #981 (Resolved): Selection probability/ number of households and dwellings
Stephanie Auty
05:43 PM Support #980 (Resolved): parental occupation variables in BHPS wave r
Stephanie Auty
05:43 PM Support #979 (Resolved): Country of Birth - Special Licence
Stephanie Auty
05:42 PM Support #978 (Resolved): different size in "merge" and "previously been interviewed"
Stephanie Auty
05:42 PM Support #977 (Resolved): Merging a_child with a_indresp
Stephanie Auty
05:42 PM Support #976 (Resolved): Month of birth
Stephanie Auty
05:42 PM Support #975 (Resolved): Health condition variables in GPS
Stephanie Auty
05:42 PM Support #974 (Resolved): self-rated health in wave 9 of the innovation panel
Stephanie Auty
05:41 PM Support #973 (Resolved): Items wOPSOCB and wYPOPSCB (BHPS)
Stephanie Auty
05:41 PM Support #972 (Resolved): Merging house price data with panel BHPS
Stephanie Auty
05:41 PM Support #971 (Resolved): Merging Parents with SDQ
Stephanie Auty
05:41 PM Support #970 (Resolved): GHQ-12 data for young people aged 16-24
Stephanie Auty
05:40 PM Support #969 (Resolved): Scoring Mechanism for big 5 personality scores
Stephanie Auty
05:40 PM Support #968 (Resolved): Wording of Annual History Questions
Stephanie Auty
05:40 PM Support #966 (Resolved): Active Healthy Kids Wales - Call for Wales Data
Stephanie Auty
05:40 PM Support #965 (Resolved): Sample weights
Stephanie Auty
05:39 PM Support #963 (Resolved): Youth Self-Completion Longitudinal Weights
Stephanie Auty
05:39 PM Support #962 (Resolved): NPD Organisation linking
Stephanie Auty
04:57 PM Support #961 (Resolved): Number of years in education and individual income
Stephanie Auty
04:56 PM Support #960 (Resolved): pid and pidp not uniquely identifying rows
Stephanie Auty
04:54 PM Support #918 (Resolved): lnprnt - number of children ever had
Stephanie Auty
04:45 PM Support #959 (Resolved): Neighbourhood data
Stephanie Auty
04:45 PM Support #958 (Resolved): Wave 6 Innovation Panel - missing risk questions.
Stephanie Auty
04:44 PM Support #956 (Resolved): Height and weight in wave 18
Stephanie Auty
04:44 PM Support #955 (Resolved): Individual level net monthly income and social benefit income
Stephanie Auty
04:44 PM Support #954 (Resolved): Nurse health assessment - bioimpedance measures
Stephanie Auty
04:43 PM Support #953 (Resolved): Variable on intention to quit/leave current job
Stephanie Auty
04:43 PM Support #952 (Resolved): variable g_frjtpn, ‘PNO of joint recipient’, on the data file g_income
Stephanie Auty
04:42 PM Support #950 (Resolved): IP8 interviewer numbers
This issue was resolved in the IP10 data release. Stephanie Auty
04:29 PM Support #948 (Resolved): Impevents question transcripts
Stephanie Auty
04:28 PM Support #947 (Resolved): the birthyear of all children (in and outside the household) born by a given female respondent
Stephanie Auty
04:28 PM Support #946 (Resolved): hiqual_dv values
Stephanie Auty
04:28 PM Support #945 (Resolved): total number of siblings of a given respondent (gender is irrelevant)
Stephanie Auty
04:25 PM Support #943 (Resolved): g_indresp - exercise variable
Stephanie Auty
04:24 PM Support #942 (Resolved): Net income of multiple job holders
Stephanie Auty
04:24 PM Support #941 (Resolved): Industry Concordance | SIC 1980 to SIC 2007
Stephanie Auty
04:23 PM Support #938 (Resolved): Household HEAD variable in the UKLS data
Stephanie Auty
04:23 PM Support #937 (Resolved): Merge children to parents
Stephanie Auty
04:23 PM Support #936 (Resolved): Weights for combined BHPS and UKHLS sample
Stephanie Auty
04:22 PM Support #934 (Resolved): Household representative person
Stephanie Auty
04:22 PM Support #933 (Resolved): urban rural info for BHPS
Stephanie Auty
04:22 PM Support #932 (Resolved): Weighting
Stephanie Auty
04:22 PM Support #931 (Resolved): twins
Stephanie Auty
04:22 PM Support #930 (Resolved): BMI variables in the youth panel - potential errors?
Stephanie Auty
04:15 PM Support #928 (Resolved): Merging Youth.
Stephanie Auty
04:12 PM Support #926 (Resolved): Education variable hiqual_dv in USOC
Stephanie Auty
04:11 PM Support #925 (Resolved): Weights for longitudinal analysis
Stephanie Auty
04:11 PM Support #922 (Resolved): Question on the disability module (_disdif1 … _disdif1)
Stephanie Auty
04:11 PM Support #921 (Resolved): Council tax variable
Stephanie Auty
04:10 PM Support #920 (Resolved): Advice on weighting and accounting for the survey design
Stephanie Auty
04:07 PM Support #917 (Resolved): how to merge xwavedat with data from all the other seven waves
Stephanie Auty
04:07 PM Support #916 (Resolved): Two questions about weights
Stephanie Auty
04:07 PM Support #915 (Resolved): sf1 and scsf1 understanding
Stephanie Auty
04:07 PM Support #913 (Resolved): Understanding Society - Housing Conditions
Stephanie Auty
04:07 PM Support #912 (Resolved): Duplicates of pid in the harmonized UKHLS/BHPS xwavedat
Stephanie Auty
04:06 PM Support #910 (Resolved): How to download NPD linked UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
04:06 PM Support #909 (Resolved): Combining Datasets
Stephanie Auty
04:06 PM Support #908 (Resolved): Request
Stephanie Auty
04:05 PM Support #906 (Resolved): Highest educational qualification using qfhigh_dv: potential issues with immigrants
Stephanie Auty
04:05 PM Support #905 (Resolved): Overview of variables for Innovation Panel
Stephanie Auty
04:04 PM Support #900 (Resolved): BHPS
Stephanie Auty
03:53 PM Support #998: Finding Medication types
Dear Luke,
We apologise for the delay in responding. We don't have GP attendance or other health care usage data. ...
Alita Nandi

08/13/2018

05:38 PM Support #990: Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure
Hello Natalie,
For a research project I am working on with co-authors from UEA, we looked at this module of questi...
Alita Nandi
05:29 PM Support #1017: Creating synthetic households
The age of every member of a household can be found in each wave specific household enumeration file called w_indall.... Alita Nandi
05:19 PM Support #1015: Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)
Hello Darya,
We have created this variable (ch1bm_dv and ch1by_dv) and it is available in xwavedat file. Please no...
Alita Nandi

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
 

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