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From 07/25/2018 to 08/23/2018

08/23/2018

01:09 PM Support #1022: Longitudinal weight
Hi Camille,
The longitudinal weights for people who only appear in waves 3 & 4 (or 2 & 4, or 2& 3 etc) will be zer...
Alita Nandi

08/22/2018

12:48 PM Support #1013 (Feedback): Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data
Dear Rachel,
A reply from the Weighting team:
Yes, the weight you suggest is the best suboptimal wieght so you s...
Stephanie Auty
10:55 AM Support #1007: Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Thank you Stephanie, that guide is very helpful. For the moment I've resolved the issue, so do not need further help ... Luis Valenzuela

08/21/2018

06:47 PM Support #1022: Longitudinal weight
Thank you very much for your help Alita.
Concerning people that do not appear in wave 5 but that are here in wave 2 ...
Camille Portier
05:37 PM Support #1022 (Feedback): Longitudinal weight
Take the longitudinal weight from the last wave, Wave 5, in your case and assign that to all previous waves for each ... Alita Nandi
11:04 AM Support #1022: Longitudinal weight
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
06:08 PM Support #1020 (Feedback): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)
Dear Robin,
To identify a respondent's partner at Wave 1 you can use the variable a_ppid, which contains their par...
Stephanie Auty
05:40 PM Support #1019 (Feedback): Zero longitudinal weights
Alita Nandi
05:40 PM Support #1019: Zero longitudinal weights
Longitudinal weights for any wave are non-zero for OSMs (core sample members) who have been continuously interviewed ... Alita Nandi
03:28 PM Support #1011 (Resolved): merging main dataset (6933) with local authority districts (6666) using for both data sets all waves a-g
Stephanie Auty
03:28 PM Support #1010 (Resolved): Cognition tests from wave 3 planned for wave 9 as well?
Stephanie Auty

08/20/2018

10:15 PM Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight
Dear Understanding Society Team,
I am looking at change in health status if individuals accross wave 2 to wave 5. ...
Camille Portier
05:36 PM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
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

08/19/2018

11:05 AM Support #1021 (Resolved): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
Dear Understanding Society Team,
I'm running an analysis at the household level with averaged individual-level att...
Ante B

08/16/2018

04:07 PM Support #1020 (In Progress): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)
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
04:03 PM Support #1020 (Resolved): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)
I've only just started to try and get my head wrapped around all the files in the SN 5151 and SN 6614 datasets.
It l...
Robin Kramer
03:28 PM Support #1019: Zero longitudinal weights
Dear Alejandra,
Our Weighting team are currently on annual leave so I will provide a brief answer and they can add...
Stephanie Auty
11:38 AM Support #1019 (In Progress): Zero 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
02:58 PM Support #1018 (Feedback): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland
Dear Tara,
The religion questions are asked of everyone in Waves 1, 4 and 8, and of new entrants in the waves betw...
Stephanie Auty

08/15/2018

09:01 PM Support #1019 (Resolved): Zero longitudinal weights
I want to know the reason behind longitudinal weights equal to zero for some individuals. Thank you. Alejandra Villasenor
03:24 PM Support #1017 (Feedback): Creating synthetic households
Stephanie Auty
03:23 PM Support #1015 (Feedback): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)
Stephanie Auty
03:22 PM Support #1012 (Feedback): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves
Stephanie Auty
03:22 PM Support #1007 (Feedback): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?
Stephanie Auty
03:19 PM Support #1018 (In Progress): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland
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
02:39 PM Support #1018 (Resolved): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland
Good afternoon,
I am working with the Northern Irish sample of Understanding Society and my analysis centers aroun...
Tara McNeill
01:38 PM Support #1009: Details of the f_paygu_dv variable
Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for the response, it is very helpful.
Regards,
Nhlanhla
Nhlanhla Ndebele
11:57 AM Support #1009 (Feedback): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable
Dear Nhlanhla,
Apologies for the delay. Here is a response from our Income team:
Paygu_dv is derived as “Gross ...
Stephanie Auty
12:41 PM Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
Apologies for the delayed response. Our Weighting team are currently all on annual leave and will respond when they r... Stephanie Auty
12:41 PM Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data
Apologies for the delayed response. Our Weighting team are currently all on annual leave and will respond when they r... Stephanie Auty

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
 

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