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From 08/20/2018 to 09/18/2018

09/18/2018

02:40 PM Support #1060 (Resolved): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population
Hi,
I am trying to use the BHPS sample to undertake longitudinal analysis on employment questions. To weight the d...
Pierre Baustert
11:56 AM Support #1042: usage of social welfare services
Hi Stephanie!
Thank you ever so much for your help. These information are very helpful.
All my best wishes,
...
Yanan Zhang

09/17/2018

04:23 PM Support #1059 (Resolved): the variable in BHPS "drinking"
Dear Office,
I want to use the variable like "smoking", "drinking" for measure a person's health-related behaviour...
Yuting Deng

09/14/2018

11:45 AM Support #1049: Scottish Education Data Linkage
That's great, thanks very much for the update. Best, Sarah Sarah Stopforth
11:35 AM Support #1049 (Feedback): Scottish Education Data Linkage
Dear Sarah,
Our current estimate for this data being made available is in 3-4 months' time. Please be aware that s...
Stephanie Auty
11:32 AM Support #1042 (Feedback): usage of social welfare services
Dear Yanan,
The page you linked to shows that these variables were not collected in Understanding Society. There a...
Stephanie Auty
11:12 AM Support #218 (Resolved): Use of health and welfare services in USoC
Dear Yanan,
As the answer to this question has changed since it was asked, I will reply on your new post, issue #1...
Stephanie Auty

09/13/2018

09:50 AM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
Dear Olena,
Thank you for the clarification.
I have one more question related to weights. In the User Manual it...
Ante B

09/12/2018

01:22 PM Support #1049 (In Progress): Scottish Education Data Linkage
Stephanie Auty
12:14 PM Support #1049 (Resolved): Scottish Education Data Linkage
Dear Support Team,
I was wondering when the linked UKHLS - Scottish Education Data might be released/available for...
Sarah Stopforth
12:15 PM Support #1021 (Feedback): Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
Stephanie Auty
12:05 PM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
Dear Ante,
1) You can use household weight if you have information for everyone in the household (if the informati...
Olena Kaminska
12:14 PM Support #1047 (Feedback): Weights
Stephanie Auty
11:41 AM Support #1047: Weights
Yulia,
We do not provide longitudinal weights for youth self-completion because there is no child that participate...
Olena Kaminska
11:57 AM Support #1008: Creating longitudinal weights
Joe,
I see the problem you are facing and I see the reasoning behind it. I will make two further suggestions:
1. ...
Olena Kaminska

09/11/2018

05:26 PM Support #1027 (Feedback): Pregnancy status
Dear Lydia,
There is a variable available in Waves 14 and 16 of BHPS, bw_hlpreg, which you could use, but there ar...
Stephanie Auty
04:57 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Dear Joseph,
I just wanted to add that we run a training course here at Essex and online, which could be helpful f...
Stephanie Auty
02:35 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Thank you Gundi,
I will let you know how I get on with the merging, your input and explanations have been invaluab...
Joseph Williams
01:57 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Why not just try and see! If it does not work out as a 1:1 match, it may be useful to think again about which variabl... Gundi Knies
01:39 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Dear Gundi,
Thank you again for all your help in this matter, my research question is based on a child-mother-fath...
Joseph Williams
01:31 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi Joseph,
to decide which cases to keep you need to understand who the mismatches on _mnpid on b_youth and pidp on ...
Gundi Knies
12:26 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi Gundi,
I also had a question about the ethnic minority boost sample, how would one go about removing this samp...
Joseph Williams
12:07 PM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi Gundi,
Thank you for the explanation, I believe i have now been able to merge the data successfully using the f...
Joseph Williams
11:17 AM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Joseph,
that is fine - the data structure is a bit complex.
Remember, that your dataset is now at the level of a...
Gundi Knies
10:24 AM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi Gundi,
I tried renaming the variables, but seem to come out with the same outcome. Please see below the code I ...
Joseph Williams
09:55 AM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi Joseph,
the suggestion is to rename all child-level variables of interest, including the child's pidp, so they ar...
Gundi Knies
09:34 AM Support #1044: Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Dear Gundi,
Thank you for the speedy response, following the instructions I tried to merge the data, but I am unsu...
Joseph Williams
09:04 AM Support #1044 (Feedback): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Dear Joseph,
please see this query. It has a step-by-step guide on how to link info child records with their mother'...
Gundi Knies
04:52 PM Support #1046 (Feedback): Wave 8
Dear Per-Ola,
Yes, the Wave 8 data is still scheduled for release in November.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Stephanie Auty
01:23 PM Support #1046 (Resolved): Wave 8
Could you please inform me whether wave 8 will be released i november as planned?
Yours sincerely
Per-Ola Sundin
Per-Ola Sundin
04:44 PM Support #1030 (Feedback): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA
Dear Yuting,
It seems that your question relates to how to build your analysis model. Our remit at the User Forum ...
Stephanie Auty
01:36 PM Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights
Dear Support Team,
I am emailing you because I am trying to understand how the weights should be applied for my fi...
Yuliya Kazakova
11:05 AM Support #1043 (In Progress): Seaming effects
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
11:04 AM Support #1042 (In Progress): usage of social welfare services
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
11:03 AM Support #1038 (In Progress): Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
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

09/10/2018

11:38 PM Support #1044 (Resolved): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery
Hi,
I am very new to Stata and I have been trying without success to merge young children to their parents using i...
Joseph Williams
02:25 PM Support #1043 (Resolved): Seaming effects
Dear US Support,
I noticed that there are often "seaming effects"
when merging BHPS and UKHLS. For instance, thi...
Lydia Palumbo
12:27 PM Support #1042 (Resolved): usage of social welfare services
Hi,
Please see the link below: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentatio...
Yanan Zhang

09/07/2018

05:42 PM Support #218 (In Progress): Use of health and welfare services in USoC
Stephanie Auty
03:20 PM Support #218: Use of health and welfare services in USoC
Hi, I have the same concerns. Do you get any answer about it? Yanan Zhang
11:17 AM Support #1038 (Resolved): Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
Dear support team, I am interested in net worth which I derive from the variables savings, investments, debts (bhps w... Nora Müller
11:12 AM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis
Dear Ante,
Apologies for the slow response to this issue. Our weighting team have been on annual leave and will re...
Stephanie Auty

09/03/2018

05:27 PM Support #1030 (In Progress): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA
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
01:15 PM Support #1026 (Feedback): Personality composite scores
Stephanie Auty
11:45 AM Support #1028 (Feedback): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''
Stephanie Auty

09/02/2018

02:50 PM Support #1030 (Resolved): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA
Dear office,
Since I am using the BHPS 18waves for my research: how the socioeconomics status affect the self-asse...
Yuting Deng

08/31/2018

02:03 PM Support #1028: BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''
Hello,
You can look for the variables available in the BHPS waves 1-18 here: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/doc...
Alita Nandi
01:56 PM Support #1028 (Resolved): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''
Dear BHPS office,
Since i am using the BHPS wave1-wave18 datasets for my research, and i need to find some health-...
Yuting Deng

08/28/2018

05:56 PM Support #1027 (In Progress): Pregnancy status
Hello Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ...
Alita Nandi
05:54 PM Support #1026 (In Progress): Personality composite scores
Hello Y Hu,
No factor analysis was not used. The standard approach of measuring the Big 5 personality traits based...
Alita Nandi
09:42 AM Support #1013: Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data
Dear Stephanie
Many thanks for your help - I'll go ahead with those weights.
Kind regards
Rachel
Rachel Bennett

08/27/2018

02:19 PM Support #1027 (Resolved): Pregnancy status
Dear User Support,
I am trying to identify women who were pregnant at the time of the interview. I could find a u...
Lydia Palumbo

08/24/2018

04:00 PM Support #1026 (Resolved): Personality composite scores
We are looking to use some of the personality measures for our analysis; and it would be really useful to know how th... Y Hu

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
 

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