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From 09/12/2018 to 10/11/2018

10/02/2018

11:05 AM Support #1062: Income in Nurse Health Assessment
Dear Stephanie,
That was very helpful thanks you. I just had a quick follow up in relation to the income variable,...
Luke Barry

10/01/2018

05:59 PM Support #1068 (Feedback): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets
Stephanie Auty
05:46 PM Support #1068: Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets
Dear Bere,
The variable w_sexuor records the respondent's sexual orientation. It was asked of all adults who agree...
Stephanie Auty
05:49 PM Support #951: Deriving alcohol consumption units
Dear Jason,
Just to follow up on this, we have now been able to load the scripts and see what the respondents see ...
Stephanie Auty
05:35 PM Support #1067 (Feedback): Strengths and Difficulties variable
Dear Suzi,
There was a data error in these variables in data released in November 2017 (see #890). This has been c...
Stephanie Auty
04:35 PM Support #1064 (Feedback): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society
Dear Jan,
You can see on this page which lower level geographies are available, scroll down to GN 33428 Understand...
Stephanie Auty
04:19 PM Support #1063 (Feedback): Employment variables
Dear Amie,
These variables don't match because they are based on different parts of the questionnaire where people...
Stephanie Auty
12:22 PM Support #1062 (Feedback): Income in Nurse Health Assessment
Dear Luke,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It looks like this documentation is out of date and these...
Stephanie Auty
12:13 PM Support #1043 (Feedback): Seaming effects
Dear Lydia,
Below is a response from our Income team. If you would like to discuss this further please let us know...
Stephanie Auty

09/29/2018

10:47 AM Support #1066: Weights for Waves 3 and 6
Dear Olena,
Thank you so much for getting back to us so quickly and for pointing us in the right direction.
Luca
Luca Bernardi

09/27/2018

04:39 PM Support #1068 (In Progress): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets
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
12:56 PM Support #1068 (Resolved): Locating and accessing sexuality identity data within LHS data sets
Myself and a colleague plan analysing the Survey's sexuality data. We aim to explore how sexuality is linked to healt... Bere Mahoney
04:38 PM Support #1067 (In Progress): Strengths and Difficulties 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
12:10 PM Support #1067 (Resolved): Strengths and Difficulties variable
I am currently trying to run some analysis using the SDQ total difficulties score (ypsdqtd_dv). According to the stre... Suzi Robertson
04:37 PM Support #1066 (Feedback): Weights for Waves 3 and 6
Stephanie Auty
12:40 PM Support #1066: Weights for Waves 3 and 6
Luca,
The weight you suggested would be correct, but the weight f_indinub_lw will give you higher sample size - so...
Olena Kaminska
09:28 AM Support #1066 (Resolved): Weights for Waves 3 and 6
Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
We are using data from adult main interviews from Waves 3 and 6. We are e...
Luca Bernardi

09/25/2018

11:34 AM Support #1064 (In Progress): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society
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
11:31 AM Support #1063 (In Progress): Employment variables
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

09/24/2018

01:27 PM Support #1064 (Resolved): Including local level identifiers in Understanding Society
Would it be possible to have local level geographical identifiers, such as ward, postcode sector or SMOA, included in... Jan Janmaat

09/23/2018

01:10 PM Support #1063 (Resolved): Employment variables
Hello
I've noticed that employment status of some variables in the Main survey don't match. For instance, EMPLOY, ...
Armine Ghazaryan

09/20/2018

06:06 PM Support #1062 (In Progress): Income in Nurse Health Assessment
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
06:03 PM Support #1062 (Resolved): Income in Nurse Health Assessment
Hello,
I am working with the Nurse Health Assessment data and in the 'Guide to Nurse Health Assessment' PDF on pag...
Luke Barry
10:51 AM Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value
Dear Nora,
It would be helpful to have some more information if possible to try to find what you are looking for. ...
Stephanie Auty

09/19/2018

04:03 PM Support #1060 (Feedback): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population
Stephanie Auty
03:15 PM Support #1060: Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population
Pierre,
All our weights are designed to represent the population. By using the weights your results become represe...
Olena Kaminska
11:35 AM Support #1060: Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population
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
04:02 PM Support #1059 (Feedback): the variable in BHPS "drinking"
Dear Yuting,
As my colleague suggested on your previous issue #1028, you can look for variables in the online docu...
Stephanie Auty

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
 

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