Understanding Society User Support

10/22/2018

06:06 PM Support #1078: Marital change

Thank you for your answer.
So, this means that, in *both the surveys*, I am allowed to know only the changes betw... Lydia Palumbo

04:16 PM Support #1078 (Feedback): Marital change

Dear Lydia,
Although a harmonised marital status variable has not yet been created, you can use the variables bw_m... Stephanie Auty

05:58 PM Support #1077: Variable on country of birth

Thank you for your answer. I am using ukborn. What do you mean by those who have never given a full interview? I cros... Lydia Palumbo

04:35 PM Support #1077 (Feedback): Variable on country of birth

Dear Lydia,
You don't say which data file or variable you are using. Is it plbornc in xwavedat? This question is o... Stephanie Auty

04:32 PM Support #1080 (Feedback): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Lewis,
With "svyset psu ..." you have indeed already specified PSUs to be the clusters. This will give you unbiase... Peter Lynn

11:33 AM Support #1080: Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

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

11:30 AM Support #1079 (In Progress): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

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

10/21/2018

06:55 PM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your clarifications.
Best regards,
Ante Ante B

06:39 PM Support #1080 (Resolved): Weights for pooled cross-sectional analysis - accounting for clustering

Dear Support Team,
This can be seen as a follow-up to #758, which presents a similar problem.
I am trying to ex... Lewis Anderson

02:57 PM Support #1079 (Resolved): How do I match adult respondents of the survey with their children (over 16 years of age) who also participate in the survey

Dear Alita,
I would like to have some labor market outcome information of children whose parents participated in ... Nico Ochmann

10/18/2018

04:13 PM Support #1075 (Feedback): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Stephanie Auty

10/17/2018

09:51 PM Support #1078 (In Progress): Marital change

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

06:22 PM Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital change

Dear User Support Forum,
sorry for the second raised issue in one day, but I am revising my work so far.
I am cu... Lydia Palumbo

03:08 PM Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

My suggestion to you would be to use W_XXXXXub_lw weight from the last wave that you have observation for any one per... Olena Kaminska

11:17 AM Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Are you thinking to represent people or events?
We want to represent people Liat Raz-Yurovich

11:10 AM Support #1075: Weights in an unbalanced panel

Are you thinking to represent people or events? Olena Kaminska

10:09 AM Support #1075 (In Progress): Weights in an unbalanced panel

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

09:23 AM Support #1075 (Resolved): Weights in an unbalanced panel

Hello,
We have a question regarding the appropriate weights to apply when analyzing combined files from BHPS and Und... Liat Raz-Yurovich

01:56 PM Support #1077 (In Progress): Variable on country of birth

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

01:32 PM Support #1077 (Resolved): Variable on country of birth

Dear Help Forum,
I am including in my model the status of foreigner as a control and I noticed that there are man... Lydia Palumbo

10/15/2018

10:41 AM Support #1021: Household weighting for longitudinal analysis

Ante,
Yes, your understanding is correct. And the sampling error refers to the point that there is a small chance ... Olena Kaminska

10/12/2018

04:33 PM Support #1062: Income in Nurse Health Assessment

Dear Luke,
Negative income values are due to self-employment loss.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Support #1060 (Resolved): Longitudinal weights to reflect UK population

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Support #1059 (Resolved): the variable in BHPS "drinking"

Stephanie Auty

04:22 PM Support #1049 (Resolved): Scottish Education Data Linkage

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Support #1046 (Resolved): Wave 8

Stephanie Auty

04:21 PM Support #1044 (Resolved): Merging children to parents in Wave 2 of Understanding Society survery

Stephanie Auty

04:20 PM Support #1042 (Resolved): usage of social welfare services

Stephanie Auty

04:20 PM Support #1030 (Resolved): how to incorporate the ISCO-88 into the regression in STATA

Stephanie Auty

04:19 PM Support #1028 (Resolved): BHPS variables ''drinking'' +''obesity''

Stephanie Auty

04:18 PM Support #1027 (Resolved): Pregnancy status

Stephanie Auty

02:42 PM Support #1026 (Resolved): Personality composite scores

Stephanie Auty

02:42 PM Support #1022 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight

Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Support #1020 (Resolved): Finding variables in the household data (wave 1)

Stephanie Auty

02:38 PM Support #1019 (Resolved): Zero longitudinal weights

Stephanie Auty

02:37 PM Support #1018 (Resolved): Religion Variable for Northern Ireland

Stephanie Auty

02:37 PM Support #1017 (Resolved): Creating synthetic households

Stephanie Auty

02:36 PM Support #1015 (Resolved): Selecting women who were employed in the year when their first biological child was born (both BHPS & UKHLS)

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Support #1013 (Resolved): Weights for use with wave 2 self-completion questionnaire & nurse assessment data

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Support #1012 (Resolved): Inconsistency on Wave 2 related to Raceldv compared to other waves

Stephanie Auty

02:35 PM Support #1009 (Resolved): Details of the f_paygu_dv variable

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Support #998 (Resolved): Finding Medication types

Stephanie Auty

02:34 PM Support #1008 (Resolved): Creating longitudinal weights

Stephanie Auty

02:32 PM Support #1007 (Resolved): Is there a gap in the data, in the year 2009?

Stephanie Auty

02:32 PM Support #990 (Resolved): Neighbourhood Social Cohesion Measure

Stephanie Auty

02:31 PM Support #957 (Resolved): Annual History Routing

Stephanie Auty

02:20 PM Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

From: Müller, Nora
To: Auty, Stephanie
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #1038] Imputatio... Stephanie Auty

02:19 PM Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

Von: Auty, Stephanie [mailto:usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk]
An: Müller, Nora
Betreff: RE: [Understanding S... Stephanie Auty

02:18 PM Support #1038: Imputations for savings, investment, debts and housing value

From: Müller, Nora
To: usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
Subject: AW: [Understanding Society User Support - Su... Stephanie Auty

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