Understanding Society User Support

01/17/2019

04:00 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland

Dear Frida,
UKHLS weights make any subgroup representative, including Northern Ireland. So, just use the weights p... Olena Kaminska

03:02 PM Support #1134 (Resolved): Weights Northern Ireland

Hi,
I am using the BHPS/UKHLS harmonised data for Northern Ireland longitudinally. What are the appropriate weigh... Frida Bowe

03:06 PM Support #1135 (Resolved): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland

Hi,
When analysing the data for Northern Ireland in wave 8, it is clear that for the Vote8 variable 2392 of the r... Frida Bowe

11:43 AM Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?

Hello,
I am working with waves 2 and 3 of understanding society and I was wondering if there is any information on... Luke Barry

01/16/2019

04:51 PM Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation

Dear UKHLS support,
Apologies for the multiple posts.
I would like to know if in the retrospective files rega... Ashley Burdett

10:06 AM Support #1130: risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7

Please disregard my +second+ point. I've now realized the DOPSERT data have only been collected in wave 7.
Rui Mata

09:46 AM Support #1130 (Resolved): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am computing test-retest correlations to assess the temporal stability of risk preference using... Rui Mata

09:49 AM Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information

Dear UKHLS User Support,
I am currently trying to compile complete relationship histories for individuals using th... Ashley Burdett

01/15/2019

06:16 PM Support #1129 (In Progress): fimnlabgrs

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

06:10 PM Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrs

Dear UKHLS User Support,
it is quite surprising for me to notice that the missing values (as proxy) of the harmoni... Lydia Palumbo

01/14/2019

03:54 PM Support #1128 (In Progress): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other

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

02:05 PM Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other

Dear Stephanie, it is me again. I need your help with the following. I try to match husbands and wives (spouses) in U... Nico Ochmann

01:22 PM Support #1124: A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help, your step descriptions were very detailed and I think I unders... Nico Ochmann

12:30 PM Support #1127 (In Progress): Determing end date of cohabitation spell

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

11:33 AM Support #1127 (Resolved): Determing end date of cohabitation spell

Dear supporter,
In our research, we are trying to compute a variable for duration (in months) since end of cohabitin... BARBARA OKUN

12:29 PM Support #1126 (In Progress): Who owns vehicle

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

01/13/2019

09:31 AM Support #1126 (Resolved): Who owns vehicle

Dear All
I see the Understand Society waves 4 to 7 do not have the variable 'x_carown' (who owns vehicle). Is it t... Rafael Maldonado

01/11/2019

10:50 PM Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dora,
It is hard to judge what goes wrong from your description - the issue could be in many places.
I have ju... Olena Kaminska

08:10 AM Support #887: Treatment of student sample members

Hello,
sorry for jumping into this discussion.
I just would like to know if the following of university student... Lydia Palumbo

01/10/2019

03:56 PM Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for your reply. My initial query was to get general advice about the weights and not sta... Theodora Kokosi

01/09/2019

05:45 PM Support #1125 (Feedback): Weighting problem

Dear Dora,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gene... Stephanie Auty

05:35 PM Support #1112 (Resolved): Device variables at the individual level at Wave 8

Stephanie Auty

05:34 PM Support #1119 (Feedback): fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset

Dear Yanan,
We are working on documentation for the unique identifiers for each dataset.
In this case, pidp and... Stephanie Auty

04:35 PM Support #1124 (Feedback): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Nico,
It would be better to start with the w_indall file as all individuals are listed there. Keep the variab... Stephanie Auty

01/08/2019

05:21 PM Support #1121: Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all

Hello,
As there are only 23 response options for plbornc, many respondents have to choose 97 "other country". They... Alita Nandi

03:31 PM Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your reply. I am imputing 5 variables. The 3 of them are linked data about air pollution... Theodora Kokosi

12:55 PM Support #1125 (In Progress): Weighting problem

Stephanie Auty

10:44 AM Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Theodora,
Can you just clarify - what are you imputing: is it one specific variable (item nonresponse) or is ... Olena Kaminska

01:38 PM Support #1119: fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset

Dear Yanan,
Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. Some of our team members are looking into it and w... Stephanie Auty

01/07/2019

04:39 PM Support #1125 (Resolved): Weighting problem

Dear all,
Happy new year!
I am facing a problem with the weights from the youth dataset. I am running an analys... Theodora Kokosi

01/04/2019

03:36 PM Support #1120: Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS

Hello
"a. what is absparno?"
ANS: c_absparno = absent parent code. So, if a respondent has 3 biological childre... Alita Nandi

01/02/2019

05:57 PM Support #1101: Use of social media

Dear Craig,
We are looking into the issue of missingness, and have found from looking at the scanned questionnaire... Stephanie Auty

01:31 PM Support #1124 (In Progress): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

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

12/28/2018

05:45 PM Support #1118: f_closenum filtering issues

Thank you Stephanie,
I have now realised I was getting confused at the distinction between AND and OR, from the ... Ella Moonan-Howard

12/26/2018

11:51 AM Support #1124 (Resolved): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Alita,
I hope you had a good holiday season. When you get the chance please help me with this one. I would lik... Nico Ochmann

12/21/2018

10:35 PM Support #1121: Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all

ISER is now closed for the holidays and will reopen on 2nd January. We will get back to you soon afterwards.
With... Stephanie Auty

10:35 PM Support #1120: Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS

ISER is now closed for the holidays and will reopen on 2nd January. We will get back to you soon afterwards.
With... Stephanie Auty

10:34 PM Support #1119: fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset

ISER is now closed for the holidays and will reopen on 2nd January. We will get back to you soon afterwards.
With... Stephanie Auty

10:31 PM Support #1091 (Resolved): Sampling weights youth self-completion survey

Stephanie Auty

10:30 PM Support #1089 (Feedback): Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?

Stephanie Auty

10:30 PM Support #1047 (Feedback): Weights

Stephanie Auty

12/20/2018

04:21 PM Support #1078: Marital change

Dear Lydia,
We have had some issues and the release of this data has been delayed. It should now be released in Ja... Stephanie Auty

11:35 AM Support #1118: f_closenum filtering issues

Dear Ella,
I have checked the data and do not find this issue. For all respondents where both f_simfam and f_simag... Stephanie Auty

11:28 AM Support #1112: Device variables at the individual level at Wave 8

This issue is being resolved by email. Stephanie Auty

10:32 AM Support #1121 (In Progress): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all

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

10:32 AM Support #1120: Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of 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

12/19/2018

03:04 PM Support #1121 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all

Hello,
I expect that the number of observations for values (countries) 5-27 should be the same for both the "plbor... OLAYIWOLA OLADIRAN