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From 01/06/2019 to 02/04/2019

02/04/2019

05:07 PM Support #1135 (Feedback): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland
Dear Frida,
The Northern Ireland sample are part of the first year of fieldwork and so they were almost all interv...
Stephanie Auty
04:59 PM Support #1133: Measures of inequality?
Dear Luke,
What kind of inequality are you interested in? Many aspects of inequality can be investigated through t...
Stephanie Auty
04:48 PM Support #1132 (Feedback): Non-biological children in cohabitation
Dear Ashley,
The questions on which the data in the files you mention are asked of those respondents who identify ...
Stephanie Auty

02/03/2019

04:51 PM Support #1128: How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
Dear Stephanie,
thanks for your help once again. I will have a look.
Best wishes.
Nico
Nico Ochmann

02/01/2019

03:38 PM Support #1130 (Feedback): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7
Dear Rui,
The fieldwork agency changed between IP6 and IP7 and as a result in IP6 respondents entered a number fro...
Stephanie Auty
03:26 PM Support #1127 (Feedback): Determing end date of cohabitation spell
Dear Barbara,
Apologies for the delay in responding to your question.
You are correct that the date of the end ...
Stephanie Auty
09:54 AM Support #1129 (Feedback): fimnlabgrs
Dear Lydia,
There are no missing values in w_fimnlabgrs_dv in the UKHLS datasets because any missing data is imput...
Stephanie Auty

01/31/2019

03:44 PM Support #1128 (Feedback): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
Dear Nico,
Before that line of code (i.e., bysort hidp partnum: drop if (sex==1 & _n==2) | (sex==1 & _n==1)), you ...
Stephanie Auty

01/29/2019

05:42 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Frida,
Yes, I can assure you that you can represent Northern Ireland as an individual country using our weights.
...
Olena Kaminska
02:27 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Hi Olena,
Thank you for this. However, I am still wondering whether I can use the weights to represent Northern I...
Frida Bowe

01/28/2019

02:41 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Frida,
Yes, this is correct. Since 2001 we had 3 boosts: GPS+EMBOOST in 2007-2008, and IEMB in 2013-2014. For thes...
Olena Kaminska
12:02 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Hi Olena,
I am still slightly confused whether the w_indin01_lw weights are the correct weights for analysing the ...
Frida Bowe
12:12 PM Support #1136 (In Progress): IVSTAT2
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

01/25/2019

03:58 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Frida,
Yes sorry, w_indin01_lw is good if you are using information from the main questionnaire.
Olena
Olena Kaminska

01/24/2019

05:00 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Hi Olena,
I am sorry, slightly confused as can’t find the w_indall01_lw variable in any of the waves. However, I ...
Frida Bowe
01:11 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Frida,
Can you tell me which type of analysis you are using? If you are looking at people longitudinally you will ...
Olena Kaminska

01/23/2019

07:32 PM Support #1136 (Resolved): IVSTAT2
Dear UKHLS User Support, could you please clarify how to harmonize the variable ivstat2 across the waves of BHPS (fro... Lydia Palumbo

01/22/2019

04:21 PM Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland
Dear Olena,
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I am still struggling to figure out what weights to use, with ...
Frida Bowe
02:50 PM Support #1101 (Feedback): Use of social media
Dear Craig,
This variable will be corrected and included in the next data release.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Stephanie Auty

01/21/2019

02:25 PM Support #1126 (Feedback): Who owns vehicle
Dear Rafael,
Yes, that's right, this variable was not part of the questionnaire from Wave 4 onwards.
Best wishe...
Stephanie Auty
01:18 PM Support #1135 (In Progress): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - 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
01:17 PM Support #1134 (Feedback): Weights Northern Ireland
Stephanie Auty
01:16 PM Support #1133 (In Progress): Measures of inequality?
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
01:16 PM Support #1132 (In Progress): Non-biological children in cohabitation
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 #1131 (In Progress): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
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
01:14 PM Support #1130 (In Progress): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7
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

01/17/2019

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
 

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