Understanding Society User Support

02/05/2019

08:06 PM Support #1138 (Resolved): fihhmnnet1_dv

Hi,
I have noticed this variable is missing for some household for wave 1 to wave 8. However I do not manage to kno... Camille Portier

03:02 PM Support #1137 (Resolved): Field of Study Variable

Hi,
I have noticed that Understanding Society does not contain a variable capturing what field/subject people hav... Inga Steinberg

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