Activity
From 01/15/2019 to 02/13/2019
02/13/2019
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06:17 PM Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
- Dear Ashley,
All of the variables and data files from BHPS have a bw_ prefix in the harmonised data, that is how w... -
06:11 PM Support #1136 (Resolved): IVSTAT2
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05:26 PM Support #1145 (In Progress): disdif and health variables
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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03:42 PM Support #1145 (Resolved): disdif and health variables
- Hi, I am currently using the disdif1-12 variables which are supposedly filtered through the health variable. However,...
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05:25 PM Support #1144 (In Progress): Matrix of variables vs waves
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:18 PM Support #1144 (Resolved): Matrix of variables vs waves
- Hello!
I am wondering if there is a matrix available somewhere of all the variables that ever appear in any wave o... -
05:24 PM Support #1143 (In Progress): Derived interview and demographic characteristics
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05:24 PM Support #1142 (In Progress): Identifying unemployment spells
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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05:23 PM Support #1141 (Feedback): Weighting
02/12/2019
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07:43 PM Support #1143 (Resolved): Derived interview and demographic characteristics
- Hello!
I am unable to understand the derivations of several variables:
* *w_intdaty_dv*, *w_intdatm_dv*, *w_int... -
07:02 PM Support #1139: Polytechnic vs university degree
- Could I also ask additional questions?
# Is the BHPS variable ... -
12:39 PM Support #1139: Polytechnic vs university degree
- Dear Andrea Ichino and Nurfatima Jandarova,
Ok, I will discuss what we can do with the team and get back to you.
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09:23 AM Support #1139: Polytechnic vs university degree
- Dear Stephanie,
It would be most helpful if you could tell us about conditions of access to this information.
T... -
05:50 PM Support #1142 (Resolved): Identifying unemployment spells
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am trying to identify unemployment spells (and in particular job losses, i.e. m...
02/11/2019
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06:22 PM Support #1139: Polytechnic vs university degree
- Dear Andrea Ichino and Nurfatima Jandarova,
We don't collect data on the type of university attended. At Wave 5 we... -
04:22 PM Support #1141: Weighting
- Freya,
Yes, svy command is better suited for your purpose. This style of svyset command may be better, and also in... -
04:06 PM Support #1141: Weighting
- Dear Olena
Many thanks for your very helpful email. I have a follow-on question which relates to how I use the chos... -
11:48 AM Support #1141: Weighting
- Dear Freya,
Thank you for your question. I am not sure how long back you are looking at. But overall, you are righ... -
10:44 AM Support #1141: Weighting
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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10:40 AM Support #1141 (Resolved): Weighting
- Hi,
I am currently working on a project looking at financial security, I am looking at the variable _finnow in ever... -
10:43 AM Support #1140 (In Progress): Mistake between ba_jbstat_bh ba_jbstat in Wave 1 of BHPS
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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10:33 AM Support #1140 (Resolved): Mistake between ba_jbstat_bh ba_jbstat in Wave 1 of BHPS
- Hello,
I'm using the harmonized BHPS and UKHLS datasets from the UK Data Service.
I've noticed that the variabl...
02/08/2019
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02:40 PM Support #1136: IVSTAT2
- Thank you!
Luckily, I was able to sort it out.
I thought it was referred to the respondent file (indresp) and di... -
12:55 PM Support #1136 (Feedback): IVSTAT2
- Dear Lydia,
What information are you looking for from these variables? If it is first wave enumerated or first wav... -
12:51 PM Support #1138 (Feedback): fihhmnnet1_dv
- Dear Camille,
Some of the values of fihhmnnet1_dv may be negative, but I do not see any missing values in the data... -
11:17 AM Support #1138 (In Progress): fihhmnnet1_dv
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:41 PM Support #1132: Non-biological children in cohabitation
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Ashley,
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> The questions on which the data in the files you mention are asked of th... -
11:21 AM Support #1139 (In Progress): Polytechnic vs university degree
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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11:17 AM Support #1137 (In Progress): Field of Study Variable
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
02/06/2019
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04:15 PM Support #1128: How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
- Dear Stephanie,
I do have a follow-up question. An easy one I must admit, but I could not find anything in the us... -
12:34 PM Support #1139 (Resolved): Polytechnic vs university degree
- We would like to use the Understanding Society data to study educational choices in the UK population.
As you pro...
02/05/2019
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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... -
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...
02/04/2019
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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... -
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... -
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 ...
02/03/2019
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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
02/01/2019
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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... -
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 ... -
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...
01/31/2019
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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 ...
01/29/2019
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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.
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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...
01/28/2019
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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... -
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 ... -
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...
01/25/2019
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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
01/24/2019
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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 ... -
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 ...
01/23/2019
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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...
01/22/2019
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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 ... -
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
01/21/2019
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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... -
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...
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01:17 PM Support #1134 (Feedback): Weights Northern Ireland
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
01/17/2019
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
01/16/2019
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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... -
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.
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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... -
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...
01/15/2019
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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...
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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...
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