Activity
From 01/24/2019 to 02/22/2019
02/22/2019
- 04:35 PM Support #1148 (In Progress): Geographic information
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 04:34 PM Support #1149 (Feedback): Caregiving
- Dear Camille,
Those questions are asked of respondets who say yes to aidxhh, that they care for someone outside th... - 04:26 PM Support #1149 (In Progress): Caregiving
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:31 PM Support #1150 (Resolved): ypwght (samping (weight)?) appears as a physical characteristic on (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/index/physical-characteristics)
- Thank you for making us aware of this issue. We'll pass it on to the team overlooking the index terms.
Cheers,
Gundi - 01:11 PM Support #1150 (Resolved): ypwght (samping (weight)?) appears as a physical characteristic on (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/index/physical-characteristics)
- ypwght appears as a physical characteristic on:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/datas...
02/20/2019
- 10:01 PM Support #1149 (Resolved): Caregiving
- Hi,
I am working with the caregiving module and I would like to ask you if partner/spouse for the aidhu1 and aidhu... - 05:53 PM Support #1148 (Resolved): Geographic information
- Hello!
Could you please clarify one question about geographically linked data?
For my research project I need i... - 03:12 PM Support #1128: How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
- Dear Nico,
That's right, partner includes spouse or cohabiting partner.
Best wishes,
Stephanie - 03:10 PM Support #1137 (Feedback): Field of Study Variable
- Dear Inga,
No, I'm sorry, this linked data is not yet available.
Best wishes,
Stephanie - 03:07 PM Support #1147 (In Progress): Identification of members of household receiving care
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 02:54 PM Support #1147 (Resolved): Identification of members of household receiving care
- How can I identify which members of the household are being cared for? For non-residents in the household, the variab...
02/19/2019
- 03:07 PM Support #1146 (In Progress): Understanding Society Wave 8 Interview dates/times data
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
02/18/2019
- 10:34 AM Support #1143: Derived interview and demographic characteristics
- Thank you very much! This is really helpful.
But what about the derived year of birth and age?
02/17/2019
- 05:46 PM Support #1142: Identifying unemployment spells
- An update - I have an idea as to why there is this discrepancy between bw_njusp and w_nunmpsp_dv, I'd be interested i...
- 05:20 PM Support #1143: Derived interview and demographic characteristics
- w_racel_dv: The ethnic group question, w_racel (as well as the versions asked of telephone respondents w_racelt etc) ...
- 04:59 PM Support #1131: Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
- Yes, you are correct about civil partnership not being asked in the BHPS retrospective marriage histories but grouped...
02/16/2019
- 10:00 PM Support #1146 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 8 Interview dates/times data
- I was trying to obtain the length of interview in h_indresp using the following variables: h_istrtdaty, h_istrtdatm, ...
02/13/2019
- 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
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 05:23 PM Support #1141 (Feedback): Weighting
02/12/2019
- 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.
... - 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 12:41 PM Support #1132: Non-biological children in cohabitation
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Ashley,
>
> 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...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
... - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
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