Activity
From 02/14/2019 to 03/15/2019
03/15/2019
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12:34 PM Support #1162 (Resolved): Month of Sample Issue
- Hi,
I'm interested in what specifically determined the month of sample issue in the General Population Sample. I l... -
11:53 AM Support #1155: What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime
- Thanks a lot Stephanie.
Have a great weekend.
Nico -
10:22 AM Support #1155 (Feedback): What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime
- Dear Nico,
w_paygu_dv includes overtime if the individual usually receives overtime pay.
You can find out wheth... -
- Dear Natasha,
Just to add, the month and year of moving are recorded in w_plnowm and w_plnowy4.
Best wishes,
S... -
- Dear Natasha,
w_mvyr is only asked of new entrants, which you can see from the Universe in the online documentatio... -
- Dear Daniel,
I think you will find our Index Terms page useful: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentati...
03/14/2019
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05:35 PM Support #1156: Fertility History and birth events
- Thanks a lot Stephanie. I have written to the principal investigator as you suggested because unfortunately the gende...
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- Dear Maddalena,
The dataset British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histor... -
- Hi Stephanie,
Any news about my question? I'd be happy to just replicate the startegy suggested by the BHPS - if a... -
- Dear Luke,
You can find the exact wording of all of the questions in the nurse visit by reading the questionnaire,... -
09:37 AM Support #1161 (Resolved): Medication query
- Hello,
In the nurse visit a question is asked as to whether the respondent was ‘taking or using any medicines, pil... -
- Dear Gillian,
The number of responses for Northern Ireland are:
Households (hh questionnaire completed): 1382 (W8... -
03/13/2019
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04:30 PM Support #1159: Weights for cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
- Dear Olena,
Sounds good. Many thanks again.
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04:26 PM Support #1159: Weights for cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
- Luca,
Yes, the weight is correct, and it should come from the last wave that you use in your analysis. Note, 'ub_l... -
- Dear Olena,
Many thanks for replying so quickly. That's very helpful. If I understand correctly, since I am using ... -
- Luca,
Thank you for your question.
If you are interested in estimates in a particular time point - you should us... -
- Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
I am using data from adult main interviews from all waves. I am estimatin... -
03:15 PM Support #1160 (Resolved): sample size - households in NI in latest wave
- I would like to know how many households are represented in the most recent wave (full year) for Northern Ireland. I ...
03/12/2019
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- Thank you very much Stephanie and sorry for uploading the file, it won't happen again now that I know I shouldn't do ...
03/08/2019
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06:06 PM Support #1152: Coding of x_jbxpcha in Waves 6 and 8
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for the response, I think I was not quite clear with my question. The issue I had was wh... -
- Dear Nhlanhla Ndebele,
Please can you tell me in which wave you found this problem? I have looked at Waves 6 and 8... -
- Dear Amandeep,
There is information on income estimation in section 3.4.3 of the Mainstage User Guide which you ca... -
- 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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- Dear Lewis,
We are currently investigating this issue.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
- Dear Olga,
We are currently investigating this issue.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
- Dear Mike,
I see these variables in my copy of the a_indresp, c_indresp and f_indresp. Please try re-downloading t... -
- 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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- 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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03:54 AM Support #1158 (Resolved): On variables in entrepreneurship studies
- I'm currently researching on self employment among ethnic minorities in the UK and I'm wondering if you have got a gu...
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- 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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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
03/07/2019
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- Also, there are opposite cases with respect to the one highlighted above, i.e. cases in which a supposedly natural ch...
03/06/2019
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- I'd like to raise an extra point: there some instances in which the number of children computed in bchildnt.dta do no...
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- I have a couple of questions regarding how to buid fertility hisotires and birth events for individuals in the BHPS. ...
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01:06 PM Support #1157 (Resolved): Missing variable: a_nbrsnci_dv (Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument)
- I'm hoping to use the variables "a_nbrsnci_dv" (Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument), c_nbrsnci_dv and f_nbrs...
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- Hello Stephanie,
I want to construct hourly wages with w_paygu_dv which I assume include payments for overtime pe...
03/05/2019
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01:54 PM Support #1154 (Resolved): Pay
- Hi!
I am currently researching ethnic pay gaps using the Understanding Society data set.
Initially I was using ...
03/04/2019
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- Dear Stephanie,
I found out a way to drop households that have a missing on any explanatory variable for both fem...
03/02/2019
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- Stephanie,
I should note that in coming up with the above summary stats, I did combine all eight waves in USoc.
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03/01/2019
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- 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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- I am using the variable x_jbxpcha as part of a longitudinal study and noted that response options include a 'does not...
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- Dear Nurfatima Jandarova,
Our Special Licence dataset SN7182 contains a variable called laestab. The first three d... -
- Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your kind reply and your help once again. Due to the discrepancy, my ques... -
- Dear Nico,
In reply to your first question, the _n refers to the number within the bysort group. You are using bys... -
10:12 AM Support #1078: Marital change
- Dear Stephanie,
Apologies for stepping in, but I thought this was the most appropriate place to ask this question... -
- Yes that's right, it is not yet released.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
02/28/2019
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02:02 PM Support #1139: Polytechnic vs university degree
- Thank you for the information!
May I just clarify the very last sentence. Does it mean that name of institution (t... -
- Ah, thanks a lot! The index term is indeed helpful! No need in the spreadsheet then.
02/27/2019
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- Dear Nurfatima Jandarova,
If we produce a spreadsheet like this it will not be interactive or have links to freque... -
- Hi Stephanie,
something else came up in this context, my apologies to post another question in this regard. I am ...
02/26/2019
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- Dear Andrea Ichino and Nurfatima Jandarova,
Reading the questionnaires (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/doc... -
- Dear Stephanie,
I got one final, final question with regard to this open issue. I am confused about this followin... -
- Dear Jose,
Where w_aidhua1-16 refers to person number, this is person number recorded in w_pno, so to link to the ... -
- Dear Stephanie,
It's for mainstage variables.
Thank you very much!
02/25/2019
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- Dear Nurfatima Jandarova,
We are able to produce this for you, but can I just ask if it is for mainstage or IP?
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- Dear Lea,
Are you looking at Wave 8 data? At Wave 8 the filter for this question was removed in order to capture p... -
- 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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11:27 AM Support #1151 (Resolved): Carrying forward variables across waves, creating 'how long lived at address' variable
- Hi Understanding Society Support team,
I want to create a variable that tells me how long an individual has lived... -
- Dear Olga,
Have you found this problem in mainstage or IP?
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for the clarification. I think this resolves my initial concern.
Many tha... -
- Dear Liam,
Thank you for pointing this out. It is a labelling issue in Wave 1 and we are working to resolve it. I ...
02/22/2019
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- 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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- Dear Camille,
Those questions are asked of respondets who say yes to aidxhh, that they care for someone outside th... -
- 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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01:31 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,
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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
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10:01 PM Support #1149 (Resolved): Caregiving
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I am working with the caregiving module and I would like to ask you if partner/spouse for the aidhu1 and aidhu... -
- Hello!
Could you please clarify one question about geographically linked data?
For my research project I need i... -
- Dear Nico,
That's right, partner includes spouse or cohabiting partner.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
- Dear Inga,
No, I'm sorry, this linked data is not yet available.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
- 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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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
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- 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
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- Thank you very much! This is really helpful.
But what about the derived year of birth and age?
02/17/2019
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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...
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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) ...
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- Yes, you are correct about civil partnership not being asked in the BHPS retrospective marriage histories but grouped...
02/16/2019
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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, ...
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