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From 04/17/2019 to 05/16/2019

05/16/2019

11:27 AM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Almost! w_ndepchl_dv counts only one's own dependent children in the household. So if a person is "responsible" for a... Gundi Knies
11:15 AM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Thank you Gundi
Therefore, to confirm w_ndepchl_dv is all individuals participants with dependent children. Theref...
Sarah H
11:06 AM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Hi Sarah,
the priority ordering Stephanie correctly described applies to the variable w_adresp15 (and the edited ver...
Gundi Knies
08:31 AM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Gundi,
Thank you for your response
No, I am interested in w_nddepchl_dv as this seems the most accurate varia...
Sarah H

05/15/2019

04:49 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Hi Sarah,
w_ndepchl_dv is a simple count of the number of own children (w_relationship_dv=9,10,11, or 12) a person...
Gundi Knies
04:22 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Stephanie,
Therefore, these variable (rach16, ndepchl_dv) only makes it possible to explore Understanding Soci...
Sarah H
02:56 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Sarah,
No, only one person will be recorded as the responsible adult, in that order of priority. If the mothe...
Stephanie Auty
02:53 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Thank you Stephanie
To confirm then, if both mother and father are in the household, then both will be recorded as ...
Sarah H
01:49 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Sarah,
No, w_rach16_dv is not a value reported by the participant. It is derived by us based on whether they ...
Stephanie Auty

05/14/2019

08:20 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Hi Stephanie
Thank you, I'm looking at the indresp dataset I should add.
Can I confirm then that if I consider my s...
Sarah H
05:52 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Sarah,
Our calculations for w_rach16_dv, whether someone has a dependent child, are based on the variables wh...
Stephanie Auty
05:05 PM Support #1192: Caring for a Child
Dear Stephanie
Thank you for your response. I am a little confused.
I want to know which respondents have a depe...
Sarah H
04:58 PM Support #1192 (Feedback): Caring for a Child
Dear Sarah,
There are two reasons for the difference: because an adult can be responsible for more than one child,...
Stephanie Auty
03:16 PM Support #1192 (Resolved): Caring for a Child
Understanding Society wave 8
rach16 that indicates whether the respondent are responsible for a child under the ag...
Sarah H
05:00 PM Support #1184: informal care receipt in wave 7
There is a dropdown list of all household members with PNOs attached and the respondent chooses the carer from this l... Alita Nandi
03:39 PM Support #1191 (Feedback): Availability of requested variables
Dear Mandy,
It looks like the problem is that you have asked for variables which are collected for children or fro...
Stephanie Auty
12:33 PM Support #1191 (In Progress): Availability of requested variables
Stephanie Auty
11:29 AM Support #1191 (Resolved): Availability of requested variables
Dear all,
A few weeks ago we requested data of the UKHSL study, since we think this provides a valuable data sourc...
Mandy Meijer

04/23/2019

03:54 PM Support #1183 (Resolved): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census
Reply via email to usersupport@
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Thank you so much for this very helpful response!
Best wishes,
Jing
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Alita Nandi
11:55 AM Support #1187 (Feedback): Is it possible to identify contributory and income-based JSA
Hello,
Such a flag variable is not available but you can create it yourself. Here is the response from our income ...
Alita Nandi
11:20 AM Support #1187 (In Progress): Is it possible to identify contributory and income-based JSA
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi
10:22 AM Support #1187 (Resolved): Is it possible to identify contributory and income-based JSA
Hello,
I am interesting in looking at the different impact that means-tested and contributory benefits have on peo...
Margherita Bussi
11:19 AM Support #1186 (Feedback): Ethnicity Data Inapplicable
Hi Freya,
Use the variable racel_dv in the file xwavedat. You can merge this file, xwavedat, with any individual l...
Alita Nandi

04/20/2019

05:06 PM Support #1186 (Resolved): Ethnicity Data Inapplicable
Hi i am looking to work with the ethnicity data in the BHPS sample, i was going through the data in stata and have fo... Freya Cook

04/19/2019

11:33 AM Support #1182 (Feedback): Pooling data for analysis by calendar year
Stephanie Auty

04/18/2019

01:01 PM Support #1181: Merging general health variables
Dear Erica,
Our Policy Unit (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/policy) are interested in contacting ...
Stephanie Auty

04/17/2019

05:57 PM Support #1183 (Feedback): Discrepancies in the distribution of religion between US and UK Census
Hello Jing Shen,
The Census question and the Understanding Society questions are slightly different.

In the 2...
Alita Nandi
10:19 AM Support #1185: Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
Thank you Alita!
This is very helpful as I was mostly wondering whether I did something wrong in the matching proces...
Nicole Schwitter
10:02 AM Support #1185: Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
Also, sex_dv is only available for the 8 UKHLS waves and it does not have the same problem, that is, there is a valid... Alita Nandi
09:40 AM Support #1185 (Feedback): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
Hi Nicole,
Without looking at your code I cannot comment but I can say that when I appended 25 waves I too find si...
Alita Nandi
 

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