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From 07/08/2019 to 08/06/2019
08/06/2019
- 08:13 PM Support #1225 (Resolved): Definition of partially productive interview
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am looking for a definition of a "partially productive interview" used in Understanding Society... - 10:13 AM Support #596: employment spells
- Dear Victoria and Nicole:
I find myself in the same situation as Pilar. I would like to construct a panel data wit...
08/01/2019
- 05:36 PM Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi Celine,
I have not done any research on differences in these two constructs. Some thoughts:
Both instruments... - 03:57 PM Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi Gundi,
Thank you for getting back to me.
I was hoping that you'd be able to let me know the difference betw... - 09:55 AM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Hi Dan,
I am attaching the employment annual events history questionnaire routing (two versions) that my colleague...
07/31/2019
- 03:58 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 eac... - 02:48 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Tom,
Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 each before). In this situation ... - 02:13 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your prompt response. I am still thinking about the other points, but I had one immediat... - 01:28 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Tom,
Thank you for your question. Here is the note that we are preparing to answer your question (see below). It s... - 11:58 AM Support #1221 (In Progress): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:33 AM Support #1221 (Resolved): Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Hi,
I am trying to look at various outcomes by quarter in a dataset which pools multiple UKHLS waves together with... - 03:46 PM Support #1222 (In Progress): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)
- Hi Karen,
When you compared the "proportion of individuals in the smaller companies (those with less than 50 emplo... - 03:09 PM Support #1222 (Resolved): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)
- Hi,
I'm running analyses using the above variable in Understanding Society (US). However, I am seeing discrepancies... - 03:26 PM Support #1220: Loneliness
- Hi Sofi,
Our Questionnaire Team have clarified that we used the response options that ELSA used for the UCLA 3-ite... - 03:21 PM Support #1223 (Resolved): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
- Hi,
Can I check when the above dataset (as mentioned here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/link...
07/30/2019
- 09:21 AM Support #1220: Loneliness
- Hi Sofi,
I have passed on your query to the questionnaire team. I will get back to you as soon as I hear from them... - 09:20 AM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Hi Dan,
The best way to understand question routing is to look at the questionnaire.
https://www.understandingso...
07/29/2019
- 03:23 PM Support #1216: Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi Celine,
there is a typo in the variable note -- the attraction subscale in Buckner's instrument only has 3 compon... - 10:35 AM Support #1217: BHPS and UKHLS weights
- Dear Nurfatima,
You shouldn't use design weights on their own - they are provided for advanced users who want to c... - 09:38 AM Support #1220: Loneliness
- Dear Alita,
On the UCLA measure the response options are 'hardly ever', 'some of the time' and 'often', but the do... - 09:36 AM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Thanks for this helpful reply Alita. I've got a couple of follow-up questions, if that's ok.
Firstly, I'm finding ...
07/26/2019
- 03:40 PM Support #1220 (In Progress): Loneliness
- Dear Sofi,
Response from our Questionnaire Team: We didn’t choose the response options. These come from a recognis... - 02:15 PM Support #1220 (Resolved): Loneliness
- Is there any documentation on why the response options for loneliness questions are 'hardly ever or never' as opposed...
07/25/2019
- 01:25 PM Support #908 (In Progress): Request
- You were interested in the partnership history files that we were preparing. We have recently deposited the "Understa...
07/24/2019
- 06:05 PM Support #1211: promotion variable and household income
- A colleague has suggested that to identify promotions within the same job (when not being recorded as a job change) c...
- 06:01 PM Support #1211: promotion variable and household income
- Hi Ioulia,
There are 3 sets of variables that record reason for job end in UKHLS, based on the route taken - jbend... - 06:01 PM Support #1215: wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
- 05:54 PM Support #1215: wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- Hi Chris,
Please see our response to #1218, a similar query to yours. That is not a complete answer for this query... - 06:01 PM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
- 05:55 PM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Note #1215 is a similar query. It may be useful to sign up for our JISC mail for data users to discuss analysis issue...
- 05:47 PM Support #1218: job change since the previous survey
- Specifically for between wave job changes look at the bw_johist files and the variable bw_jhstat variable.
- 05:41 PM Support #1218 (In Progress): job change since the previous survey
- In UKHLS, you can identify people who have experienced a job change between two waves by using this condition (w_empc...
07/23/2019
- 06:52 PM Support #1218 (Resolved): job change since the previous survey
- Hi,
I want to know how many people have left their job between each pair of survey waves, and would like to do this ... - 07:27 AM Support #1217 (Resolved): BHPS and UKHLS weights
- Hello!
For our project we are working with wave 18 of BHPS and wave 1 of UKHLS. In these datasets we are using cro...
07/22/2019
- 11:08 AM Support #1215 (In Progress): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:07 AM Support #1216 (In Progress): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 10:59 AM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Dear Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We generally provide support and advice on data (& weights...
07/21/2019
- 06:47 PM Support #1216 (Resolved): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- Hi,
I'm working on neighbourhood social cohesion as a variable and looking at both Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion...
07/20/2019
- 11:05 AM Support #1212: UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
- Glad I could help pointing this out and thanks for detailed response!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Ma... - 11:03 AM Support #1213: oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
- Dear Gundi,
thanks so much! That resolves it!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> this appears t...
07/19/2019
- 05:25 PM Support #1212: UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
- Dear Martin,
according to the question text and notes in the UKHLS questionnaire, the variable _mlstat should be rou... - 04:37 PM Support #1213 (Feedback): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
- Dear Martin,
this appears to be a labeling issue due to this question having been asked only in Northern Ireland (i.... - 03:17 PM Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to use wJHSTAT to find out whether a participant worked at the same firm through all... - 05:22 AM Support #1214 (In Progress): variables "satisfaction with...."
- Hi Ioulia,
Yes you are correct, the variable satisfaction with housing was not included in UKHLS.
Best wishes,
...
07/18/2019
- 04:58 PM Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response. Your explanation definitely sounds plausible.
I've just had a look into my... - 03:24 PM Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Hello Charlotte,
You are right about this discrepancy.
In Wave 3, there were 969 who said they were living with ... - 04:15 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Hi
thank you. I'm coming up with an error message that says my weight is being ignored and a warning message on th... - 03:25 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Sarah,
Cluster variable is called psu.
Best wishes,
Olena - 02:48 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Hi Olena
What is the cluster variable I should use? I have used the strata variable
Best wishes
Sarah - 04:03 PM Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."
- Hello,
I have a question on the variables the satisfaction variables sclfsat1 (health), sclfsat2 (income), sclfsat... - 09:58 AM Support #1213 (Resolved): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
- The religious denomination variable contains values in wave k (see also website: https://www.understandingsociety.ac....
- 09:54 AM Support #1212 (Resolved): UKHLS/BHPS Harmonized data set
- Dear Madam or Sir,
thank you for putting together such a great harmonized version of both data sets, I think this ...
07/17/2019
- 04:11 PM Support #1211: promotion variable and household income
- Dear Alita,
Thank you so much for the response.
It is massively helpful.
Thank you for being so responsive a... - 03:48 PM Support #1211 (In Progress): promotion variable and household income
- Hi Ioulia,
Stephanie is away right now, so your email was not picked up. Sorry about that. If you want to attend t... - 11:45 AM Support #1211 (Resolved): promotion variable and household income
- Hello,
I am working on a project, using Understanding Society and I have two questions:
a)I had to locate those...
07/16/2019
- 04:19 PM Support #1208: Identifying step-parent from relationship file
- Hi Stephanie,
Sorry for the delay and thanks for your response.
I was looking at a longitudinal file of all waves...
07/15/2019
- 01:12 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Sarah,
No, cross-tabulation will be wrong without weighting.
But if you are not presenting confidence intervals ... - 01:03 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Thank you Olena for this information
Can I confirm that if I do not do hypothesis testing and only cross tabulatio...
07/08/2019
- 04:09 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Sarah,
I see the problem. The way you specified weights in SPSS they are assumed to be frequency weights. Our weig...
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