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From 07/10/2019 to 08/08/2019
08/08/2019
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10:14 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Yes, your understanding is correct. But you multiply the weight from wave B by 2 only because in the first place it i...
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03:50 PM Support #1225 (Feedback): Definition of partially productive interview
- Dear Olga,
A partial interview is where someone has completed up to the household finances section, but not finish... -
- Dear Karen,
I'm afraid we can't give a timescale for availability of this data at the moment.
Our linked datase...
08/07/2019
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- Apologies for the delay in responsing to this question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will...
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12:17 PM Support #1205: self-completion weight wave 7
- Many thanks for your help and clarification.
Best wishes
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- Apologies for the delay in responsing to this question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will...
08/06/2019
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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
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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:
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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
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03:58 PM Support #1221: Using UKHLS at the quarterly level
- Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Tom,
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> Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 eac... -
- Tom,
Let's change the number to 800 in 2009 and 400 in 2010 after attrition (1000 each before). In this situation ... -
- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your prompt response. I am still thinking about the other points, but I had one immediat... -
- Tom,
Thank you for your question. Here is the note that we are preparing to answer your question (see below). It s... -
- 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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- Hi,
I am trying to look at various outcomes by quarter in a dataset which pools multiple UKHLS waves together with... -
- 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)
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I'm running analyses using the above variable in Understanding Society (US). However, I am seeing discrepancies... -
- Hi Sofi,
Our Questionnaire Team have clarified that we used the response options that ELSA used for the UCLA 3-ite... -
- Hi,
Can I check when the above dataset (as mentioned here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/link...
07/30/2019
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- 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... -
- Hi Dan,
The best way to understand question routing is to look at the questionnaire.
https://www.understandingso...
07/29/2019
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- Hi Celine,
there is a typo in the variable note -- the attraction subscale in Buckner's instrument only has 3 compon... -
- 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
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- Dear Sofi,
Response from our Questionnaire Team: We didn’t choose the response options. These come from a recognis... -
- Is there any documentation on why the response options for loneliness questions are 'hardly ever or never' as opposed...
07/25/2019
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- You were interested in the partnership history files that we were preparing. We have recently deposited the "Understa...
07/24/2019
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- A colleague has suggested that to identify promotions within the same job (when not being recorded as a job change) c...
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- Hi Ioulia,
There are 3 sets of variables that record reason for job end in UKHLS, based on the route taken - jbend... -
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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- Hi Chris,
Please see our response to #1218, a similar query to yours. That is not a complete answer for this query... -
- sorry, use this: UKHLS-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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- Note #1215 is a similar query. It may be useful to sign up for our JISC mail for data users to discuss analysis issue...
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- Specifically for between wave job changes look at the bw_johist files and the variable bw_jhstat variable.
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- In UKHLS, you can identify people who have experienced a job change between two waves by using this condition (w_empc...
07/23/2019
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- 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
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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
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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...
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- Dear Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We generally provide support and advice on data (& weights...
07/21/2019
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- Hi,
I'm working on neighbourhood social cohesion as a variable and looking at both Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion...
07/20/2019
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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:
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- Dear Gundi,
thanks so much! That resolves it!
Best,
Martin
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> this appears t...
07/19/2019
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- Dear Martin,
according to the question text and notes in the UKHLS questionnaire, the variable _mlstat should be rou... -
- 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
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I'm trying to find a way to use wJHSTAT to find out whether a participant worked at the same firm through all... -
- Hi Ioulia,
Yes you are correct, the variable satisfaction with housing was not included in UKHLS.
Best wishes,
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07/18/2019
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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... -
- 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
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thank you. I'm coming up with an error message that says my weight is being ignored and a warning message on th... -
- Sarah,
Cluster variable is called psu.
Best wishes,
Olena -
- Hi Olena
What is the cluster variable I should use? I have used the strata variable
Best wishes
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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... -
- The religious denomination variable contains values in wave k (see also website: https://www.understandingsociety.ac....
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- Dear Madam or Sir,
thank you for putting together such a great harmonized version of both data sets, I think this ...
07/17/2019
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- Dear Alita,
Thank you so much for the response.
It is massively helpful.
Thank you for being so responsive a... -
- Hi Ioulia,
Stephanie is away right now, so your email was not picked up. Sorry about that. If you want to attend t... -
- Hello,
I am working on a project, using Understanding Society and I have two questions:
a)I had to locate those...
07/16/2019
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- Hi Stephanie,
Sorry for the delay and thanks for your response.
I was looking at a longitudinal file of all waves...
07/15/2019
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- Sarah,
No, cross-tabulation will be wrong without weighting.
But if you are not presenting confidence intervals ... -
- Thank you Olena for this information
Can I confirm that if I do not do hypothesis testing and only cross tabulatio...
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