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From 10/11/2019 to 11/09/2019
11/08/2019
- 10:35 PM Support #1270 (In Progress): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Dear Ines,
Government Office Region is the smallest area variable in the EUL dataset, but we have other smaller va... - 12:52 PM Support #1270 (Resolved): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Hello,
I am trying to analyse UK data from the Understanding Society dataset and I would like to make comparisons ...
11/04/2019
- 06:52 PM Support #1268 (Feedback): Political Ideology
- Dear Kris,
You may find the questions opsoca-f useful - these were included in several waves of BHPS and are due t... - 02:30 PM Support #1268 (In Progress): Political Ideology
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:43 PM Support #1269 (In Progress): Living with an ex
- Dear Harvey,
You could investigate this through looking at the w_relationship_dv and w_mastat_dv variables as they...
11/01/2019
- 05:13 PM Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an ex
- Hello,
A recent report using data from the Understanding Survey found that 2.5 million Brits are in "hidden househ...
10/31/2019
- 05:47 PM Support #1268 (Resolved): Political Ideology
- Hi,
After looking through the dataset, much of the documentation (which is vast), using the online variable search...
10/25/2019
- 01:52 PM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
Louise - 12:32 PM Support #1265 (Feedback): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
- Dear Tom,
Thank you for making us aware of this issue. We have passed the information to our data release team for...
10/24/2019
- 05:49 PM Support #1265 (In Progress): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 12:59 PM Support #1265 (Resolved): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
- Hi,
I wanted ask whether it would be possible to ensure that data storage types for a given variable not change fr... - 03:51 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
Hi
what are the implications for the data analysis if I conduct the analysis without weighting the data using com...- 03:02 PM Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- Hi Stephanie and Olena
Thank you very much for your answers. I confirm that they only reason I was using longitudi...
10/23/2019
- 02:33 PM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Louise,
There are a number of levels of nonresponse in our data:
1) household nonresponse at wave 1 (where some h... - 11:50 AM Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- Marina,
Apologies. I just realized that you very helpfully included your syntax. I just had a look at it and notic... - 11:30 AM Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- Marina,
I agree with Stephanie that you need to use weights to make sure you account correctly for the immigrant ...
10/22/2019
- 05:28 PM Support #1263: Number of households in broader London area
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you very much for the rapid reply. Very helpful!
Best wishes,
Marie - 04:40 PM Support #1263 (Feedback): Number of households in broader London area
- Dear Marie,
You can find out the answer to this question by looking at the variable gor_dv in the online documenta... - 12:36 PM Support #1263 (Resolved): Number of households in broader London area
- Hello,
I was wondering how many Understanding Society households are from the broader London area/ Greater London?... - 05:23 PM Support #1247: Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- Dear Marina,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Firstly, in calculating your final variable you wi... - 05:07 PM Support #1248 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS
- 04:42 PM Support #1261 (Feedback): Energy use data
- Dear Munyaradzi Kucherera,
I'm afraid we can't give an estimated date for this data as the linkage is still at an ... - 02:05 PM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Thanks a lot Alita - v helpful. Please also forward my thanks to Olena for her help throughout.
Have a pleasant da... - 01:54 PM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- The question you need to ask is why are you using weights. If your analysis is longitudinal (FE, RE, multi-level mode...
- 01:06 PM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Dear Alita,
Thanks a lot for this.
This is v helpful and in line with my understanding from the readings. I had... - 10:58 AM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Hi Samir,
This issue is to do with how melogit works in Stata. My suggestion would be to look at Statalist and see... - 09:35 AM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Hello Olena,
Thanks a lot for this.
Unfortunately both options suggested didn't work. More specifically, using ...
10/21/2019
- 10:48 AM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Samir,
Thank you for your question. I am not very familiar with melogit command in Stata, but looking at the Stata... - 10:40 AM Support #1262 (Feedback): Index of multiple deprivation
- Hi Xavier,
the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is not a variable we produce or share. We have linked our data to... - 10:28 AM Support #1262 (Resolved): Index of multiple deprivation
- I've seen in the mainstage user guide that data for the Index of Multiple Deprivation has been linked to Understandin...
10/17/2019
- 04:40 PM Support #1261 (In Progress): Energy use data
- Dear Munyaradzi Kucherera,
We asked for consent from participants to link that data at Wave 8, but since it can ta... - 12:19 PM Support #1261 (Resolved): Energy use data
- HI,
I am currently analyse energy use data patterns and household thermal efficiency for UK households. I am kindl... - 12:40 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Hi
what are the implications for the data analysis if I conduct the analysis without weighting the data using co...
10/16/2019
- 02:21 PM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Hi Olena,
In the user guide p58 table 28, it says w_indall includes non-respondents as well. It seems that it is n... - 01:33 PM Support #1260 (Resolved): non-respondent adjustment
- 11:39 AM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Olena,
Thanks a lot for your reply. It is very clear to me.
Louise - 10:36 AM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
- Louise,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, the variables in indall are only available for respondents in the cur...
10/15/2019
- 05:37 PM Support #1260 (Resolved): non-respondent adjustment
- Dear Officer,
Thank you for your previous support. Your help really means a lot to me.
I am currently looking ... - 08:45 AM Support #1259 (In Progress): Education level
- Hi Xavier,
the differences between the two variables are indeed minute. The difference stems from a slight differenc...
10/11/2019
- 05:37 PM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Regarding my last question, I am essentially trying to understand the consequences on my model/results of not taking ...
- 12:39 PM Support #1257: Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- Hello Olena,
Thanks a lot, this is v helpful.
As discussed, I applied the changes but *I wanted to check I used...
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