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From 10/12/2019 to 11/10/2019

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...
Stephanie Auty
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 ...
Ines Barreiros

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...
Stephanie Auty
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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty

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...
Harvey Day

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...
Kristinn Mar

10/25/2019

01:52 PM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
Olena,
Thanks for your reply.
Louise
Louise Luo
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...
Stephanie Auty

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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Tom Waters
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...
Sarah H
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...
Marina Fernandez Reino

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...
Olena Kaminska
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...
Olena Kaminska
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 ...
Olena Kaminska

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
Marie Mueller
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...
Stephanie Auty
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?...
Marie Mueller
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...
Stephanie Auty
05:07 PM Support #1248 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS
Stephanie Auty
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 ...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Samir Sweida-Metwally
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... Alita Nandi
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...
Samir Sweida-Metwally
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
Samir Sweida-Metwally

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...
Olena Kaminska
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...
Gundi Knies
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... Xavier Castelino

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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Munyaradzi Kucherera
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...
Sarah H

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...
Louise Luo
01:33 PM Support #1260 (Resolved): non-respondent adjustment
Stephanie Auty
11:39 AM Support #1260: non-respondent adjustment
Olena,
Thanks a lot for your reply. It is very clear to me.
Louise
Louise Luo
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...
Olena Kaminska

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 ...
Louise Luo
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...
Gundi Knies
 

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