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From 10/31/2019 to 11/29/2019
11/29/2019
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03:51 PM Support #1286 (Feedback): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
- Dear David,
Yes, w_childpno in w_chmain corresponds to w_pno in w_indall (within a wave) so, along with w_hidp, ca... -
- Dear C,
THe coding for those variables in these waves was done by our fieldwork agencies at the time. The 11 and 2... -
- This issue will be discussed directly.
11/28/2019
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- Thanks, I will get back to you when I have an answer.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
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04:51 PM Support #1286: Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
- David,
Thank you for your question. I suggest you use g_psnenui_xw weight as it has a higher sample size, but g_ps... -
- 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 C,
BHPS does not include an interview year variable because all of the interviews took place within one calen... -
- Dear C,
The main reason we have not harmonised these variables was that jbsat in BHPS wasn't asked of self employe...
11/27/2019
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05:00 PM Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
- Hi,
Sorry to bother you again. I work for DWP and have been trying to do some cross sectional analysis of the wave... -
04:54 PM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- I did see this note and orginally thought it makes it seems like this is an error in just wave 9? And it was applied ...
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04:40 PM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Just above the Universe this note is written:
"In Loops
Loop foreach child enumerated via CSAKIDNO, CMCOKIDNO and C... -
- Hi Alita,
I'm sorry but I'm not following you very well. I can't find the filtering information anywhere in the qu... -
- In Waves 5, 7 and 9, adult respondents (cases in w_indresp) for whom w_csacalc=1 & at least one w_csakidno[N]=1 OR w_...
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04:44 PM Support #1285 (Resolved): Missing interview year and month
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I realised that the variable interview month and year is missing for all of BHPS wave one and for parts of other... -
- Hi,
Sorry to bother you. I work for DWP and am trying to find out how many parents have child maintenance arrangem... -
- Hi Stephanie,
thanks for getting back. The code 200 and the code 11 both appear in the BHPS in wave 1 and 9. The c... -
- Dear C,
Could you tell me which waves you are looking at? I can see a code of 10 in UKHLS datasets but not the oth... -
- Hi Stephanie!
Thanks for answering my previous question. Additionally, I'd be interested to know if there is an over... -
- Hi! I'd be interested to know whether there is a joint "job satisfaction variable" that can be used across teh BHPS a...
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- Dear C Josten,
1. We are not able to advise on this and suggest looking at previous research using personality mea...
11/26/2019
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- Hi!
I have two questions regarding the Big5 personality traits in the BHPS and Understanding Society:
1. I am c... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
11/25/2019
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- Lydia,
Yes, you can take couples into account. If you want you can specify three levels of clustering: PSUs, coupl...
11/22/2019
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03:51 PM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Hi,
I do have another question about multistage sampling.
My sampling strategy is to consider only those who f... -
10:20 AM Support #1280 (Resolved): ISCED
- Dear support team,
I am wondering if there is an ISCED variable available for UKHLS? I saw that this exists for B... -
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- Hello,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you... -
- Hello,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you...
11/21/2019
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- Hi,
I've just downloaded wave 9 of Understanding Society to add another wave of child maintenance data (chmain fil... -
09:31 AM Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants
- Dear Support,
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction of any keeping in touch exercises that you ca...
11/20/2019
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10:26 AM Support #1275: Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for your help and advice.
Best wishes,
Yuliya
11/19/2019
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- Dear Chetan,
New entrants are asked their relationship history in the relationshiphistory module at the wave they ... -
11:43 AM Support #1277 (Resolved): Tracking marital statuses
- I was wondering if it was possible to determine whether an individual was a single mother or divorced when they were ...
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- Dear Andrew,
When using the questions you mention, please be aware that if a participant has both a biological and... -
10:24 AM Support #1276 (Resolved): Info on estranged young people
- I am trying to find out more information on young people (25 and under) who have been estranged from their parents. P...
11/18/2019
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- Dear Yuliya,
This appears to be a coding error in bg_oprlg1. I have referred it to the data team to correct it, bu... -
- Dear Stephanie,
I am using the harmonised dataset and, yes, I am looking at bw_oprlg1.
Thank you,
Yuliya -
- Dear Yuliya,
Could you confirm whether you are using the harmonised dataset? If so, are you looking at the harmoni... -
- Hello,
I just wanted to add some comments on the religion distribution in 1997 and 1999.
I take only those peo...
11/15/2019
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11:36 AM Support #1271: Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available
- Olena,
I see. Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Louise
11/14/2019
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- Hello,
I work with questions on religion and find some inconsistencies. Maybe you can help me in sorting this out.... -
- Thank you. Yes, I realized that the combination was nonsense.Thank you for the link.
I was not sure how to set the ... -
- Lydia,
No, you shouldn't combine PSU and ID - as the results will be wrong. If you have to choose you should use t... -
- Dear Michael,
A response from the biomarkers team:
We have not made polygenic scores for public use. We are consi... -
- Louise,
Thank you. For these households I imputed the missing predictor values.
Best of luck,
Olena
11/13/2019
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- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply.
I am creating my own cross-sectional individual weights. I want... -
- Louise,
I have checked for you and for the households id's that you mentioned we provided b_psnenub_xw b_psnenus_l... -
- Thank you. It does.
I think that in this way it is possible to use svyset because
I can create a variable that ... -
- Lydia,
Indeed some statistical analyses do not work with svy command. One of such is multilevel models, random eff... -
- Dear Support,
I have a question on how to analyse weights.
In the handouts of the Moodle, I found that I should ... -
03:11 PM Support #1274 (Resolved): Polygenic Scores
- Hi,
Are there any plans for the public use data to have pre-constructed Polygenic scores and for these to be avail...
11/12/2019
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- Dear Officer,
According to my understanding, the individual weights take into account predicted household respons... -
- Ines,
No, you don't need to recalculated the weights. A weight that is used for the whole population is correct to... -
11:24 AM Support #1270: Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- Olena Kaminska wrote:
> Ines,
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> Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any...
11/11/2019
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- Ines,
Any weight that is appropriate for the whole population will also represent any subpopulation if defined usi...
11/08/2019
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- Dear Ines,
Government Office Region is the smallest area variable in the EUL dataset, but we have other smaller va... -
- Hello,
I am trying to analyse UK data from the Understanding Society dataset and I would like to make comparisons ...
11/04/2019
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- Dear Kris,
You may find the questions opsoca-f useful - these were included in several waves of BHPS and are due t... -
- 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 Harvey,
You could investigate this through looking at the w_relationship_dv and w_mastat_dv variables as they...
11/01/2019
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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
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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...
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