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From 11/30/2019 to 12/29/2019
12/23/2019
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02:38 PM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- And to respond to your earlier question, the weights that you suggested are correct. The reason that some zero weight...
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02:30 PM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Lydia,
My suggestion would be use longitudinal enumeration weight at time t, and conditional on it being positive ... -
02:06 PM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Dear Charlotte,
We are still in discussion of this issue and ISER will be closed over the holiday period, reopenin... -
02:04 PM Support #1295 (Feedback): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society
- Dear C,
We are not aware of any work on this topic. If you would like to discuss this with other researchers you c...
12/20/2019
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01:53 PM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Dear Charlotte,
By using duplicates report pidp (in Stata) on the i_chmain data file, you can see that there is mo... -
08:06 AM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- I forgot one part. If possible, I would like to do
a robustness check by using cross-sectional (or design) weights
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08:01 AM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Hi Olena,
Sorry. I was not clear. I will rephrase the issue.
I am doing a pooled cross-sectional analysis (with... -
07:33 AM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Lydia,
Thank you for your question. Could you clarify? Are you creating your own weights or are you using ours? If...
12/19/2019
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03:11 PM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Dear Charlotte,
Apologies, Alita is currently on leave but I will see what I can find out.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
11:37 AM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
- Hi,
Apoligies if you are still working on it, but am wondering if there is any update on my question?
Best,
Ch...
12/18/2019
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05:03 PM Support #1295 (In Progress): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society
- 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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04:33 PM Support #1284 (Feedback): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
- Dear David,
Apologies for the delay in replying to you.
Yes, I have had it confirmed that g_csakidnoNN, g_cmsco... -
02:38 PM Support #1273: Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- Hi,
I am using longitudinal weights to analyse the event between t an t+1.
Now I am questioning whether I am ...
12/17/2019
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03:50 PM Support #1294 (Feedback): Universe of school variable
- Dear Nurfatima,
You can use the derived variables school_dv and scend_dv in xwavedat to see the most up to date in...
12/16/2019
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06:28 PM Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society
- Hi! I'd be interested to know if someone has tested the stability of personality across the two waves in which the Bi...
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04:00 PM Support #1294 (Resolved): Universe of school variable
- Hello!
Could you please help me figure out my confusion about school attendance status. If I look at the questionn... -
01:09 PM Support #1269 (Feedback): Living with an ex
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01:09 PM Support #1281 (Feedback): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS
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01:08 PM Support #1280 (Feedback): ISCED
- Dear Laura,
We plan to create the derived variable for ISCED to be released with Wave 10 data next year, but if yo...
12/12/2019
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07:18 PM Support #1293: How to contact sample members from wave 2?
- I see. Thank you.
Louise -
05:42 PM Support #1293 (Feedback): How to contact sample members from wave 2?
- Dear Louise,
The calls you are referring to are not telephone calls, but times that the interviewer called at the ... -
03:42 PM Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?
- Dear officer,
I know that there is a participant web for sample persons to update their addresses. However, I am n... -
04:07 PM Support #1292 (Feedback): SF-12 Items
- Dear Laura,
You don't say which wave you are working with, but from Wave 2 onwards the components of the sf12 were... -
02:00 PM Support #1292 (Resolved): SF-12 Items
- Dear UKHLS Team,
I am interested in using the SF-12 in my research. However, I would prefer to work with the 12 i... -
01:53 PM Support #1280: ISCED
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Laura,
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> The Wave 9 data does contain the information needed to calculate the ISCE...
12/10/2019
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06:17 PM Support #1291 (Feedback): Measurement error in savings data
- Dear Mihai,
As this question was only asked of those who have savings accounts, in Wave 8 13% of respondents provi... -
12:53 AM Support #1291 (Resolved): Measurement error in savings data
- Hi,
I am currently working with the savings data in USoc (save, saved, svamt etc.) and the savdocs variable shows ... -
05:58 PM Support #1290 (Feedback): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income
- Dear C,
Negative values in our income variables refer to self employment losses. A value of 0 means their income w...
12/09/2019
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04:35 PM Support #1290 (Resolved): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income
- Hi!
I'd like to better understand what a value of zero means for the variable fimnlabgrs_dv. Similarly, what does ...
12/05/2019
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07:36 PM Support #1287 (Feedback): Inapplicable observations
- Dear Xavier,
You do not say which wave you are looking at, but some general advice would be to look at the questio... -
12:12 AM Support #1287 (Resolved): Inapplicable observations
- Hi there,
There are a few variables of observation which have data listed as inapplicable, the reason for which I ... -
07:12 PM Support #1288 (Feedback): Overtime variables
- Dear Xavier,
You can see the flow of the questions, either by downloading the full questionnaire here: https://www... -
12:25 AM Support #1288 (Resolved): Overtime variables
- Hi there,
I've been looking at the overtime variables, and am a little confused at the measurement technique. Both... -
06:59 PM Support #1280: ISCED
- Dear Laura,
The Wave 9 data does contain the information needed to calculate the ISCED value, but it has not yet b... -
05:15 PM Support #1289: What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable
- Brilliant, thankyou
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02:59 PM Support #1289 (Resolved): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable
- Hi Nicole,
sorry for that. We have changed the programmes and have overlooked a coding mistake on this variable. It ... -
12:18 PM Support #1289 (Resolved): What are the values 7 through 12 in the jbnssec3_dv variable
- I have used the variable w_jbnssec3_dv in the file w_indresp for a number of projects but in the new data release the...
12/03/2019
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03:59 PM Support #1286: Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
- Perfect. thanks a lot for your help!
Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear David,
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> Yes, w_childpno in w_chmain corre... -
02:57 PM Support #1285 (Feedback): Missing interview year and month
- Dear C,
For Understanding Society datasets, please use the derived date variables, w_intdatd_dv w_intdatm_dv w_int...
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