Activity
From 12/26/2019 to 01/24/2020
01/24/2020
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06:30 PM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- To clarify, if in a future wave these individuals appear in a household with at least one OSM or PSM they will be eli...
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06:17 PM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- We have checked and you are correct there is a difference in number of observations between the g_indresp files in th...
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10:08 AM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- Hello,
Just looking at G_INDRESP I see different volumes between the 2 versions I am comparing. As I said before I... -
03:05 PM Support #1307 (Resolved): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
- Good afternoon,
I am recently looking at pension income (Variable name: *a_fimnpen_dv*) for wave found that income... -
11:28 AM Support #1304: The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- Thanks a lot - i'd forgotten all about that document sorry.
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10:28 AM Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Karen,
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> I'm afraid we can't give a timescale for availability of this data at the... -
09:39 AM Support #1305 (In Progress): Weighting for youth questionnaire
01/23/2020
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02:43 PM Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- I'm just concerned that I'm looking at 2009-2015 marital status with 2019 characteristics but the marital status of ...
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02:41 PM Support #1306 (Resolved): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- for a project, I want to look at the year couples got into a relationship so using the marriage datafile to obtain th...
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02:07 PM Support #1305: Weighting for youth questionnaire
- Hi Olena,
Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply.
To clarify, the information about mothers does come from th... -
12:48 PM Support #1305: Weighting for youth questionnaire
- Charlotte,
Thank you for your question. I just want to clarify a few details of your analysis before answering the... -
10:27 AM Support #1303: Accessing linked data
- Hi Petra,
Yes, clicking on the "edit" button, which you did, is the correct way to reply.
What do you mean by N... -
03:09 AM Support #1303: Accessing linked data
- Hi Alita,
Sorry not sure if this is the way to reply - I can't see a reply button. We need NHS information on part... -
10:24 AM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- Hi Laura,
One reason I can think of that you would get a difference in the number of cases in the two created data... -
09:44 AM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- Hello,
Further information:
I've made a variable using relationship questions in INDRESP and combining this at th...
01/22/2020
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06:05 PM Support #1305 (Resolved): Weighting for youth questionnaire
- Hi,
I have a question about sample weighting. I'm using a sub-sample of children who have experienced their parent... -
02:22 PM Support #1304 (In Progress): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- Hello David,
Please look at the User Guide sections 3.4 and 3.5.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/def... -
01:23 PM Support #1304 (Resolved): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- Hi,
Sorry to bother you. The Understanding Society online variable guide gives the following descriptions for the ... -
02:19 PM Support #1303 (In Progress): Accessing linked data
- Dear Petra,
When you say health data, do you mean the Nurse Data? https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/s... -
11:50 AM Support #1303 (Resolved): Accessing linked data
- Dear User Support team,
We are academics from outside the UK who are interested in obtaining access to the linked ... -
01:26 PM Support #1301 (In Progress): Volume change between releases
- Hello Laura,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
What do you mean by "raw volumes"? Do you mean that th... -
01:23 PM Support #1300 (In Progress): reason for leaving job for self-employment
- Hello Xiaowei,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Our team is looking into this and will get back to you ... -
01:19 PM Support #1299 (In Progress): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS
- Hello Giorgio,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
You can use b?_hhmem variables to identify new entra... -
12:51 PM Support #1284: Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
- Many thanks Stephanie
01/17/2020
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03:19 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Looking at an earlier support question - is this down to a large change in the volumes of respondents who have a CSA ...
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03:15 PM Support #1302 (Resolved): See term variable changed for wave i?
- There has been a massive increase in the number of records for cseeterm and cseeterm2 in the chmain dataset being a -...
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02:32 PM Support #1301 (Resolved): Volume change between releases
- Comparing the wave g datasets in the most recent release to the first time it was released 2 years ago I see a differ...
01/16/2020
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03:05 PM Support #1300 (Resolved): reason for leaving job for self-employment
- Hello,
I'm doing some analysis on transitions into self-employment. As part of this I'd like to understand why peo... -
12:34 PM Support #1298 (Resolved): Matching youth data to parent data in Understanding Society
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10:38 AM Support #1299 (Resolved): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS
- Hello to everyone, I would like to ask you one clarification.
I am working with all the waves of BHPS + US, and I ...
01/15/2020
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04:24 PM Support #1279 (Feedback): Wave 9 chmain file
- Dear Charlotte,
Apologies for the long delay in response.
The observations do loop over the children's names fr...
01/14/2020
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05:52 PM Support #1297 (Feedback): Household meat consumption
- Dear Neha,
We don't ask any questions on meat consumption in Understanding Society.
Best wishes,
Stephanie -
10:39 AM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
- Fatima,
1. Indeed longitudinal weights have more zeros than cross-sectional - this is by design as TSMs get positi...
01/13/2020
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06:18 PM Support #1298: Matching youth data to parent data in Understanding Society
- Hi Stefanie,
This is very helpful indeed. I noticed from the reply to Understanding Society User Support issue#252... -
05:29 PM Support #1298 (Feedback): Matching youth data to parent data in Understanding Society
- Dear Paul,
In the w_indresp files, w_mnspid is the identifier for that individual's mother, while pidp is the iden... -
05:29 PM Support #1297 (In Progress): Household meat consumption
- 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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01:42 PM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
- Dear Olena,
Sorry to bother you again, but I am afraid I am not understanding longitudinal weights. My aim is to ...
01/11/2020
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08:29 AM Support #1298 (Resolved): Matching youth data to parent data in Understanding Society
- Dear colleague,
I wonder if you can help me with the above. I have used the USS before and merged and matched waves ...
01/10/2020
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02:32 PM Support #1297 (Resolved): Household meat consumption
- Hello,
I am using the data _"Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-200...
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