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From 01/12/2020 to 02/10/2020

02/10/2020

05:05 PM Support #1302 (In Progress): See term variable changed for wave i?
Stephanie Auty
04:58 PM Support #1279 (In Progress): Wave 9 chmain file
Dear Charlotte,
Apologies again for the delay. We are currently investigating this issue further and will respond ...
Stephanie Auty

02/04/2020

04:53 PM Support #1309: Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
Dear Alexander,
At the end of the section for the question nfl, the pdf version of the questionnaire says:
In l...
Stephanie Auty
09:46 AM Support #1309: Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
Thank you for your quick and helpful response.
The questions in the pdf are very similar as you can see below.
...
Alexander Tromp

02/03/2020

04:54 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
Dear Laura,
As respondents were asked either one or the other, you can combine the responses from both questions. ...
Stephanie Auty
04:41 PM Support #1303: Accessing linked data
Dear Petra,
Our questions on health conditions are hcond?? where ?? is a number referring to the condition. We hav...
Stephanie Auty
04:38 PM Support #1309 (Feedback): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
Dear Alexander,
You can find the answer by reading the full pdf questionnaire, which you can download here: https:...
Stephanie Auty
11:38 AM Support #1306 (Feedback): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
Stephanie Auty
11:21 AM Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Pascale,
The solution that we have discussed would be correct in a simple situation (without pooling) where for ex...
Olena Kaminska

02/02/2020

08:37 AM Support #1309 (Resolved): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
I am studying Working Tax Credit. I am wondering what the difference is between the variables nfh20 and bentax5. Of t... Alexander Tromp

01/31/2020

03:41 PM Support #1308 (In Progress): Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Stephanie Auty

01/30/2020

04:50 PM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
Fatima,
Your detailed explanation really clarifies your data setup. So ignore some of my comments from before as s...
Olena Kaminska
04:30 PM Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for your detailed response. Apologies that it has taken me a while to get back to you, I wa...
Pascale Bourquin
04:28 PM Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
Chloe,
Let's assume you will analyse wave 6 with the marriage datafile. For this you can use ub_xw weight. This wi...
Olena Kaminska
12:11 PM Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
ok. I have assigned this issue to Olena Kaminska, our survey statistician, who will respond to your question on weights. Alita Nandi
12:06 PM Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
Hi,
No problem. I'll analyse the 2015 version in the meantime and will keep my eyes peeled for the new update.
...
Chloe Lloyd
11:59 AM Support #1306: Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
Hello Chloe,
Yes you are right marital status since 2015 could have changed for some respondents. The updated vers...
Alita Nandi
02:07 PM Support #1300: reason for leaving job for self-employment
Hi Xiaowei,
I looked at the group of respondents who reported they were in paid employment in Wave 1 and self-empl...
Alita Nandi
11:53 AM Support #1303: Accessing linked data
Hi Alita,
Thanks for your help! Sorry, I'll be clearer, by participant conditions I mean health conditions or thei...
Petra Graham

01/29/2020

05:11 PM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
Thank you for a quick reply!
Ok, let me try to explain my setup again. I want to have a panel of people that woul...
Nurfatima Jandarova
03:12 PM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
Fatima,
See my answers below.
1. My understanding is that you need information on the highest degree for each per...
Olena Kaminska
12:27 PM Support #1253: Selecting correct weights
Thank you for all your help so far!
Can I ask more questions? Well, basically similar questions but now that I have ...
Nurfatima Jandarova
03:35 PM Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Pascale,
Your clarification helps a lot, and I think your situation is a little bit more complex and unique than I...
Olena Kaminska
02:49 PM Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Hi Olena,
Thanks a lot for you quick response. Here some clarifications:
- Basically, what we are doing is selectin...
Pascale Bourquin
11:41 AM Support #1308: Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Pascale,
Thank you for your question. Before I answer it I have a few clarifications. I am not sure what your anal...
Olena Kaminska
10:33 AM Support #1308 (Resolved): Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Hello,
We are doing crossectional analysis combining all waves from USoc and the BHPS and include all household memb...
Pascale Bourquin
11:54 AM Support #1305: Weighting for youth questionnaire
Charlotte,
The best variables for nonresponse correction are the ones related to your y variable and to nonrespons...
Olena Kaminska
11:21 AM Support #1279: Wave 9 chmain file
Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your response. I think I understand it better now. I just want to clarify something from ...
Charlotte Edney

01/28/2020

10:53 AM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
Thank you, this doesn't really help the situation though. I had looked at cseeterm2 and it has even more missings and... Laura M
10:39 AM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
Perfect, thank you for looking into it. Laura M

01/27/2020

04:00 PM Support #1307: Inconsistency between releases for certain variables

Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Chetan,
>
> This is a derived variable, as indicated by the _dv suffix, and is bas...
Chetan Jethwa
12:28 PM Support #1307 (Feedback): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
Dear Chetan,
This is a derived variable, as indicated by the _dv suffix, and is based on some variables which may ...
Stephanie Auty
11:37 AM Support #1302 (Feedback): See term variable changed for wave i?
Dear Laura,
Apologies for the delay in response.
If you look at the questionnaire, here: https://www.understand...
Stephanie Auty

01/24/2020

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... Alita Nandi
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... Alita Nandi
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...
Laura M
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...
Chetan Jethwa
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. David Irvine
10:28 AM Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Karen,
>
> I'm afraid we can't give a timescale for availability of this data at the...
Karen Arulsamy
09:39 AM Support #1305 (In Progress): Weighting for youth questionnaire
Alita Nandi

01/23/2020

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 ... Chloe Lloyd
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... Chloe Lloyd
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...
Charlotte Edney
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...
Olena Kaminska
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Petra Graham
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...
Alita Nandi
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...
Laura M

01/22/2020

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...
Charlotte Edney
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
David Irvine
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
Petra Graham
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...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
Alita Nandi
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...
Alita Nandi
12:51 PM Support #1284: Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
Many thanks Stephanie David Irvine

01/17/2020

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 ... Laura M
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 -... Laura M
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... Laura M

01/16/2020

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...
Xiaowei Xu
12:34 PM Support #1298 (Resolved): Matching youth data to parent data in Understanding Society
Stephanie Auty
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 ...
Giorgio Piccitto

01/15/2020

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...
Stephanie Auty

01/14/2020

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
Stephanie Auty
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...
Olena Kaminska

01/13/2020

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...
Paul Downward
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...
Stephanie Auty
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... Stephanie Auty
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 ...
Nurfatima Jandarova
 

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