Activity
From 01/23/2020 to 02/21/2020
02/21/2020
- 09:28 PM Support #1317 (In Progress): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 09:18 PM Support #1316 (Feedback): birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons
- Dear Maria,
It is not necessary to change mnpid to mnpid_bh, as all individuals from BHPS now have a pidp in the h...
02/20/2020
- 04:06 PM Support #1317 (Resolved): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)
- Hello
As far as I understand from the questionnaires, jbhrs should not be inapplicable when jbsempt=1. However, th... - 02:04 PM Support #1316 (Resolved): birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons
- Hi
I am using both the Harmonized BHPS and the Understanding society for a study related to the motherhood wage gap....
02/19/2020
- 06:11 PM Support #1314 (In Progress): NPD-USOC linkages
- Dear Daniel,
This page describes the linkages we are planning and the stages they are at: https://www.understandin... - 06:06 PM Support #1315 (In Progress): SDQ in child data
- Dear Marie,
These questions are asked as part of the child development module, which is asked of parents when thei... - 02:34 PM Support #1315 (Resolved): SDQ in child data
- Hello,
Until recently I thought SDQ data was only available for 10-to 15-year olds. However, now I saw the SDQ als...
02/18/2020
- 04:42 PM Support #1314 (Resolved): NPD-USOC linkages
- I am the Head of Data Science at the Behavioural Insights Team and we are working on a project for the Government Equ...
- 02:20 PM Support #1313 (Feedback): household follow up question
- Dear Yu-Chin,
Children are followed if they are original sample members. The following rules and definitions are i... - 02:01 PM Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question
- Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all, thank you for all the work regarding the wonderful data. I am a PhD student at UAntw... - 10:59 AM Support #1312 (Feedback): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- Dear Georgios,
The fieldwork team say it is reasonable to assume that interviews before Wave 5 were completed on t...
02/14/2020
- 09:29 AM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Thank you Stephanie, that's good to be aware of on the seeterm variables. And thank you for the information on relex.
02/13/2020
- 05:16 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Dear Laura,
The 8 and 9 codes for cseeterm2 will remain the same as in Wave 9 to avoid confusion when merging wave... - 04:18 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Dear Laura,
The inapplicable responses in relex are due to this question being asked only once per ex partner, whi... - 01:51 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Dear Stephanie,
I have a tangentially related question. We have used the seeterm variable as a proxy for relations... - 08:18 AM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for this. I'm less concerned with the change in options and more the change in looping. ... - 04:10 PM Support #1312 (In Progress): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- 02:20 PM Support #1312: Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- Dear Georgios,
In the harmonised datasets, variables with different names in BHPS were renamed to the UKHLS equiva...
02/12/2020
- 06:37 PM Support #1312: Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- BHPS had variables "doid/doim/doiy4" as "Date of interview: day/month/year".
These in the Harmonaised BHPS "istrtdat... - 06:37 PM Support #1312 (Resolved): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
- BHPS had variables "doid/doim/doiy4" as "Date of interview: day/month/year".
These in the Harmonaised BHPS "istrtdat... - 04:04 PM Support #1302: See term variable changed for wave i?
- Dear Laura,
I have some updated information about i_cseeterm and i_cseeterm2: this was not due to a script error, ... - 01:57 PM Support #1311 (Feedback): Unemployment/home-keeper variable
- Dear Ashling,
Yes, the variable you need is w_jbstat, which is found in the w_indresp file: https://www.understand... - 12:08 PM Support #1311 (Resolved): Unemployment/home-keeper variable
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am currently using the Understanding Society dataset to complete my undergraduate dissertati...
02/10/2020
- 05:05 PM Support #1302 (In Progress): See term variable changed for wave i?
- 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 ...
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... - 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.
...
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. ... - 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... - 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:... - 11:38 AM Support #1306 (Feedback): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- 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...
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...
01/31/2020
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... - 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... - 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... - 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.
- 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.
... - 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ...
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...
- 10:39 AM Support #1301: Volume change between releases
- Perfect, thank you for looking into it.
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...- 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 ... - 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...
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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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... - 09:39 AM Support #1305 (In Progress): Weighting for youth questionnaire
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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
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