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From 01/30/2020 to 02/28/2020

02/28/2020

02:57 PM Support #1317 (Feedback): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)
Dear Cristina,
During the interview, jbsempchk (And are you still self employed/an employee?) is asked using data ...
Stephanie Auty
02:16 PM Support #1308 (Feedback): Cross-sectional weights 0 values
Stephanie Auty
02:15 PM Support #1315 (Feedback): SDQ in child data
Dear Marie,
The choice of ages was influenced by the sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (9 months, then age 3, ...
Stephanie Auty
02:03 PM Support #1314 (Feedback): NPD-USOC linkages
Dear Daniel,
The Wave 4 linkage is close to completion, and the current estimate is of weeks rather than months. I...
Stephanie Auty

02/23/2020

08:34 AM Support #1315: SDQ in child data
Hi Stephanie,
That makes sense, thank you! If you can find out, it would be interesting to know why at five and ei...
Marie Mueller

02/22/2020

09:44 AM Support #1316: birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons
Dear Stephanie
thank you for your quick reply. However, I have already tried to change Alina's code by adding b befo...
Maria Petrillo

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... Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty

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...
Cristina Sechel
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....
Maria Petrillo

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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Marie Mueller

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... Daniel Gibbons
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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Yu-Chin Her
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...
Stephanie Auty

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. Laura M

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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Laura M
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. ...
Laura M
04:10 PM Support #1312 (In Progress): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty

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...
Georgios Chrysanthou
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...
Georgios Chrysanthou
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, ...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Stephanie Auty
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...
Ashling Larmer

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
 

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