Activity

From 02/06/2020 to 03/06/2020

09:29 AM Support #1319 (In Progress): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS: Dear Karen,
You can look at the universe of the question (who is asked) by reading the questionnaires which can be... Stephanie Auty

06:15 PM Support #1316: birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons: Dear Maria,
We have w_qfvoc1-16 in Understanding Society, which could be used to derive a variable similar to bw_q... Stephanie Auty
05:10 PM Support #1319 (Resolved): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS: Hi,
The question for this variable jbpen was asked to those who satisfied jbsemp = 1 (currently an employee of a f... Karen Arulsamy
11:45 AM Support #1318 (Feedback): Special Licence access: Dear Ashley,
Yes, you will require a new SL approval. Please liaise with the UK Data Service regarding this.
Be... Stephanie Auty
09:02 AM Support #1318 (Resolved): Special Licence access: Hello,
I am seeking clarification regarding a data access issue. I require access to a second special licence (SL) ... Ashley Burdett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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