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From 04/17/2020 to 05/16/2020

05/15/2020

04:25 PM Support #1348: Merging
Dear Laura
Thank you for your reply. I am referring you to my colleague Gundi who will be able to explore this fur...
Annette Pasotti
03:57 PM Support #1348: Merging
Moreover, I forget to say:
if I start from the child file, after I merge with the indall I have unmatched observat...
Laura Silva
03:46 PM Support #1348: Merging
Hi Annette,
thank you very much for the reply.
Just to be sure, even if unorthodox (why though?) is it correct...
Laura Silva
11:20 AM Support #1348 (Feedback): Merging
Dear Laura
Cases in the child data file are a subset of the indall file (i.e. all children in enumerated household...
Annette Pasotti
09:33 AM Support #1348: Merging
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti
11:25 AM Support #1345 (Feedback): COVID-19 survey
Hi Charlotte
Thank you for your question. We’re currently working on Wave 2 of the survey and finalising what will...
Annette Pasotti
10:17 AM Support #1346 (Feedback): SPSS Complex Samples General Linear Model assumptions
Dear Yuting,
We recommend using CSPLAN along with Complex Samples in SPSS to adjust for weights and complex survey...
Alita Nandi
10:05 AM Support #1343 (Feedback): Creating a family group for profile of parents
Hello,
While using the variables i_nch02_dv and i_nch34_dv will help you identify households with children in this...
Alita Nandi

05/14/2020

09:46 PM Support #1347: weighting
Hi Olena,
many thanks for your reply, I'll look into that.
Best,
Laura
Laura Silva
06:42 PM Support #1347: weighting
Laura,
The best weight for you would be a longitudinal adult response weight from the last wave of your analysis ...
Olena Kaminska
06:22 PM Support #1347 (Resolved): weighting
1)I am using the waves a-f using info from the youth and the adults questionnaire in each wave. Which weight is the m... Laura Silva
06:24 PM Support #1348 (Resolved): Merging
I am merging info from the child and the indresp datafiles of wave 9 (and I have to do it for all the other wavs).
...
Laura Silva
03:39 PM Support #1346 (Resolved): SPSS Complex Samples General Linear Model assumptions
Hi there,
I'm trying to use linear regression to analyse the Understanding Society dataset. However it seems like ...
Frank Morley

05/13/2020

02:29 PM Support #1345 (In Progress): COVID-19 survey
Hi Charlotte
Thank you for your question. We’re currently working on Wave 2 of the survey and finalising what will...
Annette Pasotti
10:29 AM Support #1345 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
Hi,
Please can you confirm which are the "core modules" of the COVID-19 survey? I am specifically interested in whet...
Charlotte Edney
02:24 PM Support #1340 (Resolved): relationship_dv code request
Chris confirmed this solved the query.
Gundi Knies
02:12 PM Support #1343 (In Progress): Creating a family group for profile of parents
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti

05/12/2020

09:14 AM Support #1343 (Resolved): Creating a family group for profile of parents
I am currently working on a project looking at work and care in families in East London. As part of the project, we w... Katie Quy

05/05/2020

07:15 PM Support #1341 (Feedback): Ethics Approval Details
Dear Eric,
Ethics approval for Waves 6-8 was received via a letter dated 20th August 2013 from the University of E...
Stephanie Auty

05/04/2020

04:15 PM Support #1300: reason for leaving job for self-employment
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Xiaowei,
>
> I looked at the group of respondents who reported they were in paid employme...
Xiaowei Xu
09:21 AM Support #1342 (Feedback): finding variables in dataset and questionnaires
Hi Stephanie,
this is a derived variable so there is no question text as such. Descriptions for derived variables in...
Gundi Knies
08:56 AM Support #1342 (Resolved): finding variables in dataset and questionnaires
Hi, I am trying to match the variables to the questionnaire questions, but I can't find matches. For instance, I foun... Stephanie Chan-Ahuja

05/02/2020

02:53 PM Support #1341: Ethics Approval Details
Hi
Waves 8 and 9.
Thanks
Eric
Eric Emerson
10:11 AM Support #1341: Ethics Approval Details
Hi Eric,
Could you please let us know which waves of the mainstage data are you using?
Thanks,
Alita
Alita Nandi
10:10 AM Support #1341 (In Progress): Ethics Approval Details
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi
08:30 AM Support #1339 (Feedback): NPD Usoc secure access
Dear Charlotte,
This is not possible as yet.
Best wishes,
Alita
Alita Nandi

05/01/2020

06:53 PM Support #1340 (In Progress): relationship_dv code request
Hi Chris,
the note is from quite a while back and did not get updated as 'the code' developed. There are two distinc...
Gundi Knies
03:08 PM Support #1340 (Resolved): relationship_dv code request
Hi
Please may I request the code to identify errors in the ‘relationship_dv’ variable that is referred to in the v...
Chris Playford
05:26 PM Support #1341 (Resolved): Ethics Approval Details
Hi,
Have just submitted a paper using Understanding Society to Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. They ...
Eric Emerson
03:06 PM Support #1339 (Resolved): NPD Usoc secure access
Hi,
I'm aware some of the secure datasets have been approved for use via. remote desktop from home with certain co...
Charlotte Edney
11:20 AM Support #1338: COVID-19 module
Hello,
Our current plan is to continue with monthly surveys, for upto 12 months, however, we will keep this under ...
Alita Nandi
10:11 AM Support #1338: COVID-19 module
Thank you. For how many months will this survey be carried out? It went into the field at the end of April and planni... Neil Smith
04:18 AM Support #1338 (Feedback): COVID-19 module
Hello,
This is a monthly survey and the questionnaire is available here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/re...
Alita Nandi
04:25 AM Support #1336 (Feedback): Religion in Wave 9
Hi Dharmi,
This variable is built up from past responses. OPRLG1 is asked of those who say Yes to OPLRG (=1) and t...
Alita Nandi

04/30/2020

04:31 PM Support #1338 (Resolved): COVID-19 module
Hello,
Can you confirm how many time points the USoc-Covid module will be going out to the sample, and can you confi...
Neil Smith
12:28 PM Support #1336 (In Progress): Religion in Wave 9
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi

04/28/2020

03:56 PM Support #1337: w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category
i see. Thanks Louise Luo
03:54 PM Support #1337: w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category
Hi Louise,
this question has already been asked, see https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1289. The data will...
Gundi Knies
03:49 PM Support #1337 (Resolved): w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category
Dear Officer,
The variable w_jbnssec3_dv has only three categories in the last release reversion (2018). However, ...
Louise Luo
11:51 AM Support #1336 (Resolved): Religion in Wave 9
Hello,
In Wave 9, there seems to be a lot of missing data for the religious affiliation variable; I am using i_ff...
Dharmi Kapadia

04/24/2020

02:44 PM Support #1335 (Feedback): Question on Covid survey
Alita Nandi
02:43 PM Support #1335 (In Progress): Question on Covid survey
Hello,
No sub-samples will be excluded, 42000 invites have been sent out and we will know the actual sample size a...
Alita Nandi
12:40 PM Support #1335 (Resolved): Question on Covid survey
Hello,
I've seen the announcement of your new Covid survey. Can I check the sample size please? I think the first (A...
Cath Roberts
02:44 PM Support #1333 (Feedback): Social Media data
Alita Nandi

04/21/2020

04:31 PM Support #1334: Verifying correct construct of motherhood variable | Harmonized BHPS-UKHL
Dear Francesco,
we do not comment on individual analyses or vet Stata programmes. Having said that, there are differ...
Gundi Knies
12:35 PM Support #1334 (Feedback): Verifying correct construct of motherhood variable | Harmonized BHPS-UKHL
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti
04:24 PM Support #1323: youth self completion longitudinal weight
Linda,
Thank you for your question.
Yes, the drop in number is correct with weighting - this is because our data ...
Olena Kaminska
11:31 AM Support #1323: youth self completion longitudinal weight
Dear Olena/Understanding Support staff,
Hope you're all keeping well in these current times!
I have a few questio...
Linda Ng

04/20/2020

06:10 PM Support #1334 (Resolved): Verifying correct construct of motherhood variable | Harmonized BHPS-UKHL
Dear User Support Staff,
I am a master's student using the harmonized BHPS-UKHL dataset, merged according to the r...
Francesco Bolzonella
 

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