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From 04/21/2020 to 05/20/2020
05/20/2020
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04:28 PM Support #1352: Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads
- Thank you very much!
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04:08 PM Support #1352 (Resolved): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads
- I've asked our income specialist, and his response is:
The reason is that imputed values get updated at each annu... -
- Thank you for the prompt reply.
I had a look through the revision document and it appears the change came in the t... -
- Hi Cameron,
Looking back through the revision documents, changes were made to the income variables in the Wave 8 ... -
- Hi,
I was previously working with an older download of US that contained waves 1-7. I recently re-downloaded the d... -
- Dear Fatemah,
The fieldwork for Wave 12 has only just started, so the data won't be available until November 2022... -
02:22 PM Support #1331: query about food poverty/insecurity information
- Stephanie Auty wrote:
> Dear Fatemeh,
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> In the data currently available, we have two variables relating to food... -
- Hi Abigail,
Thanks for your query. The User Support team are delivering training today, so there will be a short ...
05/19/2020
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07:12 PM Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade data
- Hi,
I need some help with my analysis for my undergrad dissertation
I am using the Harmonised BHPS data and my ... -
10:06 AM Support #1348: Merging
- Hi Gundi,
thank you very much for your tremendous help, really appreciated.
Have an awesome day,
Laura
05/18/2020
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01:11 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents
- Thank you for you response! The second, more precise, option sounds exactly what I am looking for. I would be gratefu...
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10:51 AM Support #1348: Merging
- Laura,
if you look at the interview outcome variable _ivfio or _hhresp_dv, you can see that there are households i...
05/15/2020
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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... -
- Moreover, I forget to say:
if I start from the child file, after I merge with the indall I have unmatched observat... -
- Hi Annette,
thank you very much for the reply.
Just to be sure, even if unorthodox (why though?) is it correct... -
- Dear Laura
Cases in the child data file are a subset of the indall file (i.e. all children in enumerated household... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Hi Charlotte
Thank you for your question. We’re currently working on Wave 2 of the survey and finalising what will... -
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... -
- Hello,
While using the variables i_nch02_dv and i_nch34_dv will help you identify households with children in this...
05/14/2020
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- Hi Olena,
many thanks for your reply, I'll look into that.
Best,
Laura -
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 ... -
- 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...
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- 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).
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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 ...
05/13/2020
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- Hi Charlotte
Thank you for your question. We’re currently working on Wave 2 of the survey and finalising what will... -
10:29 AM Support #1345 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
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Please can you confirm which are the "core modules" of the COVID-19 survey? I am specifically interested in whet... -
- Chris confirmed this solved the query.
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
05/12/2020
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- I am currently working on a project looking at work and care in families in East London. As part of the project, we w...
05/05/2020
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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...
05/04/2020
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04:15 PM Support #1300: reason for leaving job for self-employment
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Xiaowei,
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> I looked at the group of respondents who reported they were in paid employme... -
- Hi Stephanie,
this is a derived variable so there is no question text as such. Descriptions for derived variables in... -
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...
05/02/2020
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02:53 PM Support #1341: Ethics Approval Details
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Waves 8 and 9.
Thanks
Eric -
- Hi Eric,
Could you please let us know which waves of the mainstage data are you using?
Thanks,
Alita -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Dear Charlotte,
This is not possible as yet.
Best wishes,
Alita
05/01/2020
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- Hi Chris,
the note is from quite a while back and did not get updated as 'the code' developed. There are two distinc... -
03:08 PM Support #1340 (Resolved): relationship_dv code request
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Please may I request the code to identify errors in the ‘relationship_dv’ variable that is referred to in the v... -
- Hi,
Have just submitted a paper using Understanding Society to Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. They ... -
- Hi,
I'm aware some of the secure datasets have been approved for use via. remote desktop from home with certain co... -
- Hello,
Our current plan is to continue with monthly surveys, for upto 12 months, however, we will keep this under ... -
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...
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- Hello,
This is a monthly survey and the questionnaire is available here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/re... -
- Hi Dharmi,
This variable is built up from past responses. OPRLG1 is asked of those who say Yes to OPLRG (=1) and t...
04/30/2020
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- Hello,
Can you confirm how many time points the USoc-Covid module will be going out to the sample, and can you confi... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
04/28/2020
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03:56 PM Support #1337: w_jbnssec3_dv have more than 3 category
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- Hi Louise,
this question has already been asked, see https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1289. The data will... -
- Dear Officer,
The variable w_jbnssec3_dv has only three categories in the last release reversion (2018). However, ... -
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...
04/24/2020
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- Hello,
No sub-samples will be excluded, 42000 invites have been sent out and we will know the actual sample size a... -
12:40 PM Support #1335 (Resolved): Question on Covid survey
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I've seen the announcement of your new Covid survey. Can I check the sample size please? I think the first (A... -
04/21/2020
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- Dear Francesco,
we do not comment on individual analyses or vet Stata programmes. Having said that, there are differ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Linda,
Thank you for your question.
Yes, the drop in number is correct with weighting - this is because our data ... -
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...
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