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From 05/12/2020 to 06/10/2020
06/10/2020
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  04:36 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Ok, thanks anyway 
 best wishes,
 Katie
 
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  01:26 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Sorry Katie, there isn't one as yet.
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  01:19 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Ah I see. Is there an equivalent syntax available for SPSS?
 Best wishes,
 Katie
 
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  01:10 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Katie,
 Sorry I should have specified that this is a Stata syntax file. So, it will not work with SPSS.
 Best ...
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  12:38 PM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Alita,
 Unfortunately not (I accept this may be me though!) Is this syntax suitable for use with SPSS? I'm getting...
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  01:16 PM Support #1357 (Feedback): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9 
- Hi Chris,
 The variable you need to match the two ca_indresp_w with any individual level file in Wave 9 is pidp. If...
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  01:05 PM Support #1357 (Resolved): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9 
- Hi,
 I am a novice at using Understanding Society data, but it is my understanding that respondents in the Covid-19...
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  11:03 AM Support #1355: question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi Marina,
 Sorry I missed your second question, "In addition, I would like to know how you compare the baseline ho...
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  10:05 AM Support #1355: question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi Alita, 
 Thanks for your fast answer. I am, however, still confused about how to construct a household earnings ...
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  08:54 AM Support #1355 (Feedback): question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hello,
 You are right that ca_blhhearn* is asked of everyone. But if someone gives a partial interview then it mean...
06/09/2020
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  06:00 PM Support #1355 (Resolved): question on household earnings in COVID study 
- Hi, 
 I am interested in the household questions in the COVID module (variables ca_blhhearn_answer ca_blhhearn_peri...
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  11:21 AM Support #1354 (Feedback): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study 
- Hello,
 The file ca_indresp_w is the adult level file where pidp uniquely identifies each row. The information prov...
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  10:40 AM Support #1354 (Resolved): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study 
- Hello,
 I have been analysing the April wave of the Covid-19 data. I have come across trouble linking the children ...
06/04/2020
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  03:27 PM Support #1353 (Feedback): COVID-19 survey 
- Hi Alexis,
 We advise users to use "scaled" option, as the "certainty" option means that these units do not contrib...
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  10:44 AM Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey 
- Good morning and I hope you are well. I am trying to analyse data from the COVID-19 survey and I have a question.
 
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05/29/2020
05/27/2020
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  07:56 AM Support #1343: Creating a family group for profile of parents 
- Hi Katie,
 I am attaching a syntax file that attaches co-resident parents information. See if this works for you. I...
05/21/2020
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  02:12 PM Support #1347 (Resolved): weighting 
- You are welcome!
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  02:08 PM Support #1348 (Resolved): Merging 
- You are welcome!
 Best,
 Gundi
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  01:06 PM Support #1350: GCSE grade data 
- Dear Abigail,
 detailed information about GCSE English and maths results is only asked of young people aged 16 who fi...
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...
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  02:48 PM Support #1352: Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Thank you for the prompt reply.
 I had a look through the revision document and it appears the change came in the t...
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  02:16 PM Support #1352 (In Progress): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Hi Cameron, 
 Looking back through the revision documents, changes were made to the income variables in the Wave 8 ...
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  12:46 PM Support #1352 (Resolved): Differences between fihhmngrs_dv over different data downloads 
- Hi,
 I was previously working with an older download of US that contained waves 1-7. I recently re-downloaded the d...
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  02:35 PM Support #1331: query about food poverty/insecurity information 
- Dear Fatemah, 
 The fieldwork for Wave 12 has only just started, so the data won't be available until November 2022...
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  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...
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  11:47 AM Support #1350 (In Progress): GCSE grade data 
- 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 ...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
05/14/2020
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  09:46 PM Support #1347: weighting 
- Hi Olena,
 many thanks for your reply, I'll look into that.
 Best,
 Laura
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  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 ...
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  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...
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  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). 
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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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  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...
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  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...
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  02:24 PM Support #1340 (Resolved): relationship_dv code request 
- Chris confirmed this solved the query. 
 
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  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...
05/12/2020
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  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...
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