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From 08/13/2020 to 09/11/2020
09/11/2020
- 05:31 PM Support #1408 (Resolved): Family structure
- Hi there
I am trying to construct a family structure variable composed by 4 categories: Single, no children, Coupl... - 12:27 PM Support #1406 (Feedback): COVID-19 July release
- Dear Darja,
Wave 4 of the COVID-19 survey will be released at the end of September - exact date to be confirmed. ... - 11:52 AM Support #1406 (Resolved): COVID-19 July release
- Dear Understanding Society team,
Do you know when the COVID-19 Study Version 4 including the July wave will be rel... - 12:21 PM Support #1407 (Resolved): categories of the qfhigh_dv variable
- Dear Madam/Sir,
I'm really struggling to make sense of the categories of qfhigh_dv variable. Under which category ...
09/09/2020
- 10:22 AM Support #1404 (Resolved): Coding of vote3
- 07:29 AM Support #1404: Coding of vote3
- Hi Becky,
thanks for clarifying this. My problem has been solved and you can close this issue.
Best,
Sebastian
09/08/2020
- 10:45 AM Support #1404: Coding of vote3
- Hi Sebastian,
Information about missing values can be found in the User Guide: https://www.understandingsociety.a... - 08:17 AM Support #1404: Coding of vote3
- Hi Becky,
thank you very much for inquiry with the questionnaire development team. This makes things much clearer....
09/07/2020
- 04:40 PM Support #1404 (Feedback): Coding of vote3
- Hi Sebastian,
We've contacted the questionnaire development team and they caution that there can be a complicated ... - 04:07 PM Support #1405 (Feedback): Ethics application number for Understanding Society
- Hi Neil,
We've been in touch with the survey team and unfortunately up until recently the University did not use a...
09/04/2020
- 01:20 PM Support #1404 (In Progress): Coding of vote3
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:15 PM Support #1405 (In Progress): Ethics application number for Understanding Society
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 12:01 PM Support #1405 (Resolved): Ethics application number for Understanding Society
- Hello,
I am trying submit a journal manuscript but the editors are refusing the accept the paper unless I supply an ...
09/03/2020
- 01:53 PM Support #1404 (Resolved): Coding of vote3
- Dear support-team,
I am trying to identify potential non-voters in elections. The BHPS and the UKHLS both ask abou... - 01:14 PM Support #1300 (Feedback): reason for leaving job for self-employment
- Hi Xiaowei - sorry the delay in getting back to you. I should have clarified that as there is an error in routing or ...
- 01:04 PM Support #1302 (Resolved): See term variable changed for wave i?
- 01:03 PM Support #1303 (Feedback): Accessing linked data
- 01:03 PM Support #1304 (Resolved): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- 01:02 PM Support #1304 (Feedback): The "fihhmnnet" net household income variables - what deductions are made?
- 01:02 PM Support #1372 (Feedback): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)
- 01:02 PM Support #1395 (Feedback): f_scotvot2 - values
- 01:00 PM Support #1383 (Resolved): Coding of variable "hiqual_dv" in the harmonised BHPS
- 01:00 PM Support #1389 (Feedback): Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?
- 12:59 PM Support #1400 (Feedback): Importance of Britishness to sense of self
- Variable note has been added to clarify the different routing rules across waves.
https://www.understandingsociety.a... - 12:59 PM Support #1402 (Feedback): Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias
- 12:58 PM Support #1403 (Feedback): Questions about the data
- 12:58 PM Support #1401 (Feedback): AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- To add, the response rate definition used to produce Tables 13.13. & 13.14 in the user guide is a modified version of...
09/02/2020
- 11:47 AM Support #1401: AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Hi Dana,
As this is a longitudinal survey, we know that the households issued after the first wave are eligible (i... - 09:36 AM Support #1401: AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Dear Dana,
Thank you for your query. I have forwarded your question to the IP team and will get back to you soon.
... - 10:57 AM Support #1403: Questions about the data
- Hello Lior,
1) Is there a number of years of education variable?
Ans: Not number of years of education, but highe... - 09:40 AM Support #1403 (Resolved): Questions about the data
- Dear Madam/Sir,
There are several variables that I'm trying to find and I was hoping you could help me (if they ex... - 10:33 AM Support #1402: Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias
- Hello,
Thank you for raising this issue. This is not directly within the remit of the User Support Team to answer ... - 09:37 AM Support #1402: Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias
- Following my above request I was also wondering how some individuals have very high overall work hours (jbot+jbhrs) w...
- 10:15 AM Support #1399: jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello Mathhew,
>
> In Understanding Society, In Wave 1, past employment history was asked fo... - 09:29 AM Support #1399 (Feedback): jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society
- Hello Mathhew,
In Understanding Society, In Wave 1, past employment history was asked for a quarter of the sample ... - 09:53 AM Support #1400: Importance of Britishness to sense of self
- Hello Jesse,
If you check the questionnaire and find this question BRITID, you will find who gets asked this quest...
09/01/2020
- 08:46 AM Support #1402 (Resolved): Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias
- Hi!
I'd be interested to know why wages (i.e. the variable paygu_dv) is very low for many observations despite wo...
08/31/2020
- 10:17 PM Support #1401 (Resolved): AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Hello,
I am trying to figure out the response rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8 per the AAPOR response rate standards... - 05:42 PM Support #1400 (Resolved): Importance of Britishness to sense of self
- Hi,
Apologies this is a very basic question.
I am using USoc Wave 1 data to examine how important Britishness is to... - 10:51 AM Support #1399 (Resolved): jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society
- I've been trying to merge the datasets for BHPS and Understanding Society to have some idea of the transitions betwee...
08/30/2020
- 11:38 PM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Hello Alita,
My understanding of your weighting assignment is that Waves 2 and 6 have multiple (i.e. more than one...
08/19/2020
- 03:23 PM Support #1398 (Feedback): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- Hi Laia,
As you may have seen from the Covid19 User guide, the Covid19 survey is considered to be a module of the ... - 12:29 PM Support #1398 (Resolved): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- Hello Support Team,
I've read the responses to previous questions regarding weights, but I am still confused as to...
08/18/2020
- 07:17 PM Support #1397: questions about interviewer assignment and training for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Wonderful, many thanks for your help! -Dana
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Dana,
>
> Here is the response from our su... - 10:39 AM Support #1397 (Feedback): questions about interviewer assignment and training for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Hi Dana,
Here is the response from our survey team.
It is not an interpenetrated design, interviewers are alloc... - 12:43 PM Support #1367: Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)
- Hi Colin,
Whether you use basrate or fimnlabgrs_dv depends on what you are interested in.
basrte is not used to...
08/17/2020
- 06:05 PM Support #1397: questions about interviewer assignment and training for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- A related question:
Do interviewers receive their full caseload all at once and work the sample continuously, or are... - 05:15 PM Support #1397 (Resolved): questions about interviewer assignment and training for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Hello,
Reviewers of a manuscript would like to know the following about Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave ... - 05:04 PM Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?
- Hi Fiona,
We have added variable notes to reflect this.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/ma... - 08:04 AM Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?
- Yes you are correct. The label for NRELS1 in Wave 3 & 5 should be "Number of absent sons/daughters"
- 11:54 AM Support #1347: weighting
- Laura,
Thank you. I understand that you study 0-15 year olds and give them some attributes from their parents. We ... - 08:07 AM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- My suggestion would be to add the weights to the indresp files in before merging them. But remember to merge the rele...
08/16/2020
- 10:54 AM Support #1347: weighting
- Hi Olena,
apologies for the late reply.
The unit of my analysis is the child. I use both the child and the you...
08/15/2020
- 06:35 AM Support #1389: Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?
- Hi Alita,
I just saw your response - thank you so much. This is very clear.
I have one final query which would...
08/14/2020
- 06:17 PM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Hello Alita,
I’ll take note of these helpful details. Would it be easier if I can attach the respective weights b... - 05:18 PM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Hi Abigail,
Last time we spoke you said you wanted to estimate models using fixed effects using data from all 18 ... - 05:38 PM Support #1171 (Resolved): How to match information of any two household members across waves
- 05:38 PM Support #1175 (Feedback): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?
- 05:37 PM Support #1181 (Feedback): Merging general health variables
- 05:36 PM Support #1120 (Feedback): Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS
- 05:35 PM Support #1118 (Resolved): f_closenum filtering issues
- 05:34 PM Support #1216 (Feedback): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- 05:34 PM Support #1200 (Resolved): Wave 4 Famsup variable
- 05:33 PM Support #1203 (Resolved): Net Income Variable in BHPS
- 05:33 PM Support #1211 (Resolved): promotion variable and household income
- 05:32 PM Support #1214 (Resolved): variables "satisfaction with...."
- 05:32 PM Support #1215 (Resolved): wJHSTAT for employment at same firm
- 05:31 PM Support #1218 (Feedback): job change since the previous survey
- 05:30 PM Support #1220 (Feedback): Loneliness
- 05:30 PM Support #1222 (Feedback): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)
- 05:29 PM Support #1301 (Resolved): Volume change between releases
- 05:28 PM Support #1347 (Feedback): weighting
- 05:28 PM Support #1370 (Feedback): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata
- 05:27 PM Support #1376 (Feedback): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)
- 08:29 AM Support #1396 (Feedback): calculate taxable income
- Hello Peter,
Have you looked at the questionnaires (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage...
08/13/2020
- 06:05 PM Support #1396 (Resolved): calculate taxable income
- Dear support team,
For my study i wish to calculate taxable income from indresp datasetS from the BHPS 1-18 . I a...
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