Activity
From 08/16/2020 to 09/14/2020
09/14/2020
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09:18 PM Support #1401: AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
- Thank you for letting me know.
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03:54 PM Support #1410 (Feedback): Determining the missing values in the jbsoc10_cc variable.
- Hi Cameron,
we use dependent interviewing (DI) to minimise spurious changes in occupations, so instead of asking f... -
12:31 PM Support #1410 (Resolved): Determining the missing values in the jbsoc10_cc variable.
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I see in the jbsoc10_cc variable note it says: "SOC 2010 codes are [-9] missing for jobs that were alrea... -
03:19 PM Support #1409: Ethnicity Query
- Rebecca Parsons wrote:
> Hi Mark,
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> We've looked into this and we think you need to contact CACI to see how the... -
02:46 PM Support #1409 (Feedback): Ethnicity Query
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We've looked into this and we think you need to contact CACI to see how they've arrived at their figure. ... -
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Thanks for your question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as so... -
- Hi - i'm not sure this is the correct forum but hoping you can help. I'm using CACI Acorn data which supply UK ethnic...
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- Hi Harry,
sorry to not have been more precise. No, I am not recommending you to use or not use depchl_dv. I was just... -
11:24 AM Support #1408: Family structure
- Hi Gundi
Many thanks for your quick response. So do you recommend me using depchl_dv (I guess you mean ndepchl_dv?... -
- Hi Theocharis,
the household type variable draws on the number of dependent children in the household (depchl_dv) so... -
- Hi Theocharis,
Thanks for your question. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we'll get back to ... -
- Hi Jan,
qfhigh_dv does not make use of BTech and NVQs. These qualifications are captured in the variables qfvoc#,...
09/11/2020
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- Hi there
I am trying to construct a family structure variable composed by 4 categories: Single, no children, Coupl... -
- 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
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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
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- Hi Sebastian,
Information about missing values can be found in the User Guide: https://www.understandingsociety.a... -
- Hi Becky,
thank you very much for inquiry with the questionnaire development team. This makes things much clearer....
09/07/2020
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- Hi Sebastian,
We've contacted the questionnaire development team and they caution that there can be a complicated ... -
- 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
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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...
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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...
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12:01 PM Support #1405 (Resolved): Ethics application number for Understanding Society
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I am trying submit a journal manuscript but the editors are refusing the accept the paper unless I supply an ...
09/03/2020
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- Dear support-team,
I am trying to identify potential non-voters in elections. The BHPS and the UKHLS both ask abou... -
- Hi Xiaowei - sorry the delay in getting back to you. I should have clarified that as there is an error in routing or ...
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- Variable note has been added to clarify the different routing rules across waves.
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- 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
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- Hi Dana,
As this is a longitudinal survey, we know that the households issued after the first wave are eligible (i... -
- Dear Dana,
Thank you for your query. I have forwarded your question to the IP team and will get back to you soon.
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- 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... -
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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...
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10:15 AM Support #1399: jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello Mathhew,
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> In Understanding Society, In Wave 1, past employment history was asked fo... -
- Hello Mathhew,
In Understanding Society, In Wave 1, past employment history was asked for a quarter of the sample ... -
- Hello Jesse,
If you check the questionnaire and find this question BRITID, you will find who gets asked this quest...
09/01/2020
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- 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
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- 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
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Apologies this is a very basic question.
I am using USoc Wave 1 data to examine how important Britishness is to... -
- I've been trying to merge the datasets for BHPS and Understanding Society to have some idea of the transitions betwee...
08/30/2020
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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
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- 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
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- Wonderful, many thanks for your help! -Dana
Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hi Dana,
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- Hi Dana,
Here is the response from our survey team.
It is not an interpenetrated design, interviewers are alloc... -
- Hi Colin,
Whether you use basrate or fimnlabgrs_dv depends on what you are interested in.
basrte is not used to...
08/17/2020
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- A related question:
Do interviewers receive their full caseload all at once and work the sample continuously, or are... -
- Hello,
Reviewers of a manuscript would like to know the following about Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave ... -
- Hi Fiona,
We have added variable notes to reflect this.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/ma... -
- Yes you are correct. The label for NRELS1 in Wave 3 & 5 should be "Number of absent sons/daughters"
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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 ... -
- 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
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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...
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