Activity
From 08/24/2020 to 09/22/2020
09/22/2020
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12:38 PM Support #1401 (Resolved): AAPOR Response Rate for Innovation Panel Wave 8
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- Hi Ivelina,
Currently there are no plans to ask natid questions again.
Best wishesm,
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- Hello Harry,
Currently there is no longitudinal weight provided for analysing Covid waves. Only cross-sectional we... -
- Note that the employment history in Waves 1 & 5 are about past employment history, that is, before the respondent joi...
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- Hi Lydia,
If you are interested in gross household monthly income, then please use the variable called bw_fihhmngr...
09/21/2020
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- A follow up:
The weighted percentage of adults (16+) who report their ethnic group as "White: British/EnglishScott... -
- Hello Lior,
If you would like to know a person's main employment status then use the variable JBSTAT. If you would... -
09/20/2020
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03:37 PM Support #1398: Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- Hi there
I also have the same question as Laia but I am not entirely sure I am getting Alita's response right. In ... -
01:33 PM Support #1413 (Resolved): Variables for employment
- Hello,
I am trying to understand what is the best variable to use in order to understand if a person is employed.
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09/18/2020
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- Hi Gundi again
I read your last email carefully and it seems to me that the main problem I have is with definition... -
10:22 AM Support #1412: Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
- Lydia,
I am answering here your question regarding weights. The weight you use will depend on the level of analysi... -
10:07 AM Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
- Great, thanks Becky.
Best wishes,
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10:02 AM Support #1411 (Feedback): Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
- Hi Kevin,
Just to confirm that the data team have received the approval from Metadac and will be in touch with yo...
09/17/2020
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- Hi Lydia,
Thanks for your query, it's been passed to our weights specialist. We'll be in touch with a response so...
09/16/2020
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08:47 PM Support #1412 (Resolved): Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
- Dear Support Team,
I am computing the poverty line for each wave of BHPS and UKHLS, as indicated by the files in ... -
- Will do! Thanks,
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- Thank you,
If the team need to contact METADAC, could you please ask the team to cc someone from METADAC apart fr... -
- Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the additional information. The data team are checking and if the email from Stephanie isn't... -
- Stephanie Roberts from METADAC has just got back to me, confirming to me that the email was sent to genetics@understa...
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- Thank you.
Please not that while I am the contact person for the projects, the principal applicant is Olivier Gev... -
- Hi Kevin,
Once the approval from Metadac has come through the data team at Understanding Society will prepare you...
09/15/2020
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- Hi Gundi
Thanks again for your very informative reply. I would need to test some of these classification using the... -
01:02 PM Support #1408: Family structure
- Dear Harry,
as I said, ndepchl_dv is an individual-level variable: how many dependent children does this enumerated ... -
- Dear Gundi
Many thanks for taking the time to look in my query in more detail. Many thanks for your suggestion too... -
- Hi there,
On May 26th I raised issue #1349 to enquire about linking UKHLS genetic and DNA methylation data from t...
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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- 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.
- Hi there,
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... -
- Hi Mark,
We've looked into this and we think you need to contact CACI to see how they've arrived at their figure. ... -
- Hi,
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... -
- 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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- 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.
https://www.understandingsociety.a... -
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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... -
- Dear Madam/Sir,
There are several variables that I'm trying to find and I was hoping you could help me (if they ex... -
- 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...
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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
- Hi,
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...
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