Activity
From 09/08/2020 to 10/07/2020
10/07/2020
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11:05 AM Support #1421 (Resolved): top coding in income components
- Hi there,
sorry to bother during these unfortunate times.
I'm working with UKHLS 1-3 to build a 3-years income av... -
06:06 AM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Hello Alita,
When I am restricting the analysis to Waves 11-18 of the BHPS, using indin01_lw as weighting variable...
10/06/2020
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12:16 PM Support #1420: covid-19 observations not merging with wave 9 data
- Sorry I misunderstood your question. But I could not find the problem you have highlighted. Your understanding of i_i...
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11:36 AM Support #1420: covid-19 observations not merging with wave 9 data
- Thanks Alita, I'm still a bit confused.
I understand that the covid sample also includes some individuals who were... -
- Hello Cristina,
Anyone 16+ years, who was in a household that participated in at least one of the last two waves o...
10/05/2020
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- Hello
Some individuals from the April-June covid-19 data files do not match with wave 9 data (using the pidp varia... -
11:49 AM Support #1418: Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC
- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your reply. It helps a lot.
Best, Arpita
Olena Kaminska wrote:
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- Hi Laura,
No, there is no such composite variable.
Best wishes,
Alita
10/03/2020
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04:03 PM Support #1419 (Resolved): Moved to current address variable
- Hi,
if I understand well the variable *_myvr is asked every wave only to new entrants. Is there any variable that...
09/30/2020
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02:08 PM Support #1418: Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC
- Arpita,
Thank you for your question. 'ui' weight is better in two ways: it has higher sample size (so higher stati... -
- 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 User Support Team,
I hope you are doing well in these difficult times. My questions are related to this old o... -
- Dear Goerge,
Our remit is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide general advice about... -
12:31 PM Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
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- Sorry about that Kevin. I have written to the team and waiting to hear back from them.
Best wishes,
Alita -
- Hi Alita,
Would it be possible to get contact information for whoever is processing my data. I haven't heard from...
09/29/2020
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06:43 PM Support #1408: Family structure
- Thanks for letting me know Gundi!
Harry -
- Many thanks Alita! I appreciate this. Best, Harry
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- Hello Harry,
My understanding is that with the weights currently provided you cannot do that. The weight, cW_betai... -
- Thanks Alita.
I have certainly read the survey user guide before I post my question here. What is not clear to me ... -
03:12 PM Support #1417 (Resolved): Time-varying predictor variables at different waves to outcome
- I am using longitudinal models and have a specific question regarding Understanding Society data and a specific way I...
09/28/2020
09/25/2020
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- Abigail,
Just to add, if you are concerned about the differences in the populations, then you can use full samples... -
10:03 AM Support #1408: Family structure
- Hi Harry,
the definition of the dependent child variable seems to have changed over time and we are currently review...
09/24/2020
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11:56 AM Support #1416: components of weight variables
- That's clear now Olena, many thanks!
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- Filip,
We do not calibrate to housing tenure. Housing tenure is used in the correction for attrition. So the infor... -
- Thank you for the answer Olena. Could you also let me know what external source is used for calibrating the housing t...
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- Dear Filip,
Thank you for your question. I can confirm that housing tenure goes into weighting models.
Unfortuna... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/23/2020
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- Hello,
I have a general question and a specific one.
1) Please could direct me to documentation regarding what vari... -
- Sorry there was a typo: UKHLS Waves 1-2, use b_indinus_lw
And you can use i_indinub_lw for Waves 2-9.
And you c... -
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- Antonia,
Yes, you can and should apply survey design adjustment for a subset just a you would for the whole popula... -
10:26 AM Support #1414 (Resolved): Weighting dual pay only
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I would like to analyze a subset of all households who pay their gas/electricity/oil bills on seperate bills ... -
- Hello,
If you are analysing data from adult questionnaire including self-completion questionnaire from Waves 1 to ... -
11:07 AM Support #1415 (Resolved): Using weights for all 9 waves
- I'm using all 9 waves of data and need to choose the correct weight.
I understand that using 'indscui_lw' appears t... -
10:28 AM Support #1392: natid - change in national identity
- Hi Alita,
Thank you for following up and for letting me know - much appreciated.
All the best,
Ivelina
09/22/2020
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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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- 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... -
- Lydia,
I am answering here your question regarding weights. The weight you use will depend on the level of analysi... -
- 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,
Becky -
- 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... -
- 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....
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