Activity
From 10/05/2020 to 11/03/2020
11/03/2020
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03:21 PM Support #1436 (In Progress): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
- 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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11:04 AM Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am working on the Covid-Wave 4 Caring within the household module and wondered ... -
- Dear Charlotte,
These jk_ data files are only meant to be used in conjunction with the Covid19 data files and so t... -
02:16 PM Support #1437 (Resolved): JK weighting guidance
- Hi all,
I was hoping that you could clarify a few things regarding the weighting of the jk datasets. As far as I ... -
- Dear Arpita,
Since BHPS joins Understanding Society in Wave 2, so BHPS W18 could be considered to be UKHLS W1 for ... -
12:05 PM Support #1434: Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
- Hello Alita,
thank you for your quick reply!
I know how to access "Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018: Sp... -
- Hello Carla,
From what I can understand you would like access to the School Codes. To do that go to the UKDS websi...
11/02/2020
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03:05 PM Support #1435 (Resolved): BHPS wave 18 and UKHLS wave 1 integration
- Dear User Support team,
I hope you are doing well. I am writing to you regarding a question about using BHPS 18 an... -
- Hello,
I am planning to request the special license data on school codes. I would like to use them to analyse additi...
10/28/2020
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11:06 AM Support #1433: Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'
- Dear Alita,
Thanks for sharing the look-up file, which is very helpful. I currently get an understanding of how ot...
10/27/2020
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03:23 PM Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules
- Hello again team,
Just following up on the non-response adjustment.
As I understood from your answer, I would n... -
- Hello,
While a lower value generally reflects a higher educational qualification, these are not ordinal variables ...
10/26/2020
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- Educational variable ‘d_qfhigh’ includes 16 categories (shown as below). Does lower coding imply a higher educational...
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- super helpful, thanks team!
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- Hello Taha,
Our remit is to respond to queries about the data. If you would like to know about the R syntax for me...
10/25/2020
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03:00 PM Support #1398: Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- Hi Alita. Just a reminder on this issue. Any advices from Covid team on what weights one should use when conducting a...
10/23/2020
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- Hi there,
I've been doing a quick analysis for the question listed above, I was hoping someone could sense-check m...
10/22/2020
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03:56 PM Support #1431 (Feedback): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv
- Hi Michael,
this question has already been asked, please see https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1337.
The ... -
03:34 PM Support #1431 (Resolved): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv
- Hi folks,
I was wondering if you could tell me what the values 7 to 12 relate to for the jbnssec3_dv variable? Als... -
02:21 PM Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
- Dear Kevin
Thank you for your patience. We are establishing with the data team when the data will be ready and wil... -
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- Hi George,
It will involve merging data files, so should require standard R syntax to do that. But the complicatio... -
- We are on track to have this data released in November.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support -
09:57 AM Support #1430 (Resolved): Wave 10 release
- Hi,
On the website it says wave 10 of USoc is likely to be released in November 2020. I was wondering if you were ... -
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- The Covid19 team has responded: In the September data there is a new question asked of all respondents who have in on...
10/21/2020
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08:00 PM Support #1423: Merging youth to adult data
- Thanks for the reply.
More specifically, how would I take youth data from say wave 1 and track those individuals t... -
- Hello Kevin - the Metadac team have informed me that they will be emailing you very soon.
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12:23 AM Support #1411: Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
- Can you please let me know if I and when I will receive this data?
10/20/2020
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- Ok, I see. I will pass your question onto the covid19 team in case they are aware of any questions that may help iden...
10/19/2020
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- Hi Alita
Many thanks for your reply. This isvery helpful. -
- Hi Colin,
JBISCO88 is coded from JBSOC00, JBSEMP, JBSIZE and JSSIZE using rigid look-up files, see e.g. https://www.... -
11:57 AM Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study
- Many thanks. However, those on furlough remained in employment. Sorry, I did not explain this well enough. Those who ...
10/16/2020
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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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03:04 PM Support #1429 (Resolved): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations
- Hi! I'd be interested why there is a disproportionate large number of individuals who report to be in the ISCO88 occu...
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- This is continuing via email.
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- 1. About interviews in 2020: Sorry for not being clearer in my response. The Understanding sample can be considered t...
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Hi there
Many thanks for your reply.
There are a couple of following up points I would need to clarify with ...
10/15/2020
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- Each person in the Covid19 survey will have been interviewed in 2019 either as part of Wave 10 or Wave 11. This dataf...
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- Hi Luke - Could you please clarify what you mean by "adverse childhood experience by adulthood"? From your earlier po...
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01:27 PM Support #1426: Adverse childhood experience data
- Dear Alita,
Thank you for passing on this information. I have been using some of these methods and havent been abl...
10/14/2020
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- Hi there
I realised that there are only the j_hidp k_hidp and jk_hidp variables available in the new "mainstage_d... -
- The current weights available with Covid19 survey data (cW_betaindin_xw) do not adjust for any bias arising from non-...
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- Thanks Alita. Are there any advices Usoc users can get from covid weighting team on how to construct longitudinal wei...
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- No same population. This is how longitudinal weights in this survey are computed: Iniital wave cross sectional weight...
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04:18 PM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Hello Alita,
Thanks so much for the syntax file that you sent. I may be misunderstanding what you said here:
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- Hi Abigail - I am providing a Stata syntax file to show you what I mean.
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- Hello Alita,
For option 1, does this mean I can disregard the weight variable lrwtuk1 for BHPS W11-18 and simply f... -
- Option 1: Append individual level files (indresp) from W11 of BHPS until W18, and W2 UKHLS until W9 into a long forma...
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- Hello Alita,
I am using xtreg for W11-18 of BHPS along with W2-9 of UKHLS, so I am looking at the “harmonisation” ... -
- Hello Abigail,
If you are using xtreg you can only use one weight for the entire set of waves - as it is the same ... -
- Hello Olena,
Many thanks for your response. I tried generating a single variable to combine these two weighting va... -
11:30 AM Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing
- Abigail,
The data for indin01_lw starts with 2001, and the data for indin91_lw starts in 1991. While the variabl... -
- Dear Luke,
There is alarge number of questions that are asked across the waves. Here are different ways you can se... -
- Hello,
I have been looking through the data documentation to see if there are any variables which capture any adve...
10/13/2020
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- Yes, but there is one exception: When the Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample was added in Wave 6, ethnic grou...
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04:48 PM Support #1424: Stability of resp ethnicity over time
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello,
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> You are right. Here is a summary:
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> Those who enter the survey as adults (16... -
- Hello,
You are right. Here is a summary:
Those who enter the survey as adults (16+) are asked the question once... -
- Hi,
I'm investigating the degree to which individuals retain or change their ethnicity over time, particularly fro... -
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- Hi Luca - Yes, if you use the non-topcoded values, there will be more extreme values. But please note that we do not ...
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- The longitudinal weights will not be available with the next release of the data.
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- If someone returned to work you will be able to identify them by using the employment status variable, cW_sempchk. Th...
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- Hello,
To link individual level data to household level data use the household ID, w_hidp
To link children/youth ...
10/12/2020
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- Hello,
I am using R to do my work.
I am looking at the impact of social media usage on the outcome variable s... -
- Hi Alita. Are there any news from covid weighting team on the longitudinal weighting issue?
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- Thanks so much again for your prompt responses. I checked the coding for those who were furloughed on hrschange* in t...
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- Yes, use the hrschange* variables.
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- Thanks so much. However, are those who were on furlough in April or May ask whether they are still on furlough? I can...
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- Hello Darja,
Take look at the Universe for the question FURLOUGH in the questionnnaires for Waves 2 & 3. The Unive...
10/11/2020
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- Hello Support team,
I am grateful if you could help me identifying respondents who are on furlough in each wave in...
10/09/2020
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- Hi Alita,
I still haven't heard from the team. As I have mentioned before, it's been over a year since I first ap...
10/08/2020
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05:21 PM Support #1421: top coding in income components
- Alita Nandi wrote:
> Hello,
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> Thanks for your query. I have passed on your concern to the income team.
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- Hello,
Thanks for your query. I have passed on your concern to the income team.
About your question, "In this c... -
- Hello Alita,
If br_lrwtuk1 is the weight variable for BHPS W11-18 for longitudinal analysis, then I have to genera... -
- Hi Abigail,
It is not your mistake, it is mine. Very sorry. The names of the weight variables for BHPS have not ye...
10/07/2020
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- Hi there,
sorry to bother during these unfortunate times.
I'm working with UKHLS 1-3 to build a 3-years income av... -
- 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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- 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... -
- 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
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