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From 10/24/2020 to 11/22/2020

11/20/2020

04:53 PM Support #1450 (Resolved): Covid Study netpay_amount
Dear User support,
I would be grateful if you could confirm whether the self-employed have reported their SEISS pa...
Darja Reuschke
03:48 PM Support #1448 (In Progress): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi
03:09 PM Support #1448 (Resolved): Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1
Hello,
I am trying to select an appropriate weight but I am struggling with deciding which is the most appropriate...
George Comp

11/19/2020

04:16 PM Support #1444: COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
The unmatched cases are those who were not interviewed in 2019 (either as part of Wave 10 or 11). So, I matched with ... Alita Nandi
10:09 AM Support #1444: COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
Hi,
Thank you very much for this. I'm afraid I'm still a bit confused. When I run this command there are 120 resp...
Lizzie Augarde
04:11 PM Support #1443 (Feedback): COVID wave 4 youth file
You will have to link back youth data from Covid19 (cW_youth_p) to INDALL files in the main data (W_indall) which wil... Alita Nandi
03:36 PM Support #1445 (Feedback): Geographic disaggregations available
Hi Evelyn,
all available neighbourhood classifications and geographical identifiers are listed here:
https://www.un...
Gundi Knies
03:04 PM Support #1445 (Resolved): Geographic disaggregations available
Good afternoon,
I am hoping to get a better understanding of what sociodemographic and health variables can be acc...
Evelyn Jager

11/18/2020

08:00 PM Support #1442 (Feedback): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
Hello Natalie,
The extra5min eligibility conditions do not apply to proxy respondents. So, if someone qualified as...
Alita Nandi
11:07 AM Support #1442 (In Progress): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi
10:59 AM Support #1442 (Resolved): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
Hello, I have been trying to calculate how the extra 5 minutes sample size changes from wave 1 to wave 3. Because the... Natalie Bennett
06:54 PM Support #1444 (Feedback): COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
Hello,
If you merge this file with the 2019 data file, jk_indall_cv which includes the household grid information ...
Alita Nandi
11:36 AM Support #1444 (Resolved): COVID-19 telephone survey household composition data
Hi, I am working with the COVID-19 survey data. I've noticed that the household composition data for the May 2020 tel... Lizzie Augarde
01:57 PM Support #1443: COVID wave 4 youth file
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi
11:24 AM Support #1443 (Resolved): COVID wave 4 youth file
Hi,
I was wondering whether it is possible to link the wave 4 youth SDQ responses to the parent pidp in the indivi...
Charlotte Edney
01:23 PM Support #1441: Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
Hello Ilona,
In Wave 6, only IEMB sample members not born in the UK were asked this question. In Wave 7, those who...
Alita Nandi
11:01 AM Support #1441 (In Progress): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Alita Nandi

11/16/2020

05:14 PM Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
Hi there,
I'm interested in the question on reasons for migration asked in wave 6 (migrationhistory_iemb1.mreason)...
Ilona Pinter
02:09 PM Support #1439: jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
That's brilliant, thank you so much for your help! I should have spotted that additional filtering question, sorry ab... Karen Arulsamy
02:06 PM Support #1439 (Feedback): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
Hello,
If you look at the questionnaires you will see that there was an additional filtering that was included a f...
Alita Nandi
11:21 AM Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
Hi,
I am working on a project to potentially combine BHPS + UKHLS datasets with a specific interest in the variab...
Karen Arulsamy
02:08 PM Support #1440 (Feedback): Identifying Household Roles
Hello,
No there is no such variable. But there is a file EGOALT which shows the relationship between any two indiv...
Alita Nandi
12:31 PM Support #1440 (Resolved): Identifying Household Roles
Good Morning,

I am working with the first 5 waves of the UsoC.
I am currently trying to undertake a within hous...
Patricio Valdivieso

11/05/2020

02:47 PM Support #1436: Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for confirming these timeframes.
Best wishes,
Emma
Emma Maun

11/04/2020

02:29 PM Support #1436 (Feedback): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
Response from the team:
The routing instructions in the questionnaire for the question AIDHH shows that it is only...
Alita Nandi

11/03/2020

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... Alita Nandi
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 ...
Emma Maun
03:20 PM Support #1437 (Feedback): JK weighting guidance
Dear Charlotte,
These jk_ data files are only meant to be used in conjunction with the Covid19 data files and so t...
Alita Nandi
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 ...
Charlotte Hassell
03:18 PM Support #1435 (Feedback): BHPS wave 18 and UKHLS wave 1 integration
Dear Arpita,
Since BHPS joins Understanding Society in Wave 2, so BHPS W18 could be considered to be UKHLS W1 for ...
Alita Nandi
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...
Carla Grindel
11:20 AM Support #1434 (Feedback): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
Hello Carla,
From what I can understand you would like access to the School Codes. To do that go to the UKDS websi...
Alita Nandi

11/02/2020

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...
Arpita Ghosh
12:18 PM Support #1434 (Resolved): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
Hello,
I am planning to request the special license data on school codes. I would like to use them to analyse additi...
Carla Grindel

10/28/2020

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...
Ting Liu

10/27/2020

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...
Taha Abrar
12:17 PM Support #1433 (Feedback): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'
Hello,
While a lower value generally reflects a higher educational qualification, these are not ordinal variables ...
Alita Nandi

10/26/2020

01:36 PM Support #1433 (Resolved): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'
Educational variable ‘d_qfhigh’ includes 16 categories (shown as below). Does lower coding imply a higher educational... Ting Liu
09:54 AM Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules
super helpful, thanks team! Taha Abrar
09:33 AM Support #1432 (Feedback): Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules
Hello Taha,
Our remit is to respond to queries about the data. If you would like to know about the R syntax for me...
Alita Nandi

10/25/2020

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... Theocharis Kromydas
 

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