Understanding Society User Support

11/23/2020

12:56 PM Support #1451: Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hi Alita,
Thanks for your advice. I have referenced the NSSEC variables for occupation- based social class status.... Abigail Dumalus

12:26 PM Support #1451 (Feedback): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hello,
Yes, you can use ppid or sppid (depending on whether you want to include spouses or spouses & partners) to ... Alita Nandi

10:23 AM Support #1451 (Resolved): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class

Hello,
Is there a way to use ppid and sppid variables to designate a household's social class? For example, a man ... Abigail Dumalus

12:40 PM Support #1453 (Feedback): Wave 10 release date

Yes, that is still the plan.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team Alita Nandi

12:38 PM Support #1453 (Resolved): Wave 10 release date

Dear support team,
I've read on your website that wave 10, including 2018-2020 responses, will become available in... Marina Soley-Bori

12:29 PM Support #1448: Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Dear George,
Thank you for your question. We do not provide longitudinal youth weights as one quickly runs out of ... Olena Kaminska

11:53 AM Support #1452 (Resolved): panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv

Hi folks,
I hope you are well. I was just wondering if you could inform me as to why there are such large inapplic... Michael Vallely

08:13 AM Support #1388 (Resolved): Merging geographical special license data

Alita Nandi

08:06 AM Support #1432: Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. You will need to create the weight yourself by estimating the probability... Alita Nandi

07:56 AM Support #1433: Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

Correspondence continued via email Alita Nandi

07:53 AM Support #1450 (Feedback): Covid Study netpay_amount

Hello Darja,
These are not variables derived by us, but as reported by the respondent.Please take a look at the qu... Alita Nandi

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