Activity
From 01/04/2021 to 02/02/2021
02/02/2021
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06:06 PM Support #1496 (Feedback): data merge
- Hi Rachel,
1) I am assuming you want to merge a household level file (such as w_hhresp) with an individual level f... -
11:04 AM Support #1496 (In Progress): data merge
- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... -
03:42 PM Support #1481 (In Progress): Missing values vs negative income
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03:31 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Dear Olena,
thank you for the answer. Yes - I am pooling observations. Individuals might be observed more than on... -
12:49 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Lydia,
Thank you. Are you pooling all the information together and using it in one model?
Are you studying a cros... -
02:18 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your help. I have already removed all participants who are not part of the extra five minutes ... -
12:43 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Natalie,
Extra 5 minutes are questions meant for ethnic minorities - so all ethnic minorities are asked them, but ... -
01:57 PM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Hi,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I would like to add a better way to create children id:
foreach w in $W ... -
10:57 AM Support #1498 (In Progress): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Dear Mario,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... -
09:30 AM Support #1498 (Resolved): Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I have managed to create a mother, father, and children identifier using the EGOALT file in BHP... -
11:51 AM Support #1491 (Feedback): advice on constructing ISCED variable
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11:36 AM Support #1493 (Resolved): negative income
02/01/2021
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08:39 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Thank you.
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10:37 AM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi Leilah,
as you are looking for the population mean, you can use summarize which allows aweight, but not pweight. ... -
05:28 PM Support #1496 (Resolved): data merge
- Sorry if this has been asked before!
How can i merge variables from one dataset to another from the same year. on... -
02:23 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you so much for your detailed reply and suggestion for even more accurate analysis. I will probabl... -
01:21 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
One more point. If you want to skip postal sectors and go with the lower LSOAs it is theoretically possible... -
01:11 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
You do need to go with the highest level of clustering in the model (other levels are optional). But indeed... -
12:59 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Yes, thank you very much!
As for the clustering, I was wondering: when I am interested in neighbourho... -
09:33 AM Support #1495 (In Progress): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Natalie,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t... -
09:31 AM Support #1494 (In Progress): Weights
- Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back t...
01/30/2021
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05:41 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- In addition, how would I know which population weight to choose for the mean income calculation? When calculating mea...
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05:08 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi Gundi, why do you use an aweight? I am trying to construct the mean income of a reference group weighted by popula...
01/29/2021
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06:49 PM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Hi Clara,
the variable isced11_dv is a recode of the variable w_qfhighoth. To understand the inapplicable -8, please... -
05:49 PM Support #1493 (Feedback): negative income
- Dear Rachel,
Negative values result from self-employed respondents reporting losses. This question comes up quite ... -
01:07 PM Support #1493 (In Progress): negative income
- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back ... -
12:38 PM Support #1493 (Resolved): negative income
- I am using the ‘total household net income - no deductions’ variable but it has several negative values ranging from ...
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05:47 PM Support #1492 (Feedback): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
- Dear Babar,
"my concern is that a person could be interviewed on 5th April 2013 (end of 2012/13 FYR) and then 20th... -
05:10 PM Support #1495 (Resolved): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi, I am using wave 3 extra five minutes sample participants in my analysis only. I am using the specific cross secti...
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03:51 PM Support #1494 (Resolved): Weights
- Dear USoC team,
I am doing an analysis on young adults which comprises wave 12,13,17 of BHPS and 2,3,5,7,9 of UKH...
01/28/2021
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04:19 PM Support #1492 (In Progress): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
- 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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03:32 PM Support #1492 (Resolved): USoc Interview dates 'slotting' into financial year
- Hi,
I'm running a model on SAS which uses financial year, i.e. from 6 April to 5 April, so I want to see how USoc ... -
04:18 PM Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net income
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04:17 PM Support #1490: Top-coding of net income
- Thank you. Could you please ask the Income Team how I can identify which individual observations have been top-coded?
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03:47 PM Support #1491 (In Progress): advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:37 PM Support #1491 (Resolved): advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Dear support team,
I am looking to construct an ISCED variable from UKHLS data (waves 2-9) for comparison with GSO... -
10:18 AM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
Sample design is described here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/worki...
01/27/2021
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03:05 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Dear Olena,
I am now at the stage of trying to get a deeper understanding of what PSUs, strata, and weights actual...
01/26/2021
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08:42 PM Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting
- Hi Alita,
Thanks so much for your reply. I have noted down your suggestions.
Thanks again!
best,
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02:38 PM Support #1490 (Feedback): Top-coding of net income
- Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Based on the user guide description of topcoding, all these variables...
01/25/2021
01/24/2021
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06:32 PM Support #1482: Top-coded income
- Thanks.
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12:22 PM Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net income
- Hi, how would I find out if observations of the following variables have been top-coded?:
fimnnet_dv
fimnmisc_dv
f...
01/22/2021
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07:06 PM Support #1489: SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'
- Sorry I meant age 5 or 8. If you take all adult respondents in c_indresp who completed the interview face-to-face (c_...
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06:25 PM Support #1489 (Feedback): SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'
- Hello Giorgio,
This file includes all children (0-15 year old). These questions were asked of parents of 3 and 5 y... -
10:18 AM Support #1489 (Resolved): SDQ Total Difficulties Score - too many 'inapplicable'
- Dear all,
I would like to know your opinion on the following issue (maybe silly, but I am pretty new to this data...
01/21/2021
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02:40 PM Support #1487: Clarification on fuel expenditure
- Dear Alita,
Thank you so much for taking the time to check this and for helping me understand this matter. I reall... -
02:34 PM Support #1487: Clarification on fuel expenditure
- I have checked the routing on all these questions (as specified in the questionnaire) and these are ok.
cou if fuel... -
01:45 PM Support #1487: Clarification on fuel expenditure
- Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
I am specifically interested in fuel expenditure, so I ha... -
10:40 AM Support #1487 (Feedback): Clarification on fuel expenditure
- Dear Christina,
We will look into this. Could you please provide exact variable names and waves you are looking at... -
08:42 AM Support #1487 (Resolved): Clarification on fuel expenditure
- Hello,
I am conducting analysis on several waves of the UKHLS. I have noticed that, when looking at expenditure on... -
01:56 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Yes, if the weight is at an individual level.
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01:27 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. This is super useful!
As for the weight, in a longitudin... -
11:51 AM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
The enumeration weight is the same for everyone in a household (with very few exceptions in EMB sample) onl... -
09:48 AM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much - this is very helpful!
Does this mean that the enumeration weight is the same fo... -
01:37 PM Support #1482: Top-coded income
- Our income team has pointed out that the fimnlabgrs is a variable which is the sum of variables, and it is these comp...
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12:44 PM Support #1473 (Resolved): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
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12:42 PM Support #1481 (Resolved): Missing values vs negative income
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12:06 PM Support #1485 (Resolved): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level
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10:15 AM Support #1485 (Feedback): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level
- Hi Martin,
This is an analysis question and it is not within our remit to provide analytical help as we don't have... -
10:44 AM Support #1484 (Resolved): Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
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10:09 AM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- There are multiple methods. For example, you can also use collapse:
Open your data
save temp, replace // collapse...
01/20/2021
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08:33 PM Support #1484: Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Many thanks for your explanation! It is very helpful.
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05:34 PM Support #1484: Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Sorry, I see what you mean.
The weights are scaled so that they add up to the sample size and not the UK populatio... -
04:20 PM Support #1484: Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Hi Alita,
Many thanks for your reply. Please find my result table in the attachment. The command that I mentioned ... -
03:40 PM Support #1484 (Feedback): Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Hello,
I repeated your code and then estimated your model without weights (option 1), with weights and survey desi... -
08:23 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Thanks
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08:21 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi Leilah,
to generate the mean in a group you do not need to use the svy suite of commands.
Simply generate a new ... -
08:17 PM Support #1486: Constructing a reference group using weights
- Great, thank you for your help!
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08:10 PM Support #1486 (Resolved): Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi Leilah,
to generate the mean in a group you do not need to use the svy suite of commands.
Simply generate a new ... -
06:42 PM Support #1486 (Resolved): Constructing a reference group using weights
- Hi, I am trying to construct an income reference group for each individual in each wave but am having issues incorpor...
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06:05 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
If the last wave used in your analysis is wave 12 (i.e. you have at least one variable from wave 12 in your... -
05:34 PM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you mean by ... -
04:54 PM Support #1482: Top-coded income
- Thank you
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03:46 PM Support #1482: Top-coded income
- I have asked the income team to get back to me about this, and will let you know when I have a response from them.
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03:57 PM Support #1483 (Feedback): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
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03:56 PM Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting
- (b) In that case there is no appropriate weights. If you were to use Main survey Wave 9 + Covid waves for DID (pre an...
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03:50 PM Support #1477 (Resolved): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
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10:58 AM Support #1485 (Resolved): Is multi-level modelling needed when using information at the LSOA level
- I am aiming to look at the impact of residential age structure on a range of health and well being outcomes by linkin...
01/19/2021
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05:48 PM Support #1483: The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
- Thank you for your question. You are using the correct weight if your model includes longitudinal information (i.e. a...
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12:08 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Dear Alita,
I can confirm that this solved the problem completely!
Thank you again!
best wishes,
Marion -
10:05 AM Support #1484 (Resolved): Covid-19 Survey Wave e weights
- Hi,
I would like to explore the relationship between internet use (ce_netpusenew) and mental health status (ce_scg...
01/18/2021
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09:44 AM Support #1481: Missing values vs negative income
- That would be helpful, thank you.
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09:03 AM Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income
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09:00 AM Support #1481 (In Progress): Missing values vs negative income
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08:59 AM Support #1481: Missing values vs negative income
- I don't think we have encountered this issue yet as it is very unlikely to have income amount exactly -7 or -9. But i...
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09:41 AM Support #1482: Top-coded income
- I used the following Stata code to summarise by wave and topcoding: bysort wave fimnlabgrs_tc: su fimnlabgrs_dv
I t... -
09:03 AM Support #1482 (Feedback): Top-coded income
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08:56 AM Support #1482 (In Progress): Top-coded income
- Hello,
Could please you add which wave you are looking at? I did not find this issue when I looked at Wave 1 data.... -
08:39 AM Support #1483 (In Progress): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/16/2021
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03:59 AM Support #1483 (Resolved): The use of weight "indscui_lw" reduces the number of observations. Is it correct?
- Hello,
I’m currently doing some analysis about immigrants’ subjective well-being, so in my regression models, I us...
01/15/2021
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01:15 PM Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample
- Manuel,
Your option 1 is the best: it goes back to the most recent of our weights and then models nonresponse in o...
01/13/2021
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05:37 PM Support #1482 (Resolved): Top-coded income
- I've been looking at summary statistics for fimnlabgrs_dv and have noticed that individuals with no top-coding (fimnl...
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04:34 PM Support #1481: Missing values vs negative income
- So suppose income were actually -7. Would you enter income as -7.00 to differentiate it from the missing values?
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01:02 PM Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income
- The negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are set aside for missing values. Other negative values are actual negative values...
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01:11 PM Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting
- Hi,
Sorry for bothering again with this! I still have this doubt regarding the longitudinal weight.. we have two ... -
01:03 PM Support #1476 (Resolved): Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
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01:02 PM Support #1472 (Feedback): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
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10:38 AM Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample
- Dear Alita and Olena
Thanks for alerting about the release of the new longitudinal weights.
I have been reading t...
01/12/2021
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06:45 PM Support #1481 (Resolved): Missing values vs negative income
- Hi, when looking at income variables (e.g. fimnlabgrs_dv) and I see negative integer values, how do I know whether th...
01/11/2021
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11:07 AM Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Marie,
Thank you for your question.
On weights: we do not have a specific weight for your analysis. Please do no...
01/10/2021
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02:22 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Hi Marion - We have identified that the value of strata=122 should be changed to 130 if hhorig=4. Please make this ch...
01/08/2021
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06:11 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Dear Understanding Society support team,
a thousand thanks for identifying the problem - that explains it all!
I ha... -
01:39 PM Support #1477 (Feedback): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Hello Marion,
My colleague has checked your code and that is ok. We have identified that for 2 cases in b_indresp,... -
01:55 PM Support #1479 (Resolved): mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
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12:14 PM Support #1479: mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
- Thank you for the clarification, Alita.
That was very useful.
Best wishes,
Pilar -
11:53 AM Support #1479 (Feedback): mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
- Hello,
While all individuals in indall must be in a responding household, the households in the file hhresp are on... -
11:51 AM Support #1480 (Feedback): Who was sampled for question ca_timeshare in the COVID-19
- Hello,
In the cW_indresp_w files, no responses were removed because of this reason (and that includes the timchcar... -
11:13 AM Support #1480 (Resolved): Who was sampled for question ca_timeshare in the COVID-19
- Hi,
I am working with the April 2020 COVID-19 web survey dataset ( ca_indresp_w ) and was wondering if the questio...
01/07/2021
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07:47 PM Support #1479 (Resolved): mismatch merging indall m:1 using hhresp (merge=1)
- Hi there,
I was merging household-level variables onto individual files (indresp) and found mismatches, so to make ... -
05:51 PM Support #1474: Covid-19 weighting
- Hi,
Thanks so much for your detailed and prompt reply.
Just a note around (b). We are not doing a separate an... -
04:10 PM Support #1474 (Feedback): Covid-19 weighting
- Hello,
(a) For cross-sectional analysis use the weights cW_betaindin_xw for Covid waves 1-4 (W=a,b, c, d), W_indin... -
04:19 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Thank you! Perhaps I should mention that I use the special license data. So the first line of the code is actually:
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03:59 PM Support #1477 (In Progress): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Sorry I didn't notice that you had included the lonelypsu correction. We are looking into this.
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02:32 PM Support #1477: clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Dear Understanding Society team,
Thank you for your reply.
I am surprised because I had registered for and had lo... -
02:26 PM Support #1477 (Feedback): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
- Hello,
This is possible because of single PSU strata. While this is not the case by design, for a particular analy... -
11:16 AM Support #1477 (Resolved): clusters not nested in b_strata (using R and svydesign object)
Dear Understanding Society team,
I have an issue with the combination of clusters and strata in the Wave 2 dat...-
02:48 PM Support #1462 (Resolved): respondents without a record in the jk data weights and representativeness
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02:47 PM Support #1465 (Resolved): Highest qualifcation variable
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02:46 PM Support #1466: Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy
- If you exclude proxy respondents then you will use the weight for full respondent. For cross-sectional analysis that ...
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02:44 PM Support #1467 (Resolved): Website links not working
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02:44 PM Support #1468 (Resolved): Tracking category labels over time
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02:43 PM Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample
- If you are using Wave 9 + all Covid waves, and conducting a longitudinal analysis, you should use the longitudinal we...
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02:29 PM Support #1455 (Resolved): Inapplicable responses to GHQ-12 and SF-12 in the extra five minutes sample
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02:22 PM Support #1473: keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
- Many thanks! This is very useful.
Harry -
02:20 PM Support #1473 (Feedback): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
- Hello,
The question is the same as in the JUly questionnaire so please take a look at that for now, while we updat... -
01:57 PM Support #1473 (In Progress): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
- Hello,
We are looking into this and will get back to you asap.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support... -
02:01 PM Support #1476: Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
- Thanks very much for your helpful reply.
Reviewing the documentation I see that to be consistent with HBAI after ... -
01:30 PM Support #1476: Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
- Hi Henry,
it is not possible to say why the results look different across the two studies; you'd have to compare t... -
12:14 PM Support #1476 (In Progress): Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/06/2021
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07:37 PM Support #1468: Tracking category labels over time
- Okay, thank you for the clarification.
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07:36 PM Support #1467: Website links not working
- Thanks, it's working now.
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07:34 PM Support #1466: Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy
- Thanks. If I take a subsample of the individual-level data (which happens to have no proxy respondents), would I use ...
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01:28 PM Support #1476 (Resolved): Calculating Equivalised Income Deciles AHC
- Dear USOC User Team,
I've written some code which seeks to work out people's equivalised household income decile af... -
10:03 AM Support #1474 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting
- Good morning,
I have checked the guide and previous issues on weighting for Covid-19 study but I am still unclear...
01/05/2021
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04:35 PM Support #1473 (Resolved): keyworksector variable missing from pdf documents
- Hi there. I think the variable keyworksector is missing from the "8644_ukhls_covid19_sept20_questionnaire_v2.0" pdf d...
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02:35 PM Support #1472 (In Progress): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- 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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02:33 PM Support #1472 (Resolved): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- Hello,
I will use youth data from waves 1 to 8 (not always from all 8 waves, depending on the analysis). I will al...
01/04/2021
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05:03 PM Support #1471 (Feedback): Identifying relation to respondent of those being cared for
- Hello,
The variables w_aidhuax records whether the person in the household with PNO=x is cared for by the responde... -
02:41 PM Support #1471 (Resolved): Identifying relation to respondent of those being cared for
- Dear support,
I've been looking at the x_aidhh variables in the Understanding Society individual response files. F... -
02:55 PM Support #1470 (Feedback): Question about data
- Hello,
The sample is drawn from non-institutional postal addresses and so it is not likely to include any homeless... -
09:42 AM Support #1470 (Resolved): Question about data
- Hello
I am currently working on a research proposal for a project regarding the interplay of societal factors and... -
02:50 PM Support #1469: Matching data
- The website problem is fixed, so you will be able to access the syntax page now. Please see if the following syntax f...
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05:58 AM Support #1469 (Feedback): Matching data
- Hello Laura,
We have a worked out example on how to do this in our training material (available as Moodle course).... -
02:47 PM Support #1467 (Feedback): Website links not working
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02:47 PM Support #1467: Website links not working
- The problem has been fixed. Please try again and let us know if you continue to have problems. Please remember to emp...
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06:07 AM Support #1467 (In Progress): Website links not working
- Hello,
We are sorry about this and hope to resolve this very soon.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Sup... -
06:15 AM Support #1468 (Feedback): Tracking category labels over time
- Hello,
If a question remains the same across waves it will have the same name, as will the variables based on the ... -
06:06 AM Support #1466 (Feedback): Determining which observations have been answered by a proxy
- Hello,
Use the variable w_ivfio which will tell you if this was a proxy interview or a full interview (meaning the...
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