Activity
From 02/04/2021 to 03/05/2021
03/05/2021
- 01:11 PM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Here is a timeline of how the different samples joined.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainst... - 12:11 PM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Thank you. I understand the logic now. However, I wonder if this is also possible for wave 1 of BHPS? I saw that vari...
- 08:13 AM Support #1518 (Feedback): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
- Hello,
This data has not been linked yet. The earliest this may be possible is the end of 2021, but we are not ab...
03/03/2021
- 07:28 AM Support #1518 (In Progress): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
03/02/2021
- 07:19 PM Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?
- 07:19 PM Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
- 07:18 PM Support #1184 (Resolved): informal care receipt in wave 7
- 07:17 PM Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
- 07:16 PM Support #1244 (Resolved): variable howling in SN6614
- 07:15 PM Support #1259 (Resolved): Education level
- 07:14 PM Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants
- 07:13 PM Support #1299 (Resolved): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS
- 05:40 PM Support #1518 (Resolved): Linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics
- Hello,
I could see in the forum some old queries about linkage with Hospital Episode Statistics. Are the linked dat... - 04:57 PM Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units
- 04:57 PM Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
- 04:56 PM Support #1201 (Resolved): Question in related to participants' response for chronic conditions in wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
- 04:55 PM Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question
- 04:53 PM Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
- 04:52 PM Support #1309 (Resolved): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
- 04:52 PM Support #1154 (Resolved): Pay
- 04:51 PM Support #1178 (Resolved): Income
- 04:50 PM Support #1424 (Resolved): Stability of resp ethnicity over time
- 04:49 PM Support #1092 (Resolved): Variables
- 04:47 PM Support #1252 (Feedback): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
- Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
We have checked and the maximum value for these variables remain 10 ac... - 03:41 PM Support #1252 (In Progress): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
- 04:36 PM Support #1434 (Feedback): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
- Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Currently we do not provide information on the external datasets that you...
- 03:09 PM Support #1434 (In Progress): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
- 04:34 PM Support #1451 (Feedback): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
- Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. On this user support forum we generally do not provide advice on these ty...
- 03:05 PM Support #1451 (In Progress): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
- 04:16 PM Support #1509 (Feedback): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Hello Vikram,
This is an issue because in your final analysis sample, there are strata with only one PSU. When you... - 04:01 PM Support #1117 (Resolved): Scottish sample
- 04:00 PM Support #1142 (Resolved): Identifying unemployment spells
- 04:00 PM Support #1094 (Resolved): MSOA level data - Scotland and NI identifiers
- 03:59 PM Support #1096 (Resolved): Special licence data release calendar
- 03:59 PM Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation
- 03:56 PM Support #1185 (Resolved): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
- 03:55 PM Support #1228 (Resolved): Unbalanced panel weight
- 03:54 PM Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
- 03:52 PM Support #1155 (Resolved): What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime
- 03:52 PM Support #1162 (Resolved): Month of Sample Issue
- 03:51 PM Support #1165 (Resolved): Identifying the correct weights for analysis of Understanding Society (USoc) data
- 03:51 PM Support #1166 (Resolved): Material deprivation response categories
- 03:50 PM Support #1177 (Resolved): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother
- 03:49 PM Support #1194: h_jbfxuse9
- If someone is a proxy respondent, and the question was not included in the proxy questionanire then the value of that...
- 03:47 PM Support #1198: Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- Here is information on why weights should be used.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/us... - 03:45 PM Support #1205 (Resolved): self-completion weight wave 7
- 03:45 PM Support #1210 (Resolved): Question about health conditions data
- 03:44 PM Support #1213 (Resolved): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
- 03:44 PM Support #1223: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
- Please see our webpage on linked dataset and any updates will be available here. https://www.understandingsociety.ac....
- 03:42 PM Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar
- 03:37 PM Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
- 03:37 PM Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
- 03:36 PM Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
- 03:35 PM Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio
- 03:33 PM Support #1257 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
- 03:33 PM Support #1263 (Resolved): Number of households in broader London area
- 03:32 PM Support #1275 (Resolved): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
- 03:32 PM Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
- 03:31 PM Support #1284 (Resolved): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
- 03:31 PM Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?
- 03:30 PM Support #1306 (Resolved): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
- 03:29 PM Support #1307 (Resolved): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
- 03:28 PM Support #1330 (Resolved): neighbourhood modules / neighbourhood trust in subsequent waves
- 03:14 PM Support #1343 (Resolved): Creating a family group for profile of parents
- 03:14 PM Support #1359 (Resolved): Using the EMB sample independently
- 03:13 PM Support #1360 (Resolved): How to find all publications
- 03:13 PM Support #1366 (Resolved): Valid occupation code versus job hours
- 03:12 PM Support #1369 (Resolved): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
- 03:12 PM Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
- 03:11 PM Support #1392 (Resolved): natid - change in national identity
- 03:11 PM Support #1398 (In Progress): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
- 03:10 PM Support #1411 (Resolved): Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
- 03:08 PM Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
- 03:07 PM Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
- 03:07 PM Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
- 03:06 PM Support #1442 (Resolved): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
- 03:03 PM Support #1472 (Resolved): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
- 02:33 PM Support #1517 (In Progress): Covid weights
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:46 PM Support #1412: Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
- Sorry for the delay in responding Nico.
When calculating the poverty line in Example 4, the datafile being used is... - 09:34 AM Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights
- Sorry - we should have been clearer. You had said that once you stratified by sex and age groups you had concerns abo...
- 09:17 AM Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Harry,
>
> Here is the response from our team: ... - 09:11 AM Support #1514 (Feedback): Covid Longitudinal weights
- Dear Harry,
Here is the response from our team: "It's not a good idea to combine weights from different waves. Ea...
03/01/2021
- 03:57 PM Support #1517 (Resolved): Covid weights
- I am running two path analysis models using baseline information from 2019 (the jk_indresp file), mediators from the ...
02/26/2021
- 09:13 AM Support #1495 (Resolved): Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- This conversation is now going on via email, so setting this to resolved
02/24/2021
- 11:32 PM Support #1412: Weights_poverty line (BHPS)
- Dear Support Team,
I have a question that relates to this post. I noticed that in the example for the BHPS (see po... - 03:51 PM Support #1514 (In Progress): Covid Longitudinal weights
- 06:03 AM Support #1514 (Feedback): Covid Longitudinal weights
- 06:03 AM Support #1514: Covid Longitudinal weights
- Dear Harry,
If you want to analyse data from all 6 Covid19 survey waves, then you will need to take the longitudin... - 03:33 PM Support #1481 (Feedback): Missing values vs negative income
- The income team has confirmed that negative values -9 -8 -7 -2 -1 are reserved for genuine missing values.
- 12:29 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thank you for your help. I have sent an email to user support.
Best wishes
Natalie - 06:43 AM Support #1512 (Resolved): Wave drop down menus not responding
- 06:36 AM Support #1512 (Feedback): Wave drop down menus not responding
- This issue has been resolved.
- 06:43 AM Support #1510 (Resolved): Website not displaying questionnaires
- 06:36 AM Support #1510: Website not displaying questionnaires
- This issue has been resolved
- 06:38 AM Support #1504 (Feedback): Weights
- 06:37 AM Support #1509 (In Progress): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- 06:37 AM Support #1509 (Feedback): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- 05:45 AM Support #1515 (Feedback): Meaning of different mstatch variables
- Hello,
When someone says that their marital status changed since last time (Mstatsamn), they are asked about that ...
02/23/2021
- 11:57 PM Support #1515 (Resolved): Meaning of different mstatch variables
- Hello!
I wished to know the difference between the mstatch1, mstatch2, mstatch3, and mstatch4 variables
I under... - 06:13 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Natalie,
Some of ethnic minority identity was revealed to the survey only later, after wave one. The eligibility a... - 02:47 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your response. I agree, it is not such a problem to lose some White British respondents, but i... - 12:09 PM Support #1514 (Resolved): Covid Longitudinal weights
- Hi
I recently realised that Understanding Society weighting team has now included a longitudinal weight (explained...
02/22/2021
- 07:52 PM Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Dear Olena,
Thank you so much for your response!
I apologize for asking something that did not fit with the r... - 02:56 PM Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Vikram,
Just to add, if you use a calendar year you will need to use three weights (see below an extract from FAW ... - 09:38 AM Support #1513 (Feedback): Variable for Income
- Dear Emily,
Have you looked at the Income section in the User Guide? It describes the income variables that are pr... - 09:35 AM Support #1512 (In Progress): Wave drop down menus not responding
- 09:34 AM Support #1512: Wave drop down menus not responding
- Hello,
We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused by this disruption. We are aware of this issue and are looki... - 09:35 AM Support #1511 (Feedback): Merging UKHLS data to the LFS data
- It is not possible to merge Understanding Society and LFS data.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team
02/20/2021
- 10:10 PM Support #1513 (Resolved): Variable for Income
- Hello,
I have an enquiry about a variable that I am trying to find. I need a derived variable for the Waves 7-10 ... - 01:54 PM Support #1512 (Resolved): Wave drop down menus not responding
- Hello,
I have an enquiry about the drop down menus of the waves on the webpages of the variables which are not sho...
02/19/2021
- 04:57 PM Support #1511 (Resolved): Merging UKHLS data to the LFS data
- Hello
I aim to merge data from the UKHLS to the LFS data. Is this possible? If yes, are there mutual identifier ID... - 01:11 PM Support #1510 (Feedback): Website not displaying questionnaires
- Hi James,
unfortunately, we have been experiencing some technical issues with the website causing this, our IT tea... - 12:33 PM Support #1510 (Resolved): Website not displaying questionnaires
- Hello,
I am trying to access the US questionnaires from this page https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta...
02/18/2021
- 03:37 PM Support #1452 (Resolved): panssec8_dv and manssec8_dv
- 03:37 PM Support #1456 (Resolved): Youth and young adults who filled in incorrect surveys
- 03:36 PM Support #1457 (Resolved): Variable for living in a big city
- 02:46 PM Support #1459 (Resolved): Covid module high risk
- 02:46 PM Support #1460 (Resolved): HE consent variables
- 02:45 PM Support #1461 (Resolved): Special license access to wave 10-11 JK data
- 02:44 PM Support #1464 (Resolved): Matching household data from parents to children
- 02:44 PM Support #1454 (Resolved): Understanding Society area level deprivation measure
- 02:42 PM Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Hello Vikram,
Our remit is to answer questions related to the survey & its details and the datasets (incl data man...
02/17/2021
- 07:27 PM Support #1509: Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Okay, thank you so much.
As a follow-up, if I xtset the data with pidp and wave as my time variable and add dummi... - 08:27 AM Support #1509 (In Progress): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Hello Vikram,
The way you have set up the data is ok.
"More specifically, if I were to try plotting average rea... - 09:50 AM Support #1470: Question about data
- "Is there a list somewhere of what is defined within sheltered and institutional?"
The two places to look are the...
02/16/2021
- 08:40 AM Support #1470: Question about data
- Hello,
Thank you so much for answering this last month so quickly and helpfully.
I had a follow up question:
...
02/15/2021
- 06:23 PM Support #1509 (Resolved): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
- Hello,
In my Metrics project, I am trying to explore the causal impact of income on subjective well-being by expl...
02/12/2021
- 01:06 PM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- In Wave 1, a_nnatch is missing for 3262 cases who are the Proxy respondents. Then those with a_nnatch=0 (no children ...
- 11:46 AM Support #1506: Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Hello,
Thank you for your reply. I have checked these variables before, but noticed that there are a substantial ...
02/11/2021
- 02:48 PM Support #1505: UKHLS data question
- Unfortunately we cannot give you a date when this linked data will be available as talks are ongoing, but it will not...
- 02:32 PM Support #1505: UKHLS data question
- Hello,
At the moment I can work with the variable you just told me about, but my project depends on the exact numb... - 11:51 AM Support #1505 (Feedback): UKHLS data question
- Hello,
The variable w_jbsize shows the number of employees at the workplace of current job (as reported by the res... - 12:27 PM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- ok. I have added more explanation in the attached syntax file, and also slightly changed the syntax so that only thos...
- 11:38 AM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, you have provided me with this syntax but there is not too much descri... - 11:33 AM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Hi Mario,
We have provided you with the syntax for merging parents with children. Please modify that to create the... - 11:34 AM Support #1491 (Resolved): advice on constructing ISCED variable
- 11:34 AM Support #1490 (In Progress): Top-coding of net income
- 11:28 AM Support #1500 (Feedback): Definition of "living as a couple"
- Hello,
The variable w_mastat_dv is "de-facto" marital status and not the legal marital status. To know about the l... - 10:26 AM Support #1506 (Feedback): Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Hello,
The variable a_lprnt asks those who have no children in the household (a_nnatch=0) if they have ever had/fa... - 10:18 AM Support #1508 (Feedback): Which is the best way to merge all the files (INDRESP, HHRESP,JOBHIST, YOUNTH) across the 18 BHPS waves
- Hello Mario,
To merge INDRESP and HHRESP use HIDP
To merge INDRESP and YOUTH - there is no point doing this as ...
02/09/2021
- 04:51 PM Support #1508 (Resolved): Which is the best way to merge all the files (INDRESP, HHRESP,JOBHIST, YOUNTH) across the 18 BHPS waves
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I have appended all the 18 waves of each file (e.g. indresp, hhresp, indall, jobhist, younth), ...
02/08/2021
- 04:59 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Cameron,
Yes, from what you have said it sounds like you would need cross-sectional weights. As long as you don't ... - 03:22 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, my mistake on the cross-sectional weight in the second question. M... - 02:57 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Cameron,
It sounds like you are using pooled analysis. I suggest you search for other similar questions on this fo... - 01:18 PM Support #1504: Weights
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 01:18 PM Support #1504 (In Progress): Weights
- 11:09 AM Support #1504 (Resolved): Weights
- Dear Team,
I am having a little trouble understanding how to implement the weights in my analysis. I have read the... - 04:48 PM Support #1498: Create child id in BHPS and assign them their parents' work status
- Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you so much for your kind of response - I have been working with the codes and your advic... - 12:59 PM Support #1505 (In Progress): UKHLS data question
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 11:57 AM Support #1505 (Resolved): UKHLS data question
- I have some questions about the UKHLS, and I would be very grateful if you could help me:
Is there any possibility... - 12:58 PM Support #1506 (In Progress): Number of children who have left the household before 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...
- 12:06 PM Support #1506 (Resolved): Number of children who have left the household before wave 1
- Hi,
I am working on all waves of BHPS and Understanding Society. I would like to know if you have information on t... - 12:14 PM Support #1313: household follow up question
- Thank you for your answer! (Sorry for my late reply!)
02/05/2021
- 12:24 PM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Natalie,
To understand why we have TSMs with 0 from wave 1 you would need to understand how weight-sharing works (... - 09:14 AM Support #1495: Zero weights in the extra five minutes sample
- Hi Olena
Thanks for your response. Why is it that they were entered as TSMs in wave 1? Apologies if I am not under... - 12:05 PM Support #1501: xtreg and fixed effects
- Okay, thank you so much!
- 12:02 PM Support #1501: xtreg and fixed effects
- Leilah,
Thank you for your question. My suggestion is the following:
1) ignore stratification - this can't be tak...
02/04/2021
- 07:13 PM Support #1494 (Resolved): Weights
- 04:31 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Yes, Olena. That indeed helped.
Thanks very much.
Best,
Lydia - 01:46 PM Support #1494: Weights
- Lydia,
Yes, all the steps described above are correct.
The scaling fractions on the whole population or just you... - 07:12 PM Support #1501 (Feedback): xtreg and fixed effects
- Dear Leilah,
Your question is about Stata and more generally about statistics/econometrics. That is beyond the rem... - 06:21 PM Support #1501 (In Progress): xtreg and fixed effects
- Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... - 06:16 PM Support #1501 (Resolved): xtreg and fixed effects
- Hi,
I have been trying to estimate a panel regression using xtreg, fe in Stata. My observations are at the level o... - 06:20 PM Support #1500 (In Progress): Definition of "living as a couple"
- Hi Leilah,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to... - 12:16 PM Support #1500 (Resolved): Definition of "living as a couple"
- Hi,
Could you please confirm whether "living as a couple" in mastat_dv means living with a partner as someone who ... - 03:54 PM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Hi Gundi,
Indeed I had only looked in the mainstage questionnaire for wave 6.
Thanks for your advice, it has be... - 01:57 PM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- We are glad to hear you find the flowchart useful.
Regarding f_qfhighoth, the IEMBS had a separate questionnaire a... - 11:28 AM Support #1491: advice on constructing ISCED variable
- Dear Gundi,
Thanks for this answer - it seems that w_qfhighoth was only asked (in wave 9, it does not appear in th...
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