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From 02/24/2021 to 03/25/2021

03/25/2021

04:27 PM Support #1527 (Resolved): parental education
Hello again,
Is there a possibility to find information about an educational level obtained by respondents' parents ...
Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
03:52 PM Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
Thank you, everything is clear! Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
03:27 PM Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
Sorry just to be clear the search tool is working ok! Understanding Society User Support Team
03:26 PM Support #1526 (Feedback): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
Hello,
This variable is only available for Waves 6 onwards in the files CHILD & INDALL for UKHLS, and for all BHPS...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:19 PM Support #1526 (Resolved): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
Hello,
Under the following link:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentati...
Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek
02:53 PM Support #1524 (Resolved): Mortality weight adjustment
Discussion has moved to email (usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk), so setting to resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team

03/24/2021

12:00 PM Support #1525 (In Progress): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
11:59 AM Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment
Yu-Tzu Wu,
Please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User S...
Understanding Society User Support Team

03/23/2021

12:31 PM Support #1525 (Resolved): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.
I am currently using the British Household Panel Survey (study 5151). Specifically, I am using all waves 1-18 (1991-2... Simon Cremer
11:09 AM Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment
Hi Olena,
Thank you for your reply. Sorry that I cannot find the full User Guide from wave 9 in UKDA. Would it be ...
YT Wu
09:51 AM Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment
Yu-Tzu Wu,
The best document for you to read is the full User Guide from wave 9. You can download it with wave 9 d...
Olena Kaminska
07:17 AM Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment
Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your help.
I am interested in UKHLS data and consider to generate my own weights...
YT Wu

03/22/2021

10:22 AM Support #1524: Mortality weight adjustment
Yu-Tzu-Wu,
Thank you for your question. The mortality that is provided with the data is for BHPS sample, and it ha...
Olena Kaminska
09:49 AM Support #1524 (In Progress): Mortality weight adjustment
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:47 AM Support #1524 (Resolved): Mortality weight adjustment
Dear Sir/Madam,
I was wondering how to account for mortality when using the weights in Understanding Society. I foun...
YT Wu
09:58 AM Support #1523 (Feedback): Question on individual net labour income
Hi Lydia,
Details about how the income variables in UKHLS have been derived are explained in this paper:
https:/...
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:54 AM Support #1523: Question on individual net labour income
And just to be precise, I would be interested in the usual monthly earning, not the last earning or annual one. Lydia Palumbo
07:52 AM Support #1523 (Resolved): Question on individual net labour income
Dear Understanding Society Team,
I have a question on individual net labour income. I would like to know whether, ...
Lydia Palumbo

03/16/2021

01:40 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Marie,
Yes, this sounds correct.
Best of luck,
Olena
Olena Kaminska
01:03 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Hi Olena,
Yes, thank you!
From our various exchanges, I conclude the following:
Using *svyset*, accounting f...
Marie Mueller
12:23 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Marie,
You need to account for the highest level of clustering as a minimum. Our sample is clustered within PSUs -...
Olena Kaminska

03/15/2021

03:58 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Thank you, Alita!
Note: As I am interested in neighbourhood influences measured at LSOA level, I thought a multile...
Marie Mueller
02:45 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
About clustering on individuals: If you pool data across waves of this data, you are right the error is not independe... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:24 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your quick and very helpful reply. Yes, of course, I understand that I need to...
Marie Mueller
12:23 PM Support #1520 (Feedback): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:23 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Hello Marie,
You are right (1) will result in small sample sizes and there are no avaialble weights to use with ap...
Understanding Society User Support Team

03/12/2021

11:41 AM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Dear Olena,
To make it (hopefully) even clearer:
* My outcomes are measured at waves 1, 3, 5, and 7
* In every...
Marie Mueller

03/09/2021

04:29 PM Support #1522 (Feedback): data availability and representativeness
Alita Nandi
03:59 PM Support #1522: data availability and representativeness
Fernanda,
Technically we represent all subgroups of the population - some may be too small for a good representati...
Olena Kaminska
12:40 PM Support #1522 (Resolved): data availability and representativeness
I am writing to ask you the following questions:
1) I know that your data is available/can be decomposed at by UK ...
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon
04:15 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Dear Olena,
I will try to describe my problem/issue in a different way:
* My study population is young adolesce...
Marie Mueller
03:54 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Marie,
Your analysis as you describe is only legitimate if you study something time variant - something that chang...
Olena Kaminska
03:36 PM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your rapid and detailed reply.
I will use the UKHLS youth data. My populati...
Marie Mueller
10:22 AM Support #1520: Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Marie,
Thank you. Your problem is not about weights or even data structure but with the definition of the populati...
Olena Kaminska
07:42 AM Support #1398 (Feedback): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
Longitudina weights are now being discussed in other posts, e.g., 1514 and in the User Guide Understanding Society User Support Team

03/08/2021

06:44 PM Support #1521 (Feedback): How to merge variables from newborn file when my main unit are children?
You should try m:1 merge
In the child file all 0-15 year olds in any household are present. As parents may have mo...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:50 PM Support #1521 (Resolved): How to merge variables from newborn file when my main unit are children?
Good afternoon!
I was wondering if you could help me. I am working with Stata and currently have a dataset where c...
Michaela Kyclova
06:40 PM Support #1520 (In Progress): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team
11:02 AM Support #1520 (Resolved): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
Hello,
This issue relates to issue #1472.
+Summary+
I will use UKHLS youth data of Waves 1 to 7. My outcome ...
Marie Mueller
06:39 PM Support #1519 (Feedback): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (ppid==-8, sppid==-8)?
Hello Abigail,
To understand this you should look at w_indall as it includes everyone who have been enumerated to ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:04 AM Support #1519 (Resolved): Marital status (marstat_dv) and presence of non-respondent partners (ppid==-8, sppid==-8)?
Hello Alita,
I am wondering if respondents in the indresp file have a marital status (marstat_dv) of being married...
Abigail Dumalus
06:18 PM Support #1517 (Feedback): Covid weights
Hello,
You are correct, the longitudinal weights are based on Wave 9 response and so will be zero for anyone who d...
Understanding Society User Support Team

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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Yu-Chin Her
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

03/02/2021

07:19 PM Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:19 PM Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:18 PM Support #1184 (Resolved): informal care receipt in wave 7
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:17 PM Support #1234 (Resolved): Variable for checking if parent has same ex-partner for all children
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:16 PM Support #1244 (Resolved): variable howling in SN6614
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:15 PM Support #1259 (Resolved): Education level
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:14 PM Support #1278 (Resolved): Keeping in touch with participants
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:13 PM Support #1299 (Resolved): New entrant - How to identify in BHPS
Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Rami Cosulich
04:57 PM Support #951 (Resolved): Deriving alcohol consumption units
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:57 PM Support #1202 (Resolved): Lost to follow-up wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:56 PM Support #1201 (Resolved): Question in related to participants' response for chronic conditions in wave 1, wave 4 & wave 7
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:55 PM Support #1313 (Resolved): household follow up question
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:53 PM Support #1353 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:52 PM Support #1309 (Resolved): Difference between variable nfh20 and bentax5
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:52 PM Support #1154 (Resolved): Pay
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:51 PM Support #1178 (Resolved): Income
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:50 PM Support #1424 (Resolved): Stability of resp ethnicity over time
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:49 PM Support #1092 (Resolved): Variables
Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:41 PM Support #1252 (In Progress): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:09 PM Support #1434 (In Progress): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:05 PM Support #1451 (In Progress): Matching household partners to find out who has the higher occupational class
Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:01 PM Support #1117 (Resolved): Scottish sample
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:00 PM Support #1142 (Resolved): Identifying unemployment spells
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:00 PM Support #1094 (Resolved): MSOA level data - Scotland and NI identifiers
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:59 PM Support #1096 (Resolved): Special licence data release calendar
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:59 PM Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:56 PM Support #1185 (Resolved): Linking all waves of BHPS and UKHLS: Inconsistencies?
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:55 PM Support #1228 (Resolved): Unbalanced panel weight
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:54 PM Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:52 PM Support #1155 (Resolved): What variables to use to construct hourly gross labor wage that accounts for overtime
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:52 PM Support #1162 (Resolved): Month of Sample Issue
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:51 PM Support #1165 (Resolved): Identifying the correct weights for analysis of Understanding Society (USoc) data
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:51 PM Support #1166 (Resolved): Material deprivation response categories
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:50 PM Support #1177 (Resolved): Birth order for all natural children ever had by a mother
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:45 PM Support #1205 (Resolved): self-completion weight wave 7
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:45 PM Support #1210 (Resolved): Question about health conditions data
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:44 PM Support #1213 (Resolved): oprlg1 Religion variable in BHPS/UKHLS harmonized data set contains unexplained values in wave k
Understanding Society User Support Team
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.... Understanding Society User Support Team
03:42 PM Support #1246 (In Progress): Evermar
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:37 PM Support #1231 (Resolved): Percentage of young people living with their parents in England
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:37 PM Support #1235 (Resolved): Country of birth of children aged 0 to 15
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:36 PM Support #1247 (Resolved): Share of EU born respondents with UK citizenship only
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:35 PM Support #1249 (Resolved): Calculation of rent-to-income ratio
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:33 PM Support #1257 (Resolved): Weight for unbalanced UKHLS panel data
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:33 PM Support #1263 (Resolved): Number of households in broader London area
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:32 PM Support #1275 (Resolved): Religion affiliation BHPS Wave 7 and 9
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:32 PM Support #1286 (Resolved): Appropriate weights to use with Wave 7 "chmain" dataset
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:31 PM Support #1284 (Resolved): Identifying parents with various types of child maintenance arrangements and the specific children these relate to
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:31 PM Support #1293 (Resolved): How to contact sample members from wave 2?
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:30 PM Support #1306 (Resolved): Marital and Cohabitation History Dataset
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:29 PM Support #1307 (Resolved): Inconsistency between releases for certain variables
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:28 PM Support #1330 (Resolved): neighbourhood modules / neighbourhood trust in subsequent waves
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:14 PM Support #1343 (Resolved): Creating a family group for profile of parents
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:14 PM Support #1359 (Resolved): Using the EMB sample independently
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:13 PM Support #1360 (Resolved): How to find all publications
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:13 PM Support #1366 (Resolved): Valid occupation code versus job hours
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:12 PM Support #1369 (Resolved): Link UK Household Longitudinal Study with other datasets - is it possible?
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:12 PM Support #1379 (Resolved): Unmatched individuals when linking UKHLS to local authority data
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:11 PM Support #1392 (Resolved): natid - change in national identity
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:11 PM Support #1398 (In Progress): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:10 PM Support #1411 (Resolved): Update to #1349: Accessing data with METADAC access
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:08 PM Support #1436 (Resolved): Caring variables in Covid-Wave 4
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:07 PM Support #1439 (Resolved): jbpenm in BHPS & UKHLS
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:07 PM Support #1441 (Resolved): Reasons for migration - w6 and w7
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:06 PM Support #1442 (Resolved): Calculating change in the extra 5 minutes sample size and sub-sample sizes waves 1 to 3
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:03 PM Support #1472 (Resolved): Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Understanding Society User Support Team
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: ...
Theocharis Kromydas
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Kate Dotsikas

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 Understanding Society User Support Team

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...
Nico Seifert
03:51 PM Support #1514 (In Progress): Covid Longitudinal weights
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:03 AM Support #1514 (Feedback): Covid Longitudinal weights
Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
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. Understanding Society User Support Team
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
Natalie Bennett
06:43 AM Support #1512 (Resolved): Wave drop down menus not responding
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:36 AM Support #1512 (Feedback): Wave drop down menus not responding
This issue has been resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team
06:43 AM Support #1510 (Resolved): Website not displaying questionnaires
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06:36 AM Support #1510: Website not displaying questionnaires
This issue has been resolved Understanding Society User Support Team
06:38 AM Support #1504 (Feedback): Weights
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06:37 AM Support #1509 (In Progress): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:37 AM Support #1509 (Feedback): Real Household Income + Calendar Year vs Wave
Understanding Society User Support Team
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 ...
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