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From 03/09/2021 to 04/07/2021
04/07/2021
- 05:56 PM Support #1532 (Resolved): b_scsf6c - last 4 weeks: felt downhearted and depressed
- Hi -
Again, where is b_scsf6c - last 4 weeks: felt downhearted and depressed derived from?
Thanks
Jennie - 05:50 PM Support #1531 (Resolved): w_sf12mcs_dv - SF-12 Mental Component Summary (PCS)
- Hi -
Could you advise on what SF-12 Mental Component Summary (PCS) is derived from? For b_scghq1_dv Subjective well... - 05:45 PM Support #1530: Questions for assignment
- Sorry, could you also tell me how to identify which questions in the questionnaire link to the Subjective Wellbeing v...
- 05:42 PM Support #1530 (Resolved): Questions for assignment
- Hi -
I am a PhD student undertaking a module in quantitative methods with University of Birmingham.
I am wanting ...
04/06/2021
- 06:10 PM Support #1529: Linking couples across waves
Ok, that what I've done.
Thanks- 05:59 PM Support #1529 (Feedback): Linking couples across waves
- ok, thanks. Thse couple identifiers use pno & ppno and so are unique within a household and wave. So, you cannot use ...
- 05:52 PM Support #1529: Linking couples across waves
- Yes, I have.
I used the "Matching individuals within a household" syntax and then generated an id for each couple ba... - 05:39 PM Support #1529 (In Progress): Linking couples across waves
- Hello,
When you say you are trying to link couples in households across waves, have you produced couple identifier... - 12:59 PM Support #1529 (Resolved): Linking couples across waves
- Hi
I trying to link couples within the same household across waves.
Is there any way/test I can validate the outco...
03/31/2021
- 04:19 PM Support #1474 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting
- 04:18 PM Support #1526 (Resolved): variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
- 04:17 PM Support #1527 (Resolved): parental education
- 04:13 PM Support #1517 (Resolved): Covid weights
- Correspondence is continuing via email, so setting to resolved here.
Our response is copied here:
1: If your m... - 12:46 PM Support #1525 (Feedback): BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.
- Hello Simon,
Please take a look at the BHPS User Guide: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/vola/index... - 10:53 AM Support #1525: BHPS Wave 1-18: Which documentation to use to convert SIC codes (variable mrjsic) to actual industries.
- Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
I would appreciate if you are able to provide an update to my query.... - 10:38 AM Support #1528 (Resolved): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- 10:18 AM Support #1528: Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- Thank you very much, this clears it up
- 10:09 AM Support #1528 (Feedback): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- Hello,
The 2019 datasets made available with the Covid survey data (SN8644), includes information collected during...
03/29/2021
- 01:46 PM Support #1528 (Resolved): Difference between mainstage 2019 data and wave 10 UKHLS data
- I am wondering what the difference in dates are between the mainstage_2019 and UKLFS wave 10 data and what differenti...
03/26/2021
- 03:10 PM Support #1527: parental education
- Thank you very much for your help.
Have a nice weekend.
Danuta - 09:05 AM Support #1527 (Feedback): parental education
- Hello,
Only for those respondents who lived with their parents in the same household at least once during the surv...
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 ... - 03:52 PM Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
- Thank you, everything is clear!
- 03:27 PM Support #1526: variable "region" - a mistake in "Variable Search tool?
- Sorry just to be clear the search tool is working ok!
- 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... - 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... - 02:53 PM Support #1524 (Resolved): Mortality weight adjustment
- Discussion has moved to email (usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk), so setting to resolved.
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...
- 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...
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...
- 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 ... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
- 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... - 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:/... - 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.
- 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, ...
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 - 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... - 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 -...
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... - 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...
- 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... - 12:23 PM Support #1520 (Feedback): Pooling cross-sectional data of UKHLS - Waves 1 to 7
- 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...
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...
03/09/2021
- 04:29 PM Support #1522 (Feedback): data availability and representativeness
- 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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
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