Activity
From 06/28/2021 to 07/27/2021
07/24/2021
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10:30 AM Support #1568 (Resolved): Household income components
- Hi - In the User Guide it says "At the household level, w_fihhmnnet1_dv is the net household monthly income. It is th...
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09:04 AM Support #1567: Information about most recent job
- Hello,
No, I won't exclude those respondents. I will include them as a distinct sub-group (e.g. 'long-term unemplo...
07/23/2021
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05:45 PM Support #1567: Information about most recent job
- Dear Catherine,
I would like to clarify something - are you planning to exclude from your analysis respondents who... -
- Dear Catherine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get ba...
07/22/2021
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06:02 PM Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Carolin,
Thank you for your question. UKHLS does not think of households as longitudinal entities as they change w... -
- Hello,
I am carrying out some analysis of the cohort of respondents who were unemployed at Wave 8 of the survey (h...
07/21/2021
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02:14 PM Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Dear Alita,
Thanks, that helps a lot.
I have another follow-up question (probably fo Olena?). It may sound stra...
07/20/2021
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- Dear Ipsitaa,
Negative values result from self-employed respondents reporting losses. You might also find useful o... -
02:08 PM Support #1565 (Resolved): Income Variable: Drop negative values?
- Hi,
I am using the fimngrs_dv variable from indresp files. Some of the reported values are negative, for example,...
07/15/2021
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- Hello Ethan,
The number of adult interviews of Scotland residents increased in Wave 2 when we added the BHPS sampl...
07/14/2021
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/13/2021
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09:01 AM Support #1563 (Resolved): Survey Participant Drop-Outs
- I am wondering if someone would be able to give any more information on the drop-out rates of participants, particula...
07/08/2021
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01:25 PM Support #1562: Is the answer to question #933 up to date?
- Thank you very much!
Danuta -
- Hello,
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Here is a complete list of urban-rural indicator variables avaiable for the main UKHLS & BHPS surveys, th... -
- Hello,
My question concerns the urban / rural variable in the UKHLS and BHPS surveys. In fact, such question was ask... -
- Thanks - I have passed on your request to the data team.
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08:15 AM Support #1554: hsval - units
- Thanks, that was helpful.
Regarding the hsval variable, further inspection of the UKHLS and BHPS data suggests tha...
07/07/2021
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- About (a)
UKBORN (Whether born in E, S, W, NI or outside UK) & its follow-up PLBORNC (Country of birth if said the... -
- Carolin,
Here are replies to b) and c):
If you are analysing households, and you want to represent households in ...
07/06/2021
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- Conversation continuing via email
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03:31 PM Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children
- Great! I will give it a try – thank you! :)
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- Good point! Yes, you could prioritise the biological parent, and perhaps also adoptive parent. A child is almost alwa...
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- Hello,
Thank you very much for the rapid help!
That's a good suggestion! However, if, for example, a step paren... -
- Hello Marie,
What you are suggesting is a good idea but you don't need to make an assumption that the child always... -
- Hello,
I am analysing youth (10–15 years) and child (3, 5, 8 years) data. In my analyses, I would like to include ... -
- Hello,
If a variable has a valud of -7 it means that this person did not complete the interview themselves, but so...
07/05/2021
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03:39 PM Support #1560 (Resolved): Project Query
- Hello
Firstly, I would like to make it clear that my knowledge regarding Understand Society's data as well as STA...
07/04/2021
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- Hi Olena,
I'm having a few more questions now.
Like I said, we'd like to classify entire households as immigran...
07/02/2021
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04:56 PM Support #1546: Wave 8 innovation panel trace/keystroke files for a few cases as a manipulation check
- Thank you for looking into this and confirming that the experiment was working as intended! -Dana
07/01/2021
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- That does help a lot. Thanks, Olena.
06/30/2021
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- Carolin,
Yes, in a sense that all immigrants who were present in the country are represented longitudinally (some ... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks for the quick reply. One last question (at the moment, at least): the sample is representative of... -
- Carolin,
Use ui_xw weight for wave 6, and use ui_lw weight if your longitudinal analysis starts at wave 6 or later... -
- Hello Ethan,
This is a complicated question as this is a longitudinal and household survey. So, the sample size de... -
- I am wondering if someone is able to give some more information about the Scottish sample for the survey. More specif...
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- Hello,
Please take a look at this User Forum post about the variables we provide to identify movers.
https://iser... -
- Hello again. Just following this up: I wonder if the data team had any further advice on this?
Also, could you pro...
06/29/2021
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- Dear Olena,
Thanks a lot for your help. I did read the relevant sections on immigrants in the help files but did n... -
- Carolin,
Your problem is not weights but how you are using longitudinal dataset. By default the longitudinal aspec... -
- 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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- Hello,
Could you please email your query to us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and someone from our weig... -
- Hello,
Could you please email your query to us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and someone from our weig...
06/28/2021
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- Hello,
I am working with Understanding Society for the first time and have a few questions.
My coauthors and I ...
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