Activity
From 07/03/2021 to 08/01/2021
07/30/2021
- 02:07 PM Support #1569 (Feedback): USoc Query SEISS
- 02:04 PM Support #1569 (In Progress): USoc Query SEISS
- Hello,
1. The best way to find out sample sizes for the main survey is to use the online variable search facility:... - 09:47 AM Support #1569 (Resolved): USoc Query SEISS
- Dear Usoc Team,
I work for HMRC on the evaluation of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). I’m hopin... - 02:07 PM Support #1568 (Feedback): Household income components
- Thanks for your question. Our income team has had a deeper a look into the issue and can confirm the variables contai...
- 01:18 PM Support #1567 (Feedback): Information about most recent job
- Dear Catharine,
There is no quicker alternative to the method you are suggesting. But your method needs to be adj...
07/28/2021
07/24/2021
- 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...
- 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
- 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... - 11:53 AM Support #1567: Information about most recent job
- Dear Catherine,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get ba...
07/22/2021
- 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... - 05:06 PM Support #1567 (Resolved): Information about most recent job
- 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
- 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
- 03:17 PM Support #1565 (Feedback): Income Variable: Drop negative values?
- 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
- 04:07 PM Support #1563 (Feedback): Survey Participant Drop-Outs
- Hello Ethan,
The number of adult interviews of Scotland residents increased in Wave 2 when we added the BHPS sampl...
07/14/2021
- 10:08 AM Support #1563 (In Progress): Survey Participant Drop-Outs
- 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
- 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
- 01:25 PM Support #1562: Is the answer to question #933 up to date?
- Thank you very much!
Danuta - 12:38 PM Support #1562 (Feedback): Is the answer to question #933 up to date?
- Hello,
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Here is a complete list of urban-rural indicator variables avaiable for the main UKHLS & BHPS surveys, th... - 08:40 AM Support #1562 (Resolved): Is the answer to question #933 up to date?
- Hello,
My question concerns the urban / rural variable in the UKHLS and BHPS surveys. In fact, such question was ask... - 12:43 PM Support #1554: hsval - units
- Thanks - I have passed on your request to the data team.
- 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
- 01:26 PM Support #1558 (Feedback): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- About (a)
UKBORN (Whether born in E, S, W, NI or outside UK) & its follow-up PLBORNC (Country of birth if said the... - 12:28 PM Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Carolin,
Here are replies to b) and c):
If you are analysing households, and you want to represent households in ...
07/06/2021
- 04:48 PM Support #1556 (Resolved): Covid-19 weighting
- Conversation continuing via email
- 03:31 PM Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children
- Great! I will give it a try – thank you! :)
- 03:22 PM Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children
- Good point! Yes, you could prioritise the biological parent, and perhaps also adoptive parent. A child is almost alwa...
- 03:19 PM Support #1561: Residential mobility of youth and children
- Hello,
Thank you very much for the rapid help!
That's a good suggestion! However, if, for example, a step paren... - 03:01 PM Support #1561 (Feedback): Residential mobility of youth and children
- Hello Marie,
What you are suggesting is a good idea but you don't need to make an assumption that the child always... - 08:04 AM Support #1561 (Resolved): Residential mobility of youth and children
- Hello,
I am analysing youth (10–15 years) and child (3, 5, 8 years) data. In my analyses, I would like to include ... - 03:12 PM Support #1560 (Feedback): Project Query
- 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
- 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
- 08:41 PM Support #1558: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Hi Olena,
I'm having a few more questions now.
Like I said, we'd like to classify entire households as immigran...
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