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11/11/2021

08:01 PM Support #1606 (Resolved): Adult Subject Birth Order

Dear UndSoc team,
I am interested in analysing the long term effects of birth order using the UndSoc dataset. I a... INGO OUTES

11/09/2021

06:22 PM Support #1605 (Resolved): Life Satisfaction Data

Hi, I am a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds hoping to use the survey as part of my end of year dissert... Alex Brown

11/05/2021

09:24 AM Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear Daniel,
Thanks for your response. It is clear now. I have passed on your request to the data team.
In the... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:16 AM Support #1587: panssec8_dv

The issue that you highlighted has been resolved for this latest data release. The latest data will be released by th... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/04/2021

12:33 PM Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Karen,
Yes, that's correct.
Olena Olena Kaminska

10:47 AM Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-4:
> Dear Daniel,
>
> It is not entirely clear what your ... Daniel Graeber

11/03/2021

01:03 PM Support #1603 (Feedback): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear Daniel,
It is not entirely clear what your question is.
You have said that you want to transform pasoc00 i... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:35 AM Support #1603 (In Progress): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Re-opened upon request Understanding Society User Support Team

11/02/2021

05:47 PM Support #1603: pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> This issue has been resolved - this person let us know ... Daniel Graeber

03:55 PM Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

This issue has been resolved - this person let us know via our usersupport@ email address so setting this to resolved. Understanding Society User Support Team

03:54 PM Support #1604 (Feedback): religiosity variables

Hello,
ff_oprlg is just the value of oprlg fed forward from past waves.
This question has been asked in differe... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:47 PM Support #1604 (Resolved): religiosity variables

Hi,
Can you clarify the key difference between the variable oprlg and the ff_oprlg variable in Wave 2 of the UKHLS?... A J

03:18 PM Support #1602 (Feedback): unemployment rate

Hello,
We do not provide this information with our survey data. But we do provide data on the geographical locatio... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:52 PM Support #1598 (Feedback): Time Use Module

Hello,
We don’t have a time use set of questions in Understanding Society and we’ve not carried time-use diaries. ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11/01/2021

11:42 AM Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88

Dear all,
I am trying to harmonize parents' occupational position (e.g., pasoc00) across household panels. However... Daniel Graeber

10/29/2021

01:26 AM Support #1602 (Resolved): unemployment rate

Hi,
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to find the local unemployment rate of the geographical areas that the res... Seok Woo Kwon

10/28/2021

06:48 AM Support #1601 (Feedback): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores

Hello,
As stated in the syntax file you have mentioned for further details about the scoring method used please se... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/27/2021

03:35 PM Support #1591: Design and testing of questionnaire questions

Thank you so much for this, very helpful!
All the best,
Will Will Barnes

01:55 PM Support #1601 (Resolved): SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Scores

Dear UKHLS support,
Hope you are well.
I am currently working on a research looking at the longitudinal assoc... Karen Mak

10/26/2021

09:33 PM Support #1595: Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-2:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for highlighting this issue.
>
... Marek Rojicek

09:19 PM Support #1595 (Feedback): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

Hello,
Thanks for highlighting this issue.
We have checked and in each wave there are around 1-2k cases where ... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:24 PM Support #1600 (Feedback): 'Other' response in hsownd variable

We have no information about what kinds of living arrangements are covered in the 'other' response to the hsownd vari... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:22 PM Support #1600 (Resolved): 'Other' response in hsownd variable

Hello,
I am working on a project looking at economic security across different housing tenures. Is there any more ... James Morrison

08:16 PM Support #1597 (Feedback): UK born variable for BHPS member in UKHLS

A variable that identifies whether someone was born in the UK or not is available in the file xwavedat for all sample... Understanding Society User Support Team

07:38 PM Support #1599 (Feedback): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult

The variable adresp17 was created automatically during the interview – the rules for creating it can be found in the ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:39 AM Support #1599 (In Progress): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult

Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:19 PM Support #1591 (Feedback): Design and testing of questionnaire questions

Dear Will,
The life satisfaction and satisfaction with other domains were introduced in Wave 6 of BHPS and were mo... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:07 PM Support #1598 (In Progress): Time Use Module

Many thanks for your inquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

10/25/2021

02:34 PM Support #1599 (Resolved): Recreating adresp17 - person number of responsible adult

Hi there,
I am updating some code which uses Understanding Society data. The code was last ran in 2015 (by a former ... James Oswald

11:41 AM Support #1598 (Resolved): Time Use Module

Hi, a bit of the background first: there was a time use module (as far as I am aware stylized questions only) for BHP... Ewa Jarosz

09:51 AM Support #1591: Design and testing of questionnaire questions

Hi there,
I just wanted to get in touch to ask whether there has been any progress on the below?
Many thanks,
... Will Barnes

10/20/2021

09:37 AM Support #1597 (In Progress): UK born variable for BHPS member in UKHLS

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti

09:01 AM Support #1597 (Resolved): UK born variable for BHPS member in UKHLS

I am trying to create a UK born variable for all UKHLS members across waves. There doesn’t seem to be a value for the... stephen jivraj

10/15/2021

04:26 PM Support #1595 (In Progress): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

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

11:39 AM Support #1595 (Resolved): Modified OECD equivalence scale in BHPS

Hi,
I have been working the OECD equivalence scale variables in BHPS and USoc (variables eq_moecd and ieqmoecd_dv ... Marek Rojicek

04:21 PM Support #1596 (Feedback): Identifying a birth in indresp

Hello,
w_newmum in w_indall file identifies whether the household member is the biological mother of a new entrant... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:18 PM Support #1596 (Resolved): Identifying a birth in indresp

Dear all,
I would like to know your opinion on the following issue: I would like to define a variable identifying... Giorgio Piccitto

10/14/2021

07:11 PM Support #1594 (Feedback): Distributing household level information to individuals

Hello,
All enumerated households, that is, where the household grid has been completed are eligible for a househol... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:23 AM Support #1594 (Resolved): Distributing household level information to individuals

Hello,
I am trying to distribute household level data to individuals. I downloaded and used the example syntax (SP... James Morrison

02:44 AM Support #1593 (Feedback): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?

You can take a look at the datafile, xwavedat, which includes all individuals ever enumerated during the 18 BHPS wave... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:42 AM Support #1593: Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?

Yes.
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10/13/2021

03:26 PM Support #1593: Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?

Excepting, of course, those individuals who were in both surveys A J

03:25 PM Support #1593 (Resolved): Are the BHPS and UKHLS pidp values unique?

Hi,
I need to merge CNEF datasets and so cannot use the harmonised BHPS UKHLS dataset. I will, however, use the harm... A J

12:03 PM Support #1303 (Resolved): Accessing linked data

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12:03 PM Support #1305 (Resolved): Weighting for youth questionnaire

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12:03 PM Support #1308 (Resolved): Cross-sectional weights 0 values

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12:02 PM Support #1311 (Resolved): Unemployment/home-keeper variable

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12:02 PM Support #1312 (Resolved): Date of interview UKHLS, Harmonised BHPS, BHPS

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12:00 PM Support #1314 (Resolved): NPD-USOC linkages

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12:00 PM Support #1315 (Resolved): SDQ in child data

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11:59 AM Support #1316 (Resolved): birthyear of all first born child and vocational qualificaitons

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11:59 AM Support #1317 (Resolved): inapplicable jbhrs when jbsemp=1 (wave 6)

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11:58 AM Support #1318 (Resolved): Special Licence access

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11:58 AM Support #1319 (Resolved): clarification on jbpen variable in UKHLS

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11:58 AM Support #1323 (Resolved): youth self completion longitudinal weight

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11:57 AM Support #1324 (Resolved): Childcare by grandparents

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11:57 AM Support #1326 (Resolved): Attitudes Towards Immigration Info

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11:56 AM Support #1327 (Resolved): Revision of derived variables in new release

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11:56 AM Support #1328 (Resolved): jbsoc10 jbsic07

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11:55 AM Support #1329 (Resolved): Enumeration of strata variable and

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11:55 AM Support #1331 (Resolved): query about food poverty/insecurity information

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11:54 AM Support #1333 (Resolved): Social Media data

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11:54 AM Support #1334 (Resolved): Verifying correct construct of motherhood variable | Harmonized BHPS-UKHL

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11:54 AM Support #1335 (Resolved): Question on Covid survey

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11:48 AM Support #1336 (Resolved): Religion in Wave 9

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11:48 AM Support #1338 (Resolved): COVID-19 module

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11:47 AM Support #1339 (Resolved): NPD Usoc secure access

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11:46 AM Support #1341 (Resolved): Ethics Approval Details

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11:45 AM Support #1342 (Resolved): finding variables in dataset and questionnaires

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11:44 AM Support #1345 (Resolved): COVID-19 survey

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11:44 AM Support #1346 (Resolved): SPSS Complex Samples General Linear Model assumptions

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11:43 AM Support #1347 (Resolved): weighting

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11:42 AM Support #1350 (Resolved): GCSE grade data

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11:41 AM Support #1354 (Resolved): Linking children to adults in Covid-19 study

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11:41 AM Support #1355 (Resolved): question on household earnings in COVID study

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11:40 AM Support #1357 (Resolved): Covid-19 survey and Wave 9

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11:40 AM Support #1358 (Resolved): Employment status: indall - indresp incosistency

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11:37 AM Support #1362 (Resolved): Deriving own weights

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11:37 AM Support #1363 (Resolved): Covid weights

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11:36 AM Support #1364 (Resolved): Sample overlap with other studies

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11:36 AM Support #1365 (Resolved): Payment methods gas and electricity

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11:35 AM Support #1367 (Resolved): Hourly wage (accounting for overtime)

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11:35 AM Support #1368 (Resolved): Unmatched households when merging hhresp with lsoa data

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11:34 AM Support #1370 (Resolved): BHPS+UKHLS (26 waves) Repeated Time Values Error in Stata

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11:34 AM Support #1372 (Resolved): Question about age of respondents based on age_dv, and racel_dv (Re-created as original was deleted)

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11:33 AM Support #1373 (Resolved): Child file a-j [ca_childdoba]

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11:32 AM Support #1375 (Resolved): XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

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11:31 AM Support #1376 (Resolved): Top coding on h_fimnnet_dv (total net personal income - no deductions)

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11:29 AM Support #1377 (Resolved): Weights in Covid-19 Study

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11:28 AM Support #1378 (Resolved): Overlapping interview periods across waves?

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11:26 AM Support #1381 (Resolved): Query

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11:25 AM Support #1382 (Resolved): Where to find questionnaire modules?

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11:24 AM Support #1384 (Resolved): Sharing Data

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11:24 AM Support #1387 (Resolved): Estimates of UK population

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11:23 AM Support #1389 (Resolved): Is there a variable for the number of children living outside the household?

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11:22 AM Support #1391 (Resolved): dropouts due to mental health

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11:21 AM Support #1393 (Resolved): Longitudinal or cross-sectional weighting with change scores?

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11:20 AM Support #1394 (Resolved): Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

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11:20 AM Support #1395 (Resolved): f_scotvot2 - values

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11:19 AM Support #1396 (Resolved): calculate taxable income

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11:18 AM Support #1398 (Resolved): Weights when merging several waves of USoc + covid study

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11:18 AM Support #1399 (Resolved): jobhist equivalent for Understanding Society

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11:17 AM Support #1400 (Resolved): Importance of Britishness to sense of self

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11:17 AM Support #1402 (Resolved): Low wages/ how to prevent measurement bias

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11:16 AM Support #1403 (Resolved): Questions about the data

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11:15 AM Support #1405 (Resolved): Ethics application number for Understanding Society

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11:15 AM Support #1406 (Resolved): COVID-19 July release

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11:14 AM Support #1407 (Resolved): categories of the qfhigh_dv variable

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11:14 AM Support #1409 (Resolved): Ethnicity Query

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11:12 AM Support #1410 (Resolved): Determining the missing values in the jbsoc10_cc variable.

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11:11 AM Support #1412 (Resolved): Weights_poverty line (BHPS)

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11:10 AM Support #1413 (Resolved): Variables for employment

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11:10 AM Support #1414 (Resolved): Weighting dual pay only

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11:10 AM Support #1415 (Resolved): Using weights for all 9 waves

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11:09 AM Support #1417 (Resolved): Time-varying predictor variables at different waves to outcome

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11:07 AM Support #1419 (Resolved): Moved to current address variable

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11:07 AM Support #1420 (Resolved): covid-19 observations not merging with wave 9 data

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10:56 AM Support #1421 (Resolved): top coding in income components

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10:55 AM Support #1423 (Resolved): Merging youth to adult data

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10:54 AM Support #1426 (Resolved): Adverse childhood experience data

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10:53 AM Support #1429 (Resolved): Current | job: ISCO88 | (condensed | 3 digits | version) - Manager occupations

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10:53 AM Support #1430 (Resolved): Wave 10 release

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10:52 AM Support #1431 (Resolved): jbnssec3_dv & jbnssec8_dv

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10:52 AM Support #1432 (Resolved): Self-employed who have applied for UC in Covid modules

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10:46 AM Support #1433 (Resolved): Category of education variable 'd_qfhigh' and 'd_hiqual_dv'

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10:46 AM Support #1434 (Resolved): Linking school statistics data school codes (special license)

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10:38 AM Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Hi Olena,
Thanks so much for your reply and incredible help!
I think I might have misunderstood your question ... Karen Mak

10:24 AM Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Karen,
In this situation use longitudinal weight for wave 4 for the set of waves 2 to 4 outcome, lw weight for wav... Olena Kaminska

10:16 AM Support #1422: furlough in Covid-19 Study

We have prepared a FAQ on the furlough questions. Attached.
If it does not answer your questions please let us kno... Understanding Society User Support Team