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From 10/26/2021 to 11/24/2021

11/24/2021

03:23 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Yes, I use the same svyset (and therefore all 3 scenarios are weighted). I guess this is evident also in...
Marie Mueller
03:07 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
Are all of your 3 scenarios weighted? And do you use the same svyset for them?
Thanks,
Olena
Olena Kaminska
12:18 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hi Olena,
Interesting! Let me give you an example that I just tested:
I have a sample of n = 2,671. Of these, 3...
Marie Mueller
11:27 AM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Marie,
I am not sure about your question. If you use weights correctly people with 0 weights won't contribute to y...
Olena Kaminska
09:08 AM Support #1609 (Feedback): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:06 AM Support #1609 (In Progress): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:20 AM Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Dear Jun Wang,
Thank you for your question.
1. Selection probabilities for refreshment sample are independent of ...
Olena Kaminska
09:05 AM Support #1610 (In Progress): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
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
09:09 AM Support #1612 (In Progress): Understanding length of time unemployed
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
08:50 AM Support #1611 (Feedback): Geographical data
Hi Chiara,
The geographical locator variables for our survey respondents, levels lower than GOR are available as S...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/23/2021

01:10 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
Essentially, I am interested in the effect of exposure X on outcome Y. Exposure X is linked data (via LS...
Marie Mueller
12:52 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
First of all, you could use youth in a longitudinal analysis, just keeping in mind that a few years before ...
Olena Kaminska
12:26 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Hi Olena,
I use youth data from waves 1-8. I pool these data into one data set. I do not run a longitudinal analys...
Marie Mueller
12:04 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
Thank you. Do you mean that you pool all youth data from all waves? And for each wave you want to combine y...
Olena Kaminska
01:05 PM Support #1612 (Resolved): Understanding length of time unemployed
Dear team, I hope you can help. I'm working with US W10 in Stata (file: j_indresp.dta). I'm using "j_jbstat == 3" to ... Chris Percy
11:16 AM Support #1611 (Resolved): Geographical data
Hi, will it be possible to know in which council area Scottish respondents live in? I know in the main survey there i... Chiara Costi
08:54 AM Support #1610 (Resolved): Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample
Hi,

I'm user from Peking University, my research interests include survey sampling and data integration.
R...
Jun Wang

11/22/2021

01:30 PM Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
PS In the FAQ on pooling cross-sectional data you say: "We strongly recommend that a non-zero value of the
weight va...
Marie Mueller
10:35 AM Support #1609 (Resolved): Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)
Hello,
In my project, I am analysing youth data. For my analyses, I define my analytic sample. For example, youth ...
Marie Mueller

11/19/2021

04:48 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
I forgot to mention: I use data from waves 1-8, and youth and adult data are matched for each wave (i.e., youth wave ... Marie Mueller
04:46 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Dear Olena,
Thank you for your rapid response. Yes, for the *youth* analysis, I am using data from the youth quest...
Marie Mueller
04:24 PM Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Marie,
Thank you. It sounds like the best approach would be for you to create a tailored weight. But you could als...
Olena Kaminska
03:57 PM Support #1608 (In Progress): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
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
03:54 PM Support #1608 (Resolved): Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data
Dear Understanding Society support team,
Today I attended a workshop on using weights in Understanding Society. I ...
Marie Mueller

11/17/2021

11:18 AM Support #1607 (Feedback): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS
The questionnaire shows the order in which the questions were asked. These questions were not asked in one block.
...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:32 AM Support #1607 (Resolved): Questionnaire Sequencing for the last 5 minutes- EMBS
Can we be told whether the extra 5 minutes worth of questions for EMBS and GP sub-samples occured at the end of the C... vanessa gash

11/16/2021

11:16 AM Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order
Yes, there is a variable which ask for the number of siblings - NSIBS (also asked in BHPS Wave 13)
https://www.under...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/15/2021

10:29 PM Support #1606: Adult Subject Birth Order
Dear Support Team,
Thank you very much for your response and pointing out the fampos variable in BHPS Wave13. I hav...
INGO OUTES

11/14/2021

08:42 AM Support #1606 (Feedback): Adult Subject Birth Order
Hello,
This information is available for adult respondents only for the BHPS sample - they were asked in Wave 13:
...
Understanding Society User Support Team
08:38 AM Support #1605 (Feedback): Life Satisfaction Data
In BHPS, this question was first asked in Wave 6 and then every wave after that, and in UKHLS it has been asked every... Understanding Society User Support Team

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
 

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