Activity
From 12/28/2021 to 01/26/2022
01/26/2022
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06:45 PM Support #1637 (Feedback): Religion in Covid survey
- Questions about religion has been asked in the main survey, every 4 years for the whole sample (Waves 1 4 8), and onl...
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- Hello,
Basic information on how the income variables were created is available in this User guide section:
https:... -
- Hello,
If you look at the Universe for this question, i.e., who were asked this question in the Questionnaire, you... -
- Hello Luke,
Wave 12 data will be released in November 2022.
You can check which of these variables/questions we... -
01:49 PM Support #1640 (Resolved): Onward Social Fabric Index and Understanding Society Wave
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am writing to you on behalf of the thinktank Onward, regarding our Social Fabri... -
01:04 PM Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health
- Joe,
Thank you for the details. I suggest you start with either i_psnenus_lw or i_indinus_lw as your base weights ...
01/25/2022
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03:42 PM Support #1632: Correct weighting for mental health
- Good afternoon Olena,
I watched the videos yesterday, but have spent today going over them again and trying to wr... -
02:56 PM Support #1639 (Resolved): Creating housing benefit indicator using _renthb & _renthb_bh
- I was wondering if you were able to help me out at all with some clarification regarding the amount of missing variab...
01/24/2022
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04:54 PM Support #1638 (Resolved): w_fimnlabnet_dv
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Does this Labour income variable (w_fimnlabnet_dv) also capture the Statutory maternity pay (SMP) that the emplo... -
- Joe,
Have you listened to the full training material yet? Some of the answers will be there as well as an example ... -
- Hi Olena,
So having a look at the data today, and playing around with creating a tailored weight. To be clear agai... -
- Thanks very much for your help,
Will come back to this with further questions re. tailored weights if required.
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- Yes, we asked you to continue to post your questions here. Thanks for doing that.
But to clarify you do need to em... -
- Thanks Olena,
The USoc email team responded, asking me to make this request here:
I need the training manual f... -
01:17 PM Support #1637 (Resolved): Religion in Covid survey
- Hello,
I hope you are well.
I had a question about the Covid survey (adults 16+). Looking at the data I can't s... -
- Hello,
You are correct the questions were about employment status and not jobs. The empstat datafile includes the ... -
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- We also provide school locator variables of children's current schools and those of recent school leavers. To know mo...
01/22/2022
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- Hi Team,
I am trying to reconstruct the employment history of all the individuals. So, according to my understandi...
01/21/2022
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02:10 PM Support #1635 (Resolved): Scotland – all UKLHS participants who completed secondary education in Scotland?
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Could you please advise us on the best way to identify individuals (in all UKLHS waves, but not BHPS) who h... -
- We do have food poverty questions in W12 but they are about foodbanks, not the Food Insecurity Experience (FIES) ones...
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- Thank you for your quick response. It is extremely helpful.
In the life employment history('empstat' file in wave 5)... -
- The employment history of the rest of the sample was asked in Wave 5. You may also be interested in the syntax that w...
01/20/2022
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- Hi,
According to the documentation the employment status history is only available for individuals surveyed betwee...
01/19/2022
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- Dear Rachel,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back... -
- Dear Michaela,
There is also one more thing you might find useful. As part of Understanding Society efforts to h...
01/18/2022
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03:22 PM Support #1633 (Resolved): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire
- Hello there,
I have been reviewing variables available in the UKLHS questionnaires related to food poverty. I see on... -
- Marie,
Sounds like using youth weights should be a good option for you.
Best,
Olena
01/17/2022
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09:23 PM Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
- Hi,
Thank you very much for helping with this.
Yes that's correct, I'm using the EUL version of the data and it... -
- Joe,
Thank you for your question. The set of instruments you use is unusual and we don't have specific weight for ... -
- Hello all,
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
I've recently carried out an analysis on adolescent men... -
- Hi Isha,
It may take up to a few weeks, for further details please contact UK Data Service as they responsible fo...
01/14/2022
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- Thank you for your quick response.
May I know how much time does it usually take to get access to the data once the ... -
- Hi Isha,
I'm assuming you're using the End User Licence version of the data. Birthm variable is considered to be p... -
- In the UKHLS waves, most of these cases are explained by income top-coding. I am guessing you are using the EUL versi...
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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...
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- Dear Jan,
The label of the value 7 of vote7 in wave7 of the BHPS reads "NA: ONS sub-sample" suggesting that this q... -
- Dear Jan,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to...
01/13/2022
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- Hi,
I have been doing some comparisons of the gross and net income variables in the hhresp files in USoc and BHPS ... -
- Hi,
I am exploring the Understanding Society Survey and I need data on the date of birth (date, month and year) of... -
04:30 PM Support #1629 (Resolved): Merging Variable vote_7
- Dear Madame or Sir,
i am a stundent and am using the bhps and ukhls datasets in a project.
I have a question co...
01/12/2022
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- Hi Alexandra,
We are investigating whether these are missing values which were not coded to the UKHLS convention (... -
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- Dear Michaela,
Please use the adresp15_dv variable to identify who is the responsible adult responding the SDQ que...
01/11/2022
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- Dear Ruth,
The fieldwork for the COVID-19 web surveys – and subsequent occupation coding – is done by a different ... -
- 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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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/10/2022
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- Ashley,
Thanks for your question. If you use wave 2 information than you will need to use longitudinal weight for ... -
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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...
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11:43 AM Support #1628 (Resolved): data and documentation not matching up (jbsoc variable)
- Hi, I am trying to use wave 8 job title and description variable ch_jbsoc, however the variable doesn't seem to exist...
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11:24 AM Support #1627 (In Progress): Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth
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I have just started looking at the data in Wave K of the youth data file and found that for k_ypfhweve: "Durin... -
- Hi Mushtahid,
This is a coding error, the correct value for this person is 15 "Black African".
Best wishes,
Un... -
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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...
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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...
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09:01 AM Support #1626 (Resolved): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ
- Good morning,
I was wondering whether there is a way to identify if the respondent parent is the mother or the fath...
01/09/2022
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04:36 PM Support #1625 (Resolved): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?
- Hi,
In ethn_dv (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/ethn...
01/06/2022
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02:49 PM Support #1624 (Resolved): Weights for subsample
- Hello,
I am trying to estimate the fraction of people that transition to their first relationship (cohabitation o...
01/04/2022
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