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From 02/08/2022 to 03/09/2022

03/08/2022

10:35 AM Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves
update: or, do we use the xw for indicators with no comparison and then have to make our own weights for comparisons ... William Shufflebottom
10:27 AM Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves
Hi,
Thanks for your quick response. We are comparing means so that is the _xw then. Thanks. For our variables whe...
William Shufflebottom

03/07/2022

10:41 PM Support #1665 (Feedback): j_youth file lacking hrpid
Hi Larissa,
We are aware of this issue, it will be addressed in the next data release, but, of course, thank you f...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:41 AM Support #1665 (Resolved): j_youth file lacking hrpid
I have realised that the hrpid variable in the j_youth file is missing for all youth respondents in wave 10. I don't ... Larissa Pople
10:06 PM Support #1666 (Feedback): Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves
Hi William,
Are you analysing the data cross-sectionally, that is, for example, a mean from Wave 8 Covid-19 survey...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:11 PM Support #1666 (Resolved): Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves
Hi,
My name is William and I’m working on a social capital publication. I’m a little unsure of which weights we sh...
William Shufflebottom

03/03/2022

08:50 PM Support #1664 (In Progress): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years
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
04:39 PM Support #1627: Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth
Hi, is there any update for my query? Alexandra Turner

03/02/2022

06:15 PM Support #1664 (Resolved): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years
Dear UKHLS team,
I am trying to understand, based on Q11 and Q12 of the Weighting FAQ document, whether I can incl...
Dorothee Schneider
04:43 PM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Hi
That's great, thanks so much
Best wishes
Natalie
Natalie Bennett

03/01/2022

01:31 PM Support #1660: Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11
And you can find these questions in the Wave 12 questionnaire which is now available online here: https://www.underst... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:20 PM Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
Hi,
Thank you for looking further into this, that's useful to know.
Would you please also be able to look into...
Marek Rojicek
09:27 AM Support #1631 (Feedback): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The reason for the few remaining cases with net income being greater than... Understanding Society User Support Team

02/22/2022

12:47 AM Support #1658: Questions
Hi,
Thanks for that. I think it indeed answered my question. Many thanks.
Weixi Kang

02/21/2022

05:03 PM Support #1658: Questions
Hello,
You can find some additional information about ethics and consent in the BHPS Quality Profile: https://www....
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:56 PM Support #1649 (Feedback): Weights for longitudinal analysis
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:56 PM Support #1652 (Feedback): Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:55 PM Support #1661 (Feedback): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:55 PM Support #1659 (Feedback): Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:55 PM Support #1663 (Feedback): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11
If you look at the questionniares you will see that the Universe of these questions that these changed across waves, ... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:17 AM Support #1663 (In Progress): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11
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

02/20/2022

09:47 AM Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
Hi,
I hope you are well, could I please request if someone would be able to help with this?
Thank you,
Marek...
Marek Rojicek

02/17/2022

12:53 PM Support #1658: Questions
I will need to check with one of the team members who worked on the BHPS, I will let you know when I hear back.
Be...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:01 PM Support #1663 (Resolved): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11
Dear Forum,
I am trying to construct a simple rough binary variable UK citizen yes or no for all eleven waves. I ha...
Nico Ochmann
11:41 AM Support #1656: Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
Dear Jonathan,
These two questions were discontinued, but you can see the Higher Education establishments of resp...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:26 AM Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories
Dear Alessandro,
So, just to make sure, your question is whether one can interpret answering 1 "Get a full time jo...
Understanding Society User Support Team

02/16/2022

11:55 PM Support #1658: Questions
Hello,
Thanks for that. May I know which institution approved the ethics of the study with relevant detials?
Weixi Kang
09:20 PM Support #1660 (Feedback): Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11
Hello,
This module has been postponed and will be available in wave 12 (November 2022).
Best wishes,
Understan...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:17 PM Support #1661: Merging children with thier parent using SPSS
Hello,
We would recommend checking the SPSS version of our online Introduction to Understanding Society Moodle cou...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:08 PM Support #1662 (Feedback): Linking with a different data set
Hello,
It is not possible to link UKHLS to WERS at an individual and workplace level. The only linkage that might ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:02 PM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Hi Natalie,
Household income variables were not included in the 2019 jk dataset. However, since wave 11 was releas...
Understanding Society User Support Team

02/15/2022

04:52 PM Support #1662 (Resolved): Linking with a different data set
Is it possible to link BHPS with Workplace Employment Relations Study? Thank you. Soyoung Han
03:13 PM Support #1661 (Resolved): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS
Hello,
I am trying to study the association between children's mental health and their parents' mental health, bef...
Afag Mohammed
03:07 PM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Apologies, I have one final question. I can't seem to find household income in any of the mainstage wave 9 data files... Natalie Bennett
10:26 AM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Ok great, thanks so much for your help.
Best wishes
Natalie
Natalie Bennett
09:47 AM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Hi Natalie,
Yes, I think it is the only solution.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team
Understanding Society User Support Team

02/14/2022

10:21 AM Support #1659: Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
Yes, set it to zero. Olena Kaminska
08:51 AM Support #1659: Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
Hi Olena,
Thanks very much for this quick and very clear answer.
One follow-up question: to correct for non-resp...
Rebeka Balogh
09:13 AM Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories
Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
Thank you for your answer. So if I understand correctly, the "Inappl...
Alessandro Ferrara

02/13/2022

04:27 PM Support #1656: Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
Thank you, this clears this up for me.
Additionally, is there a reason why both of these questions as well as the ...
Jonathan Ramshaw

02/11/2022

03:59 PM Support #1660 (In Progress): Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11
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
12:27 PM Support #1660 (Resolved): Attitudes towards immigration (self-comp) in Wave 11
The long-term content plan document appears to show that a module on attitudes towards immigration was planned for Wa... Maria Abreu
11:27 AM Support #1655: Household income in Covid surveys
Hi
Thanks for this. However, I am unsure how to handle the top coding of these household composition variables whe...
Natalie Bennett
11:00 AM Support #1653 (Feedback): Representativeness of lone mothers
Understanding Society User Support Team

02/10/2022

02:30 PM Support #1659: Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
Rebeka,
Yes, your approach will be correct and you could use wave 9 weights for both analyses (latent and regressi...
Olena Kaminska
02:19 PM Support #1659 (Resolved): Longitudinal analysis - correct weight
Hi there,
I'd like to conduct longitudinal analysis using UKHLS. In brief terms: I will be conducting a latent cla...
Rebeka Balogh
01:03 PM Support #1657 (Feedback): Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds
Hello,
Unfortunately, the parenthood status is not available in wave 1 of the Covid-19 survey. However, you can co...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:57 PM Support #1658 (Feedback): Questions
Hello,
There is a technical problem with the website, thank you for letting us know, we will try fix this ASAP. Re...
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:26 AM Support #1658 (Resolved): Questions
Hello,
I am using BHPS Wave 15, however, do you know why I cannot access this variable: https://www.iser.essex.ac.u...
Weixi Kang

02/09/2022

04:49 PM Support #1657: Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds
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
03:37 PM Support #1657 (Resolved): Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds
Hi,
I hope you are well.
I'm a research assistant working for Birgitta Rabe and Gabriella Conti on a project a...
Junzhao Shi
02:21 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Lucas,
Thank you. You seem to be on a good track with your analysis.
And thank you for the suggestion on a better...
Olena Kaminska
12:40 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Hi Olena,
Thanks for your reply. I was just typing up a follow-up:
I received the document yesterday and have g...
Lucas Auer
12:11 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Lucas,
Your approach seems fine. The choice of weights will be explained via email. Come back to me if you still h...
Olena Kaminska
02:14 PM Support #1653: Representativeness of lone mothers
Tom,
Thank you for sharing this with us. We are aware of this general discrepancy. It can have a few different cau...
Olena Kaminska
12:39 PM Support #1651 (Feedback): Matching Partners Data
Dear Laura,
You can identify partners who do not live with the respondent only in cases where we captured the two ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:12 PM Support #1646: Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households
Great - thanks very much for your help. Matt Barnes
12:09 PM Support #1646: Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households
Matt,
Thanks. For the situations likes yours we have prepared an online training course for creating your own tail...
Olena Kaminska
10:23 AM Support #1646: Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households
Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-3:
> Matt,
>
> Thank you for your question. Yes, you are ...
Matt Barnes
11:25 AM Support #1655 (Feedback): Household income in Covid surveys
Hi Natalie,
Yes, you need to multiply the hhincome_amount by a factor corresponding to the period provided in the ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:56 AM Support #1656 (Feedback): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
Dear Jonathan,
The unib question asked about the first degree (e.g. B.A., BSc, BEd), the unim about the second or ...
Understanding Society User Support Team

02/08/2022

08:51 PM Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories
Dear Alessandro,
Thank you for pointing out these issues. In waves 6,8 and 9 the -8 "inapplicable" category was as...
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:45 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Dear Olena,
Thanks for the swift reply. I have now requested the information on pooled data from user support via ...
Lucas Auer
03:29 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Lucas,
Thanks. Please request usersupport for the information on pooled data. Have a look and come back to me if y...
Olena Kaminska
03:04 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Hi Olena,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. Using the data in long format seemed to make perfect sense to me,...
Lucas Auer
02:03 PM Support #1652: Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?
Lucas,
Thank you. Can you give me a little bit more details on your analysis. It's not clear why you are using lon...
Olena Kaminska
02:56 PM Support #1646 (Feedback): Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households
Matt,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you are right - our weights are either for people who respondent to interv...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:26 PM Support #1646 (In Progress): Weight for analysis of household income restricted to complete households
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
02:55 PM Support #1654 (Feedback): Looking for motherhood status variables
Dear Amwaj,
You can use nchild_dv which gives you the number of own children in the household, including natural c...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:48 PM Support #1647 (Feedback): Filter issues of "vote7"
Dear Sebastian,
Vote7 was asked only of respondents who completed their interview after the 12th of December 2019,...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:27 PM Support #1655 (In Progress): Household income in Covid surveys
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
11:05 AM Support #1655 (Resolved): Household income in Covid surveys
Hi
Could you advise me on the appropriate way to handle the income data provided in the covid-19 surveys? Am I ri...
Natalie Bennett
02:26 PM Support #1656 (In Progress): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
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
11:31 AM Support #1656 (Resolved): Difference between variables bl_unib and bl_unim
Hi, I am seeking some information on what the difference is between variables "unib" and "unim" that are in wave BH12... Jonathan Ramshaw
 

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