Understanding Society User Support

03/21/2022

04:35 PM Support #1669 (Feedback): Employment history and labour force spell

Hello,
We do not have a separate user guide covering UKHLS employment data but I would recommend checking:
1) the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:29 PM Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Hi Lieke,
Yes, that's correct, so since BHPS sample members have been asked about their children already in the BH... Understanding Society User Support Team

08:41 AM Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Jennie,
Yes, use k_psnenui_lw weight as a base weight. You should include in your model everyone who is eligible. ... Olena Kaminska

03/18/2022

07:44 PM Support #1669 (In Progress): Employment history and labour force spell

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

02:30 PM Support #1670 (In Progress): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

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

01:15 PM Support #1663 (Resolved): How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

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01:14 PM Support #1140 (Resolved): Mistake between ba_jbstat_bh ba_jbstat in Wave 1 of BHPS

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01:05 PM Support #1664 (Feedback): IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

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03/17/2022

04:54 PM Support #1670 (Resolved): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
I have attached a copy of the SN 6666 user guide published by Understanding Society.
I... Nico Ochmann

04:39 PM Support #1663: How to obtain an approximate measure for UK citizenship across Waves 1-11

Thanks for your help,
Have a nice day,
Nico Nico Ochmann

03:09 PM Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Dear Jennie,
You can find the information about the course here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/traini... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:21 PM Support #1669 (Resolved): Employment history and labour force spell

Dear Member of the Understanding Society team,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am emailing to enquire ab... Yanan Zhang

03/16/2022

01:16 PM Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Hi Olena,
Thanks for your response. I have now watched the course on creating a tailored weight and I see that it ... jennie parnham

09:54 AM Support #1623: Gender first-born child

Dear Support Team,
Thanks for your confirmation already a few months ago. I would just like to ask for some clarif... Lieke Holt

07:45 AM Support #1668 (In Progress): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment

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

03/15/2022

02:55 PM Support #1668 (Resolved): Net household income including housing benefit adjustment

I am trying to get a measure of net household income.
I understand that when housing benefit is implied by differ... Rebecca Benson

01:50 PM Support #1667: Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Jennie,
The best option for you is to create a tailored weight. We have now an online course for this. Piotr shoul... Olena Kaminska

09:41 AM Support #1667 (In Progress): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

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

09:49 AM Support #1644 (Resolved): Inapplicable issue

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09:48 AM Support #1630 (Resolved): Date of birth data

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09:47 AM Support #1634 (Resolved): Employment Status History Wave 1 of UKHLS

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09:46 AM Support #1613 (Resolved): Linking administrative health data

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09:45 AM Support #1641 (Resolved): 3 critical issues regarding COVID-19 UK Household Longitudinal Dataset

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09:43 AM Support #1642 (Resolved): Incomplete Merge of Longitudinal individual indresp variables (a - k; 1 - 11) and longitudinal hhresp variables - Unmatched Data both ways

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03/14/2022

05:20 PM Support #1667 (Resolved): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Hello,
I was looking to check if I have correctly understood the weight I needed for my analysis .
My analysis... jennie parnham

01:40 PM Support #1666: Clarification of weights when joining datasets and comparing COVID and main survey waves

Hi William,
If you are analysing the main survey data separately from the Covid-19 survey data, so first generatin... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:31 PM Support #1664: IEMB sample when combining data to financial years

Dorothee,
If you include all sample months 1 through 24 in your analysis you don't need to worry about samples / s... Olena Kaminska

01:25 PM Support #1627: Coding of k_ypfhweve in k_Youth

Hi Alexandra,
We are sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Unfortunately, we are still investigating this is... Understanding Society User Support Team

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

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02:56 PM Support #1652 (Feedback): Should using longitudinal weights lead to a balanced panel?

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02:55 PM Support #1661 (Feedback): Merging children with thier parent using SPSS

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02:55 PM Support #1659 (Feedback): Longitudinal analysis - correct weight

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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