Understanding Society User Support

04/27/2022

06:15 PM Support #1686: New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Yes, continuing sample members were asked if they had ever been diagnosed with these health conditions - not whether ... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:12 PM Support #1686: New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Thanks for getting back to me.
Is the suggestion then that the change in the way the variable was asked at wave 10... Amy Clair

05:33 PM Support #1686 (Feedback): New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Hello,
These health conditions were changed in Wave 10. Please take a look at the FAQ about this. Go to the FAQ pa... Understanding Society User Support Team

06:12 PM Support #1685: creating a disabled status variable

Hello,
We could not find these variables in the UKHLS Covid Survey Wave 8 dataset (collected in Mar 2021 and more ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:50 PM Support #1689 (Feedback): Matching Spouses data across waves

Best to Link individuals and spouses at each wave and then link the waves. Here are the syntax files about how to mat... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:10 PM Support #1689 (Resolved): Matching Spouses data across waves

I am looking to link consecutive waves together as well as link individuals data with their spouses. I am wondering i... Laura Bryce

12:11 PM Support #1667 (Feedback): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

Understanding Society User Support Team

12:10 PM Support #1670 (Resolved): Local Authority Districts (LAD) from SN 6666

Understanding Society User Support Team

04/26/2022

03:51 PM Support #1688 (In Progress): Linkage Query

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

04/25/2022

03:07 PM Support #1688 (Resolved): Linkage Query

Hello,
Can Understanding Society data be linked to General Practice Workforce data in anyway?
Kind regards
Brenda Brenda Hayanga

04/22/2022

10:10 AM Support #1685: creating a disabled status variable

Hi,
Our definition is:
health: (long-standing illness or disability) where the standard response 1 = "yes"; res... William Shufflebottom

04/21/2022

09:01 PM Support #1687 (Feedback): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w

Hi,
This is a summary index for the battery of the 12 General Health Questionnaire questions ranging from scghqa t... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:46 PM Support #1687 (Resolved): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w

Hi,
I'm a final year student working on my dissertation and had a question about the variable ca_scghq1_dv in ca_i... Eman Akbar

05:53 PM Support #1685 (Feedback): creating a disabled status variable

So, if I understand correctly, your definition of disability is this: health=2 AND disdif96=0, which translates to: n... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/20/2022

07:40 PM Support #1686 (In Progress): New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

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

10:30 AM Support #1686 (Feedback): New diabetes diagnoses in UKHLS wave 10

Hello
Sorry if I've missed details on this somewhere but I was wondering if there was any information on the appar... Amy Clair

07:39 PM Support #1685 (In Progress): creating a disabled status variable

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

09:14 AM Support #1685 (Resolved): creating a disabled status variable

Hi USoC team,
Could you advise on an appropriate recode for disability status? We are currently using the "health"... William Shufflebottom

06:07 AM Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

2. These were cases where either the total annual hh income or the labour income or non-labour incomes were imputed (... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/19/2022

05:56 PM Support #1684 (Feedback): Difference between cd_chsdqtd_dv_f and cd_chsdqtd_dv_m

_m stands for mothers, _f for fathers. Please see section 14.2 "July 2020: Special Education Needs (SEN) and Strength... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:42 PM Support #1683 (Feedback): Merging parents (cd_indresp_w.dta) to children (cd_youth.dta)

Rename pidp_c in cd_youth to pidp and then merge it to the latest main survey wave w_indall file from the main survey... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:16 PM Support #1631: Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

Hi,
Apologies for checking in on this again but could I please request if you could look into the other questions ... Marek Rojicek

04/14/2022

06:05 PM Support #1684 (Resolved): Difference between cd_chsdqtd_dv_f and cd_chsdqtd_dv_m

Hello!
I am currently using cd_schild_w.dta dataset from COVID-19 wave 4 (June 2020).
I have noticed that after ... Irina Kolegova

05:42 PM Support #1683 (Resolved): Merging parents (cd_indresp_w.dta) to children (cd_youth.dta)

Hello!
I am trying to merge children to parents for COVID waves. Could you please tell me how can I do that?
T... Irina Kolegova

03:31 AM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

looked t the screenshop - yes, weights created and use of svyset is ok Understanding Society User Support Team

03:26 AM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

As your objective i to estimate trends, you don't need to restrict to cases that responded in all 3 waves. Understanding Society User Support Team

04/13/2022

05:40 PM Support #1682 (Feedback): How to get access to postcodes?

Hello,
Please check the list of available geographical identifiers: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documen... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:18 PM Support #1682 (Resolved): How to get access to postcodes?

I'm a postgrad student at LSE and I am wanting to use the understanding society study for my dissertation which has t... Benjamin Laidlaw

03:32 PM Support #1681 (Feedback): ff_stillfurl

Dear Darja,
In Waves 5 & 6, respondents who had said they had been on furlough and hadn’t said previously that the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:30 PM Support #1681 (Resolved): ff_stillfurl

Dear support team,
In the online data catalogue, the variable still furloughed (ff_stillfurl) is coded 1=no longe... Darja Reuschke

12:58 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

and do I need to keep only matched observations (when I am merging waves in the beginning) in this case? Irina Kolegova

12:57 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Hello! I have applied the weights for the youth as you recommended, could you please tell me if I have done it correc... Irina Kolegova

04/12/2022

05:51 PM Support #1650 (Feedback): yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Hi Alessandro,
1) Such an interpretation is possible as the yp2uni questions reads “after you finish school?”, so ... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:18 PM Support #1680 (Feedback): Merging: Many to one & sorting

Dear Irina,
1) all these files are individual level files in which pidp is a unique identifier, so this is 1:1 mer... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:33 AM Support #1680 (In Progress): Merging: Many to one & sorting

Understanding Society User Support Team

11:33 AM Support #1680: Merging: Many to one & sorting

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

05:13 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Sorry about that - same principle applies for baseline using Wave 9.
After you have put the data together (as you ... Understanding Society User Support Team

04:27 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Dear Understanding Society User Support Team,
Thank you for your response.
Just a quick remark - I am not using... Irina Kolegova

04:06 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Hi Irina,
It seems that you want to estimate trend in these SDQ summary scales, rather than within person change i... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/11/2022

10:01 AM Support #1650: yp2uni missing/inapplicable/don't know categories

Dear Support team,
Thank you for your help
To your question "So, just to make sure, your question is whether on... Alessandro Ferrara

04/10/2022

08:05 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

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Irina Kolegova

08:04 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Hello,
I have finally managed to figure out the syntax for the regression part.
Here is my syntax:
// July 202... Irina Kolegova

04/08/2022

05:46 PM Support #1680 (Resolved): Merging: Many to one & sorting

Hello,
I wanted to merge youth datasets for Wave 10 (UKHLS), Wave 4 (COVID) and Wave 8 (COVID).
1) Should I use ... Irina Kolegova

04:19 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

I have just realised that I do not know which dependent variable I should use for my regression.
I was thinking to g... Irina Kolegova

03:31 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Could you please also include the syntax for the regression part?
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:27 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Let me show my steps:
1) I merged youth who participated in Wave 4 (July 2020) and Wave 8 (March 2021) and kept thos... Irina Kolegova

03:17 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

As I am using the same respondents who took part in the pre-covid wave, the 4th Covid wave and the 8th Covid wave I t... Irina Kolegova

02:12 PM Support #1678 (Feedback): Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Understanding Society User Support Team

02:11 PM Support #1678: Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Dear Irina,
Is your analysis cross-sectional or longitudinal?
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support ... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:22 PM Support #1677 (Feedback): Covid Wave cx_age variable inconsistencies

This inconsistency is due to the fact that in the April 2020 web survey, there were 433 full and 49 partial responden... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:31 PM Support #1679 (Feedback): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Universal Credit receipt

Hi Fatiha,
You can look for variables using the variable search (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentat... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:01 PM Support #1679 (Resolved): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Universal Credit receipt

Hi there I am trying to use claiming Universal Credit as an independent variable when looking at food insecurity, how... FATHIA Ali

04/07/2022

05:36 PM Support #1678 (In Progress): Weights for the linked COVID-19 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

04:59 PM Support #1678 (Resolved): Weights for the linked COVID-19 Youth data

Hello!
Hope this email finds you well.
I am currently working with COVID-19 youth data and I have a question a... Irina Kolegova

05:34 PM Support #1677 (In Progress): Covid Wave cx_age variable inconsistencies

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

11:49 AM Support #1677 (Resolved): Covid Wave cx_age variable inconsistencies

I have noticed a few inconsistencies with the derived cx_age variables. For example if ages are listed where ca_age >... Richard Shaw

05:33 PM Support #1675 (Feedback): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status

In the Covid-19 survey the question about labour market activity was not asked in each wave, only whether the respond... Understanding Society User Support Team

04/05/2022

06:24 PM Support #1673: pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

Hi Tom,
We have passed this to our Data Team who are now investigating this discrepancy. We will keep you updated.... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:47 PM Support #1675 (In Progress): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status

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

05:47 PM Support #1676 (In Progress): Youth self-esteem measure

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

10:56 AM Support #1676 (Resolved): Youth self-esteem measure

Hello,
I am using the self-esteem measure from the youth questionnaire. There are 8 items - they seem to be from t... Marie Mueller

04/04/2022

02:31 PM Support #1675 (Resolved): Wave 7 COVID-19 DATA- Employment Status

I am trying to find a variable for employment status but cannot find one measuring whether people are employed or une... FATHIA Ali

03/31/2022

10:45 AM Support #1674 (Resolved): Merging parstyle and indresp using hidp

The question was answered by email. Understanding Society User Support Team

03/30/2022

06:20 AM Support #1674 (Resolved): Merging parstyle and indresp using hidp

I can't seem to merge parstyle and indresp using hidp Jose Leonard Humiding

03/29/2022

05:02 PM Support #1673 (In Progress): pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

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

11:29 AM Support #1673 (In Progress): pensioner_dv seems to be wrong for men

Hi,
The pensioner_dv variable is supposed to determine whether the respondent is past State Pension Age (SPA). But... Tom Waters