Activity
From 06/14/2022 to 07/13/2022
07/13/2022
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05:58 PM Support #1726 (Resolved): BHPS and Understanding Society - weights
- Hi,
I am using both the BHPS (wave 1-18) and the Understanding Society (wave 1-11) to conduct a descriptive analysis... -
01:51 PM Support #1725 (In Progress): Variable for region of work?
- 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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11:57 AM Support #1725 (Resolved): Variable for region of work?
- Hello,
I have found a variable for the region where the respondent lives (gor_dv). Is there a similar variable for... -
11:08 AM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Excellent, thanks very much for your help.
Catherine -
11:07 AM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- And to reply to your earlier question, yes, use longitudinal weight from wave 9. As soon as you use information from ...
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10:52 AM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Kind of yes. The answer is more complicated because households are not a longitudinal concept, but I wouldn't worry a...
07/12/2022
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04:36 PM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Sorry Olena, one last question - if I use psu as the clustering variable, does that account for clustering by hidp as...
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03:28 PM Support #1724 (Feedback): Weights and accounting for individual clustering
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02:02 PM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Hi Olena - thanks so much for the speedy reply, that's very helpful.
Just to clarify - if I have a group of indivi... -
01:36 PM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Catherine,
You only need psu as your clustering variable as it is the highest level (pidps are nested within psu),... -
11:58 AM Support #1724 (Resolved): Weights and accounting for individual clustering
- Hello,
I am carrying out logistic regression to estimate the association between transitioning from unemployment t...
07/11/2022
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04:42 PM Support #1723 (Feedback): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dv
- Dear Albert.
Thank you for your email.
FOR BHPS WAVES – hiqual_dv “other qualifications” is made from the follo...
07/07/2022
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02:58 PM Support #1722 (Feedback): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables
- Hi William,
The list of weights looks alright.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team -
09:49 AM Support #1723 (Resolved): 'Other qualifications' category in hiqual_dv
- Hi,
I can't find any information on what exactly 'other qualifications' consists of in your hiqual_dv variable (ht...
07/06/2022
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12:22 PM Support #1722: Quick weight to use check for 7 variables
- Hi,
Yes that is correct. Separately for each wave.
Kind regards
Will -
12:20 PM Support #1722 (In Progress): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables
- Hi William,
Just to double-check - your analysis is cross-sectional, so you will be running the descriptives for t... -
09:54 AM Support #1721: Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much, this answers my questions (and thanks for your US work on weighting).
All the be...
07/05/2022
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04:05 PM Support #1721: Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- Richard,
1. Yes, use cross-sectional weights in your analysis.
2. You don't need to create your own longitudinal ... -
03:17 PM Support #1721 (In Progress): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- 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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02:55 PM Support #1721 (Resolved): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- Dear Support Team,
I am completing an analysis using Understanding Society Waves 1-9, where I would like to genera... -
03:09 PM Support #1722 (Resolved): Quick weight to use check for 7 variables
- Hi,
We are running some descriptive statistics for a few variables on main USoC waves between wave 8 and 11 (where... -
10:49 AM Support #1720 (Feedback): Which children are selected for parent reported SDQ?
- Dear Matthias,
The SDQ questions are asked of children aged from 5 to 8 years old. You can see the universe (there...
07/04/2022
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09:03 PM Support #1720 (Resolved): Which children are selected for parent reported SDQ?
- Hi,
Each wave has a question on children's SDQ to be reported by the parent, available in the 'child' file, but the...
06/29/2022
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12:32 PM Support #1719 (Feedback): Several inconsistencies for birthy and also mastat
- Hi Lydia,
1) I'd recommend using doby_dv from xwavedat. It is a derived variable and our Data Team has tried to ma...
06/26/2022
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05:12 PM Support #1719 (Resolved): Several inconsistencies for birthy and also mastat
- Dear UKHLS Support,
I am currently noticing that there are several differences between the variable birthy in the...
06/24/2022
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05:29 PM Support #1717 (Feedback): vote8 variable election coverage
- Dear Leonard,
"the last election" may refer to the same general elections in more than one wave, so the same event...
06/23/2022
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03:04 PM Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores
- Dear Emily,
I downloaded the data on the 7th of June from here: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/stu... -
02:19 PM Support #1702: Wave 4 GHQ scores
- Hello
Thanks again for your help and apologies for delay - I've been away for a couple of weeks.
I've redownl...
06/22/2022
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02:35 PM Support #1711 (Feedback): Identifying care home residents
- Dear Jack,
I am sorry for the delay in responding to your question.
1) you can identify if the household is in... -
12:28 PM Support #1718: Sexuor Access
- Dear Evie,
I checked this with the team responsible for managing levels of access. The change was suggested by the...
06/17/2022
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05:47 PM Support #1718: Sexuor Access
- Thank you for the above information! Would you be able to inform me why this variable (and I notice HIV diagnosis als...
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04:13 PM Support #1718 (Feedback): Sexuor Access
- Dear Evie,
This information is now considered to be sensitive and for that reason it was moved to the Special Lice... -
04:14 PM Support #1717 (In Progress): vote8 variable election coverage
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
06/16/2022
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03:19 PM Support #1718 (Resolved): Sexuor Access
- To whom it may concern,
I have noticed that the sexuor variable has been moved to special licence access via the U... -
10:32 AM Support #1717 (Resolved): vote8 variable election coverage
- Hello,
I am working on a project on voter behaviour, using variable "vote8" as a dependent. The variable asks for ...
06/15/2022
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01:07 PM Support #1708 (Feedback): Usual and last pay - question on imputation and missing values
- Hi Rebeka,
Thanks for your question. Missing data is unlikely to be missing at random, and so dropping missing cas...
06/14/2022
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06:57 PM Support #1716 (Feedback): constituency level data
- Hello,
Please check the dataset Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies available under Special Licence Access (h... -
08:27 AM Support #1716 (Resolved): constituency level data
- To study the rollout effect of universal credit, I need to get the constituency-level data first. However, this data ...
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