Understanding Society User Support

08/05/2022

03:56 PM Support #1739: Weights when pooling data from different waves

Jonas,
Thank you for your question. The first approach is correct and you can use it with relevant cross-sectional... Olena Kaminska

03:05 PM Support #1743: Averaging regional data to obtain control variables for individuals

Carolin,
You don't need our weight (probability weight) in creating variables. Sometime people use analitical weig... Olena Kaminska

11:14 AM Support #1743 (Resolved): Averaging regional data to obtain control variables for individuals

Hi there,
I am using wave 6 to study household heads' homeownership probabilities. I am looking at native Brits an... Carolin Schmidt

10:14 AM Support #1742 (Resolved): Recommended Method to Construct Unemployment Duration?

Hi Alita,
Hope you are doing well. :)
I am wondering what the best way is to construct unemployment duration fo... JoAnn Tan

08/04/2022

06:10 PM Support #1740 (Feedback): Survey participant drop out across waves

Hello,
1) Yes, the drop results from survey attrition which could have happened in wave 10, but also in any of the... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:46 PM Support #1740 (Resolved): Survey participant drop out across waves

Hello,
I'm using data from wave 1, 4 and 10. I've merged them and keep only participants who provided response in... Nichaphat Surawattananon

06:03 PM Support #1741: Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves

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

03:38 PM Support #1741 (Resolved): Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves

Hi there,
I've combined the main & covid-19 waves in long-format. My goal is to understand changes over time compa... Karen Arulsamy

06:00 PM Support #1739 (In Progress): Weights when pooling data from different waves

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

08/03/2022

08:32 PM Support #1739 (Resolved): Weights when pooling data from different waves

Dear Understanding society support team,
I am currently working on a study for which I would like to pool data fro... Jonas Kaufmann

03:34 PM Support #1737 (In Progress): Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations

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

03:33 PM Support #1738 (Feedback): Variables- child abuse, child witnessing of abuse

Dear Luke,
This perhaps depends on how you define violence, but I think you can find some potentially useful varia... Understanding Society User Support Team

12:51 PM Support #1715: Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

Sue,
Yes, such analysis with a longitudinal weight from wave k will be fine. Having said that some models that all... Olena Kaminska

08/02/2022

03:30 PM Support #1738 (Resolved): Variables- child abuse, child witnessing of abuse

I am a data analyst working for the Scottish Government’s ‘Children and Families Analysis’ group. I’m currently worki... Luke Power

02:32 PM Support #1737 (Resolved): Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations

Hi there
I'm looking to developing a study about cancer and subjective social class (variable opcls2, Subjective s... Laura Woods

08/01/2022

03:00 PM Support #1735: Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire

Dear Dan,
These are the sample sizes for adult (16+) individuals, I'm attaching samples sizes for adult and all in... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/27/2022

07:14 PM Support #1735: Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire

Thank you very much, this is extremely useful. I was looking for the number of participants in Bradford (E08000032), ... Dan Lewer

05:20 PM Support #1735 (Feedback): Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire

Dear Dan,
Here are the sample sizes (individual respondents) across 11 waves of the UKHLS for Bradford identified ... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:19 PM Support #1735 (Resolved): Sample size in Bradford, West Yorkshire

Dear Understanding Society,
I'm a researcher at the Bradford Institute for Health Research and UCL, and I'm trying... Dan Lewer

06:15 PM Support #1736 (Feedback): Data request - by Scottish Local Authority

Dear Christina,
You can certainly get any information separately for males and females and by Scottish Local Autho... Understanding Society User Support Team

03:33 PM Support #1736 (Resolved): Data request - by Scottish Local Authority

Hello,
I work for Public Health Scotland and am developing a mental health indicator dashboard for Scotland. The ... Christina Wraw

11:32 AM Support #1734 (Feedback): Imputation flag for income variable fimngrs_dv in BHPS

Dear Daniël,
Please use the w_fimnthi (Imputation flag - wFIMN (derived)) - fimngrs_dv is named fimn in the unha... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/26/2022

10:31 AM Support #1734 (Resolved): Imputation flag for income variable fimngrs_dv in BHPS

I am using the income variable fimngrs_dv, which measures the total monthly personal income of a respondent. This inc... Daniël van Wijk

07/25/2022

03:49 PM Support #1733: Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration

Dear Piotr,
This was very helpful, thank you.
Best wishes,
Morgan Morgan Ward

03:45 PM Support #1733 (Feedback): Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration

Dear Morgan,
I suspect that you have incorrectly calculated the number of moves. I managed to get 147 moves to Sou... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:52 PM Support #1733 (Resolved): Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration

Hello,
I am attempting to measure 3-monthly internal migration moves between UK regions during the Covid pandemic... Morgan Ward

03:00 PM Support #1732 (Feedback): Inapplicable values in qfhigh_dv variable

Dear Claire,
Please check the variable note for qfhigh_dv (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/ma... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/24/2022

09:12 PM Support #1732 (Resolved): Inapplicable values in qfhigh_dv variable

Dear support team,
I am confused when examining the derived variable "w_qfhigh_dv" for respondents' educational qu... Claire Wu

07/22/2022

01:47 PM Support #1730 (Feedback): study youth health

Dear Huihui,
please check the syntax "Matching co-resident parents' information" available on our website https://... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:11 PM Support #1715 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)

Understanding Society User Support Team

01:11 PM Support #1731 (Feedback): Interview Time for Main Survey Wave 10

Dear Claire,
The wave 10 fieldwork spanned over 2.5 years, so from Jan 2018 to May 2020, you can check the individ... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:51 AM Support #1731 (Resolved): Interview Time for Main Survey Wave 10

Dear support team,
I am conducting a study comparing the timing of housework before and after the Covid-19 outbrea... Claire Wu

07/21/2022

06:39 PM Support #1729: variable for out of work with a disability

Hi Huihui,
Would jbstat be helpful? Category 8 "LT sick or disabled" gives you this information and is available i... Understanding Society User Support Team

01:35 PM Support #1729 (Feedback): variable for out of work with a disability

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

10:22 AM Support #1729 (Resolved): variable for out of work with a disability

Hi there,
I want to study the sample out of work with a long-term disability.
To measure this variable, is there ... huihui song

05:56 PM Support #1730: study youth health

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

02:29 PM Support #1730 (Resolved): study youth health

Hi there,
I would like to study the parents' impact on youth health.
Therefore, I need to merge indresp data wit... huihui song

05:54 PM Support #1728: Merging main survey wave to COVID-19 study wave

Dear Parth,
The missing values on the variables you included on the screenshot result from the way in which you cr... Understanding Society User Support Team

05:31 PM Support #1727 (Feedback): harassment variables unclear

Dear Ellen,
All variables w_resinsulted(1-97)_12 refer to people who answered 1 "mentioned" on the filtering varia... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/20/2022

08:56 AM Support #1728: Merging main survey wave to COVID-19 study wave

Thanks for your reply. I have been able to merge waves into long format as my message above (I can see two rows for e... Parth Pandya

07/19/2022

11:08 AM Support #1721 (Feedback): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)

Annette Pasotti

09:34 AM Support #1728 (Feedback): Merging main survey wave to COVID-19 study wave

Dear Parth
Thank you for your email. The standalone syntax files explaining how to link variables across waves are... Annette Pasotti

07/18/2022

10:58 PM Support #1728 (Resolved): Merging main survey wave to COVID-19 study wave

Hi I am doing a Master's dissertation studying changing markers of adulthood from pre COVID-19 to the initial impact ... Parth Pandya

12:59 PM Support #1726 (Feedback): BHPS and Understanding Society - weights

Annette Pasotti

12:59 PM Support #1727 (In Progress): harassment variables unclear

Many thanks for your enquiry.
The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as so... Annette Pasotti

07/15/2022

01:11 PM Support #1727 (Resolved): harassment variables unclear

Hi there,
I want to create descriptive statistics on the most common places to be insulted due to age. However, i... Ellen Gray

11:23 AM Support #1726: BHPS and Understanding Society - weights

Maria,
This should answer your question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xwrIdUmxts
and https://www.understandi... Olena Kaminska

07/14/2022

05:05 PM Support #1726 (In Progress): BHPS and Understanding Society - weights

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Annette Pasotti

11:42 AM Support #1725 (Feedback): Variable for region of work?

Thank you for your email.
Currently there is no work location variable available.
As the (ONS) SRS is a secure ... Annette Pasotti

07/13/2022

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... Maria Petrillo

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... Annette Pasotti

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... Lucy Manly

11:08 AM Support #1724: Weights and accounting for individual clustering

Excellent, thanks very much for your help.
Catherine Catherine Bunting

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 ... Olena Kaminska

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... Olena Kaminska

07/12/2022

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... Catherine Bunting

03:28 PM Support #1724 (Feedback): Weights and accounting for individual clustering

Annette Pasotti

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... Catherine Bunting

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),... Olena Kaminska

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... Catherine Bunting

07/11/2022

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... Annette Pasotti

07/07/2022

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 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... Albert Ward