Activity
From 07/17/2022 to 08/15/2022
08/15/2022
- 04:46 PM Support #1294 (Resolved): Universe of school variable
- 04:45 PM Support #1295 (Resolved): Stability across Big 5 personality between wave 15 of BHPS and wave 3 of Understanding Society
- 04:45 PM Support #1297 (Resolved): Household meat consumption
- 04:45 PM Support #1300 (Resolved): reason for leaving job for self-employment
- 04:44 PM Support #1422 (Resolved): furlough in Covid-19 Study
- 04:43 PM Support #1603 (Resolved): pasoc00_cc does not permit international comparisons bc ambigious correspondence to isco88
- 04:40 PM Support #1625 (Resolved): What is the value label of the value 56 in ethn_dv?
- 04:13 PM Support #1292 (Resolved): SF-12 Items
- 04:12 PM Support #1291 (Resolved): Measurement error in savings data
- 04:11 PM Support #1290 (Resolved): Zero/negative values of monthly labour income
- 04:10 PM Support #1288 (Resolved): Overtime variables
- 04:10 PM Support #1287 (Resolved): Inapplicable observations
- 03:42 PM Support #1285 (Resolved): Missing interview year and month
- 03:34 PM Support #1283 (Resolved): Job satisfaction: comparability across BHPS and Understanding Society
- 03:34 PM Support #1282 (Resolved): ISCO-88 derived classification
- 03:33 PM Support #1281 (Resolved): Big Five Personality in 2005 of BHPS and Wave 3 of UKHLS
- 03:33 PM Support #1280 (Resolved): ISCED
- 03:32 PM Support #1277 (Resolved): Tracking marital statuses
- 03:31 PM Support #1276 (Resolved): Info on estranged young people
- 03:30 PM Support #1274 (Resolved): Polygenic Scores
- 03:30 PM Support #1273 (Resolved): Weights_considering survey complex structure ?
- 03:30 PM Support #1271 (Resolved): Individual weights of those whose household questionnaires are not available
- 03:29 PM Support #1270 (Resolved): Weights and BHPS-Understanding Society data
- 03:26 PM Support #1269 (Resolved): Living with an ex
- 03:25 PM Support #1268 (Resolved): Political Ideology
- 03:25 PM Support #1265 (Resolved): Variable storage types changing from wave to wave
- 03:24 PM Support #1262 (Resolved): Index of multiple deprivation
- 03:24 PM Support #1261 (Resolved): Energy use data
- 03:22 PM Support #1256 (Resolved): questions re deaths and representativeness
- 03:22 PM Support #1255 (Resolved): Religion data
- 03:21 PM Support #1254 (Resolved): alternative for a question
- 03:06 PM Support #1253 (Resolved): Selecting correct weights
- 03:05 PM Support #1252 (Resolved): Youth survey subjective wellbeing questions
- 03:04 PM Support #1251 (Resolved): Identifying country of birth
- 03:04 PM Support #1248 (Resolved): Longitudinal Weights- BHPS and UKHLS
- 03:02 PM Support #1245 (Resolved): Weighting
- 03:01 PM Support #1243 (Resolved): longitudinal weighting adjustment for nonresponse since the last wave
- 03:00 PM Support #1242 (Resolved): Data inquiry - BHPS - Month of birth of first child.
- 03:00 PM Support #1240 (Resolved): School codes
- 03:00 PM Support #1236 (Resolved): Variable defining month of sample issue
- 02:58 PM Support #1225 (Resolved): Definition of partially productive interview
- 02:57 PM Support #1223 (Resolved): Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) linked dataset release timeline & access
- 02:56 PM Support #1222 (Resolved): Self-reported employer size variable (jbsize)
- 02:56 PM Support #1220 (Resolved): Loneliness
- 02:55 PM Support #1218 (Resolved): job change since the previous survey
- 02:54 PM Support #1217 (Resolved): BHPS and UKHLS weights
- 02:53 PM Support #1216 (Resolved): Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument & Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
- 02:52 PM Support #1209 (Resolved): Shared parenting arrangements
- 02:51 PM Support #1207 (Resolved): Weighting and state benefits
- 02:51 PM Support #1206 (Resolved): Data linkage to NHS data
- 12:21 PM Support #1749 (Resolved): Permission to use Understanding Society data in a book
- Hi
I am working on a book manuscript for Policy Press on Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations, which comes out of...
08/12/2022
- 05:03 PM Support #1748 (Feedback): stable mother pidp and household id in children survey
- Hello,
1) the w_child file includes pidp of natural mother, w_mnpid, and for step/adoptive mothers you can work it... - 02:38 PM Support #1748 (In Progress): stable mother pidp and household id in children survey
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
- 03:58 PM Support #1742 (Feedback): Recommended Method to Construct Unemployment Duration?
- Hello JoAnn,
Alita is currently away but I'll try to help you. To construct the unemployment history you need to d... - 03:49 PM Support #1747: Weight problem when running regression
- I merged the j and k individual response datasets. I used the j and k indinui_lw weight variable because I am going t...
- 03:29 PM Support #1747: Weight problem when running regression
- Dear Parth,
Sounds like your set up of the dataset / weight variable is wrong. Can you tell us how you created you... - 02:38 PM Support #1747 (In Progress): Weight problem when running regression
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/11/2022
- 03:35 PM Support #1741 (In Progress): Weights - Main Survey Wave 9 & Covid Waves
- Dear Karen,
Please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and we will direct you to our Covid-19 weigh... - 10:16 AM Support #1748 (Resolved): stable mother pidp and household id in children survey
- Hi,
As a child might belong to different household in different waves, is it possible for me to find a stable moth...
08/10/2022
- 05:28 PM Support #1747 (Resolved): Weight problem when running regression
- When I try to do a regression I come up with the error in screenshot below. My weight values have to be different bec...
- 04:39 PM Support #1554 (Resolved): hsval - units
- 03:26 PM Support #1737: Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations
- Dear Laura,
The person responsible for this linkage is currently on holiday, we will be able to answer when they a... - 03:00 PM Support #1746 (Feedback): reconciling household income between the main survey & covid-19 survey
- Dear Karen,
Yes, fihhmnnet1_dv is the closest variable in the sense that this is net hh income from all sources. O... - 02:10 PM Support #1746 (Resolved): reconciling household income between the main survey & covid-19 survey
- Hi there,
Can I please get some advice on how to accurately compare household income in the main survey vs. the c... - 02:56 PM Support #1743 (Feedback): Averaging regional data to obtain control variables for individuals
- 01:06 PM Support #1739: Weights when pooling data from different waves
- Jonas,
2) Yes, svyset command is sufficient;
1) We do recommend rescaling, especially if you include BHPS data. T... - 11:51 AM Support #1204 (Resolved): UKHLS zero weight in panel data
- 11:51 AM Support #1199 (Resolved): UKHLS higher education data linkage
- 11:50 AM Support #1198 (Resolved): Weighting data Wave 8 h_indresp
- 11:50 AM Support #1197 (Resolved): 'inapplicable' category for jbft_dv variable
- 11:49 AM Support #1195 (Resolved): Merging data
- 11:49 AM Support #1194 (Resolved): h_jbfxuse9
- 11:49 AM Support #1192 (Resolved): Caring for a Child
- 11:48 AM Support #1191 (Resolved): Availability of requested variables
- 11:48 AM Support #1187 (Resolved): Is it possible to identify contributory and income-based JSA
- 11:48 AM Support #1186 (Resolved): Ethnicity Data Inapplicable
- 11:48 AM Support #1182 (Resolved): Pooling data for analysis by calendar year
- 11:47 AM Support #1181 (Resolved): Merging general health variables
- 11:47 AM Support #1180 (Resolved): BHPS + US harmonized measure of mental well-being
- 11:46 AM Support #1179 (Resolved): EQ-5D-5L
- 11:46 AM Support #1176 (Resolved): Merging a set of variables to wave 1
- 11:46 AM Support #1175 (Resolved): Can the cross-sectional self-completion interview weight variable be used to estimate the real population distribution at the Local Authority level?
- 11:46 AM Support #1174 (Resolved): Creating reliable fertility history variables - UKHLS waves 1-8
- 11:46 AM Support #1173 (Resolved): Clustering
- 11:45 AM Support #1170 (Resolved): Self reported health
- 11:45 AM Support #1169 (Resolved): Micro-level locational data
- 11:45 AM Support #1164 (Resolved): job classification
- 11:45 AM Support #1161 (Resolved): Medication query
- 11:44 AM Support #1160 (Resolved): sample size - households in NI in latest wave
- 11:44 AM Support #1158 (Resolved): On variables in entrepreneurship studies
- 11:44 AM Support #1157 (Resolved): Missing variable: a_nbrsnci_dv (Buckner's Neighbourhood Cohesion Instrument)
- 11:42 AM Support #1156 (Resolved): Fertility History and birth events
- 11:42 AM Support #1152 (Resolved): Coding of x_jbxpcha in Waves 6 and 8
- 11:42 AM Support #1151 (Resolved): Carrying forward variables across waves, creating 'how long lived at address' variable
- 11:40 AM Support #1149 (Resolved): Caregiving
- 11:40 AM Support #1148 (Resolved): Geographic information
- 11:39 AM Support #1147 (Resolved): Identification of members of household receiving care
- 11:39 AM Support #1146 (Resolved): Understanding Society Wave 8 Interview dates/times data
- 11:39 AM Support #1145 (Resolved): disdif and health variables
- 11:38 AM Support #1143 (Resolved): Derived interview and demographic characteristics
- 11:37 AM Support #1141 (Resolved): Weighting
- 11:37 AM Support #1139 (Resolved): Polytechnic vs university degree
- 11:36 AM Support #1138 (Resolved): fihhmnnet1_dv
- 11:33 AM Support #1137 (Resolved): Field of Study Variable
- 11:33 AM Support #1135 (Resolved): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland
- 11:32 AM Support #1134 (Resolved): Weights Northern Ireland
- 11:32 AM Support #1130 (Resolved): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7
- 11:32 AM Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrs
- 11:31 AM Support #1127 (Resolved): Determing end date of cohabitation spell
- 11:30 AM Support #1126 (Resolved): Who owns vehicle
- 11:30 AM Support #1125 (Resolved): Weighting problem
- 11:28 AM Support #1121 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all
- 11:28 AM Support #1120 (Resolved): Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS
- 11:28 AM Support #1119 (Resolved): fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset
- 11:27 AM Support #1114 (Resolved): Tracking health conditions
- 11:25 AM Support #1110 (Resolved): Uprating Wages for Inflation
- 11:25 AM Support #1104 (Resolved): Variable "plbornc"
- 11:25 AM Support #1102 (Resolved): Type of further education (variable: FETYPE) inapplicable
- 11:22 AM Support #1101 (Resolved): Use of social media
- 11:22 AM Support #1098 (Resolved): Consulting
- 11:21 AM Support #1097 (Resolved): YPDKLM: irregular variable dist.
- 11:20 AM Support #1095 (Resolved): question about sample sizes
- 11:20 AM Support #1093 (Resolved): Mortality and attrition
- 11:20 AM Support #1089 (Resolved): Does the data collection procedure of US fit the rule of randomization?
- 11:15 AM Support #1088 (Resolved): More information on variable "plbornc"
- 11:15 AM Support #1086 (Resolved): Biomarker serum creatinine
- 11:14 AM Support #1085 (Resolved): Inapplicable and missing data
- 11:14 AM Support #1084 (Resolved): Financial situation
- 11:13 AM Support #1083 (Resolved): Subjective Well-Being Data
- 11:13 AM Support #1082 (Resolved): House details in youth or adult datasets
- 11:11 AM Support #1078 (Resolved): Marital change
- 11:11 AM Support #1077 (Resolved): Variable on country of birth
- 11:10 AM Support #1047 (Resolved): Weights
- 08:35 AM Support #1745: the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys
- Thank you for your advice Piotr, this is very helpful.
Many thanks
Karen
08/09/2022
- 06:13 PM Support #1745 (Feedback): the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys
- Dear Karen,
Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for jbstat in the Covid-19 survey. The only question covering em... - 02:16 PM Support #1745 (Resolved): the equivalent of jbstat in the covid surveys
- Hi there,
Is there an equivalent of the variable 'jbstat' (in the main survey) in the covid survey? I've looked thro... - 01:21 PM Support #1739: Weights when pooling data from different waves
- Dear Olena,
Thank you very much for your clear and quick response.
I will go with the first approach. I just h...
08/08/2022
- 04:23 PM Support #1744 (Feedback): weight
- Hello,
You can use one of the weights available in the child file (w_psnenxx_lw). Please read the weights selectio...
08/06/2022
- 08:33 AM Support #1743: Averaging regional data to obtain control variables for individuals
- Thanks for the swift reply, Olena!
- 08:31 AM Support #1744 (Resolved): weight
- Hi,
I use the 1-8 wave child survey to study the children's health (longitudinal data), should I use the weight wh...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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...
- 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
- 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... - 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...
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...
- 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...
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...
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), ...
- 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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...
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...
07/25/2022
- 03:49 PM Support #1733: Covid Survey - Measuring Internal Migration
- Dear Piotr,
This was very helpful, thank you.
Best wishes,
Morgan - 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... - 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... - 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...
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...
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://... - 01:11 PM Support #1715 (Feedback): Longitudinal Weighting of Non-Movers Only from UKHLS (in Wave 1)
- 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
- 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 ... - 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...
- 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... - 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... - 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...
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...
07/19/2022
- 11:08 AM Support #1721 (Feedback): Random effects analysis and weights (no time*person interaction)
- 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...
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 ...
- 12:59 PM Support #1726 (Feedback): BHPS and Understanding Society - weights
- 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...
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