Activity
From 08/19/2022 to 09/17/2022
09/14/2022
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07:49 AM Support #1464: Matching household data from parents to children
- Hello,
I would like to have a clarification on nonresident parents. If a child is only observed within a single-p...
09/13/2022
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11:48 AM Support #1769: missing values after merging household and individual dataset
- Dear Annett,
Thanks for your reply.
Please see attached for the do file.
Many thanks for your help.
Best ... -
11:28 AM Support #1769: missing values after merging household and individual dataset
- Dear Shujun
We like investigate further but in order to do so could you please provide the code so we can see how ...
09/12/2022
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04:15 PM Support #1769 (In Progress): missing values after merging household and individual dataset
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/09/2022
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04:52 PM Support #1769 (Resolved): missing values after merging household and individual dataset
- Dear member of Understanding Society,
I am dealing with Inovation Panel data(wave10) and trying to merge the var... -
02:30 PM Support #1768 (Feedback): Merging the Xsample datafile to the main survey
- Hi Amwaj,
Please try the solutions from this statalist thread https://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-05/msg0... -
01:42 PM Support #1768 (Resolved): Merging the Xsample datafile to the main survey
- Hi
I am trying to merge (using pidp variable) the xsample datafile from the COVID-19 survey to a preprepared - lo...
09/07/2022
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12:04 PM Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)
- Hi, that's all very helpful thank you! Sorry I misunderstood for whatever reason about the pafar / parmar conditions,...
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10:24 AM Support #1765: Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- Thanks Olena and Piotr; much appreciated.
09/06/2022
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07:55 PM Support #1765 (Feedback): Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- Hi Rebecca,
You can access the tailored weights course here: https://open.essex.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=301
Be... -
07:53 PM Support #1766 (Feedback): BHPS linked to Educational Data
- Dear Agnes,
When youth respondents turn 16 they are eligible for the adult interview, the BHPS sample members incl... -
09:28 AM Support #1766 (In Progress): BHPS linked to Educational Data
- 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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05:40 PM Support #1767 (Feedback): Difference between j_pdvage and j_dvage
- Hello,
Dvage is the information about respondent's age calculated from the household grid, that is, a questionnair... -
09:28 AM Support #1767 (In Progress): Difference between j_pdvage and j_dvage
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/05/2022
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12:28 PM Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
- Ok, thanks.
From what I can see, the discrepancy is because tenure_dv = 2 includes part-ownership, although this ... -
11:33 AM Support #1765: Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- Rebecca,
I am glad you double checked this with us, as this approach indeed relies on the definition related to su... -
10:55 AM Support #1767 (Resolved): Difference between j_pdvage and j_dvage
- Dear members of Understanding Society,
I'm dealing with the dataset of Innovation Panel. The name of the dataset...
09/04/2022
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10:05 AM Support #1761: Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
- Great, thanks!
09/03/2022
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02:54 PM Support #1760: LVRel
- Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
Best,
Albert
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02:07 PM Support #1764: Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
- Thanks for your answer,
Is addrmov_dv a flag for address change, or postcode change? I was just wondering whether ...
09/02/2022
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02:49 PM Support #1766 (Resolved): BHPS linked to Educational Data
- Dear All,
I wonder whether you could provide some info on the BHPS linked to educational data. Are those linked w... -
10:52 AM Support #1760 (Feedback): LVRel
- Hi Albert,
This is up to the respondents interpretation, that is to say, it depends who the respondent thinks of ... -
10:31 AM Support #1764: Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
- Two variables were created for UKHLS: distmov_dv and addrmov_dv. But these are not available for the moves between Wa...
09/01/2022
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05:29 PM Support #1764 (Feedback): Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
- Hi Albert,
I'd say that adcts offers a fairly reasonable degree of comparability to the BHPS plnew, though the uni... -
05:18 PM Support #1765: Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- 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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11:55 AM Support #1765 (Resolved): Weights for unbalanced longitudinal analysis
- I am planning an analysis using waves 1-11, looking at within-person changes over time. As I understand it, to use th...
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05:17 PM Support #1756 (Feedback): Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever
- Hi Albert,
1) For the BHPS you should use plnowy4 which is available across all waves, ba_mvyr is actually just a ... -
04:08 PM Support #1747: Weight problem when running regression
- Parth,
Is your dataset in long or short format? What are your units of analysis?
Thanks,
Olena
08/31/2022
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01:44 PM Support #1761 (Feedback): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
- Yes both are in km
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01:29 PM Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- Ah, that makes sense thanks. For some reason, I missed w_jsttwtb.
It seems that w_jsttwtb includes CAWI responses... -
01:16 PM Support #1763: Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
- Ah I see - that makes sense, thank you.
Best,
Albert
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01:14 PM Support #1762: Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- Thanks, that's very helpful. Yes, I was looking at both w_indall and w_egoalt - the pno thing isn't relevant for my w...
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12:26 PM Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)
- A correction to the first answer. LVREL asked about non-co-resident family members ONLY. See the Question text and th...
08/30/2022
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06:12 PM Support #1764 (Resolved): Identifying individual movers consistently across UKHLS and BHPS samples
- Hi,
I'm looking for a simple way to identify whether a participant has moved address in a consistent way for BHPS ... -
04:11 PM Support #1759 (Feedback): Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
- The code for deriving tenure_dv is here https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/syntax
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02:55 PM Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
- 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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04:07 PM Support #1762: Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- The pno are assigned as per the list of hh members when the hh grid is being completed. There is no particular order ...
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03:57 PM Support #1762 (Feedback): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- 1. There can be cases in w_egoalt not in w_indresp if no adult member from that household completed an adult quesiton...
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02:56 PM Support #1762: Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- 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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03:52 PM Support #1763 (Feedback): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
- Yes, there can be mismatched records.
1. Household is in hhresp but no hh member from this household is in indresp... -
02:56 PM Support #1763: Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
- 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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03:42 PM Support #1758 (Feedback): Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)
- 1. Yes. You can verify this by selecting the cases for which w_mnspid~=-8/w_fnspid~=-8
2. Yes
3. The parent with wh... -
02:55 PM Support #1758: Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)
- 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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03:27 PM Support #1757 (Feedback): Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- You are correct.
The variable which records number of minutes taken to travel to work for those who are self-empl... -
02:55 PM Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- 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 #1761: Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
- 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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02:54 PM Support #1756: Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever
- 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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02:54 PM Support #1760: LVRel
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/29/2022
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03:26 PM Support #1763 (Resolved): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
- Hi,
I previously asked a question concerning non-matching records when combining egoalt and indresp files, so if t... -
03:12 PM Support #1762 (Resolved): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- Hi,
I'm doing some analysis which involves matching the egoalt files to indresp files in the harmonised BHPS / UKH... -
02:57 PM Support #1760: LVRel
- Edit: Sorry, forgot to amend the title. Feel free to change it
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02:53 PM Support #1760 (Resolved): LVRel
- Hi,
I'm looking at some composed variables which are conditional on LVRel, but I'm a bit confused as to what the L... -
02:57 PM Support #1761 (Resolved): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
- Hi,
I'm trying to combine several waves of the harmonised BHPS / UKHLS.
Is distmov (BHPS) the same computed var... -
02:45 PM Support #1759 (Resolved): Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
- Hi,
I'm trying to compute some variables based on housing tenure, using tenure_dv.
Why are there some small dis... -
12:55 PM Support #1758 (Resolved): Computing variable for distance to mother / father (using pafar, mafar, parmar)
- Hi,
I'm trying to compute a variable measuring how far a respondent lives from their parents, using pafar and mafa... -
12:02 PM Support #1757 (Resolved): Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- Hi,
I'm trying to compute a variable measuring how long it takes respondents to travel to work. To do this, I need... -
11:25 AM Support #1756 (Resolved): Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever
- Hi,
I'm trying to construct a length of residence variable for several waves from the harmonised BHPS / UKHLS.
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08/26/2022
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03:53 PM Support #1737 (Feedback): Linkage of Understanding Society (BHPS) data to Cancer Registrations
- Dear Laura,
Yes, we will be trying to get cancer registrations data going back in time as far as possible.
The ... -
03:48 PM Support #1751 (Feedback): Welsh education data linkage query
- Dear Hettie,
I am sorry for our late reply - the person responsible for this linkage was away on holiday.
1) Th...
08/22/2022
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04:01 PM Support #1755 (Feedback): Description of creating weights to adjust for nonresponse bias
- Dear Daiga,
Please read the weighting section in the attached pdf document, it discusses in detail how the weights... -
02:01 PM Support #1755 (Resolved): Description of creating weights to adjust for nonresponse bias
- Dear US team,
I am looking for a document that describes what information and from where was used to create weights... -
03:27 PM Support #1754 (Feedback): advice on creating a variable for number of children in the main & covid surveys
- Hi Karen,
1) To get the most precise and accurate measure it is best to construct it using the set of cw_relation*...
08/19/2022
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12:57 PM Support #1754 (Resolved): advice on creating a variable for number of children in the main & covid surveys
- Hi there,
Can I please get some advice on how best to create a variable to denote the number of children in a househ...
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