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From 09/09/2022 to 10/08/2022

10/08/2022

08:09 PM Support #1779 (Resolved): Calculating persistent poverty
Dear Team,
I need to estimate persistent poverty rates following the standard definition that someone is persistentl...
Facundo Herrera

10/07/2022

03:51 PM Support #1776: Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing
Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much! This clarification is very helpful
All the best,
Marion
Marion Lieutaud
02:24 PM Support #1776 (Feedback): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing
Hi Marion,
Thank you for letting us know about the issue with the empty Migration history module on the website, I...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:06 PM Support #1778 (Resolved): Asking about confusing variable in the birth date in UKHLS
We have some questions about the variable, birth date in the ukhls dataset since WAVE 1
For example, for the Year of...
Yi Wu
02:50 PM Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
You can access the tailored weights course here: https://open.essex.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=301
Best wishes,
Piotr
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:01 PM Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
I am pooling wave 1 to wave 11. I want to run xtlogit on Stata to predict the probability of being in temporary emplo... JoAnn Tan
01:37 PM Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
Can you give a little more details on your analysis, specifically which waves are you pooling, and what you want to r... Olena Kaminska
10:44 AM Support #1777: Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
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
02:31 PM Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
Dear Laurence,
Can I ask which weight you use and with which wave?
Best wishes,
Piotr
Understanding Society U...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:23 AM Support #1775 (Feedback): Reason for job change - same employer, different job
Dear Ceri,
The reasons for job change are captured in the following way:
1) empchk=2 -> stendreas (wave 1-6), s...
Understanding Society User Support Team

10/06/2022

05:31 PM Support #1777 (Resolved): Creating Longitudinal Weights for Unbalanced Panel
I have a question similar to #1257.
In #1257, Alita mentioned that we can create longitudinal weights for unbalanc...
JoAnn Tan
09:29 AM Support #1776 (Resolved): Wave6 - Migration history questionnaire module missing
Dear Understanding Society team,
I hope this finds you very well - I wanted to consult the Wave 6 migration histor...
Marion Lieutaud

10/05/2022

04:39 PM Support #1775 (Resolved): Reason for job change - same employer, different job
Hi,
I am using UKHLS waves 2-10 to study people changing jobs between waves, using data from the annual event hist...
Ceri H
01:53 PM Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
Dear Piotr,
Many thanks for your reply. The issue is that when I use a function such as svymean in R, it uses the sm...
Laurence Rowley-Abel
09:55 AM Support #1770 (Feedback): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
Dear Laurence,
A significant reduction of the weighted counts for ethnic minorities (so from 1314 respondents to 4...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:23 PM Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
Hi Albert,
The syntax file for the w_ndepchl_dv variable that we provide is available on the syntax page under "UK...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:55 AM Support #1774 (Feedback): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2
Hi Albert,
Are you sure this is from the wave 2 questionnaire pdf? I've had a quick look and I think it is the fol...
Understanding Society User Support Team

10/04/2022

04:09 PM Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
Hi Piotr,
I'm probably not understanding the definition of a dependent child properly. I meant where someone is be...
Albert Ward
11:26 AM Support #1771 (In Progress): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
Dear Albert,
Can I just clarify one thing, what do you mean by _their_ children? Natural children?
Best wishes,...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:49 AM Support #1771: Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS 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 #1774 (Resolved): adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2
Hi,
I was wondering why adcts is not available for wave 2 of the UKHLS? Since plnowy4 is conditionally displayed p...
Albert Ward
12:04 PM Support #1773 (Feedback): Gig Economy module
Dear Yuliya,
Unfortunately, I have no quick way of checking wave 12, but you can look at the numbers from wave 11:...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:55 AM Support #1773: Gig Economy module
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 #1772 (Feedback): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1
Dear Albert,
You are right, istrtdaty is indeed missing in ba_indresp and we will consider adding it in the next r...
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:50 AM Support #1772: Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1
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
09:48 AM Support #1770: Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
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

10/03/2022

04:21 PM Support #1773 (Resolved): Gig Economy module
Dear Team Member,

I am interested in the *Gig Economy* module. I would like to ask if there is preliminary data o...
Yuliya Tavares
03:36 PM Support #1772 (Resolved): Start of interview (istrtdaty) for BHPS wave 1
Hi,
I'm trying to compute some variables which require interview date across the whole BHPS/UKHLS panel. The inter...
Albert Ward
01:05 PM Support #1756: Creating length of residence variable for BHPS and UKHLS using plnowy4, plnowm, mvyr, mvmnth and mvever
Hi Piotr,
Thanks for your reply - that's very helpful!
Best,
Albert
Albert Ward
11:59 AM Support #1771 (Resolved): Computing number of own dependent children for BHPS waves
Hi,
I'm interested in computing the number of own dependent children variable (ndepchl_dv) for the BHPS waves of t...
Albert Ward
11:15 AM Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
No, it's ok - it's not a big issue and I'm sure they understand the coding better than me.
Thanks,
Albert Ward
10:50 AM Support #1769 (Feedback): missing values after merging household and individual dataset
Hello,
Such missing values are rare but can happen in two situations:
1) the household questionnaire is completed...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:33 AM Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
Great! Thanks for your help
Best,
Albert
Albert Ward

10/02/2022

03:18 PM Support #1770 (Resolved): Making best use of the Ethnic Minority Boost Sample
Hi Understanding Society team,
I am conducting a basic analysis of health outcomes across combinations of ethnic gro...
Laurence Rowley-Abel

09/27/2022

07:00 PM Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
Yes you are right. Even though the information is collected in two separate questions/variables for CAWI and non-CAWI... Understanding Society User Support Team
06:37 PM Support #1759: Differences between figures for tenure_dv and hsownd
As you can see from the syntax file for tenure_dv, other variables are used to create this variable - not just hsownd... Understanding Society User Support Team
06:30 PM Support #1760 (Resolved): LVRel
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:30 PM Support #1761 (Resolved): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:29 PM Support #1762 (Resolved): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:29 PM Support #1763 (Resolved): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
Understanding Society User Support Team

09/26/2022

02:31 PM Support #1464: Matching household data from parents to children
Dear Lydia,
Yes, you are right. If the non-resident parent co-resided with the OSM parent or the OSM child at some...
Understanding Society User Support Team

09/14/2022

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...
Lydia Palumbo

09/13/2022

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 ...
Shujun Liu
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 ...
Annette Pasotti

09/12/2022

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... Annette Pasotti

09/09/2022

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...
Shujun Liu
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...
Understanding Society User Support Team
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...
amwaj abugamza
 

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