Activity
From 09/11/2022 to 10/10/2022
10/10/2022
- 05:33 PM Support #1782 (Resolved): DK and prefer not to say options in web component of Understanding Society
- Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to ask a question regarding the DK and prefer not to say options in web component of U... - 04:50 PM Support #1781 (Resolved): Identifying House Moves
- Hi,
I am interested in identifying individuals who have moved home during the 11 available waves of UKHLS. As I w... - 03:09 PM Support #1780 (Resolved): Code creator
- Hi,
The code creator is great, thanks for introducing this.
I'm struggling to resolve an issue that has arisen ... - 10:35 AM Support #1774: adcts not available for UKHLS wave 2
- Hi Piotr,
Thanks, you're right, for some reason I didn't notice this.
Best
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...
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 - 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... - 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... - 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 - 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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... - 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...
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... - 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...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
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... - 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,... - 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...
- 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... - 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:... - 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...
- 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... - 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...
- 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...
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... - 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... - 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
- 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... - 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, - 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... - 10:33 AM Support #1757: Computing a travel time to work variable using jsttwt (and jsttwtb_cawi?)
- Great! Thanks for your help
Best,
Albert
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...
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...
- 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...
- 06:30 PM Support #1760 (Resolved): LVRel
- 06:30 PM Support #1761 (Resolved): Difference between distmov and distmov_dv
- 06:29 PM Support #1762 (Resolved): Matching egoalt files to individual level (indresp) - NA values
- 06:29 PM Support #1763 (Resolved): Non-matched records when combining indresp and hhresp files
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...
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...
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 ... - 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
- 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...
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