Activity
From 10/30/2022 to 11/28/2022
11/28/2022
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05:32 PM Support #1817 (In Progress): oldest child via family matrix
- 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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- I have checked the Wave 12 questionnaire that is available online and these questions/variables are not included: htt...
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04:00 PM Support #1819 (Resolved): Volunteering and donating questions
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I was wondering if you could confirm that the two following variables will be available in Wave 12 of the U... -
- Could you plesae try using the PIDP instead of pid? Please let us know if that solves the problem.
Best wishes,
U...
11/25/2022
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03:38 PM Support #1818 (Resolved): X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
- I'm trying to match children to their parent/responsible adult. To do this in the BHPS waves, I am using the variable...
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03:15 PM Support #1817 (Resolved): oldest child via family matrix
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am pleased to work with your newly released family matrix. My question regards ... -
- By using the wave 5 longitudinal weights the estimates based on your analysis will be representative of the UK adult ...
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11/24/2022
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11:50 AM Support #1810: Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
- Thank you for your reply.
I can see that the individuals with inconsistency in income values have imputed flags on... -
- Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. If you check the imputation flags you will see that these chang... -
- If you look at the universe for these questions you will see who gets asked each question. You can find the Universe ...
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- Hello,
That is because this variable is based on the postcode at the time of last and current interview.
Hope th... -
- Hello,
If someone only did a partial interview (identified as those who completed upto the coronavirus module), th... -
- Hello,
Yes, it will be released this month, most likely towards the end of the month.
Best wishes,
Understandi...
11/22/2022
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08:55 PM Support #1816 (Resolved): Difference between plnowy4 and mvyr
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Which differences are there between the plnowy4 and mvyr variables? In the description both are denoted as yea... -
- Hi,
Checking the variable distmov_dv I came across that in many waves (not in the first ones) even though this va... -
01:21 PM Support #1814 (Resolved): "inapplicable" in sempderived variable
- Dear support team,
I have a question about the "semderived" variable in the Covid-19 study. I intend to create a b... -
12:54 PM Support #1813 (Resolved): Wave 12 Release Date
- Hi I was just wondering when Wave 12 of the Understanding Society survey results would be released? The website say t...
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08:27 AM Support #1811: Longitudinal weight selection
- Thanks for the very quick reply!
So does this mean that by using the wave 5 longitudinal weights my analysis will be...
11/21/2022
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- You can check the frequencies of the responses for these questions by using our online interactive variable search. F...
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04:12 PM Support #1812 (Resolved): Aggregate data on specific questions
- My name is Andrew Schein, and I'm the lead behavioural scientist for the Sustainable Future mission of Nesta, a UK ch...
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- Yes. As your analysis sample includes those who responded in Waves 1, 4 & 5, (and also Waves 2 & 3 if you used any la...
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- Hello,
I'd have (another) question on longitudinal weight selection.
I've conducted a latent class analysis in w... -
- I am referring to the Understanding Society (US) dataset in https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/st...
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
11/20/2022
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02:51 PM Support #1783: ff_jbsoc00 not available
- Ah I see - this is very helpful, thank you!
Best,
Albert
11/19/2022
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12:38 PM Support #1808 (Resolved): nunmpsp_dv variable doesn't seem to aling with employ variable
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As far as I understand, the employ variable simply flags if someone is employed or not. And I think the nunmps...
11/18/2022
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- Yes, but I would change the order and use jbnssec5_dv followed by jlnssec5_dv at each wave. Here is a compact version...
11/17/2022
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07:20 PM Support #1806: Socioeconomic classification
- Hello - thanks for this, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post but I have merged waves of data together but...
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- Hello,
To create this variable for those who were interviewed previously and currently not working, you will need ... -
- Dear Karen,
Please check the questionnaire to know who gets asked this question. Below each question you will see ... -
01:28 PM Support #1807 (Resolved): hadsymp and longcovid
- Hi there,
I am trying to create a variable based on longcovid that matches the number of observations in hadsymp ex...
11/14/2022
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- I am wondering if there is Stata syntax available to construct a socioeconomic status variable for each wave of the U...
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04:34 PM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
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Thanks for your help. That isn't quite what I'm looking for - apologies for not explaining more clearly.
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- Hello,
I looked at the age of first child for respondents by UKHLS waves 1-11 and did not find any difference in t... -
- To clarify, their response is the same as mine, i.e., it is ok to make this application.
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- I have been informed by our data manager that they have responded to your query via the UKDS.
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- Ah great, that's good to know
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- No, this should not be a problem. Please see item 4.6 in the Data Access Strategy. https://www.understandingsociety.a...
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- The information that is provided to respondents when they are asked these questions is in the questionnaire. No addit...
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- It may not be clear from my response above, pasoc90_cc, pasoc00_cc or pasoc10_cc are available in the End User Licens...
11/11/2022
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01:48 PM Support #1805 (Resolved): More information about the variable "bensta2": Education Grant other than a Student Loan or Tuition Fee Loan
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Can I have more descriptive information about the educational grant variable "bensta2"? Does it refer to th... -
- Hi,
I'm currently applying for Special Licence access to Understanding Society. I'm interested in using some of th...
11/10/2022
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12:20 PM Support #1802: Missing data for pasoc10 in xwavedat
- Thank you for the prompt and helpful response.
That makes sense, and if I incorporate pasoc90 responses, there are... -
- Sorry the text associated with that link is out of date. But if you follow the link then the UKDS page shows that it ...
11/09/2022
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02:30 PM Support #1799: query in advance of making data application
- Thank you. Can you let me know if school identifiers are available within the mainstage youth self-completion questio...
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- 1. Here is the latest information about linked education data available: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/docum...
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- You are correct w_addrmov_dv variable identifies moves between two consecutive waves using the postcode of the two ad...
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- Hello,
Currently not all reports of parents' occupation are available using SOC 2010 coding frame. Parents occupat...
11/08/2022
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- Thank you. This is useful and it might be what we need. But I was thinking about mainstage youth self-completion ques...
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- Dear Sandra,
This dataset contains school code variables for the Understanding Society COVID-19 study (SN 8644).
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- 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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- Hello,
To get this monthly labour force status variable you will need the employment event history data. This is c... -
- Hello,
This question is asked of everyone every few years (Waves 1, 4, 8,..) and in the intervening waves it is as... -
- We have received your email and passed that on to the weighting team. As the conversation is now continuing via email...
11/07/2022
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- Hi all,
I'm conducting research which involves looking at social mobility - so I'm looking at data on parental occ... -
10:21 AM Support #1801 (Resolved): Belong to religion oprlg variable: many missings
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I am wondering why there is many missing/inapplicable responses to oprlg in later w... -
09:10 AM Support #1800 (Resolved): Monthly variable on current labour force status
- Dear Understanding Society User Support team,
I am using the variable jbstat "current labour force status". This i...
11/04/2022
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01:23 PM Support #1794: Weights
- Caroline,
Literature on multilevel modelling will help you with your first question.
You can skip scaling if yo... -
01:17 PM Support #1794: Weights
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sorry maybe I wasn't clear I was more intersted in ways to _account_ for these small households in my model. ... -
- Caroline,
Yes, there can be other reasons why a model does not converge.
You don't need to specify finite populat... -
- Hi Olena,
I will check the manual yes thanks!
I am only using adukts yes so some of my household clusters are... -
- Hi Piotr,
Thank you for the suggestion to look at the addrmov_dv variable.
I have a follow up question please...
11/03/2022
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- Dear Sir/Madam,
Together with co-authors I am working on a project about the effect of school closures during the...
11/02/2022
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- Caroline,
On the specific melogit command it is best to check Stata manual.
Your non-convergence problem is lik... -
- Hi Olena,
Thank you!
Do you know whether I would need to specify running [pweight=...] instead of svyset and ...
11/01/2022
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- Thanks for letting us know. Could you please email us at usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk and our weighting tea...
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- 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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08:15 AM Support #1798 (Resolved): Which weight to use for Adults in COVID Wave 6 & 2
- I could do with some advice re: which weights to use for the COVID module Waves 2 & 6 (that have both web and telepho...
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- Caroline,
Firstly, I can confirm that you need a longitudinal weight. This is because those people who moved but d... -
- Hi,
reading in more depth I am now sure that I will need to include weights at each level of my analysis if I wan... -
- Good morning!
Households at the top level and individuals nested within the households at the lower level.
As... -
- Sorry I sent this too quickly. Are you considering household and individual levels in your multilevel model?
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- What are the different levels that you are considering in this multilevel model?
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
10/31/2022
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- Hello
I am trying to create datasets for each wave of the survey which include the date (year) of birth for each ... -
- Good morning,
thank you for your response this is very helpful.
When I run the svy:melogit command with the l...
10/30/2022
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- This has now been corrected.
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- Hello,
Combining b_indresp_ns and c_indresp_ns there are approx 20,000 individuals. Of these around 1900 are ethni... -
- So, you need to include all those who were interviewed in Wave 3, but you also need to observe them in Waves 4, 5 & 6...
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- Hello Albert,
The employment questions (like many other questions) follow dependent interview, i.e., previously in...
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