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From 11/20/2022 to 12/19/2022

12/19/2022

12:19 PM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Ah ok, that's annoying but thanks for letting me know. Albert Ward
10:02 AM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
Dear Olena
I've had a look into this and still haven't been able to get similar numbers so I think I do need the syn...
Emily Humphreys

12/16/2022

06:03 PM Support #1832 (Resolved): Highest qualification variables - query about correct variable and coverage of non-UK qualifications
I just have a couple of very minor queries about the variables on qualifications in Understanding Society. By my unde... Thomas Stephens
01:05 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks so much for your suggestion, I've worked through it this week! I would just like to ... Henrique Neves

12/15/2022

07:35 PM Support #1829 (Feedback): Proportions of groups within inactive population.
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:33 PM Support #1831 (In Progress): hhgrid_w12.clstat
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
05:02 PM Support #1831 (Resolved): hhgrid_w12.clstat
Hello,
There is a question in the household grid about where household leavers are now living (leavers abode): hhg...
Becky Pennington
11:16 AM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Hello Albert,
According to our data team, the ONS Postcode Directories are provided by the ONS, and they say for th...
Understanding Society User Support Team

12/13/2022

11:40 AM Support #1773: Gig Economy module
Yuliya,
Thank you for your question. One doesn't need specific weights for small subgroups - just use our weights....
Olena Kaminska
10:25 AM Support #1830 (In Progress): Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)
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

12/12/2022

10:15 PM Support #1773: Gig Economy module
Dear Support Team,
Following my question about the *Gig Economy* module. Given the relatively small sample size (w...
Yuliya Tavares
02:11 PM Support #1830 (Resolved): Many missing values of sclonely (How often do you feel lonely?)
Dear all,
In the latest wave 12, there are so many missing values for the variable sclonely (How often do you feel...
Frank Chuang
01:55 PM Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Amelia,
No, this isn't a valid option. Our sample months don't have the same selection probabilities, so using som...
Olena Kaminska

12/11/2022

05:05 PM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Hi,
Sorry, would it be possible to get an update on the northern ireland question? It would be good to be able to ...
Albert Ward

12/09/2022

04:28 PM Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your response.
Could I ask a further question to help me understand the cross-secti...
Amelia Watts
03:03 PM Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Amelia,
Thank you for your clarification.
1) No, you can't use only one calendar year. Using 2014 from wave 5 fo...
Olena Kaminska
02:58 PM Support #1829: Proportions of groups within inactive population.
Alex,
Thank you for your question. There may be many reasons for the difference you mention, but from my previous ...
Olena Kaminska
02:51 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies the question. You should put the model together. If a person is in your model ...
Olena Kaminska
01:51 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Sorry, I am a bit confused. My wave-combination of interest is participants at waves 7 to 11 of the mainstage and 1 t... Henrique Neves

12/08/2022

09:50 PM Support #1826 (Feedback): Socioeconomic status
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:49 PM Support #1826: Socioeconomic status
Hello Sadia,
A sketch of the matching is as follows:
For i_youth file, you have different identifiers for paren...
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:13 PM Support #1829 (In Progress): Proportions of groups within inactive population.
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
03:46 PM Support #1829 (Resolved): Proportions of groups within inactive population.
Hi, I have recently analysed the inactive population using USoc within DWP to expand our evidence base, applying the ... Alex Brown
02:23 PM Support #1828: Partnership histories response status
Dear Michaela
Yes, the Partnership Histories dataset (SN 8473) is about to be deposited at the UK Data Service to ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:53 AM Support #1828: Partnership histories response status
Dear Understanding Society Support Team,
Thank you very much for this, it is really helpful.
One thing I'd like t...
Michaela Kyclova
04:26 AM Support #1828 (Feedback): Partnership histories response status
Hello Michaela,
In the initial wave someone is interviewed they are asked if they were ever married, ever cohabite...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:07 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Henrique,
Do you mean you want to model first nonresponse to a Covid wave, and then conditional on response your m...
Olena Kaminska
01:51 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Thanks so much for your suggestion. So what you are suggesting would be to fit a conditional model of response, where... Henrique Neves
11:50 AM Support #1825: 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
Hi,
Thanks for this; that makes sense. I am considering using 2001 LSOAs - though this would make the UKHLS waves ...
Albert Ward
10:53 AM Support #1825 (Feedback): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
Hello Albert,
According to our data team, there are no current plans to make LSOA 2011 apply to BHPS waves. As do...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:45 AM Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Thank you Olena for your response.
For 1), if I’m going to select respondents who were interviewed in 2014 in wav...
Amelia Watts

12/07/2022

10:16 PM Support #1828 (Resolved): Partnership histories response status
Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering if there is any way to know whether a woman (specifically, a moth...
Michaela Kyclova
02:56 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Ok, then your best option would be to use wave 11 longitudinal weight as your base weight, and predict response in yo... Olena Kaminska
02:38 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
No, a person just needs to participate in one of the Covid waves.
Kind regards,
Henrique
Henrique Neves
02:20 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies it. Can you tell me how you are using Covid data - do you need a person to par...
Olena Kaminska
01:40 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Thanks for your reply.
We are indeed interested in a 0/1 effect of our treatment variable. We are simply regressi...
Henrique Neves
02:26 PM Support #1827: Correct weights to use
Amelia,
Thank you for your question. Our weights work with any population subgroup (but not a subsample). If you w...
Olena Kaminska
09:58 AM Support #1827: Correct weights to use

Just to clarify regarding 2), I’m not looking at changes in this wave 2 independent variable over time, but simply ...
Amelia Watts
09:40 AM Support #1827 (Resolved): Correct weights to use
Dear Olena,
I have two questions regarding using weights. I’m trying to conduct a cross-sectional analysis using ...
Amelia Watts
09:50 AM Support #1826 (In Progress): Socioeconomic status
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
09:45 AM Support #1825 (In Progress): 2011 LSOAs 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

12/06/2022

06:59 PM Support #1826 (Resolved): Socioeconomic status
I wondered if there is a variable for socioeconomic status (e.g., parents' annual income) that I could match with the... Sadia Riya
06:01 PM Support #1825 (Resolved): 2011 LSOAs for BHPS waves
Hi,
I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the 2011 LSOA file (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataca...
Albert Ward
02:17 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Henrique,
Just to clarify, by treatment variable do you mean that you are interested in 0/1 effect of your treatme...
Olena Kaminska

12/05/2022

07:19 PM Support #1817: oldest child via family matrix
yes Understanding Society User Support Team
10:01 AM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Thanks for your reply, and my apologies for not being clear. Responding to your questions:
1) We have combined th...
Henrique Neves

12/02/2022

04:30 PM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Henrique,
Thank you for your question. Just to clarify:
1) do you use wave 7-11 of the mainstage in one model?
...
Olena Kaminska
09:54 AM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
The dataset you have referred to above SN 7630 is "Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Acce... Understanding Society User Support Team
09:19 AM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Sorry, just another question - I notice that the document says there is 'no data for northern ireland'. Why is this?
...
Albert Ward
09:12 AM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Ah ok, that's a bit confusing (the 2011 version uses 2001 indicators?) but thanks for letting me know.
Best,
Albe...
Albert Ward

12/01/2022

06:36 PM Support #1820 (In Progress): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
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
06:34 PM Support #1823 (Feedback): dual fuel energy expenditure- split into electricity and gas?
You are correct. If they reported that they paid a combined bill they were asked for the total amount.
As a gener...
Understanding Society User Support Team
04:02 PM Support #1823 (Resolved): dual fuel energy expenditure- split into electricity and gas?
Hello,
I'm doing some analysis on household fuel expenditure. I'd like to be able to split out gas and electricit...
David Fantinic
05:35 PM Support #1822 (Feedback): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Thanks for your question Albert. You will notice that the Geographical Identifiers guide that you refer to is dated 2... Understanding Society User Support Team
02:24 PM Support #1817: oldest child via family matrix
Dear data team,
Thank you very much for the clarification, this is very helpful.
I would like to ask one more f...
Lieke Holt

11/30/2022

01:40 PM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
Thanks so much Olena, really appreciate it.
I don't think this can be the cause of the issue, though, because it is...
Emily Humphreys
12:47 PM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
Emily,
There may be a few reasons for this, but one of them maybe related to the definition of the population that...
Olena Kaminska

11/29/2022

05:36 PM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
Sorry about the delay.
The first child information is based on these variables for UKHLS sample members:
(1) w_ch...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:44 AM Support #1797: Child birth years/fertility histories
Hello
Just hoping for an update on this query?
Thanks very much
Emily
Emily Humphreys
05:22 PM Support #1822 (In Progress): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Dear Albert,
I have passed on your query to the data team.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:33 PM Support #1822 (Resolved): Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
Hi,
I've noticed that the Special Licence dataset SN 7630 (Rural-Urban Indicators) is not as described here: https...
Albert Ward
05:16 PM Support #1817 (Feedback): oldest child via family matrix
Here is the response from the data team: The Family Matrix contains people reported in INDALL (those enumerated in th... Understanding Society User Support Team
04:49 PM Support #1818: X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
Dear Esme,
Sorry, pid and not pidp is the variable to use. The label for rapid_bh "X-wave person identifier of res...
Understanding Society User Support Team
01:23 PM Support #1818: X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
Hi yes, sorry I meant pidp, it doesn't match with any pidp. I can't seem to find the pid variable in any of the BHPS ... Esme Lilly
08:17 AM Support #1820 (Resolved): Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
Dear Understanding society support team,

Our research team is using data from the Understanding Society Main Annu...
Henrique Neves

11/28/2022

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... Understanding Society User Support Team
05:14 PM Support #1819 (Feedback): Volunteering and donating questions
I have checked the Wave 12 questionnaire that is available online and these questions/variables are not included: htt... Understanding Society User Support Team
04:00 PM Support #1819 (Resolved): Volunteering and donating questions
Hello,
I was wondering if you could confirm that the two following variables will be available in Wave 12 of the U...
Karl Thompson
05:08 PM Support #1818 (Feedback): X-wave person identifier of resp. adult
Could you plesae try using the PIDP instead of pid? Please let us know if that solves the problem.
Best wishes,
U...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/25/2022

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... Esme Lilly
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 ...
Lieke Holt
08:43 AM Support #1811: Longitudinal weight selection
By using the wave 5 longitudinal weights the estimates based on your analysis will be representative of the UK adult ... Understanding Society User Support Team
08:31 AM Support #1810 (Resolved): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/24/2022

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...
João Duro
08:22 AM Support #1810 (Feedback): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. If you check the imputation flags you will see that these chang...
Understanding Society User Support Team
08:17 AM Support #1816 (Feedback): Difference between plnowy4 and mvyr
If you look at the universe for these questions you will see who gets asked each question. You can find the Universe ... Understanding Society User Support Team
08:03 AM Support #1815 (Feedback): distmov_dv
Hello,
That is because this variable is based on the postcode at the time of last and current interview.
Hope th...
Understanding Society User Support Team
08:01 AM Support #1814 (Feedback): "inapplicable" in sempderived variable
Hello,
If someone only did a partial interview (identified as those who completed upto the coronavirus module), th...
Understanding Society User Support Team
07:52 AM Support #1813 (Feedback): Wave 12 Release Date
Hello,
Yes, it will be released this month, most likely towards the end of the month.
Best wishes,
Understandi...
Understanding Society User Support Team

11/22/2022

08:55 PM Support #1816 (Resolved): Difference between plnowy4 and mvyr
Hi,
Which differences are there between the plnowy4 and mvyr variables? In the description both are denoted as yea...
David Mesa
06:56 PM Support #1815 (Resolved): distmov_dv
Hi,
Checking the variable distmov_dv I came across that in many waves (not in the first ones) even though this va...
David Mesa
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...
Claire Wu
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... Laila Bara
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...
Rebeka Balogh

11/21/2022

04:18 PM Support #1812 (Feedback): Aggregate data on specific questions
You can check the frequencies of the responses for these questions by using our online interactive variable search. F... Understanding Society User Support Team
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... Andrew Schein
04:14 PM Support #1811 (Feedback): Longitudinal weight selection
Yes. As your analysis sample includes those who responded in Waves 1, 4 & 5, (and also Waves 2 & 3 if you used any la... Understanding Society User Support Team
04:02 PM Support #1811 (Resolved): Longitudinal weight selection
Hello,
I'd have (another) question on longitudinal weight selection.
I've conducted a latent class analysis in w...
Rebeka Balogh
09:51 AM Support #1810 (Resolved): Inconsistent income variable values between data releases
I am referring to the Understanding Society (US) dataset in https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/st... João Duro
08:56 AM Support #1808 (In Progress): nunmpsp_dv variable doesn't seem to aling with employ variable
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

11/20/2022

02:51 PM Support #1783: ff_jbsoc00 not available
Ah I see - this is very helpful, thank you!
Best,
Albert
Albert Ward
 

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