Activity
From 11/28/2022 to 12/27/2022
12/22/2022
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05:59 PM Support #1831 (Feedback): hhgrid_w12.clstat
- Hello Becky
According to our data team, leavers are dropped as the Household Grid module (hhgrid) is only for thos... -
- 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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02:13 PM Support #1835 (Resolved): Number of dependent children (inside or outside of household) - variable availability
- Good afternoon,
By my reading, Understanding Society doesn't have a variable (derived or otherwise) on the number ... -
- 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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11:27 AM Support #1834 (Resolved): Linkage National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)
- Dear Support team,
I am writing to ask if there has been any process regarding the linkage of the National Energy ...
12/21/2022
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- Congratulations Nico!
We ask all data users to cite all datasets used - both SN6631 and SN6666 - correctly. The e... -
10:09 AM Support #1833 (Resolved): Data information necessary for publication in journal
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
I would like to inform you that my job market paper out of my dissertation (Essays... -
12/20/2022
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- Hello Thomas,
For your first question.
The key highest educational qualification variables are QFHIGH_DV and HIQ... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
12/19/2022
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12:19 PM Support #1822: Issue with Census 2011 Rural-Urban Indicators
- Ah ok, that's annoying but thanks for letting me know.
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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...
12/16/2022
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- I just have a couple of very minor queries about the variables on qualifications in Understanding Society. By my unde...
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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 ...
12/15/2022
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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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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... -
- Hello Albert,
According to our data team, the ONS Postcode Directories are provided by the ONS, and they say for th...
12/13/2022
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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.... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
12/12/2022
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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... -
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... -
- Amelia,
No, this isn't a valid option. Our sample months don't have the same selection probabilities, so using som...
12/11/2022
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- Hi,
Sorry, would it be possible to get an update on the northern ireland question? It would be good to be able to ...
12/09/2022
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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,
Thank you for your clarification.
1) No, you can't use only one calendar year. Using 2014 from wave 5 fo... -
- Alex,
Thank you for your question. There may be many reasons for the difference you mention, but from my previous ... -
- Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies the question. You should put the model together. If a person is in your model ... -
- Sorry, I am a bit confused. My wave-combination of interest is participants at waves 7 to 11 of the mainstage and 1 t...
12/08/2022
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- Hello Sadia,
A sketch of the matching is as follows:
For i_youth file, you have different identifiers for paren... -
- 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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03:46 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 ...
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- Dear Michaela
Yes, the Partnership Histories dataset (SN 8473) is about to be deposited at the UK Data Service to ... -
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... -
- Hello Michaela,
In the initial wave someone is interviewed they are asked if they were ever married, ever cohabite... -
- Henrique,
Do you mean you want to model first nonresponse to a Covid wave, and then conditional on response your m... -
- Thanks so much for your suggestion. So what you are suggesting would be to fit a conditional model of response, where...
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- Hi,
Thanks for this; that makes sense. I am considering using 2001 LSOAs - though this would make the UKHLS waves ... -
- Hello Albert,
According to our data team, there are no current plans to make LSOA 2011 apply to BHPS waves. As do... -
- Thank you Olena for your response.
For 1), if I’m going to select respondents who were interviewed in 2014 in wav...
12/07/2022
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- Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering if there is any way to know whether a woman (specifically, a moth... -
- Ok, then your best option would be to use wave 11 longitudinal weight as your base weight, and predict response in yo...
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- No, a person just needs to participate in one of the Covid waves.
Kind regards,
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- Henrique,
Thank you. This clarifies it. Can you tell me how you are using Covid data - do you need a person to par... -
- Thanks for your reply.
We are indeed interested in a 0/1 effect of our treatment variable. We are simply regressi... -
- Amelia,
Thank you for your question. Our weights work with any population subgroup (but not a subsample). If you w... -
Just to clarify regarding 2), I’m not looking at changes in this wave 2 independent variable over time, but simply ...-
- Dear Olena,
I have two questions regarding using weights. I’m trying to conduct a cross-sectional analysis using ... -
- 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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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
12/06/2022
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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...
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- Hi,
I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the 2011 LSOA file (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataca... -
- Henrique,
Just to clarify, by treatment variable do you mean that you are interested in 0/1 effect of your treatme...
12/05/2022
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- Thanks for your reply, and my apologies for not being clear. Responding to your questions:
1) We have combined th...
12/02/2022
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- Henrique,
Thank you for your question. Just to clarify:
1) do you use wave 7-11 of the mainstage in one model?
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- The dataset you have referred to above SN 7630 is "Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Acce...
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- Sorry, just another question - I notice that the document says there is 'no data for northern ireland'. Why is this?
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- Ah ok, that's a bit confusing (the 2011 version uses 2001 indicators?) but thanks for letting me know.
Best,
Albe...
12/01/2022
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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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- You are correct. If they reported that they paid a combined bill they were asked for the total amount.
As a gener... -
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... -
- Thanks for your question Albert. You will notice that the Geographical Identifiers guide that you refer to is dated 2...
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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...
11/30/2022
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- Thanks so much Olena, really appreciate it.
I don't think this can be the cause of the issue, though, because it is... -
- Emily,
There may be a few reasons for this, but one of them maybe related to the definition of the population that...
11/29/2022
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- Sorry about the delay.
The first child information is based on these variables for UKHLS sample members:
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- Hello
Just hoping for an update on this query?
Thanks very much
Emily -
- Dear Albert,
I have passed on your query to the data team.
Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team -
- Hi,
I've noticed that the Special Licence dataset SN 7630 (Rural-Urban Indicators) is not as described here: https... -
- Here is the response from the data team: The Family Matrix contains people reported in INDALL (those enumerated in th...
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- Dear Esme,
Sorry, pid and not pidp is the variable to use. The label for rapid_bh "X-wave person identifier of res... -
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 ...
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- Dear Understanding society support team,
Our research team is using data from the Understanding Society Main Annu...
11/28/2022
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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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- 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
- Hello,
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...
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