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From 01/30/2023 to 02/28/2023
02/28/2023
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01:43 PM Support #1869 (Feedback): 2021 calendar data
- Hi Matthias,
There is a slight delay and we now hope to release the dataset sometime in May.
Best wishes,
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10:00 AM Support #1869 (Feedback): 2021 calendar data
- Hi, do you have any further updates on when the 2021 calendar data will be available? Sorry to be persistnent, but we...
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- Hello,
I am sorry that it has taken so long to get back to you.
The high level of missingness is due to some er... -
06:08 AM Support #1863: coding health conditions
- Hi Alita,
I thought I might also provide the code below. Tt appears that there is something wrong with this coding ...
02/27/2023
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- Hi Alita,
Is it correct to use the responses in hconds (new entrants) and hcondns (continuing sample members) for... -
- Hello,
The IT team informed us that they fixed the issue, would you be able to check if it works for you now, plea...
02/25/2023
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04:00 PM Support #1868 (Feedback): Use of weights for analysing job quality in UKHLS, Waves 4, 6, 8 and 10
- Good afternoon,
I have a few questions about the weights to use for some analysis of job quality which I'm carryin...
02/24/2023
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02:17 PM Support #1865: Changes to USOC wave data downloaded from UK Data Service compared to previous downloads of the waves
- Dear William,
Your observation is completely correct. We have taken ub_xw weight out from after wave 6 and have ma... -
- 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,
We are very sorry about that. I have informed our web team and asked them to look into this.
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09:38 AM Support #1866 (Feedback): Code Creator Beta No longer working
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The code creator beta tool is no longer working and I receive the following error message:
Error: call to... -
- Hello,
To be able to provide ISCED classification, we had to collect additional information which was done in Wave... -
- 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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09:45 AM Support #1867 (Feedback): Significant change between waves - longitudinal weight
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I am comparing variable trcarfq across waves 8, 10 and 12. I have applied a longitudinal weight and have r... -
- 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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- Sorry I should have been clearer, after the next job information if current spell not reached the employment loop sta...
02/23/2023
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04:42 PM Support #1865 (Feedback): Changes to USOC wave data downloaded from UK Data Service compared to previous downloads of the waves
- Hi,
QUESTIONS
Q1: indscub_xw weight from wave 6 of USOC is present in our historical download of the wave 6 dat... -
03:34 PM Support #1864 (Feedback): Using survey weights in longitudinal analysis
- I am using Waves 7, 9 and 11 to conduct longitudinal analyses on changes in fruit and vegetable intake with age. I am...
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02:51 PM Support #1861: Job tenure variable in Understanding Society
- Ah I see, I didn't know about those variables but that's very helpful - thanks! When you say the nxtjbend questions l...
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- If they were continuously employed and changed jobs then the end date of each job is recorded in jbendd/m/y4 & then i...
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- Hi Alita,
I understand you use dependent interviewing. It makes sense not to ask these questions to people who are... -
- As we use dependent interviewing, if someone is in the same job they are not asked these types of questions about the...
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- Caroline,
As you describe it, you are using a longitudinal analysis with information from wave 6 and one or more o... -
12:31 PM Support #1859: sample size loss due to weighting
- Dear Olena,
with pooled analysis I mean that my sample consists of individuals that have responded in wave 3, 4, ... -
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- hello Karen,
You are right the health conditions quesitons have changed. I am attaching two files that we have pre... -
- Hi there,
I am analyzing data from Waves 7,9 and 11 of UKHLS and would like to create a variable to denote if someon... -
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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,
Q: "I found no region of government indicator in the * *_youth files in BHPS. To solve this issue, I used t... -
- Hello,
Please take a look at the section of our user guide that details the income variables that we provided and ... -
- But if you are interested in specific questions, you can either do a search across the questionnaires, or search usin...
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- Hello,
While there are some core questions that are asked every wave, these are not provided as a separate module,... -
02/22/2023
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- Caroline,
Thank you for your question. When you mention pooled analysis, do you mean using data cross-sectionally ... -
11:16 AM Support #1862 (Feedback): Welsh Language
- Is their a core module where their is a list of questions which is asked at the start of each participants participat...
02/21/2023
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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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- Hi, I would like to work out how long someone has been working for their current employer for in Understanding Societ...
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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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- 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...
02/20/2023
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02:45 PM Support #1860 (Feedback): household income special licence variables
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Hoping to get some clarity on one of the UKHLS variables and get an idea what it adds. We will be using UKHLS... -
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I am aware that weighting will affect and alter the sample size of the analysis, however, I am working with ...
02/17/2023
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06:24 AM Support #1858 (Feedback): Inquiry on the Youth files in BHPS
- Dear officer,
I found no region of government indicator in the * *_youth files in BHPS. To solve this issue, I use...
02/15/2023
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- Hello Cara
Generally speaking, the employee pay variables refer to “usual” pay. The Study asks about the last net ... -
- Hi,
We've been asked to run in R some analysis on the sclfsat7 variable looking at horizontal inequality by ISCED ... -
- Hello Cara,
Are you working with variable w_matleave? If this is correct I just checked wave 5 and don't see and ... -
11:10 AM Support #1856 (Feedback): Coding of currently on maternity leave
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It seems as if the coding for currently on maternity leave changed after wave 5. Would you be able to tell me ... -
02/14/2023
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- Hello Catherine,
You will need to download UKHLS dataset again given the index of Multiple Deprivation variables ... -
- Hello Timea
According to our data team linking SSNAP information (collected by King’s College) with UKHLS is not i...
02/12/2023
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03:42 PM Support #1844: Data Linkage with Stroke NHS Data
- Hello,
Just quickly following up on the above query, the SSNAP dataset seems to be available on NHS Digital for li...
02/10/2023
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01:56 PM Support #1854 (Feedback): Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles variable
- Hello,
I am carrying out analysis of waves 6 and 7 and would like to use the derived variable for Index of Multipl...
02/09/2023
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- Yushi,
Thank you for your question. Very interesting design and use of our data. There are two concepts your may w... -
- 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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09:12 AM Support #1853 (Feedback): Missing Data in Higher Education Codes
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I applied for special access to the data 8578 Higher Education Codes. I have now been given the data but I ... -
07:54 AM Support #1820: Cross-sectional vs longitudinal weights
- Thanks for all your help!
02/08/2023
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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...
02/07/2023
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05:53 PM Support #1852 (Feedback): Select the correct weighting values
- Dear colleagues,
I'm a post-doc research associate at the University of Manchester. We're currently planning an an... -
- 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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- Whilst a participant is on maternity leave is the labour income they report 0 or their usual labour income?
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- Hello Olivia
As with the main survey, the overall mechanism for gaining consent for participation in the COVID-19 ... -
- Hello Georgina,
Sorry for my misunderstanding.
They were derived from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and...
02/06/2023
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02:34 PM Support #1850 (Feedback): Query regarding consent for the COVID-19 study
- Could you please clarify whether participants gave written or oral consent to participate in the Understanding Societ...
02/02/2023
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04:58 PM Support #1848: Sibling relationship measures in youth questionnaire/ young adult module
- Hi Roberto,
Thank you for the information but unfortunately it does not answer my question. My question was on whe... -
- Hello Georgina,
The Study has some questions regarding siblings' relationships. For household members aged 10-15 ... -
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I am planning to use the sibling relationship items (asking about behaviours towards and from a sibling e.g... -
- Hello Vriddhi
As Understanding Society is a longitudinal study there is always a missingness risk involved. This m... -
09:16 AM Support #1840: errors in 4-digits ISCO88 variable
- Finally, let me signal that one of the jbisco pseudo-codes 2470 ("Public service administrative professionals") does ...
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- Dear Piotr,
thanks for the clarification. Let me also point out, both to ask your confirmation and for future read... -
02:28 AM Support #1785: Question regarding geographical data
- Thank you!
02/01/2023
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- Hello Vriddhi
Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back... -
04:28 PM Support #1847 (Feedback): Panel construction across all UKHLS for paygu_dv
- Using the data management syntax available on your website, I was able to match parents with their children, and usin...
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- Hello Ben,
UKHLS asks participants for consent to give an interview in the current wave and the subsequent wave i... -
- Hello Anil,
In general, the steps are:
1. Register with the UK Data Service at https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/... -
- Hello Michaela,
UKHLS recently released a family matrix data file “xhhrel”, where you can identify family connect...
01/31/2023
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- Hi Piotr,
Thank you so much for the detailed response. After consulting the webpage you recommended, I have ident... -
11:24 AM Support #1846 (Feedback): Question re. recontact for Understanding Society cohort
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I hope this email finds you well. I'm reaching out with a couple of specific que...
01/30/2023
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09:57 AM Support #1845: Childhood socioeconomic status for adults
- Hi Piotr,
Thank you for this! I'm sorry, maybe I was not very clear. I am looking at maternal characteristics link...
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