Activity
From 02/20/2023 to 03/21/2023
03/21/2023
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10:09 PM Support #1880 (In Progress): Smart meter data
- 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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04:11 PM Support #1880 (Resolved): Smart meter data
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I recently attended a UKHLS event where it was mentioned that Smart Meter data for participants might be made ... -
- Hi Mark
Another variable is plbornc_all which is the country of birth for those not born in the UK coding a long u... -
- 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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02:30 PM Support #1879 (Resolved): More detailed country of origin
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I am trying to construct a variable of region of origin for those not born in the UK. The variable plbornc has... -
- Hello Lina
The SN7629. Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Ar... -
- Hello Lina
The SN7629. Understanding Society: Waves 1-12, 2009-2021: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Ar... -
08:52 AM Support #1878 (Resolved): Census 2011 Output Area Classification Linked Dataset
- I am planning on requesting the OAC2011 Special License Access to study neighbourhood classification and health.
S...
03/17/2023
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- I am planning on requesting the OAC2011 Special License Access to study neighbourhood classification and health.
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03/16/2023
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- Hi,
I've done some initial checks and I can confirm that the l_oprlg1 variable is incorrect - my provisional diagn...
03/15/2023
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- Hello Laurence,
The information you previously found on the webpage is correct. It is just that we are updating t... -
- Hello Huihui
The Study has a specific benefit module called benefits_w(1 to 12) which has information about unearn...
03/13/2023
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11:24 AM Support #1876 (Resolved): benefit claim
- Is there a variable measuring whether the interviewer has claimed any benefit from waves 1-10? If not, is there a way...
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- Hello,
Moreover, for some respondents (the surviving BHPS sample members) you can also get the information on the ... -
- Hello,
The End User Licence version of the data (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6...
03/12/2023
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03:53 PM Support #1875 (Resolved): jbscoc00
- Hi. I would like to use the variable "jbsoc00" for my research. In the dataset documentation, it says that I need Spe...
03/10/2023
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02:17 PM Support #1874: Issue with religion variable in wave 12
- Many thanks Piotr, looking forward to hearing what you find
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- Hi Laurence,
Thank you for flagging this up, we will look into the issue.
Best wishes,
Piotr
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- Hello support forum,
I think there might be an issue with the religion variable (l_oprlg1) in wave 12. I suspect t...
03/09/2023
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- Hi Michael,
We are terribly sorry that it has taken so long to answer your question.
1) The way you defined th... -
- Hello,
Unfortunately, we don't collect this information. We only collect information about the country of birth: h... -
03:35 PM Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis
- Dear Spencer,
Yes, you are completely right. Both approaches will be correct and should give you similar results. ...
03/08/2023
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02:42 PM Support #1872: Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis
- P.S. - I should have clarified, I am not using wave 1 in my work. I mention this because in your example there was a ...
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- Hi Olena,
Thanks, this is really helpful. This is indeed what I was trying to do:
_Alternatively you may be int... -
- Dear Spencer,
This should answer your question:
Pooling can be cross-sectional or longitudinal. Theoretically, yo... -
- 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 think I've figured this out, thanks.
I realised I don't need to change the longitudinal weights since all my o... -
12:47 PM Support #1873: Health conditions explanation on website
- Thank you very much - the documents are very useful! Can I confirm that the information previously on the website was...
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- We are revising it to add some more information. But here is the beta version.
If any part of this is not clear pl... -
- Hi there, previously on the FAQs section of the Understanding Society website, there was a section under "Questions a...
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03/03/2023
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- Tom,
Yes, sounds like cross-sectional weight will be suitable. After wave 6 it will be 'ui' instead of 'ub'.
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02:12 PM Support #1868: Use of weights for analysing job quality in UKHLS, Waves 4, 6, 8 and 10
- Olena,
Many thanks, this is very helpful. However just three clarifications / further queries ...
First, apolog... -
12:58 PM Support #1870: Inquiry on the data on place of birth
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
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> Can I ask how do you define the place of ...
03/02/2023
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- Hello,
I am doing some analysis on informal care. I want to track people's incomes for several years after they st... -
- See whether this information may help you:
18. Pooled analysis
You can pool the data however you want. There are ... -
- Monica,
No, you can't compare as you describe because such comparison implies data from independent samples. In th... -
- Tom,
Thank you for your questions.
1. Yes, different weights. If you use multiple waves in your analysis (e.g. ... -
- Hello,
Can I ask how do you define the place of birth?
Best wishes,
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- Hello,
In such case they would be treated as living in a new household, whether they would be followed and intervi...
03/01/2023
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- Hello Karen if you want to create a variable denoting if someone has a health condition, meaning they still have it w...
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- Dear officer,
I am looking at the data on the place of residence. I have one doubt which makes me a little bit con... -
- Dear officer,
May I get access to the data on individuals' places of birth, and how specific is this geographic lo...
02/28/2023
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- Hi Matthias,
There is a slight delay and we now hope to release the dataset sometime in May.
Best wishes,
Piot... -
10:00 AM Support #1869 (Resolved): 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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- 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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- 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.
Best wishes... -
09:38 AM Support #1866 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): Changes to USOC wave data downloaded from UK Data Service compared to previous downloads of the waves
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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 (Resolved): 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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- 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 (Resolved): 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 (Resolved): 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... -
- Hi,
I am aware that weighting will affect and alter the sample size of the analysis, however, I am working with ...
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