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From 02/28/2023 to 03/29/2023
03/29/2023
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03:47 PM Support #1886: Weighting unemployment duration 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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02:18 PM Support #1886 (Resolved): Weighting unemployment duration data
- Dear Team,
I am investigating the relationship between online job search and unemployment durations by pooling wav... -
- 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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11:56 AM Support #1885 (Resolved): Health status of all the household members
- Dear Sir/Madam,
Does BHPS and UKHLS interview all the members within a household? Is the health status of each hou... -
- Hello,
Yes, julk4wk and jubgn are the right variables.
Best wishes,
Piotr
UKHLS User Support -
- 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,
If I understand correctly what you want to do then you started with a household level file, then linked an ...
03/28/2023
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04:54 PM Support #1884 (Resolved): Reporting economic inactivity using the UK Household Longitudinal Study
- Hi there
I'm starting a project that is looking at the drivers of economic inactivity and want to use data from th...
03/27/2023
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12:36 PM Support #1883 (Resolved): Periods for personal income - fimnlabgrs_dv & paygu_dv
- Dear colleagues,
May I ask which time periods do the following personal income/earnings variables refer to: fimnl... -
11:51 AM Support #1882 (Resolved): Linking individual and household data and analysing at a household level
- Hi there!
Do let me know if this is the wrong place to be asking but I'm currently doing some analysis using wave...
03/24/2023
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- Dear Jessie,
You can find this information in these questions' universe (see the pdfs of the questionnaires here: ht... -
- Hi Natalie,
We are indeed planning to link metered-consumption data for electricity and gas (annual amounts). We a...
03/23/2023
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04:25 PM Support #1881 (Resolved): Explaining valid skips for AUDIT-C items
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I'm using alcohol data (AUDIT-C) from Waves 7, 9 and 11 for a longitudinal study. Please could you provide ...
03/22/2023
03/21/2023
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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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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
UKHLS User Support -
- 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'.
You ... -
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,
UKHLS User Support Team -
- 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 ...
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