Activity
From 05/08/2023 to 06/06/2023
06/06/2023
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04:10 PM Support #1914 (In Progress): job title and descriptive information in the covid 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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11:25 AM Support #1914 (In Progress): job title and descriptive information in the covid wave
- To who it may concern,
I am currently using UKHLS covid wave 7,8,9 to conduct research. In the questionnaires, jbs... -
- 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...
06/05/2023
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05:01 PM Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- Dear US team,
My question is about weighting when carrying out analysis with infants (0-2).
I want to carry out... -
04:30 PM Support #1910: Information about NHS and purchase of private health isurance
Hi Piotr,
Thank you for your timely response.
Yeah I saw those variables but does private use equal private i...-
- Hello,
I am assuming you are asking about the hlcvr question which has been discontinued in UKHLS. You can find so... -
- Hi,
I am conducting a longitudinal study on factors that predispose individuals to purchase private medical insura... -
01:56 PM Support #1912 (Resolved): Merging newborn and child data Waves 11 & 12
- Hello,
I am trying to look at breastfeeding data for waves 11 and 12, and note there is breastfeeding data in both k...
06/02/2023
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- Hi Luis,
In addition to the raw data from this module a set of derived variables is included, you can find the lis... -
12:54 PM Support #1909 (Resolved): Cognitive ability
- Dear colleagues,
I am a Sociologist at the DemoSoc Research Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) I'm currently doing r...
05/29/2023
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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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05/26/2023
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10:16 PM Support #1908 (Resolved): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories
- Hello. I am studying differences in single/partnered parents. To do so, I am using the British Household Panel Survey...
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05:08 PM Support #1905: Inapplicable codes on the W12 hhresp helpbuy questions
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for this - all makes sense now!
Best
Rory
Understanding Society User Support Team wrote i... -
- Hello,
if you are using only variables from Wave 12 indresp file (l_indresp) to compute the statistics then you ca... -
11:33 AM Support #1907 (Resolved): Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents
- Hi there
So I'm using the indresp dataset and looking at adult respondents. My population is respondents who are c...
05/23/2023
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- Thanks for highlighting this pattern.
First, I need to amend my answer above. The syntax of the Universe for helpb... -
01:30 PM Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis
- Esme,
Yes, I think you've done your best.
Olena -
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11:14 AM Support #1890: Extracting PSU and Individual-Level Weights for a Multilevel Model
- Hi Olena,
That's good to know - thanks! I am just using indresp, so adults.
Thank you so much for your on-going h...
05/22/2023
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04:55 PM Support #1903: Weighting guidance for intergenerational analysis
- Hi Olena,
Only 24 of the 330 people are TSMs. I've tried using issue weights from wave 2, but unfortunately, it le... -
- Esme,
First, check if 330 people are OSMs. If they are TSMs they should not have any weight. And yes, if you want,... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks. I have done so using enumeration weights for my sample from the year they turn 25. However, now ... -
- Laurence,
It is possible for you to create psnenub_xd yourself. But first, could you tell me if you are using any ... -
- Just a quick update - I'm wondering if this temporal trend is related to the broader patterning of inapplicable cases...
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- Hi Alita,
Many thanks for looking into this so swiftly. I've rerun the code with your more restricted universe and...
05/19/2023
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- Hi Rory,
I have looked into this and found the same type of problem cases as you did. But after reading the univer... -
- Hi,
This question might be of general interest unless I've missed something really obvious...
I'm trying to use... -
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- Esme,
Cross-sectional weight is a wrong one as a base weight, as we don't follow TSMs by design. You should use a ... -
- Hi Olena,
Thanks. I have followed the online course, however the course could not provide me with the answers on h... -
- Esme,
Thank you for this clarification. You will need longitudinal weights. It may be best for you to create you o... -
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- Richard,
What to do with item missingness completely depends on the subject you study and research question you ha...
05/17/2023
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- Dear Olena,
Thanks for your swift response.
The population that I want to represent are people born 1975-1995.... -
- Esme,
Thank you for your question. To answer it you would need to clarify the population that you want to represen... -
04:35 PM Support #1904: Using weights when variables have some or many "missing value" codes or NAs due to missing household level data
- Dear Olena,
Thank you for your quick reply and your ideas on what could be done.
Thank you for your suggestion ... -
- Richard,
Thank you for your question. Indeed, there may be some part of nonresponse unaccounted due to missing res... -
- Dear Olena,
I am running a pooled cross sectional individual level analysis (waves 1-9), using cross-sectional wei...
05/16/2023
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- Hello Yuliya
Questions on wave 13 include the sharing economy. We used HMRC Sharing Economy report as a reference,... -
05:59 PM Support #1773: Gig Economy module
- Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. It is extremely helpful.
May I ask what source and defi... -
- Hi, I am doing research into the role of education in intergenerational income mobility, and I had some questions on ...
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- Hello Laurence,
The variable you are looking for is psnenub_xd. You can locate it in the xwavedat file.
I hope...
05/15/2023
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- Dear Annaelena,
Thank you for your question. Here is information on our weights that may be helpful to you:
https... -
02:20 PM Support #1902 (Resolved): weights individual files waves 10 -11 wide format
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I am trying to merge individual files across waves 10 and 11 into wide format to create a 2019 calendar year d...
05/12/2023
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01:06 PM Support #1900: People appearing in individual file but their household isn't in the household file
- Great, thanks for the clarification!
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- Dear Imogen,
Households who complete the household questionnaire are in the hhresp datafile. There are some cases ... -
- Hello,
I'm looking at waves g to l. There are several instances where there are some individuals who are in the i... -
- Yanan,
On tailored weights we have a online workshop for you: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training... -
- Imogen,
Yes, this is definitely a possible option. In comparison over the years it is best to do it at an individu... -
- Dear Olena,
Thanks for your reply. I wrote to UKDA about accessing previous releases of Understanding Society, as th... -
- Laurence,
Look in xwavedat.dta. But please for this look in wave 11 release (which is not the most recent). You sh...
05/10/2023
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- Olena,
I'm wanting to see how the characteristics of these households (e.g. max personal income, average financial... -
- Imogen,
Thank you for your question. How do you define household longitudinally? What happens if someone moves out... -
- Hello.
I am using individual data which I have joined onto household data, by hidp for each wave then put all of t... -
- Dear Yuliya,
When this question was designed it was based on the definition of gig economy relevant at that time a... -
- 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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05/09/2023
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- Dear Team Member,
I have another Gig Economy module-related question. There is a question 'Thinking about the past... -
- Dear Olena,
Above you stated that "Wave 11 release will have ub design weight", however I am unable to find this wei...
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