Activity
From 06/10/2023 to 07/09/2023
07/07/2023
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02:54 PM Support #1935 (Resolved): Missing data on MSOA codes
- Hello,
I have been using the 2011 census LSOA and MSOA codes and the LAD codes from the Special License Access dat... -
01:11 PM Support #1934 (In Progress): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023
- Dear Belinda,
I will check this with the data linkage team and get back to you.
Best wishes,
Piotr
UKHLS User... -
- Hi Laurence,
I can confirm that it is indeed not clear which, if any, variable corresponds to the carechange2 ques... -
- Hi Alexander,
Yes, absolutely, you can take this information from the BHPS health questions, for some respondents ... -
10:16 AM Support #1928: Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)
- An additional question for respondents who have been interviewed before in one of the BHPS samples and are now being ...
07/06/2023
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02:07 PM Support #1934 (Resolved): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023
- I am emailing to enquire about a forthcoming linked dataset mentioned on your website, namely “linked credit history ...
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- Hi Taiba,
The c_bwt, c_bwtlb, c_bwtoz, c_bwtk, c_bwtg5 are variables pertaining to child's birth weight, c_chdnbub... -
- Hi Dipanwita,
You say that "the BHPS indresp datafiles only contain the harmonised PIDP, and not the PID that was ...
07/05/2023
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03:49 PM Support #1933 (Resolved): Linking individual data to mother's data in the BHPS
- Hello,
I need to link individual level data on individuals aged 16-20 with their mother's data in the BHPS. My ori... -
03:36 PM Support #1932 (Resolved): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2
- Dear UKHLS team,
In the telephone interview version of the second wave (May 2020) of the Covid study, the caring mod... -
01:48 PM Support #1931 (Resolved): Child Birthweight
- I am interested in looking at children's birthweight across the waves from 2010 and onwards. I have come across vario...
06/28/2023
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- Hello,
4-digit ISCO is available in the Special Licence version of the main UKHLS data file available here: https:... -
12:56 PM Support #1929 (Resolved): ISCO classification of occupations
- I am wondering whether there exists also the full four digit version of ISCO(88 or 08) codes as the variable query on...
06/27/2023
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- Dear Alexander,
The definition of new entrants in the routing of the hcond questions is based on the following condi...
06/26/2023
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01:13 PM Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents
- You will need a longitudinal weight for your analysis if you are using information from more than 1 wave.
Olena -
- I'm interested in constructing health status and especially certain health conditions over time.
Therefore I have cr...
06/25/2023
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- Hello Rowan,
Thanks for highlighting this. We are very sorry the variable note is not entirely correct. We will re...
06/24/2023
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09:35 PM Support #1927 (Resolved): SF1 and SCSF1 variables
- Dear sir or madam,
The variables SF1 and SCSF1, in the w_indresp files, are supposed to represent self-assessed h... -
- Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
The car registration data was collected at W5 (2013-15) whi...
06/23/2023
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- One more thing, if you are using at least one self-completion variable in your analysis model then the correct weight...
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- For the example you have described, the correct weight is l_indinui_xw.
Due to staff time constraints, we only ad... -
02:44 PM Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents
- I'm looking to estimate the probably that a survey respondent is classified as economically inactive in wave 12 based...
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- I see. What you are suggesting is correct.
These questions were asked only in the BHPS. Based on the questionnaire... -
10:43 AM Support #1926: Parent-reported variables
- Hi Alita/team,
Thanks for getting back to me. This information will be useful for me later on, but I'm not sure it... -
- Hi Anna,
We provide some of this linking information so you don't need to do this yourself. In the w_indall files,...
06/22/2023
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- I would like to check whether I have merged some files correctly, please? My aim is to gather parent-reported variabl...
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06/21/2023
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- Hi Pauline,
The majority of these new entrants will be youth turning 16 and thus becoming eligible for an adult in... -
- Dear Matthew,
This is a user deposited file, I am afraid we do not provide assistance for these files. Please cont...
06/20/2023
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10:18 AM Support #1925 (Resolved): Importing data to R - converting from wide to long error
- I've been trying to read in data (a stata file) in R, tidy and convert from wide to long format using the code shared...
06/19/2023
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01:51 PM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- ok, thank you so much Olena, this has been incredibly helpful.
all best,
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- Laura,
Yes, good point. For a single parent household use the parent's weight (regardless of gender). But for both... -
10:23 AM Support #1924: Control for mother/father educ
- Yes but that info is not available for the wave 11 entrants no? It's only for people up until wave 6?
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- Hi Pauline,
It's best to link this information from xwavedat, use the maedqf and paedqf variables.
Best wishes,...
06/18/2023
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- Hi team,
In Wave 11 of the UKHLS- is there any variables to control for father/mother's education?
Thanks, Pauline
06/16/2023
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- The question was answered over email.
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10:09 AM Support #1923 (Resolved): Utilising questions from UKLHS as national benchmarks in Wales
- I am a Research Fellow at Cardiff University working on a project funded by Healthy Working Wales (HWW) of Public Hea...
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- Hi Joshua,
To see if the household is in an institution, use dweltyp (hhsamp) for CAPI, and whether the respondent...
06/15/2023
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- Thanks Olena,
One final question - why do you suggest using the father's weight as opposed to the mother's? Since mo... -
- If both parents need to respond to a full personal interview, we don't have a weight for this combination. You could ...
06/14/2023
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- to clarify the above - children's eligibility depends on *both* of their parents incomes (assuming they live in a two...
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- Thanks so much for your response Olena.
I am a little confused as to how that would work in practice given that many... -
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- When you don't weight our data your estimates will be biased in certain ways, please see the weighting section of the...
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- I am actually confused about the weights?
What is wrong/what happens if I use for example Wave 11's data only with... -
09:03 AM Support #1922 (Resolved): Care Home
- Understanding Society states, 'Sample is not selected from institutions such as care homes but if sample members move...
06/13/2023
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- Hi,
In wave 10 there 145 respondents (j_indresp, count if j_ienddaty==2020 & j_ienddatm>=3) who completed their i... -
- Sorry, I missed your further posts.
Re 2, the advice is the same, the most efficient way is to link that informati... -
- Hi,
1) I am afraid I can't help you with this one, that depends on you research problem and we leave such decision... -
- Hi Luis,
mastat_dv is more detailed and has slightly less missing values than marstat_dv. The reason behind is tha... -
- Hello,
You need to apply for one of the geographical identifiers datasets. These datasets include only the househ... -
- Dear Natalia,
Thank you for your question. All the weights we provide are probability weights (pw in stata).
If y...
06/10/2023
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- Here is the code I have tried for query 2) using the xwavedat file but I still get only 1081 observations...
use x... -
- Note: I am confused about a 3) thing
3)When recoding the -8 and -1 as misisng in wave 11 for both scend and feend,... -
- Hi team,
I need help with some Stata coding...I want to create a schooling years variable to get the number of yea... -
- Hi team,
If I want the most recent data unaffected by Covid, what wave should I use? I started using 2019-2020 but...
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