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From 06/14/2023 to 07/13/2023
07/13/2023
- 06:00 PM Support #1935: Missing data on MSOA codes
- Thanks, Piotr. That's very helpful.
Best wishes,
Fiona - 01:49 PM Support #1935 (Feedback): Missing data on MSOA codes
- Dear Fiona,
You are right about the high number of -9 for MSOA11. We checked this and it seems that for MSOA11 for... - 02:34 PM Support #1939 (Feedback): Data availability
- Dear Ali,
You can see if a child has a foster parent using the relationship_dv variable from the egoalt datafile a... - 12:29 PM Support #1939 (Resolved): Data availability
- Hi,
I am looking for data relating to the motor development of children who are either in foster care or have experi...
07/12/2023
- 03:54 PM Support #1937 (Feedback): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyp
- Hello,
1) this was due to online interviewing being introduced in wave 7, in the web only households this informat... - 02:49 PM Support #1936 (Feedback): Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity
- Hello,
The high number of missing values on the variables you listed is expected as these were asked only when the... - 01:44 PM Support #1934 (Feedback): Linked credit history FCA data to be released in 2023
- Dear Belinda,
Please contact Dr Jack Kneeshaw (kneejw@essex.ac.uk) who can share a draft of the user guide for thi... - 01:13 PM Support #1935 (In Progress): Missing data on MSOA codes
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
07/10/2023
- 03:08 PM Support #1937 (Resolved): "Inapplicable" responses for dweltyp
- Hello,
My question is about the variable "dweltyp" in the hhsamp files.
- Why are so many households reported as ... - 11:46 AM Support #1936 (Resolved): Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity
- Dear Support Team,
Hello! I am currently looking into the data on people's physical activity. I see that in waves ...
07/07/2023
- 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... - 01:09 PM Support #1932 (In Progress): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2
- Hi Laurence,
I can confirm that it is indeed not clear which, if any, variable corresponds to the carechange2 ques... - 12:59 PM Support #1928: Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)
- 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
- 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 ...
- 01:52 PM Support #1931 (Feedback): Child Birthweight
- Hi Taiba,
The c_bwt, c_bwtlb, c_bwtoz, c_bwtk, c_bwtg5 are variables pertaining to child's birth weight, c_chdnbub... - 01:41 PM Support #1933 (Feedback): Linking individual data to mother's data in the BHPS
- Hi Dipanwita,
You say that "the BHPS indresp datafiles only contain the harmonised PIDP, and not the PID that was ...
07/05/2023
- 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
- 03:25 PM Support #1929 (Feedback): ISCO classification of occupations
- 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
- 05:05 PM Support #1928 (Feedback): Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)
- Dear Alexander,
The definition of new entrants in the routing of the hcond questions is based on the following condi...
06/26/2023
- 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 - 11:54 AM Support #1928 (Resolved): Health condition (hcond) for new entrants and missing values (including -8 inapplicable)
- I'm interested in constructing health status and especially certain health conditions over time.
Therefore I have cr...
06/25/2023
- 09:05 PM Support #1927 (Feedback): SF1 and SCSF1 variables
- Hello Rowan,
Thanks for highlighting this. We are very sorry the variable note is not entirely correct. We will re...
06/24/2023
- 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... - 03:48 PM Support #1917 (Feedback): DVLA Data: Untaxed vehicles
- Hello,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
The car registration data was collected at W5 (2013-15) whi...
06/23/2023
- 03:49 PM Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents
- One more thing, if you are using at least one self-completion variable in your analysis model then the correct weight...
- 03:47 PM Support #1907: Weighting advice for information from previous wave on wave 12 respondents
- 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...
- 03:19 PM Support #1926: Parent-reported variables
- 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... - 10:24 AM Support #1926 (Feedback): Parent-reported variables
- 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
- 04:05 PM Support #1926 (Resolved): Parent-reported variables
- I would like to check whether I have merged some files correctly, please? My aim is to gather parent-reported variabl...
- 11:46 AM Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
06/21/2023
- 05:03 PM Support #1924: Control for mother/father educ
- Hi Pauline,
The majority of these new entrants will be youth turning 16 and thus becoming eligible for an adult in... - 04:58 PM Support #1925 (Feedback): Importing data to R - converting from wide to long error
- Dear Matthew,
This is a user deposited file, I am afraid we do not provide assistance for these files. Please cont...
06/20/2023
- 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
- 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,
Laura - 12:27 PM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- 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?
- 10:18 AM Support #1924 (Feedback): Control for mother/father educ
- Hi Pauline,
It's best to link this information from xwavedat, use the maedqf and paedqf variables.
Best wishes,...
06/18/2023
- 12:48 PM Support #1924 (Resolved): Control for mother/father educ
- Hi team,
In Wave 11 of the UKHLS- is there any variables to control for father/mother's education?
Thanks, Pauline
06/16/2023
- 05:06 PM Support #1923 (Resolved): Utilising questions from UKLHS as national benchmarks in Wales
- The question was answered over email.
- 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...
- 05:05 PM Support #1922 (Feedback): Care Home
- Hi Joshua,
To see if the household is in an institution, use dweltyp (hhsamp) for CAPI, and whether the respondent...
06/15/2023
- 01:42 PM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- Thanks Olena,
One final question - why do you suggest using the father's weight as opposed to the mother's? Since mo... - 12:19 PM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- 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
- 04:35 PM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- to clarify the above - children's eligibility depends on *both* of their parents incomes (assuming they live in a two...
- 10:24 AM Support #1913: Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants
- Thanks so much for your response Olena.
I am a little confused as to how that would work in practice given that many... - 12:22 PM Support #1908 (Feedback): Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories
- 11:28 AM Support #1921 (Feedback): Non-Covid affected data
- When you don't weight our data your estimates will be biased in certain ways, please see the weighting section of the...
- 10:37 AM Support #1921: Non-Covid affected data
- 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...
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