Understanding Society User Support

07/19/2023

02:19 PM Support #1942 (In Progress): Bornuk_dv missing data

Dear colleagues,
I have observed that the derived variable "Born in UK" reports a substantial number (8.61% of obs... Luis Ortiz

12:58 PM Support #1941 (Resolved): Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data

Good afternoon,
I have a query about some of the pensions data in Understanding Society.
Specifically, I have ... Thomas Stephens

07/14/2023

03:04 PM Support #1936: Missing/Inapplicable Data on Physical Activity

Dear Piotr,
Your answer is incredibly helpful.
Thank you very much for your kind help and support.
Best Wish... Pengyu Li

07/13/2023

06:00 PM Support #1935: Missing data on MSOA codes

Thanks, Piotr. That's very helpful.
Best wishes,
Fiona Fiona Steele

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Alison Whitehouse

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Vikram Patil

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 ... Pengyu Li

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... Fiona Steele

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Alexander Labeit

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 ... Belinda Tracey

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Dipanwita Ghatak

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... Laurence Rowley-Abel

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... Taiba Chaudhry

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:... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Jesse Magin

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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 Olena Kaminska

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... Alexander Labeit

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... C Rowan Marron

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Peter Humphreys

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Anna Dearman

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,... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Anna Dearman

11:46 AM Support #1913 (Resolved): Weighting with analysis of a dataset of infants

Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Matthew Clark