Understanding Society User Support

07/27/2023

02:25 PM Support #1688 (Resolved): Linkage Query

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02:24 PM Support #1699 (Resolved): BHPS - UKHLS self-completion weight

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02:24 PM Support #1700 (Resolved): Interview timing

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02:23 PM Support #1696 (Resolved): random effects logistic regression models and weighting

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02:22 PM Support #1676 (Resolved): Youth self-esteem measure

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02:21 PM Support #1693 (Resolved): household data

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02:19 PM Support #1689 (Resolved): Matching Spouses data across waves

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02:16 PM Support #1667 (Resolved): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response

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02:16 PM Support #1687 (Resolved): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w

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02:16 PM Support #1631 (Resolved): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc

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02:15 PM Support #1657 (Resolved): Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds

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02:14 PM Support #1654 (Resolved): Looking for motherhood status variables

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02:14 PM Support #1647 (Resolved): Filter issues of "vote7"

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02:13 PM Support #1648 (Resolved): Help with linking data across two waves

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02:13 PM Support #1645 (Resolved): How to Deal with Missingness in Health Variables Over Time

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02:12 PM Support #1643 (Resolved): Employment history for different samples

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02:12 PM Support #1637 (Resolved): Religion in Covid survey

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02:11 PM Support #1638 (Resolved): w_fimnlabnet_dv

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02:11 PM Support #1640 (Resolved): Onward Social Fabric Index and Understanding Society Wave

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02:10 PM Support #1636 (Resolved): Empstat wave 5

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02:09 PM Support #1635 (Resolved): Scotland – all UKLHS participants who completed secondary education in Scotland?

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02:09 PM Support #1633 (Resolved): Query regarding measurement of food poverty in UKLHS mainstage questionnaire

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02:08 PM Support #1626 (Resolved): Who is the respondent parent - SDQ

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02:07 PM Support #1629 (Resolved): Merging Variable vote_7

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02:04 PM Support #1769 (Resolved): missing values after merging household and individual dataset

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11:03 AM Support #1944 (Resolved): Sample size in regressions

Hi Alita,
I'm running Nested OLS regressions to examine the social class pay gap for each wave of data (I am using... Michael Vallely

09:47 AM Support #1943 (Resolved): Weights

I am messaging with a question regarding weights. I am using data from the indresp files from waves 1 to 9 of the UKH... Michael Vallely

07/25/2023

04:16 PM Support #1941 (In Progress): Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data

Dear Thomas,
1) I can confirm that wave 6 looks odd, I will investigate this further.
2) I checked the long term ... Understanding Society User Support Team

07/24/2023

05:04 PM Support #1942 (In Progress): Bornuk_dv missing data

Hi Luis,
Before I can investigate this further, could you please provide a few more details: the name of the varia... Understanding Society User Support Team

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