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From 07/24/2023 to 08/22/2023

08/22/2023

03:30 PM Support #1961 (In Progress): Newly diagosed health conditions in UKHLS wave 10
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
02:53 PM Support #1961 (Resolved): Newly diagosed health conditions in UKHLS wave 10
I want to potentially update health conditions for all waves from waves 2 to 12.
Looking at the updating health co...
Alexander Labeit
01:38 PM Support #1802 (Resolved): Missing data for pasoc10 in xwavedat
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:38 AM Support #1951: Zero longitudinal weights
Hello Isabel,
Our team responsible for weights provided us with the following response.
The R survey package c...
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/21/2023

03:17 PM Support #1960: EU referendum questions
Hi Roberto,
Thank you, that's very helpful.
It's a bit odd that the survey would only ask a question about pas...
Albert Ward
02:20 PM Support #1960 (Feedback): EU referendum questions
Hello Albert,
You can review the questionnaire in the questionnaire module section at https://www.understandingso...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:12 AM Support #1959 (Feedback): pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
Hello Clara
I recommend exploring our sections “Running analysis on a calendar year or month” and “Pooling data fr...
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/18/2023

05:37 PM Support #1941 (Feedback): Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data
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03:50 PM Support #1941: Employee (jbpen + jbpenm) and personal (ppen + ppreg) pensions in Understanding Society - query re. some wave data
Dear Thomas,
Some further information
2) As I mentioned earlier, the Personal Pensions module was moved to wav...
Understanding Society User Support Team
05:33 PM Support #1954 (Feedback): Absent from household
Hello Katherine
The paper you mentioned used the variable clstat (leavers abode) and according to our data team, t...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:16 PM Support #1958 (Feedback): Inquire about using 2011 Lower Super Output Areas data create Townsend Score and Carstairs Index
Hello Wen,
UKHLS has the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) as a variable in the EUL version. These variables (I...
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/17/2023

02:12 PM Support #1960 (In Progress): EU referendum questions
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
01:57 PM Support #1960 (Resolved): EU referendum questions
Hi,
I have a couple of questions about the EU referendum questions in the survey:
1. The variable j_euref (wave...
Albert Ward
01:25 PM Support #1959 (In Progress): pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
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
12:26 PM Support #1959 (Resolved): pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
Hello,
I have read item 12 on the FAQ titled "Can I pool data from different waves for cross-sectional analysis?" ...
Clara Mascaro
09:34 AM Support #1943 (Resolved): Weights
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09:32 AM Support #1950: Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
Hello Jelle,
I suggest reviewing the syntax located in the "Data management syntax files" section. Pay specific a...
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07:10 AM Support #1950: Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
I intend to use the variables: nkids_dv, nemp_dv, npens_dv, nue_dv, hhsize and xpgasy. I used pidp as identifier but ... Jelle De Schoenmaeker

08/16/2023

04:44 PM Support #1950: Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
Hello Jelle
How to construct a panel will depend on the research you are doing. Could you provide some insight int...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:23 PM Support #1958 (In Progress): Inquire about using 2011 Lower Super Output Areas data create Townsend Score and Carstairs Index
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
02:42 PM Support #1958 (Resolved): Inquire about using 2011 Lower Super Output Areas data create Townsend Score and Carstairs Index
Dear Sir/Madam,
Hope you are doing well.
My name is Wen Wang, a first year PhD student at ISER of University of...
Wen Wang
03:20 PM Support #1957: Depression diagnosis variable BHPS
Hello Michael,
Certainly, I understand. This seems feasible. I suggest you take a look at the variables hconda17 ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:17 AM Support #1957: Depression diagnosis variable BHPS
Hi Roberto,
Thank you for your answer.
Yes, the reason is, that I need a variable which represents windfall incom...
Michael Huber

08/15/2023

04:07 PM Support #1943 (Feedback): Weights
Hello Michael,
I'm about to share Pablo Cabrera's response, which I understand he replied directly to you as well...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:48 PM Support #1952: Parenting style weights
Hello Maria,
Your understanding is correct. To conduct your analysis, you'll need to utilize a suboptimal weight....
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:11 PM Support #1955: General election voting variables routing
Hello Albert,
This general election question was asked of respondents who were interviewed around the time of the...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:38 AM Support #1955: General election voting variables routing
Hi Roberto,
Many thanks for your reply. I see my mistake in the question, sorry!
Out of curiosity as well, if I...
Albert Ward
09:52 AM Support #1955 (Feedback): General election voting variables routing
Hello Albert,

The question (vote7: voted in last general election) may refer to the same general elections in mor...
Understanding Society User Support Team
12:53 PM Support #1957 (Feedback): Depression diagnosis variable BHPS
Hello Michael,
Do you have a specific reason for preferring BHPS? If not, I would recommend considering UKHLS. Th...
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:41 AM Support #1932 (Feedback): Caring Module Covid Study Wave 2
Hello Laurence
I can confirm we did not release variable carechange2 by itself, instead, the variable was processe...
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11:26 AM Support #1953: Inconsistencies in hcondna1 vs hconda01 and age told had health condition (starting age health condition)
Hi Alita,
thank you for the clarification.
I'm interested when a health condition (disease) has started, eg. as...
Alexander Labeit

08/14/2023

08:10 PM Support #1950: Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
Thanks for the help. I succeeded to merge the datasets and waves. Now i'm a bit struggling with putting the data in t... Jelle De Schoenmaeker
04:25 PM Support #1957 (Resolved): Depression diagnosis variable BHPS
Hello,
I am sorry, I think I selected the wrong "assignee".
I am working on my masters thesis on depression and...
Michael Huber
04:12 PM Support #1953 (Feedback): Inconsistencies in hcondna1 vs hconda01 and age told had health condition (starting age health condition)
Hi Alexander,
Response to your 1st question: The "mc" in the variable label for hconda01 (appears in Waves 4 & 6, ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
03:25 PM Support #1956 (Resolved): Variable for Depression diagnosis by expert
Hello,
I am working on my masters thesis on depression and planned to use the BHPS data set (w6-w18). There are qu...
Michael Huber
01:04 PM Support #1955 (In Progress): General election voting variables routing
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

08/13/2023

02:33 PM Support #1951: Zero longitudinal weights
Hi Roberto,
Thanks for your response. I integrate the survey design weights by extracting the longitudinal weight ...
Isabel Hopwood
12:55 PM Support #1955 (Resolved): General election voting variables routing
Hi,
I'm wondering about the question routing for vote7.
Just looking at Wave 9, I can see, as far as I understa...
Albert Ward

08/11/2023

11:53 AM Support #1951 (Feedback): Zero longitudinal weights
Hello Isabel,
Our team responsible for weights provided us with the following response
To give you a comprehensiv...
Understanding Society User Support Team
10:03 AM Support #1954 (In Progress): Absent from household
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

08/10/2023

02:17 PM Support #1954 (Resolved): Absent from household
I am working on a project looking at parental imprisonment. I was interested in the variable in each wave that indica... Katherine Bruce
12:22 PM Support #1952: Parenting style weights
Hello,
Thank you for your response.
My understanding is that parenting questions were asked when children aged ...
Maria Sifaki
10:27 AM Support #1953 (Resolved): Inconsistencies in hcondna1 vs hconda01 and age told had health condition (starting age health condition)
I work with health condition variables and try to calculate the starting age of a health condition, e.g. asthma.
T...
Alexander Labeit

08/09/2023

05:02 PM Support #1952 (Feedback): Parenting style weights
Hello Maria, if you are interested in newborn questions, please use w_chdnbXX_XX weights. If you are interested in ch... Understanding Society User Support Team
12:22 PM Support #1952 (Resolved): Parenting style weights
Hello,
I would like to confirm which weights are appropriate to use for the parenting style questions (in the PEAC...
Maria Sifaki
09:06 AM Support #1948 (Feedback): variables in secure data
Hello Tessa,
The dataset SN 8578 Understanding Society: Waves 5 and 11, 2013/14 and 2019/20: Special Licence Access...
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/08/2023

05:12 PM Support #1951 (In Progress): Zero longitudinal weights
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
09:33 AM Support #1951 (Resolved): Zero longitudinal weights
Hi,
I am running some panel data regressions examining the change in mental health outcomes when an individual moves...
Isabel Hopwood

08/07/2023

05:09 PM Support #1950 (Feedback): Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
Hello Jelle
Households are uniquely identified in each wave by w_hidp, a wave-specific variable with a different p...
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/06/2023

03:53 PM Support #1950 (Resolved): Merging w_hhresp for multiple waves
Hi, I'm currently trying to merge a couple of waves from w_hhresp into one dataset. I'm using stata to do this but wh... Jelle De Schoenmaeker

08/04/2023

11:23 AM Support #1909 (Resolved): Cognitive ability
Understanding Society User Support Team

08/03/2023

05:07 PM Support #1949: Merging two datasets
Hi Taiba,
The step 1 is fine, you correctly linked the hhresp to indresp. However, as you are using indresp which ...
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:10 PM Support #1949: Merging two datasets
Thank you for getting back to me. I have done a few steps so far.
I merged the individual and household data files...
Taiba Chaudhry
01:53 PM Support #1949 (Feedback): Merging two datasets
This happens because these are individual level files, a lot of individuals live together in the same household there... Understanding Society User Support Team
01:16 PM Support #1949: Merging two datasets
I am using Stata
Taiba Chaudhry
12:02 PM Support #1949: Merging two datasets
Hi Taiba,
Which statistical package do you use?
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support
Understanding Society User Support Team
11:14 AM Support #1949: Merging two datasets
I am trying to look at parental income and children health. By merging the two datasets I can see the children within... Taiba Chaudhry
11:08 AM Support #1949 (Resolved): Merging two datasets
Hi, I am currently trying to merge g.indresp and g.youth together. I have tried using the household identifier g.hidp... Taiba Chaudhry
09:56 AM Support #1945 (Feedback): Using the individual questionnaire
Hi Joshua,
You should use all individuals in the household.
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support
Understanding Society User Support Team
09:53 AM Support #1947 (Feedback): Information on pooled data
Dear Rosemary,
Please see "Pooling data from different waves for cross-sectional analysis" section in the user gui...
Understanding Society User Support Team
06:26 AM Support #1947 (Resolved): Information on pooled data
Hi,
can I kindly request for information on pooled data.
Kind regards
Rosemary
Rosemary Obi
09:50 AM Support #1948 (In Progress): variables in secure data
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
09:29 AM Support #1948 (Resolved): variables in secure data
I just wanted to understand in advance whether the USoC dataset that we are hoping to gain access to will have an ind... Tessa Wilkinson

08/01/2023

01:11 PM Support #1945 (Resolved): Using the individual questionnaire
When doing analysis at the individual level. Is it valid to do research using multiple members of the same household ... Joshua Parry
10:54 AM Support #1944 (Feedback): Sample size in regressions
Dear Michael,
If I understand your question right, this happens because each additional variable added to your mod...
Understanding Society User Support Team

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
Understanding Society User Support Team
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
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:21 PM Support #1693 (Resolved): household data
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:19 PM Support #1689 (Resolved): Matching Spouses data across waves
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:16 PM Support #1667 (Resolved): Youth self completion longitudinal weight with non-monotone response
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:16 PM Support #1687 (Resolved): Query about Likert variable in ca_indresp_w
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:16 PM Support #1631 (Resolved): Consistencies across gross and net income in BHPS and USoc
Understanding Society User Support Team
02:15 PM Support #1657 (Resolved): Identifying parents of under 5-year-olds
Understanding Society User Support Team
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
 

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