Understanding Society User Support

08/31/2023

05:40 PM Support #1962 (Resolved): Early-wave proxy/inapplicables for the physical and mental health (sf / scsf) variables and sources for the derived scales (sf12mcs_dv)

Good evening,
I have some brief queries about above variables.
By way of background (and mostly just to provi... Thomas Stephens

08/25/2023

10:27 AM Support #1956 (Resolved): Variable for Depression diagnosis by expert

The response can be found in issue #1957 Depression Diagnosis variable in BHPS. Understanding Society User Support Team

08/24/2023

06:32 PM Support #1961 (Feedback): Newly diagosed health conditions in UKHLS wave 10

Hello Alexander,
For the continuing sample members variable hcondn identify newly diagnosed conditions for waves ... Understanding Society User Support Team

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

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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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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... Understanding Society User Support Team

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

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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