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From 08/03/2023 to 09/01/2023
09/01/2023
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04:41 PM Support #1963: Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
- Hi Piotr,
Thanks for your quick reply. Information below:
1) the scale of the problem - for how many households thi... -
04:25 PM Support #1963 (In Progress): Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
- Hi Richard,
Would you be able to provide some more details, please? To investigate this would be helpful to know:
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- My path forward is probably to impute the LSOA derived values to maintain it being nationally representative but I wa...
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- Hello,
I have been granted a special license to access the hidp LSOA codes. I am conducting a nationally represent... -
03:56 PM Support #1964 (Resolved): Universe for mglife and other home-ownership related questions
- Hello,
My question concerns the universe for the following home-ownership related variables viz. mglife, hsval, h... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/31/2023
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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...
08/25/2023
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- The response can be found in issue #1957 Depression Diagnosis variable in BHPS.
08/24/2023
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- Hello Alexander,
For the continuing sample members variable hcondn identify newly diagnosed conditions for waves ...
08/22/2023
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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... -
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- Hello Isabel,
Our team responsible for weights provided us with the following response.
The R survey package c...
08/21/2023
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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... -
- Hello Albert,
You can review the questionnaire in the questionnaire module section at https://www.understandingso... -
- Hello Clara
I recommend exploring our sections “Running analysis on a calendar year or month” and “Pooling data fr...
08/18/2023
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- Dear Thomas,
Some further information
2) As I mentioned earlier, the Personal Pensions module was moved to wav... -
- Hello Katherine
The paper you mentioned used the variable clstat (leavers abode) and according to our data team, t... -
- Hello Wen,
UKHLS has the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) as a variable in the EUL version. These variables (I...
08/17/2023
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Hi,
I have a couple of questions about the EU referendum questions in the survey:
1. The variable j_euref (wave... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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12:26 PM Support #1959 (Resolved): pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
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I have read item 12 on the FAQ titled "Can I pool data from different waves for cross-sectional analysis?" ... -
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- Hello Jelle,
I suggest reviewing the syntax located in the "Data management syntax files" section. Pay specific a... -
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 ...
08/16/2023
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- Hello Jelle
How to construct a panel will depend on the research you are doing. Could you provide some insight int... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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... -
- Hello Michael,
Certainly, I understand. This seems feasible. I suggest you take a look at the variables hconda17 ... -
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...
08/15/2023
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- Hello Michael,
I'm about to share Pablo Cabrera's response, which I understand he replied directly to you as well... -
- Hello Maria,
Your understanding is correct. To conduct your analysis, you'll need to utilize a suboptimal weight.... -
- Hello Albert,
This general election question was asked of respondents who were interviewed around the time of the... -
- Hi Roberto,
Many thanks for your reply. I see my mistake in the question, sorry!
Out of curiosity as well, if I... -
- Hello Albert,
The question (vote7: voted in last general election) may refer to the same general elections in mor... -
- Hello Michael,
Do you have a specific reason for preferring BHPS? If not, I would recommend considering UKHLS. Th... -
- Hello Laurence
I can confirm we did not release variable carechange2 by itself, instead, the variable was processe... -
- Hi Alita,
thank you for the clarification.
I'm interested when a health condition (disease) has started, eg. as...
08/14/2023
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- Thanks for the help. I succeeded to merge the datasets and waves. Now i'm a bit struggling with putting the data in t...
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- Hello,
I am sorry, I think I selected the wrong "assignee".
I am working on my masters thesis on depression and... -
- Hi Alexander,
Response to your 1st question: The "mc" in the variable label for hconda01 (appears in Waves 4 & 6, ... -
- Hello,
I am working on my masters thesis on depression and planned to use the BHPS data set (w6-w18). There are qu... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/13/2023
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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 ... -
- Hi,
I'm wondering about the question routing for vote7.
Just looking at Wave 9, I can see, as far as I understa...
08/11/2023
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- Hello Isabel,
Our team responsible for weights provided us with the following response
To give you a comprehensiv... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
08/10/2023
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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...
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12:22 PM Support #1952: Parenting style weights
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Thank you for your response.
My understanding is that parenting questions were asked when children aged ... -
- I work with health condition variables and try to calculate the starting age of a health condition, e.g. asthma.
T...
08/09/2023
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- Hello Maria, if you are interested in newborn questions, please use w_chdnbXX_XX weights. If you are interested in ch...
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- Hello,
I would like to confirm which weights are appropriate to use for the parenting style questions (in the PEAC... -
- Hello Tessa,
The dataset SN 8578 Understanding Society: Waves 5 and 11, 2013/14 and 2019/20: Special Licence Access...
08/08/2023
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- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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- Hi,
I am running some panel data regressions examining the change in mental health outcomes when an individual moves...
08/07/2023
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- Hello Jelle
Households are uniquely identified in each wave by w_hidp, a wave-specific variable with a different p...
08/06/2023
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- 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...
08/04/2023
08/03/2023
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- Hi Taiba,
The step 1 is fine, you correctly linked the hhresp to indresp. However, as you are using indresp which ... -
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... -
- This happens because these are individual level files, a lot of individuals live together in the same household there...
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- I am using Stata
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- Hi Taiba,
Which statistical package do you use?
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support -
- I am trying to look at parental income and children health. By merging the two datasets I can see the children within...
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- Hi, I am currently trying to merge g.indresp and g.youth together. I have tried using the household identifier g.hidp...
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- Hi Joshua,
You should use all individuals in the household.
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support -
- Dear Rosemary,
Please see "Pooling data from different waves for cross-sectional analysis" section in the user gui... -
06:26 AM Support #1947 (Resolved): Information on pooled data
- Hi,
can I kindly request for information on pooled data.
Kind regards
Rosemary -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
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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...
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