Activity
From 08/28/2023 to 09/26/2023
09/26/2023
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03:30 PM Support #1974: Other Arthritis and Other Cancer in j_hcondno* Variables
- Hello Laurence
I can confirm that when respondents report having conditions categorized as "other," such as 25 for... -
- Hello Alvertos,
The approach you should take depends on the specific analysis you intend to conduct. However, ass... -
- Hello Albert,
Starting from Wave 7 and continuing through Wave 12, the question regarding the party voted for in the... -
12:03 PM Support #1959: pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
- Clara,
Yes, this sounds correct. You don't need to rescale in your situation if you are only analysing one calenda...
09/25/2023
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- Hello Ilona,
Data from various waves can be merged for cross-sectional analysis, given that each of the 24 monthly... -
- Hello Yushi,
Your approach is correct. The variable "natural mother" indeed refers to the birth mother, as you co... -
11:24 AM Support #1977 (Resolved): Birth and non-birth parents
- Dear Understanding Society team,
We're currently using wave 11 data and want to distinguish birth and non-birth pa...
09/21/2023
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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...
09/20/2023
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04:31 PM Support #1976 (Resolved): Combing specific variables from two waves for cross-sectional analysis
- Hi there,
I had a quick question: I am using household and individual-level wave 6 data for cross-sectional analysis...
09/19/2023
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- Caitlin,
If you think about sex as a stable characteristic that does not change, then I am not sure that pooling i... -
- 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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10:55 AM Support #1975 (Resolved): Weights - Cross-sectional Analysis on LAD level
- Good morning,
Using the main survey, I aim to run a cross-sectional analysis on a number of variables to analyse ... -
11:24 AM Support #1959: pooled analysis for one calendar year from 3 waves?
- Dear Roberto and Olena,
Thank you for your replies. Can I check I have understood it correctly? Then, to run a cro...
09/18/2023
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02:52 PM Support #1974: Other Arthritis and Other Cancer in j_hcondno* Variables
- Hi Alita,
Thanks for sharing the FAQs. I read over the document but I think my problem still remains. According to t... -
12:03 PM Support #1971: vote8 for waves 3 through 6
- Hi,
Thanks for this. So, as I understand, there is no consistent data on vote choice in the survey until wave 7?
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- Dear Albert,
In wave 2 these questions were asked differently than it was done later in the study, that is, only i... -
- Dear Georgina,
In addition to our previous answer, we also encourage our users to cite the data itself. Depending on... -
09/17/2023
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- Hi Laurence,
I am sharing the FAQ for the health conditions questions which we hope will clarify this issue (speci... -
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
I have noticed that in Wave 10, continuing sample members who have reported having ...
09/15/2023
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- Dear Alexander,
1) the universe condition says ff_ivlolw <> 1 and ff_everint <> 1 which means that proxies from th... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
09/14/2023
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- Clara,
To answer your question, yes, you should use all interviews from the calendar year of interest. And yes, th... -
01:54 PM Support #1973: Family matrix
- Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much for your reply. It is very informative indeed. I have checked the egoalt files but... -
- Maria,
Thank you. I suggest you select a weight of a parent who gave the response (indin??_?w) and give it to the ...
09/13/2023
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- Dear Alexander,
Thank you for letting us know. Would you be able to include any syntax related to this issue? It w... -
11:08 AM Support #1972 (Resolved): Asking health conditions (hcond*) and first apperance
- Almost all respondents are asked about their health conditions (hcond*) when it is their first appearance in the pane...
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- Dear Alvertos,
Have you considered using the w_relationship_dv variable available in w_egoalt files? https://www.u... -
- Dear all,
My name is Alvertos Konstantinis, and I am a PhD researcher at the University of Groningen, Faculty of S...
09/12/2023
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- Hi,
I previously asked a question about this (#1955) but wasn't able to clear it up completely.
I was wondering...
09/08/2023
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04:13 PM Support #1952: Parenting style weights
- Hi,
There’s a response from both parents (if applicable). I can figure out who is who from their ids.
Best wish... -
- Maria,
Don't use the development question from the age of 8 - it won't be correct.
There are two ways of creatin...
09/07/2023
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- Dear Zahra,
Please check our pooling guidance and see if this answers your question. If it doesn't, we are happy to ... -
- Zahra,
Yes, UKHLS represents people and households cross-sectionally at each wave, and people longitudinally over ... -
- Dear Sanem,
I am afraid we do not make the raw dat files available to users.
Best wishes,
UKHLS User Support -
- Dear Tom,
We follow the methodology and procedure proposed by the OECD for their OECD-modified scale: "This scale,...
09/06/2023
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10:35 AM Support #1968 (Resolved): Is it possible to have access to the raw methylation data?
- I received access for the dataset EGAD00010001521 through the Sanger Institute (link to the dataset: https://ega-arch...
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- Hello,
Thanks a lot for your previous message.
Regarding my query, I was wondering if the weighting expert can pr...
09/05/2023
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11:47 PM Support #1967 (Resolved): Derived OECD equivalience scale variable which matches scale used to calculate relative poverty
- Good afternoon,
Apologies but I have a (hopefully quick) query. I notice that the OECD equivalence scale variable ... -
07:24 PM Support #1966 (Resolved): cross-sectional analysis
- I am little confused since I have read a lot about cross-sectional research using the understanding society data: sin...
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03:04 PM Support #1963: Missing LSOA for hidp across waves
- Hi Piotr,
Thanks very much for clearing that up and solving it so quickly, it makes sense.
This could be somet... -
- Hi Richard,
I checked this with the team generating the LSOA files.
The process for each wave works on the bas... -
- Hi,
Please cite it as Understanding Society and follow the standard academic citation rules.
Best wishes,
UKHL...
09/04/2023
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- Thank you. I'll investigate this further.
Best wishes,
Piotr -
- Hi Piotr,
Attached is the hidp*wave combinations with missing LSOA.
All the best,
Richard -
- Hi Richard,
Thank you for providing the information. Regarding 3), as hidp is a wave specific variable, I'd need t... -
- Hi Thomas,
1) I am assuming you're asking about the scsf1 question. That is a function of the gradual increase of ... -
04:36 PM Support #1965 (Resolved): citing the website
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I have a question about citing information from your website that is not from the User Guide for which I ha... -
- Hi Vikram,
The issue arises because the Universe syntax doesn't match the text description of this Universe. For ...
09/03/2023
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- Hi Olena,
I just wanted to follow up on the above, about creating a psnenub_xd weight.
Many thanks.
Best wishe... -
- Dear Roberto,
Thank you for explaining this - very helpful!
Best wishes,
Laurence Rowley-Abel
09/01/2023
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- Hi Piotr,
Thanks for your quick reply. Information below:
1) the scale of the problem - for how many households thi... -
- 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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- Good evening,
I have some brief queries about above variables.
By way of background (and mostly just to provi...
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