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From 12/27/2023 to 01/25/2024
01/25/2024
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11:26 AM Support #2036: Understanding Society - weights
- Valentina,
Thank you for your question. Have a look in this paper, questions 14-16 should be helpful:
https://www... -
10:27 AM Support #2040 (Resolved): Survey Weights
- Hi
I am conducting an analysis an dam struggling to determine the best weights to use and was hoping you could gi...
01/24/2024
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06:07 PM Support #2039: Household identifier in Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Waves
- Understanding Society User Support Team wrote in #note-1:
> Hello,
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> I am guessing you are referring to the va... -
04:46 PM Support #2039 (Feedback): Household identifier in Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Waves
- Hello,
I am guessing you are referring to the values of these variables in the cw_indresp files. Indeed, in most c... -
- I have a question about the use of the household identifiers (i_hidp, j_hidp, k_hidp) in the Understanding Society CO...
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- Hi Ted,
You can proceed in two steps:
1) linking the household level data to the individual level data for each... -
09:58 AM Support #2038 (Resolved): Merging family level and individual level data
- Hi,
I am looking to create a panel data set using the main survey from Understanding society. Most variables I nee... -
- Hello,
As per the BHPS User guide you should use the ypwght (https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/upl...
01/23/2024
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11:15 AM Support #2037 (Resolved): Weight variables for BHPS Youth Study
- Good morning,
I have downloaded the SPSS data files for *SN 6614*-Understanding Society: Waves 1-13, 2009-2022 and H...
01/22/2024
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12:50 PM Support #2036 (Feedback): Understanding Society - weights
- Good morning,
After reading the user guide and watch the short YouTube video, I am still confused on which are the... -
- Hello,
Do you mean the postcode of each household, or do you mean a list of all postcodes within each TTWA? If the...
01/20/2024
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09:22 AM Support #2035 (Resolved): Inquiry on the Travel to work area special license data
- Dear officer,
We wonder if data on postcodes of the travel to the work area are available.
Many thanks for you...
01/19/2024
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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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05:11 PM Support #2032: hidp missing from hhresp but present in income, egoalt, indresp files
- Dear Piotr,
Thank you, that is a nice, easy explanation.
Best wishes,
Chris -
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- Dear Chris,
This happens in households in which there were some individual interviews completed (thus there is a h...
01/18/2024
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08:03 PM Support #2033 (Resolved): Derived variable on income / earnings of each benefit unit
- Hi,
I notice that Understanding Society has a useful derived variable which splits households by their benefit uni... -
- Dear Ifraz,
Thank you for your question.
I am not sure what your first two questions relate to, but please note ... -
11:20 AM Support #2031 (Feedback): Cross-Sectional Weighting Questions.
- Hi, I'm currently working on a cross-sectional study across waves to examine the proportion of children who live in c...
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- Hi there,
I am taking values of _ficode_ from the *income* file, and want to attach them to the associated househ...
01/11/2024
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- Hello Yuliya,
It should be the same variable you mentioned. The Study introduces an improvement in the employment-...
01/10/2024
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- Hello Imogen,
The information you are looking for is not displayed on the website. We will add it as soon as possibl... -
- Good morning,
Hope you are well!
For the variables yphsc, yphsw and yphlf, data for Wave 1 is missing on the on... -
- Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a...
01/09/2024
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10:27 AM Support #2026: expenditure in UKHLS
- Hi Roberto,
Thanks very much for this information. Much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Jane. -
- Hello Jane,
Unfortunately, the UKHLS doesn’t have this type of questions. In addition to what you mentioned, ther...
01/08/2024
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06:37 PM Support #2027 (Resolved): jbft_dv variable
- Dear Team Member,
There is a derived variable 'jbft_dv' to identify full or part-time employment. In the last 13th... -
- Hello Matthias
We just want to let you know the release of the Calendar Year Dataset, 2021, as follows:
*SN 919... -
- Dear Roberto,
thank you for this information. I see there are questions relating to food, alcohol and energy in th... -
- Hello Jane,
Understanding Society asks questions about income and expenditure at the individual and household level,... -
- Hi,
I am new to Understanding Society/UKHLS but have used the Australian HILDA dataset, which is very similar. I gat... -
- Hello Jane,
The response is provided on Issue #2026
Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User Su... -
- Hi,
I am new to Understanding Society/UKHLS but have used the Australian HILDA dataset, which is very similar. I gat... -
- Hello Alexander
The data team is aware of this issue and will initiate the correction process.
Thank you for hi...
01/05/2024
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- Hello Alexander
Thank you for bringing this up. I’ll ask the data team if there is a reason for these labels and let...
01/04/2024
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- Hello Connor,
The response is provided on Issue #2023
Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User S... -
- Hello Connor,
Are you using "indresp" file? The total number of observations you showed differs from the current r... -
06:44 PM Support #2024 (Resolved): Death/dead in waves: dcsedfl_dv (Respondent reported as deceased) + dcsedw_dv (Wave respondent deceased) and value labels for waves
- Dear Understanding Society Team,
I want to use the information if a respondent has died in one of the waves. There... -
- Hello Freya
Here is the reply regarding xtreg
I can’t tell for sure from the information provided, but this see...
01/03/2024
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- Yes, that's correct.
Olena -
04:20 PM Support #1982: reference person weights
- Thank you Olena for your helpful response. The representative person is defined as a head of a household, therefore t...
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- Freya,
Yes, this sounds correct. You would need _xw weights, not _lw weights if you are just pooling cross-section... -
12:05 PM Support #2023 (Resolved): Is there a variable which indicates if a respondent is a single parent? Also how to count .00 as missing.
- Hi there,
I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 d... -
- Hi there,
I am currently analysing data from wave 13, though this analysis was originally carried out on wave 10 d...
01/02/2024
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08:38 PM Support #2019: Tailored Weighting Guidance
- Hi Olena,
Thank you for your swift response.
I have pooled data from all 13 waves using the 'append' command.... -
- Freya,
Thank you for your question. I am not sure you need a tailored weight for your analysis. It sounds like you... -
- Hello Joe
Here is the updated link
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/documentation/main-s... -
- Hello Kamil,
You're correct, there's no result when searching for gor_dv in the main Study. This might be due to the... -
- Hello John,
Please review the universe/routing of the question, which is located at the end of each question/variabl... -
- Margherita,
Thank you for your question. Yes, you should use the longitudinal weight from the last wave in your an... -
- Amelia,
Depends on your definition. Is the 'representative person' represents whole households? Or do you want to ...
12/28/2023
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04:57 PM Support #2021 (Resolved): Question about gor_dv variable
- Hi,
For some reason I cannot see the gor_dv variable in the mainstage variable search, maybe I am going crazy but ... -
11:32 AM Support #2020 (Resolved): Reasons for "-8 Inapplicable" response for life satisfaction variable "sclfsato"
- Within the first 12 waves of the main survey, a total of 27,645 observations do not include data on overall life sati...
12/27/2023
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- Apologies, the code I used in (1) is actually:
> xtreg fimnlabnet_dv scghq2_dv $controls if wave==1|2 [pw=b_indinus... -
- I'm investigating the effect of mental health on labour market earnings. My dependent variable is fimnlabnet_dv and m...
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- Thank you Olena for your response.
A further question is in studying such representative persons (one person per ...
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