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From 04/17/2024 to 05/16/2024
05/16/2024
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05:16 PM Support #2107: Query related to Understanding society data (UKHLS)
- Dear Piotr,
I forgot to inform you that I am looking for 45-64 years adults. Please use this filter too.
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- Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much for the quick response.
1. I have added filter with the variable "jbpen": (pen... -
04:41 PM Support #2107: Query related to Understanding society data (UKHLS)
- Dear Saadaf,
1. I checked the frequencies for jbpen and I couldn't find a drop in wave 6 (see the figure attached).
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- Dear Madam/Sir,
I hope this mail finds you well.
My name is Dr Saddaf Naaz Akhtar, a research fellow at the Uni... -
- 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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03:40 PM Support #2104: Dropped observations after specifying the complexity of the sample design
- Dear Team Member,
Thank you very much for a comprehensive reply! Generating new weights variable is an insight.
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05/14/2024
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04:01 PM Support #2106 (Feedback): Selecting appropriate weights and using different weights
- Hello! I am using data from the USoc to evaluate the impact of childcare on children's outcomes. In looking at the da...
05/12/2024
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02:20 PM Support #2105 (Feedback): How to link parents-children using income variable between BHPS and UKHLS datasets
- Dear Sir or Madam,
I am doing a research project on intergenerational income mobility by using BHPS and UKHLS data...
05/09/2024
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- The number of observations for estimations using weights and without are different as the number of cases with 0 weig...
05/08/2024
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- Dear Team Member,
I am using 1-13 waves pooled together (undresp files), treating the merged dataset as cross-sect...
05/07/2024
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11:34 AM Support #2006: Longitudinal analysis using calendar year?
- Marina,
I think it will be much clearer once you start setting up your data.
Our data has issue_months 1-24. This... -
- Michael,
Thank you for your question and sending us the graph.
Our dataset is not directly comparable to ONS, ...
05/03/2024
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- Hello Michael,
UKHLS has recently released a partnership history file, which includes details about the start and... -
05:27 PM Support #2102 (Feedback): Partnership
- Hi, I'm doing some analysis on partnerships using the USOC data and I had a couple of questions I was hoping you coul...
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04:42 PM Support #2006: Longitudinal analysis using calendar year?
- Massive thanks for all of your help! The materials you sent me appear to be very useful and will read them in detail....
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- Marina,
Yes, it is usually 3 waves to create one calendar year. Read more here: question 13 https://www.understand... -
- Hi Olena,
Many thanks for your very useful reply. May I ask two follow-up questions:
1) I was under the impress... -
- Hello Michael
Our remit is to address questions related to the survey, its details, and the datasets including dat... -
11:06 AM Support #2101 (Feedback): Time variant and invariant variables using general UKHLS and Covid-19 survey
- Hi there,
I was wondering if you could provide some advice about how to treat the Covid-19 survey variables in co...
05/01/2024
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- Hello Lisa
The Study only includes variable "unisub1 - most preferred subject at university" for respondents aged 16... -
- Hello Pat
Understanding Society can be linked to geographical data. The Study provides a range of geographical ident...
04/30/2024
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11:29 PM Support #2100 (Feedback): Rural local authority data
- Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope this email finds you well.
First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Pa... -
- Hello Marina
Some households completed enumeration and at least one individual interview but did not respond to th...
04/29/2024
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- Hello,
I wish to perform some longitudinal analysis and I aim to append waves 9-13 from UKHLS. Before appending th... -
- Hello Mel
You are correct on both weights you need for your analysis. The identifier “ub” changes to “ui” from Wave ... -
02:45 PM Support #2098 (Feedback): Help with weighting
- Hi, I would like to check whether I have understood the weighting guidance correctly. Firstly, I am using individual ...
04/26/2024
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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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11:30 AM Support #2097 (Feedback): Variable availablility
- Can you confirm if it is possible to get the subject/programme of degree studied for people with a degree in the Unde...
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- Hello Shiyu
I recommend reviewing the "UKHLS COVID-19 user guide":https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documenta... -
10:55 AM Support #2096 (Feedback): hhincome variable in covid wave
- Hi there,
I am currently using both the main survey and the covid 19 wave to conduct some analysis, and I would like...
04/25/2024
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- Hello Sam
Here is the Income team feedback:
The interpretation of your first paragraph is exactly right ie. ... -
09:56 AM Support #2092: Calculation of mortgage interest payments
- Thanks for this information Roberto.
Could I clarify what exactly you mean by estimating interest "based on a sta...
04/24/2024
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11:29 AM Support #2078: Choosing the correct group and sample for weight
- Ah, I see. That makes sense thanks.
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- BHPS never provided self-completion weights, so we kept with that tradition. But sample size would be very small by n...
04/23/2024
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- Hello Sam,
The income team is currently undertaking a significant review of the calculation of housing costs and ... -
- Thank you for the fast response. That's helpful to know, but it would be good if you could ask the Income Team for fu...
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- Thanks again. One final question: I thought I might need these weights: I_indsc91_lw and I_indsc01_lw, but it seems t...
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- Albert,
So, all you mentioned in num4 message messages is correct, but if you use more than one wave you have to u...
04/22/2024
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- That was worded poorly: what I meant was that, I assume that if I am matching variables from previous waves and then ...
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- Hello Leo,
Consider exploring the variable "nchild_dv," which indicates the number of own children in the household,... -
- Hi Piotr,
That's great thanks!
04/19/2024
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- Hi Albert,
M/pacob are asked in the adult questionnaire, so the be biggest group in xwavedat for whom these are m... -
- Hi,
I'm just wondering why there are missing values for macob/pacob in the xwavedat file? Is there something I'm n... -
04:56 PM Support #2095 (Feedback): parent children variable
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I cannot seem to find a variable that simply states if the respondent has children (=is a parent) or not. I... -
- Hi Felicity,
The reasons for the missing data you're observing are quite complex.
First, you need to check the w... -
- Isabelle,
I suggest you start with wave 6 weight as it includes IEMB sample that has many immigrants and model fro... -
08:55 AM Support #2083: Creating a tailored longitudinal weight for unbalanced panel data
- Hi Olena!
To my understanding, the multilevel model can handle missingness under the assumption that its missing a... -
- Hi Laura,
Below the answers from our data access expert:
1. You will need two applications. One for the Sec...
04/18/2024
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11:07 PM Support #2093 (Feedback): voteeuref variable
- Hello,
For Wave 10,11 and 12, why does the variable "voteeuref" have such a high proportion of inapplicable and mi... -
07:34 PM Support #2090: Overcrowding measure in USoc
- Hi Piotr,
This is very helpful, thank you!
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- Hi Michaela,
Age and sex of all members of the household is recorded in in the indall file for each wave. You may ... -
- Dear Piotr,
Thanks so much for your response. In overcrowding measures, it is often needed to also know the exact ... -
- Hi Sam,
You can find some information on how this variable is derived in the Derived Income Variables section of t... -
- Hello,
I am interested in working out mortgage interest payments of households with mortgages in USoc. I see there...
04/17/2024
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- Dear Michaela,
There is no derived measure of overcrowding but you can try to create one yourself using the follow... -
- Dear Understanding Society team,
I was wondering whether there are any resources/code available that would help me... -
- Sorry, a final question: with regards to cross-sectional weights, if I am matching questions BHPS wave 9 to a ukhls w...
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- Thanks for this! Yes, the earliest wave at least is BHPS wave 9. So the prefix is based on the final wave for longitu...
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- Albert,
Additionally, this can answer many of your questions:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/u... -
- Joe,
In any software, in including R, you would just need a function for running a logistic regression in order to... -
- Fran Reah,
Thank you for your question. Question 13 here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/upload... -
- Isabelle,
My understanding is that while your model allows for missingness, it does not correct for it. Is this ri... -
- Michael,
You can use wave 9 of the mainstage with any Covid data without additional adjustment. Once you want to u...
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