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From 06/03/2024 to 07/02/2024
07/02/2024
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09:29 AM Support #2126 (Feedback): merging data files
- Hello,
I recommend checking our Introduction to Understanding Society Moodle course: https://open.essex.ac.uk/enro...
07/01/2024
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06:50 PM Support #2126 (Feedback): merging data files
- Hello,
I am using R for my work, and I am trying to understand how to merge data files (indresp, hhresp, newborn) ... -
11:58 AM Support #2125: UKHLS pooled OLS weights
- Emma,
You aren't using multilevel model. Your set up is fine as it is, and you don't need to include pidp in this ...
06/28/2024
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02:48 PM Support #2124: Household location information
- Thank you Roberto for your helpful reply.
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- Dear Xiaolun,
UKHLS currently does not release postcodes. The list of available geographical identifiers can be fo... -
02:13 PM Support #2125: UKHLS pooled OLS weights
- Hi Olena,
Thank you very much for your response.
In regard to including pidp as a second level after psu in mul... -
- Emma,
Thank you for your questions. The answers to all of your questions are yes. A few additional notes.
You don...
06/27/2024
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- Dear UKHLS team,
I am currently working on a study where I am looking at the impact of perceived neighbourhood so... -
- Hello,
Hope all is well. Could I ask a question on whether the location information (e.g., postcode grid reference...
06/21/2024
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01:21 PM Support #2117: Household members in COVID-19 collection
- Dear Piotr,
Thank you very much for your feedback, this is now clear.
All the best,
Laura -
- Hello Chiara,
The Pregnancy and Early Childhood (PEACH) data file is a comprehensive cross-wave file that consolid...
06/19/2024
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04:48 PM Support #2123: Data on child disability
- Thank you, that is really helpful. But then, what is the difference between PEACH and the "self completion child deve...
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- Hello Chiara,
There are some variables you might want to explore about children's health. Additionally, the varia... -
- Good morning.
I am a research assistant at Bocconi University in Italy and I am currently working on several proje... -
09:27 AM Support #2121: Non-Binary Gender Controls
- Thank you for the confirmation and information Piotr, it is most helpful.
Best wishes,
Damien.
06/18/2024
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- Hello Emma,
Given that two-level models, where the higher level corresponds to clusters in the sample design, are ...
06/17/2024
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04:04 PM Support #2122: W_hidp not available with variable w_seiss_reciept_dv
- I've found the issue and the code works now! Feel free to disregard the above
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- Hello,
I have encountered a problem in Stata when using the w_hidp variable. I am currently merging household and...
06/14/2024
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- Dear Damien,
The first time these questions were asked was in wave 12 so there is no earlier data. The questions a...
06/13/2024
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- Hi. I am researching the mental health of self employed people and I note that in wave 12 of the survey there is a v...
06/12/2024
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- Hello,
1) The number of entries in each geography file (LSOA 11 in this instance) should be the number of matches ... -
- Amy,
Thank you. You have two options. You could either use one of our _lw weights which would be from the last wav... -
12:56 PM Support #2115: Help with weights for longitudinal analysis
Hi Olena,
Analysis is at the person level. We are looking at GHQ score over time in relation to arthritis dia...-
- Amy,
What is your level of analysis? Is it people? And diagnosis etc. are their attributes? Or are you analysing a...
06/11/2024
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- Thanks Olena,
The population of interest is anyone with a new diagnosis of arthritis at some point between 2009 a... -
- Amy,
Thank you for your question. Read questions 14-16 here, which should help you choose the weight you need:
ht... -
- Giovanni,
No, you can't use _xw weights split for just some of the samples as they are created to represent the po...
06/07/2024
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- Dear Lex,
I can confirm that I can see the same discrepancies. I have contacted our geodata team to investigate.
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- Dear Laura,
For waves 1-2 of the Covid-19 survey linking this from the mainstage data (for different people the ne... -
- Dear Luis,
I am afraid we don't release such derived variables, except for the quintiles of the Index of Multiple ... -
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- Hello,
It is true that UKHLS data is very complex, due to the complexity of many areas of social life and people's... -
07:56 AM Support #2110: Weights invalid stset
- Good morning Olena,
thank you very much. Since my panel is unbalanced, would it make sense to use the three availabl...
06/06/2024
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05:59 PM Support #2120 (Feedback): Employment rates at country or county level
- Dear members of the technical support staff of Understanding Society,
May I ask if, among the derived variables, t... -
- Hi there,
I'm using UKHLS panel data for my MSc Behavioural Science dissertation in which I am trying to explore ...
06/05/2024
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12:55 PM Support #2118 (Feedback): Geographical data linkage issue at LSOA11 level
This issue is about linking understanding society at the LSOA11-level.
Question
Until wave k, the number of geo...-
- Good morning,
I am trying to reconstruct the household members' relationships in the COVID-19 study. While the CO...
06/04/2024
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06:11 PM Support #2116 (Feedback): How to select variables to create legacy benefit variables
- I want to create a variable that indicates whether an individual received legacy benefits. Legacy benefits include si...
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- I was wondering if you could advise on the correct weights that I should use for an analysis. I have identified arthr...
06/03/2024
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- Giovanni,
Survival analysis is unique because it allows for nonresponse correction within the analysis (through tr...
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