Home > Data and documentation > Main Survey > Variables

Mainstage Variable

ypsdqa

Behaviour: considerate

Datafile

youth

Index term

Children

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	11	0.77%
Not true	1	19	1.32%
Somewhat true	2	360	25.09%
Certainly true	3	1045	72.82%
	Total	1435	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	12	0.68%
Not true	1	12	0.68%
Somewhat true	2	435	24.63%
Certainly true	3	1307	74.01%
	Total	1766	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	8	0.38%
Not true	1	16	0.76%
Somewhat true	2	506	24.1%
Certainly true	3	1570	74.76%
	Total	2100	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	30	1.06%
Not true	1	21	0.74%
Somewhat true	2	692	24.53%
Certainly true	3	2078	73.66%
	Total	2821	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	20	0.55%
Not true	1	30	0.83%
Somewhat true	2	1030	28.37%
Certainly true	3	2550	70.25%
	Total	3630	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	129	3.53%
not true	1	33	0.9%
somewhat true	2	996	27.25%
certainly true	3	2497	68.32%
	Total	3655	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	27	0.61%
not true	1	49	1.11%
somewhat true	2	1273	28.76%
certainly true	3	3078	69.53%
	Total	4427	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	40	0.82%
not true	1	56	1.14%
somewhat true	2	1631	33.29%
certainly true	3	3172	64.75%
	Total	4899	100.0%

Code creator
0

Create your own Stata code to extract data from the main end user licence Understanding Society dataset. Find out more

Saved variables

What else is Understanding Society doing?

A family celebrating

Understanding Society Wave 15

The latest wave of UKHLS is now available from the UK Data Service

Ariel view of a UK town

Understanding Society Wave 15 – what can data users expect?

The latest wave of data is out, so what’s included and what’s changed in this release?

Sushi Rolls not Gender Roles by Jeanne Menjoulet

Understanding Society used for Gender Equality Index

New tool measures men’s and women’s socioeconomic outcomes across UK

Photo of talk at an Understanding Society conference

Understanding Society Biosocial Conference 2026: combining biological and social data

A call for abstracts is now open - present your research at our Biosocial Conference

Email newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter

ESRC Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex

The Economic and Social Research Council is the primary funder of the study
The Study is led by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.