Understanding Society: The UK Longitudinal Household Study
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- Office of the First Minister NI (Co-funder)
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural (Co-funder)
- Department for Transport (Co-funder)
- Scottish Government (Co-funder)
- Dept for Children Schools and Families (Co-funder)
- Welsh Government (Co-funder)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Co-funder)
- Department for Work and Pensions (Co-funder)
Publications
Lynn, Peter
(2009)
Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys
Lynn, Peter
(2009)
Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys
McFall SL
(2009)
What is needed for informed decisions about prostate cancer screening: perspectives of African-American and Hispanic men.
in Health education research
Peter Lynn (author)
(1900)
Mixed or muddled : combining survey modes in the 21st century
Peter Lynn (author)
(1900)
A methodological research agenda for longitudinal surveys
Peter Lynn (author)
(1900)
Methodological research for longitudinal surveys
Peter Lynn (author)
(1900)
Methods to reduce attrition on longitudinal surveys : an experiment
Platt L
(2009)
Social Activity, Social Isolation and Ethnicity
in The Sociological Review
Rabe B
(2010)
Residential Mobility, Quality of Neighbourhood and Life Course Events
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Rabe B
(2009)
Dual-earner migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection
in Journal of Population Economics
Salverda, Wiemer; Nolan, Brian; Smeeding, Timothy M.
(2009)
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality
Schraudenbach A
(2009)
Contraceptive use and contraception type in women by body mass index category.
in Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Stephen Jenkins (author)
(1900)
The dynamics of social assistance receipt : measurement and modelling issues, with an application to Britain
Stephen Pudney (author)
(2008)
The dynamics of illicit behaviour : analysis of initiation trajectories
Wenz A
(2021)
Language Proficiency Among Respondents: Implications for Data Quality in a Longitudinal Face-To-Face Survey
in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
| Title | Understanding society : wave 1, 2009-2010 |
| Description | Understanding Society, or the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex. The survey research organisation is National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and in Northern Ireland, the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). As a multi-topic household survey, the purpose of Understanding Society is to understand social and economic change in Britain at the household and individual levels. It is anticipated that over time the study will permit examination of short- and long-term effects of social and economic change, including policy interventions, on the general well-being of the UK population. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, work, financial resources, and health. Further information about the survey may be found in the documentation, and on the Understanding Society web site. The study is an annual survey of each adult member of a nationally representative sample. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave. If individuals leave their household, all adult members of their new household are interviewed. Each wave is collected over 24 months, such that the first wave of data collection started in January 2009 and finished in January 2011. Data collection takes place using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6614 |
| Title | Understanding society : wave 1, year 1, 2009 : secure data service access, national grid reference (easting, northing, OSGRDIND) |
| Description | Understanding Society, or the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex. The survey research organisation is National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and in Northern Ireland, the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). As a multi-topic household survey, the purpose of Understanding Society is to understand social and economic change in Britain at the household and individual levels. It is anticipated that over time the study will permit examination of short- and long-term effects of social and economic change, including policy interventions, on the general well-being of the UK population. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, work, financial resources, and health. Further information about the survey may be found in the documentation, and on the Understanding Society web site. The study is an annual survey of each adult member of a nationally representative sample. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave. If individuals leave their household, all adult members of their new household are interviewed. Each wave is collected over 24 months, such that the first wave of data collection started in January 2009 and will finish in December 2011. Data collection takes place using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6676 |
| Description | Ask a silly question - and get a silly answer? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | HILDA conference, Melbourne. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/conf/hildaconf2009/HILDA%20Web%20Presentations/Session%208/Pudney,... |
| Description | Panel data analysis of microdata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture as part of Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.essex.ac.uk/summerschool/courses/session1/1i.html |