Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey Waves 13-15

Description	Understanding Society is an infrastructure project, and we do not necessarily identify all research or impact generated by researchers using the data. Below are the impacts we have identified published in 2023 and 2024. New policy developments - 2023 Informing policy implementation/practice, improvements to existing policy - 2023 1. The Department for Education used Understanding Society extensively in its Review of the evidence on numeracy skills interventions for adults, 26 January 2023 2. Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes Ipsos Mori report Youth Investment Fund Phase 2: Impact evaluation feasibility study, which recommends Understanding Society as a data source for evaluation, 9 February 2023 3. House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee publishes Understanding Society's written evidence as part of its inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living, 7 March 2023 4. Public Health Scotland cited research using Understanding Society in its COVID-19, physical activity, inequalities evidence review, 14 March 2023 5. The Health and Social Care Select Committee published evidence submitted to its Prevention in health and social care inquiry submitted by Dr Nicola Byrom which cited research using Understanding Society, 16 March 2023 6. The Department for Business and Trade cited research it had commissioned using Understanding Society in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2022 to 2023, 16 March 2023 7. Public Health Scotland uses Understanding Society in The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland and England, 21 March 2023 8. House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published evidence from UCL Social Biobehavioural Research Group, which mentions Understanding Society as a source, as part of its inquiry into Prevention in health and social care, 22 March 2023 9. Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society in Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2023, 23 March 2023 10. The Commons Education Select Committee published evidence submitted to its inquiry into Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils from Place2Be, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, which mentions Understanding Society, 28 March 2023 11. Baroness Neville-Rolfe refers to Understanding Society data on unpaid carers in her State Pension age Independent Review 2022: final report for the Department for Work and Pensions, 30 March 2023 12. House of Commons Library uses our data in chapter 5 (Poverty dynamics: persistent poverty and entering and exiting poverty) of its Poverty in the UK: Statistics research briefing, 6 April 2023 13. Scottish Government cites research using Understanding Society (Adult learning and life satisfaction, What Works Wellbeing, 2018; Learning ladders: adult training and progression out of low pay, Social Mobility Commission, 2020) in Adult lifetime skills: a literature review, 25 April 2023 14. House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee publishes evidence from CLOSER which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to the Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 inquiry, 2 May 2023 15. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport discusses Understanding Society as a data source and cites research using our data in its Grassroots Sport Facilities Investment Programme: impact evaluation, 11 May 2023 16. The Work and Pensions Committee published evidence from the Royal National Institute for the Blind which cited research using Understanding Society, which was submitted to the committee's inquiry into benefit levels in the UK, 24 May 2023 17. The Committee also published evidence from the Fabian Society to the same inquiry, which also cites research using our data, 24 May 2023 18. The Committee also published evidence from Public Health Scotland which recommended Understanding Society as a data source on persistent poverty, 24 May 2023 19. House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published our evidence as part of its inquiry into outdoor and indoor air quality targets, 19 June 2023 20. House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee publishes Understanding Society evidence as part of its inquiry into digital exclusion, and mentions our data in its final report, 29 June 2023 21. Department for Business and Trade uses research based on our data in its Shared Parental Leave (SPL) evaluation report, 29 June 2023 22. Understanding Society used in Compass/Northumbria University report, Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure, 10 July 2023 23. House of Commons Education Committee publishes our evidence to its inquiry into Teacher recruitment, training and retention, 11 July 2023 24. Northern Ireland's Department for the Economy uses Understanding Society in its econometric analysis for its report The impact of parental leave policies on labour market outcomes, 17 July 2023 25. The House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee published UK Research & Innovation's evidence to its Transforming the UK's Evidence Base inquiry, mentioning the value of Understanding Society and "that investments into survey data collections still offer value for money", 5 September 2023 26. The Committee also published Understanding Society's own submission to the inquiry, 5 September 2023 27. The Energy Security and Net Zero Committee published evidence from Scope which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to its Preparing for the winter inquiry, 8 September 2023 28. The Social Mobility Commission uses Understanding Society data in its State of the Nation 2023: People and Places policy paper, 12 September 2023 29. The UK Health Security Agency mentions research using Understanding Society in its Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in the UK: a rapid mapping review - supplementary material, 28 September 2023 30. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation used our data in its Poverty in Scotland 2023 report, 2 October 2023 31. The House of Commons Education Select Committee published our evidence submitted to its inquiry, Screen time: impacts on education and wellbeing, 17 October 2023 32. HoC Education Select Committee also published evidence from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER, University of Essex) which mentioned research using our data, 24 October 2023 33. HoC Education Select Committee also published evidence from the Manchester Institute of Education which mentions research using our data, 24 October 2023 34. HoC Education Select Committee also published evidence from CLOSER which mentioned research using our data, 8 November 2023 35. Department for Culture, Media and Sport uses research using Understanding Society in its research and analysis, Evaluation of Sport Survival Package (see annexes, pp96-7), 17 November 2023 36. Welsh Government uses our COVID-19 Survey in its Impact of COVID-19 protections in Wales report, 29 November 2023 37. Understanding Society was mentioned in the House of Commons library's briefing, Loneliness and isolation in elderly and vulnerable people, 4 December 2023 38. The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published evidence from the Fatherhood Institute which mentioned Understanding Society data as part of the committee's Men's health inquiry, 5 December 2023 39. Welsh Government uses Understanding Society in its assessment of need for advice services, A needs analysis and predictive model of social welfare information and advice services in Wales, 7 December 2023 40. The Department of Health and Social Care mentions Understanding Society as a data source in its Care data matters: a roadmap for better adult social care data guidance (annexes A and C), 20 December 2023 Enacting statutory requirements - 2023 41. Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Mental health, current and upcoming work: March 2023, 8 March 2023 42. Scottish Government uses Understanding Society in its Persistent Poverty in Scotland 2010-2021 official statistics, 23 March 2023 43. Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society in Income Dynamics: 2010 to 2021, 23 March 2023 44. The Northern Ireland Executive's Department for Communities used Understanding Society in Intermediate Rent Policy - screening, 30 March 2023 45. Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Income and earnings statistics guide, 11 April 2023 46. TASO (Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education, funded by Office for Students) uses Understanding Society in The value of higher education report, 3 May 2023 47. Scottish Government uses our data (and other sources) for Vaping - understanding prevalence and trends among adults and children: research, 10 May 2023 48. Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in its UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard (latest release August 2023), as described in its UK Measures of National Well-being user guide, 5 July 2023 49. Department for Work and Pensions cites research using Understanding Society in its research and analysis, Are household formation decisions and living together fraud and error affected by the Living Together as a Married Couple policy? (evidence review p.24), 6 July 2023 50. Department for Business and Trade uses Understanding Society data in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024: annex B - labour market and non-compliance risk analysis, 24 October 2023 51. The Northern Ireland Executive's Department for the Economy used research using Understanding Society data in its Skills Research Digest Q3 2023, 15 November 2023 Monitoring (not a statutory requirement) - 2023 52. Bank of England uses our data in Bank Overground report, How are the rising cost of living and interest rates affecting households' ability to pay their mortgage?, 20 January 2023 53. Eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) mentions research using Understanding Society in its Economic and social inequalities in Europe in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, 27 February 2023 54. Bank of England uses our data to calculate the share of households with high mortgage debt-servicing burdens in its Financial Stability Report - July 2023, 12 July 2023 Exploring policy options - 2023 55. National Institute of Economic and Social Research publishes blog, The Calls for Expansion of Free School Meals are Timely and Warranted, following Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe's Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy, 9 January 2023 56. The Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its report, Are the kids alright? The early careers of education leavers since the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 January 2023 57. The Centre for Social Justice cited research using Understanding Society in its report, Making the Change: A plan to reboot British manufacturing and restore growth, 16 January 2023 58. OECD used evidence from Understanding Society in its Retaining Talent at All Ages report, 18 January 2023 59. The Institute of Employment Studies used Understanding Society extensively in its report, Caught in a gap - the role of employers in enabling women to build better pensions, 20 January 2023 60. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation cites Understanding Society evidence on persistent poverty (see p.27) in its UK Poverty 2023 report, 26 January 2023 61. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents, 1 February 2023 62. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers, 1 February 2023 63. Gingerbread cites research using Understanding Society in its The Single Parent Employment Challenge report, 1 February 2023 64. Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society data in its A blueprint for a better tax treatment of pensions report, 6 February 2023 65. Think tank Onward used Understanding Society in its Levelling Up Locally report, 7 February 2023 - and in its Levelling Up in Practice: Barry Interim Report, and Levelling Up in Practice: Clacton Interim Report, both published the same day 66. Institute for Fiscal Studies mentions research using British Household Panel Survey from 2011 (The Magnitude and Correlates of Inter-vivos Transfers in the UK) in Who gives and receives substantial financial transfers in Britain?, 13 February 2023 67. OECD cites Understanding Society as a data source in its Teleworking through the gender looking glass working paper, 15 February 2023 68. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in When and why do employees change their pension saving?, 24 February 2023 69. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in The gender gap in pension saving, 8 March 2023 (and in Data on private pension saving in UK surveys, published the same day) 70. OECD cited research using Understanding Society in its Socio-economic and ethnic health inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes across OECD countries working paper, 9 March 2023 71. The Nevin Economic Research Institute used Understanding Society in its How are we unequal? The adjusted gender pay gap in Northern Ireland working paper, 9 March 2023 72. OECD used Understanding Society in its report Measuring Population Mental Health, 15 March 2023 73. RAND Corporation uses Understanding Society data in its report, The societal and economic burden of insomnia in adults, 16 March 2023 74. The Fabian Society used Understanding Society in its In time of need report, 21 March 2023 75. IPPR used Understanding Society data in its Watching me, watching you: Worker surveillance in the UK after the pandemic, 27 March 2023 76. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics refers to Independent Age research using our data in its The future of ageing report (p.16), 30 March 2023 77. Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Firm concentration & job design: the case of schedule flexible work arrangements working paper, 6 April 2023 78. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society in Wealth and welfare across generations, 11 April 2023 79. Resolution Foundation uses our data in its Low Pay Britain 2023 report, 19 April 2023 80. IPPR uses Understanding Society in Healthy people, prosperous lives: The first interim report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity, 27 April 2023 81. Think tank Onward used Understanding Society as a data source for its 2023 Social Fabric Index, 2 May 2023 82. DEMOS cited Social Mobility Commission research using Understanding Society in its report, The Employability Badge: Skills for life, work and a stronger society, 22 May 2023 83. IPPR uses Understanding Society in Tipping the scales: The social and economic harm of poverty in Scotland, 30 May 2023 84. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in its The distribution of public service spending report, 31 May 2023 85. Runnymede Trust uses our data in its Dear Stephen: Race and belonging 30 years on report, 1 June 2023 86. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in its Characteristics and consequences of families with low levels of financial wealth report, 16 June 2023 87. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities mentions Understanding Society several times as a data source in its Levelling Up Fund: Impact evaluation scoping report, 19 June 2023 88. The Institute for Employment Studies cited research using Understanding Society in its Parental Rights Survey 2019, 26 June 2023 89. The Fawcett Society used Understanding Society in its report, The Ethnicity Motherhood Pay Penalty, 26 June 2023 90. Resolution Foundation uses our data in its report Tax planning - How to match higher taxes with better taxes, 28 June 2023 91. The Fraser of Allander Institute cited research using Understanding Society in its economic commentary, The economy has proved to be resilient in the short term, but growth remains fragile in 2023 and beyond, 30 June 2023 92. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) mentioned Understanding Society in its COVID-19 and policy for science report, 3 July 2023 93. Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in its report, The caring penalty, on the financial impact of unpaid care, 18 July 2023 94. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in its Living standards and inequality report, 7 July 2023 (link is to relevant chapter, which also appears in the full report) 95. Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its 'explainer', Student loans in England explained and options for reform, 20 July 2023 96. Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic working paper, 1 August 2023 97. Wales Centre for Public Policy cites research using Understanding Society in its Loneliness Inequalities Evidence Review, 8 August 2023 98. The Pensions Policy Institute uses our data, particularly on low earners, in its report, Every little helps: Should low earners be encouraged to save?, 15 August 2023 99. The Centre for Social Justice uses Understanding Society data in its Left out: how to tackle digital exclusion and reduce the poverty premium report, 15 August 2023 100. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Inequalities in disability report, 23 August 2023 101. The Centre for Social Justice used Understanding Society data in its report, Game Changer A plan to transform young lives through sport, 4 September 2023 102. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in its Sociological measures of inequality report, 7 September 2023 103. The Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Intergenerational mobility in the UK report, 7 September 2023 104. IPPR uses Understanding Society and cites research using our data in its For public health and public finances: Reforming health and social care, 13 September 2023 105. The Children's Society uses Understanding Society data throughout its Good Childhood Report 2023, 20 September 2023 106. The Welsh Government mentions IPPR's use of Understanding Society in its Science evidence advice NHS in 10+ years report (p.69), 22 September 2023 107. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation used Understanding Society data in its series of briefings, What protects people from very deep poverty, and what makes it more likely?, 25 September 2023 108. The Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in the Gender, immigration and ethnicity chapter of its Deaton Review of Inequalities, 2 October 2023 109. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) uses our data in its report, How to Make Societies Thrive? Coordinating Approaches to Promote Well-being and Mental Health, 17 October 2023 110. The Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society data in the Reforming inheritance tax chapter of its Green Budget 2023, 17 October 2023 111. The Fawcett Society mentions research using our data in its report, System Update: Addressing the gender gap in tech, 30 October 2023 112. The Health Foundation mentioned Understanding Society in its Can you tell we care? report on identifying unpaid carers, 8 November 2023 113. The Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Assessing the Welsh Government's consultation on reforms to council tax report, 14 November 2023 114. The International Longevity Centre UK cites Understanding Society data in its report, One hundred not out: A route map for long lives, 7 December 2023 115. The Centre for Social Justice cites Understanding Society data in its report, Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the UK, 11 December 2023 116. OECD uses Understanding Society in On Shaky Ground? Income Instability and Economic Insecurity in Europe, 12 December 2023 117. The Resolution Foundation used Understanding Society data in its report, Pressure on pay, prices and properties - How families were faring in October 2023, 14 December 2023 Benefit 9: Informs development of business practice in private and Civil Society sectors Broadly defined, but where the benefit is to commercial and third sector groups. In turn, this may influence policy development. Informing the design or delivery of products and services 1. The Health Foundation uses our data to calculate the volume and value of voluntary work 2010/11-21 in its report, Understanding unpaid carers and their access to support, 12 April 2023 2. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture cites research using Understanding Society in its Culture and democracy, the evidence report, 22 June 2023 3. Understanding Society used in developing the Department for Education's SEND futures longitudinal study, 14 December 2023 4. Understanding Society used for Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper, Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom?, 21 December 2023 5. Understanding Society health data mentioned in Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper, A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada, 21 December 2023 Designing strategies/approaches/campaigns - 2023 6. Benefact Group uses our data in its report, The value of giving 2022, 1 June 2023 7. Department for Education uses a question from Understanding Society in its Children of the 2020s (Cot20s) longitudinal study - see technical report, p.216, 30 November 2023 New policy developments - 2024 1. Department of Health and Social Care uses Understanding Society to estimate the cost of lost productivity due to smoking-related early deaths (p.194) in its Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment, 20 March 2024 (withdrawn 15 November 2024) and in The Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment, 13 November 2024 Informing policy implementation/practice, improvements to existing policy - 2024 2. Wales Centre for Public Policy uses our wellbeing data as a source for Data Analysis to Support Multi-Agency Working for vulnerable children and families, 12 January 2024 3. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities cites the Housing Associations' Charitable Trust (HACT) report Measuring the Social Impact of Community Investment: A guide to using the wellbeing approach in its research, Monetising the social benefits of reducing rough sleeping, 15 January 2024 4. House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee's inquiry into Children, young people and the built environment publishes evidence from The Heritage Alliance which cites findings of NatCen/DCMS/Arts Council/Historic England/Sport England's the CASE (Culture and Sport Evidence) programme, 19 January 2024 5. The same committee/inquiry also published evidence from Historic England which cites the same report, 19 January 2024 6. Department for Culture, Media and Sport used Understanding Society in Youth provision and life outcomes research, 29 February 2024 7. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities mentions research using our data (note 80, p.40) in The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience, 25 March 2024 8. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities mentions Understanding Society in Partnerships for People and Place: learning and evaluation report (p.84), 10 April 2024 (see also evaluation and spend mapping annexes) 9. Scottish Government mentions Joseph Rowntree Foundation's use of our data (in The caring penalty, 2023) in its Scottish Child Payment and the labour market (point 49, p.15), 24 July 2024 10. POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) refers to research using our data in its Teacher recruitment, retention, training and development Horizon scanning, November 2024 (refers to NFER's Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2023, House of Commons Education Committee's, Teacher recruitment, training and retention, May 2024, and NFER and Teacher Development Trust, Teacher autonomy: how does it relate to job satisfaction and retention?, August 2008) 11. Welsh Government mentions Understanding Society data on persistent poverty in Wellbeing of Wales, 2024 (p.39), 26 September 2024 12. Brent Cross Town uses Understanding Society as one of its data sources on wellbeing in its Flourishing Index Baseline Report, dated June 2024, but appears to have been published 17 October 2024 13. POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) names Chris Coates, Understanding Society, as a contributor to its research briefing Consumer debt and mental health (although the briefing does not cite any of the sources we provided), 21 October 2024 14. Department for Transport uses Understanding Society in its research and analysis Transport appraisal and wellbeing, 31 October 2024 15. Department of Health & Social Care uses Understanding Society as a data source in Feasibility study for survey of incomes and assets of adults with social care needs: summary report, 7 November 2024 (see also technical annex) 16. Department for Business and Trade announces that Understanding Society data will be used in Assessment of the Scale and Nature of Labour Market Non-compliance in the UK, a new project to study precarious work. Announcement is in Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2024 to 2025: annex B - labour market and non-compliance risk analysis, 14 November 2024 (and Labour Market Enforcement: annual report 2020 to 2023, 11 December 2024) 17. Huw Pill, Chief Economist, Bank of England tells House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee that the Bank uses Understanding Society for employment data in his oral evidence to their inquiry into Economic inactivity: welfare and long-term sickness (p.13), 26 November 2024 18. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care use Understanding Society as a data source for rapid evidence assessment What older people want, part of The Older People's Housing Taskforce Report, 26 November 2024 19. Chief Medical Officer uses data on mental health in Chief Medical Officer's annual report 2024: health in cities, 12 December 2024 (note 59, p.122) 20. POST cites research using our data in its Affordable Housing 'horizon scanning', 19 December 2024 (specifically cited: Kate Dotsikas, David Osborn, Kate Walters & Jennifer Dykxhoorn, Trajectories of housing affordability and mental health problems: a population-based cohort study, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02314-x; Will Raderman, Nina T. Rogers, Emily T. Murray, Variations in housing affordability and health relationships by measurement and sub-population assessment, 2021: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251094) 21. Department for Culture, Media and Sport cites its own earlier research using our data in its Research and analysis, Embedding a Culture and Heritage Capital Approach, 17 December 2024 (citing Further analysis to value the health and educational benefits of sport and culture, March 2015) 22. Treasury Committee publishes USDAW's evidence to its Acceptance of Cash inquiry, which cites Age UK's (June 2024) use of Understanding Society in Facts and figures about digital inclusion and older people, 17 December 2024 Enacting statutory requirements - 2024 23. Low Pay Commission reports that trade union Usdaw cites Understanding Society in its evidence to the Low Pay Commission Report 2023 (paragraph 5.42, p.110), 4 March 2024 24. Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society as an indicator of parental conflict (p.6) in its Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2024, 21 March 2024, updated 21 May 25. ONS uses our data to measure happiness in partner relationships, and depression/anxiety, in its UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard, 8 August 2024 Monitoring (not a statutory requirement) - 2024 26. The Competition and Markets Authority cites Understanding Society as a data source in its Competition and market power in UK labour markets report (p.84), 25 January 2024 27. Nest Insight (an offshoot of the National Employment Savings Trust) uses our data in its How does pension automatic enrolment affect savings?, 1 August 2024 28. Department for Transport's Car ownership: evidence review (carried out by National Centre for Social Research) uses our data, 26 September 2024 29. Department for Work and Pensions uses questions from Understanding Society (among other sources) in Government Social Research report on Attitudes and Awareness before State Pension age, 7 October 2024 (see Appendix A, p.43) 30. Office for Budget Responsibility publishes letters from DfE, DHSC, DWP and HMRC to HMT on evaluation plans for policies which mention Understanding Society as a data source, 28 October 2024 Exploring policy options - 2024 31. Fatherhood Institute uses Understanding Society in The kids are alright: Adolescents and their fathers in the UK, part of Contemporary Fathers in the UK, billed as "the most comprehensive review ever undertaken of decades of research into the roles and impacts of UK fathers in families", 1 January 2024 32. Think tank Onward uses our data to measure charitable donations by income in Giving Back Better (p.28), 24 January 2024 33. Centre for Cities uses our data throughout its Donation nation: The geography of charitable giving in the UK, 5 February 2024 34. Centre for Social Justice mentions our data (Tarek Al Baghal (ed.), Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: Results from Methodological Experiments, No 2018-06, May 2018) in its Creating a Britain that Works and Cares, 16 February 2024 35. abrdn Financial Fairness Trust uses our data in Caught in the middle - Insecurity and financial strain in the middle of the income distribution, 20 February 2024 36. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data to calculate lifetime student loan repayments in its Scottish Budget: Higher education spending (p.15), 20 February 2024 (see also The IFS Scottish Budget Report - 2024-25, 22 February 2024) 37. Resolution Foundation uses our data in We've only just begun - Action to improve young people's mental health, education and employment, 26 February 2024 38. The Productivity Institute cites Government Equalities Office research, The gender pay gap in the UK: evidence from the UKHLS, in Part-time work and productivity, 15 March 39. National Foundation for Educational Research uses our data to call for teaching to be "competitive with other jobs in pay and workload" in its Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2024, 20 March 2024 40. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in House price rises and borrowing to invest, 27 March 2024 41. Wellesley Institute mentions research using our data (Eleni Karagiannaki, The scale and drivers of ethnic wealth gaps across the wealth distribution in the UK: evidence from Understanding Society) in Wealth inequality, health and health equity (note 55, p.6), 27 March 2024 42. Resolution Foundation uses our data in Firm foundations - Understanding why employers use flexible contracts (p.10), 25 April 2024 43. Centre for Policy Studies mentions the Race Disparity Unit/Equality Hub's Outcomes in labour market for ethnic minorities by immigrant generation status (April 2023) in its immigration report Taking Back Control, 6 May 2024 44. The Centre for Social Justice uses our data in Lonely Nation Part 1: How family can help to end the loneliness crisis, 9 May 2024 45. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024, 25 July 2024 46. The Centre for Social Justice uses our data in Lonely Nation Part 2: Ending loneliness among older people, 15 August 2024 47. Northern Health Science Alliance uses our data in its Woman of the North: Inequality, health and work, 2 September 2024 48. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data for Adequacy of future retirement incomes: new evidence for private sector employees report, 16 September 2024 49. IPPR uses our data in its report, Our greatest asset: The final report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity, 17 September 2024 50. Institute for Employment Studies uses UKHLS in Supporting healthy lifestyles among young adults in the workplace, 17 September 2024 51. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in Pressures on public sector pay, part of its Green Budget 2024, 27 September 2024 (with a brief mention in their Green Budget 2024: Full report, 10 October 2024) 52. The Health Foundation cites two pieces of research using Understanding Society in Towards a healthier workforce, 3 October 2024: note 5, p32 refers to Chandola T, Zhang N. Re-employment, job quality, health and allostatic load biomarkers: prospective evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. International Journey of Epidemiology, 2018; note 19, p11 and Annex 1 both refer to Department for Work and Pensions, A Study of Work and Health Transitions: Analysis of Understanding Society, Department for Health and Social Care, 2021 53. Department of Health and Social Care uses Understanding Society in Technical annex workstream 1: review of past studies and data sources, and cites research using our data in Feasibility Study for Survey of Incomes and Assets of Adults with Social Care Needs, both published alongside Surveying incomes and assets of adults with social care needs, 7 November 2024 54. Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its report Lonely Nation Part 3: How to tackle loneliness through the built environment, 8 November 2024 55. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in The effects of youth clubs on education and crime, 12 November 2024 56. Institute for Employment Studies cites research using Understanding Society (Long work hours, weekend working and depressive symptoms in men and women: findings from a UK population-based study) in Exploring the interactions between job quality, industries and health report for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives, 22 November 2024 57. Civitas think tank cites research using UKHLS in its Marriage and the stable society: The continued importance of marriage, December 2024 (specifically: Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Jacqueline Scott, Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women's and their partners' education: evidence from Britain 1991-2012, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2017) 58. Financial Times uses our data to suggest that UK economic inactivity may not have risen after all. John Burn-Murdoch, What if the UK isn't actually the sick man of Europe? 6 December 2024 59. House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes our written evidence to its Tackling homelessness inquiry, 19 December 2024 60. Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its Lonely Nation Summary, 20 December 2024 (this report is a compilation of four earlier reports on loneliness. Parts 1 and 2 used Understanding society - see points 34 and 36 above.) Benefit 9: Informs development of business practice in private and Civil Society sectors Broadly defined, but where the benefit is to commercial and third sector groups. In turn, this may influence policy development. Informing the design or delivery of products and services 1. Designing strategies/approaches/campaigns 2. Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in UK Poverty 2024: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, 23 January 2024 3. Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in Always on your mind - Preventing persistent money and mental health problems, 20 March 2024 (see Annex on methodology) 4. The Centre for Policy Studies mentions UKHLS in a footnote in connection to the government's Equality Hub/Race Disparity Unit 2023 research, Outcomes in labour market for ethnic minorities by immigrant generation status (which uses our data), in a report entitled Taking Back Control - Why Britain needs a better approach to immigration, 6 May 2024 5. Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in its The future of care needs: a whole systems approach, 22 August 2024 6. The Children's Society uses our data on wellbeing in its Good Childhood Report 2024, 29 August 2024 7. Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in its report, In the public interest? The psychological toll of local and national government debt collection practices, 9 September 2024
First Year Of Impact	2023
Sector	Education,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport,Other
Impact Types	Societal Economic Policy & public services

Description	2022 Consultation on Pregnancy and Early Childhood data
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The exercise was a success, enabling us to identify some reasons why researchers have not engaged with our children's data and which key topics would be beneficial to incorporate into the study.

Description	2022 Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Presenting at this conference has contributed to UKHLS potential users to open up to new ways of thinking about the pregnancy and early childhood data we collect. In addition, it has been an excelent channel to build networks with the research community working on child development topics.

Description	2022 Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Scientific Meeting
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Presenting the poster in this conference has contributed to UKHLS potential users to open up to new ways of thinking about the pregnancy and early childhood data we collect. In addition, it has been an excelent channel to build networks with the research community working on child development topics.
URL	https://jech.bmj.com/content/76/Suppl_1/A54.1

Description	2024 Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Speaking at this conference has encouraged potential UKHLS users to explore new perspectives on the pregnancy and early childhood data available. Additionally, it has provided a valuable opportunity to connect with researchers focused on child development.

Description	4. Understanding Society used for Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper, Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/measuring-wellbeing-growth-and-convergence-multivariate-ordered-cate...

Description	Advice to ESS-MAB
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/structure-and-governance

Description	Advice to Statistik Austria
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL	https://www.statistik.at/en/services/tools/services/center-for-science/austrian-socio-economic-panel...

Description	Bank of England uses our data in Bank Overground report, How are the rising cost of living and interest rates affecting households' ability to pay their mortgage?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Bank of England uses our data in Bank Overground report, How are the rising cost of living and interest rates affecting households' ability to pay their mortgage?
URL	https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2023/how-are-the-rising-cost-of-living-and-interest-...

Description	Bank of England uses our data to calculate the share of households with high mortgage debt-servicing burdens in its Financial Stability Report - July 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Bank of England uses our data to calculate the share of households with high mortgage debt-servicing burdens in its Financial Stability Report - July 2023. This has an impact on the Bank's own monetary policy, and the government's.
URL	https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-stability-report/2023/july-2023

Description	Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee uses Understanding Society in its Financial Stability Report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Financial Stability Report sets out the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee's view on the stability of the UK financial system and what it is doing to remove or reduce any risks to it. It uses Understanding Society to work out the share of households with high cost of living adjusted debt-servicing ratios on mortgage debt. The report is presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 9W(10) of the Bank of England Act 1998 as amended by the Financial Services Act 2012.
URL	https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-stability-report/2022/july-2022

Description	Baroness Neville-Rolfe refers to Understanding Society data on unpaid carers in her State Pension age Independent Review 2022: final report for the Department for Work and Pensions
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Baroness Neville-Rolfe refers to Understanding Society data on unpaid carers in her State Pension age Independent Review 2022: final report for the Department for Work and Pensions, bringing the work to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-independent-review-2022-final-report

Description	Behavioural Insights Team cites research using Understanding Society in work on barriers and enablers for women's progression from low-paid and low-skill work
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	This literature review centres on the UK, South Africa, France and Spain, and first outlines the barriers and enablers faced by low-paid and low-skill women, and subsequently, identifies a range of promising behavioural interventions.
URL	https://www.bi.team/publications/understanding-the-barriers-and-enablers-for-womens-progression-from...

Description	Benefact Group uses our data in its report, The value of giving 2022
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://benefactgroup.com/fundraising-resources/charity-fundraising-articles/value-of-giving-report/

Description	Brent Cross Town used Understanding Society as one of its data sources on wellbeing in its Flourishing Index Baseline Report
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Brent Cross Town baseline report presents innovative wellbeing research undertaken between January 2021 and January 2022, in partnership with a public-private Joint Venture between Related Argent and Barnet Council. The work was led by The University of Manchester (UoM) and Buro Happold, drawing on transdisciplinary and mixed-method approaches. All data was collected prior to the delivery of the major Brent Cross Town delivery stages, from local people who already live in the Brent Cross area. The vast majority of local people are expected to remain in the area as the regeneration project is built and managed into the future.
URL	https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=74304

Description	British Society for Population Studies (Pelikh.A)
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL	https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/research/british-society-for-population-studies/Asse...

Description	Business for Health: Pillars Working Group
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	There has been growing recognition that one signfiicant dimension to the health challenge is economic inactivity driven by long-term sickness. The government has announced that it is looking at policy options to address this growing problem, particularly in the context of labour market shortages - with detailed policy proposals expected in the March 2023 Budget statement.
URL	https://www.businessforhealth.org/business-index

Description	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics cites research using Understanding Society in evidence to House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee to
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	This evidence note for the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee outlines research which the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science is conducting or has recently completed on unpaid care. It includes references to CPEC papers and in some cases related papers by other researchers. The evidence was published as part of the Committee's report A "gloriously ordinary life'': spotlight on adult social care, published in November 2022
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31917/documents/181472/default/

Description	Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion uses Understanding Society in its Annual Report 2021
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The 2021 CASE Annual Report includes an overview of the Centre's work, updates from staff, PhDs, and associates, and summaries of publications and events from the past year. It also features 14 articles showcasing the breadth and depth of research, covering topics including educational inequalities in England; child poverty; the role of informal financial support; the effectiveness of the UK social security system during the COVID-19 crisis; neighbourhood composition; housing regeneration; and the measurement of multidimensional inequality. They also report on collaboration with Sense about Science to promote public engagement with research evidence.
URL	https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_NEW/PUBLICATIONS/abstract/?index=9292

Description	Centre for Cities uses UKHLS data in Donation nation: The geography of charitable giving in the UK
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Centre for Cities uses our data throughout its Donation nation: The geography of charitable giving in the UK, 5 February 2024. To what extent does charitable giving in the UK support tackling regional inequalities? To answer this question, this report sets out the geography of charitable giving in the UK, how it relates to local economic performance, and investigates whether the geography of giving meets the geography of need.
URL	https://www.centreforcities.org/publication/donation-nation/

Description	Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar (Pelikh.A)
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	Centre for Policy Studies mentions UKHLS in immigration report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Centre for Policy Studies mentions UKHLS in a footnote in connection to the government's Equality Hub/Race Disparity Unit 2023 research, Outcomes in labour market for ethnic minorities by immigrant generation status (which uses our data), in a report entitled Taking Back Control - Why Britain needs a better approach to immigration, 6 May 2024
URL	https://cps.org.uk/research/taking-back-control/

Description	Centre for Policy Studies mentions research using UKHLS in Taking Back Control report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Centre for Policy Studies mentions the Race Disparity Unit/Equality Hub's Outcomes in labour market for ethnic minorities by immigrant generation status (April 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/outcomes-in-labour-market-for-ethnic-minorities-by-immigrant-generation-status/outcomes-in-labour-market-for-ethnic-minorities-by-immigrant-generation-status) in its immigration report Taking Back Control, 6 May 2024
URL	https://cps.org.uk/research/taking-back-control/

Description	Centre for Social Justice cited research using Understanding Society in its report, Making the Change: A plan to reboot British manufacturing and restore growth
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/making-the-change

Description	Centre for Social Justice cites Understanding Society data in its report, Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the UK
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/two-nations

Description	Centre for Social Justice mentions our data in its Creating a Britain that Works and Cares
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Centre for Social Justice mentions our data (Tarek Al Baghal (ed.), Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: Results from Methodological Experiments, No 2018-06, May 2018: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/working-papers/2018-06.pdf) in its Creating a Britain that Works and Cares, 16 February 2024
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/a-britain-that-works-and-cares

Description	Centre for Social Justice used Understanding Society data in its report, Game Changer A plan to transform young lives through sport
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/game-changer

Description	Centre for Social Justice uses Understanding Society data in its Left out: how to tackle digital exclusion and reduce the poverty premium report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/left-out

Description	Centre for Social Justice uses our data in Lonely Nation Part 2
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Centre for Social Justice uses our data in Lonely Nation Part 2: Ending loneliness among older people, 15 August 2024: Loneliness in Britain is worse than ever. During 2023 a quarter of the population felt regularly lonely, a figure that has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the UK leading the way in launching the world's first loneliness strategy, the problem continues to get worse.
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/lonely-nation

Description	Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its Lonely Nation Summary
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its Lonely Nation Summary, 20 December 2024 (this report is a compilation of four earlier reports on loneliness. Parts 1 and 2 used Understanding society
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/lonely-nation-summary

Description	Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its report Lonely Nation Part 3
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Centre for Social Justice uses our data in its report Lonely Nation Part 3: How to tackle loneliness through the built environment, 8 November 2024: Britain is a lonely nation. CSJ polling finds that nearly six in ten adults feel lonely at least some of the time. This equates to 32 million people. Over one in five adults (22 per cent) say they feel existentially lonely, a fundamental separateness from other people and the wider world. Loneliness is a public health emergency. The effects of loneliness and social isolation have been shown comparable to smoking, obesity and physical inactivity.
URL	https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/lonely-nation-part-3

Description	Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) - future of EDI
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Refreshed narrative and guidance on EDI to members of the CIPD.
URL	https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/factsheets/diversity-factsheet/

Description	Chief Economist, Bank of England tells House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee that the Bank uses Understanding Society for employment data
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Huw Pill, Chief Economist, Bank of England tells House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee that the Bank uses Understanding Society for employment data in his oral evidence to their inquiry into Economic inactivity: welfare and long-term sickness (p.13), 26 November 2024
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/15061/pdf/

Description	Chief Medical Officer uses Understanding Society data on mental health
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Professor Whitty's report outlines a broad range of health opportunities and challenges for city populations, and includes case studies from core cities in England.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2024-health-in-citie...

Description	Children's Commissioner's office uses Understanding Society in Independent Family Review
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Government asked the Children's Commissioner to research "what the modern family looks like", and is expected to use the evidence to formulate post-Covid policy on family relationships
URL	https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/report/family-and-its-protective-effect-part-1-of-the-indep...

Description	Children's Society uses Understanding Society data throughout its Good Childhood Report 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood

Description	Children's Society uses Understanding Society in its Good Childhood Report 2022
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The annual Good Childhood Report shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing. The research seeks to understand how young people feel about different aspects of their lives, finding in 2022 that school, friendships and appearance continue to cause the greatest dissatisfaction in adolescence. The Children's Society uses the report to lobby government for changes in society to benefit children
URL	https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/professionals/resources/good-childhood-report-2022

Description	Children's Society uses our data in its Good Childhood Report 2024
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Children's Society uses our data on wellbeing in its Good Childhood Report 2024, 29 August 2024: "Our Good Childhood Report 2024 shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing. Our research seeks to understand how young people feel about different aspects of their lives. This year's Good Childhood Report reveals that too many young people are unhappy with their lives. 11% of the children and young people who completed our survey in 2024 had low wellbeing. And shockingly, data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2022) shows that the UK's 15-year-olds had the lowest average life satisfaction in Europe."
URL	https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/professionals/resources/good-childhood-report-2024

Description	Civitas think tank cites research using UKHLS in its report Marriage and the stable society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Civitas think tank cites research using UKHLS in its Marriage and the stable society: The continued importance of marriage, December 2024 (specifically: Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Jacqueline Scott, Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women's and their partners' education: evidence from Britain 1991-2012, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2017)
URL	https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/marriage-and-the-stable-society/

Description	Commons Education Committee publishes our evidence to its inquiry into Teacher recruitment, training and retention
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Education Committee publishes our evidence to its inquiry into Teacher recruitment, training and retention. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/121348/html/

Description	Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee published UK Research & Innovation's evidence to its Transforming the UK's Evidence Base inquiry, mentioning the value of Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee published UK Research & Innovation's evidence to its Transforming the UK's Evidence Base inquiry, mentioning the value of Understanding Society and stating "that investments into survey data collections still offer value for money". The committee also published our own evidence (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123022/pdf/). Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123243/pdf/

Description	Competition and Markets Authority cites Understanding Society as a data source
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Competition and Markets Authority cites Understanding Society as a data source in its Competition and market power in UK labour markets report (p.84), 25 January 2024. This report charts trends in UK labour market concentration and employer market power over the past twenty years, investigates how labour market concentration is related to worker outcomes and spotlights how technologies and labour market institutions are shaping labour markets in the UK.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/competition-and-market-power-in-uk-labour-markets

Description	Contribution of written evidence to the House of Commons Public and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Inquiry: Transforming the UK's Evidence Base
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7808/transforming-the-uks-evidence-base/

Description	Court Reform Evaluation Advisory Panel (Ministry of Justice)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-hmcts-reform-programme

Description	DCMS Community Life Survey Methodology Advisory Group
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	DEMOS cited research using Understanding Society in its report, The Employability Badge: Skills for life, work and a stronger society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://demos.co.uk/research/the-employability-badge-skills-for-life-work-and-a-stronger-society/

Description	DWP Low Income Dynamics Report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents

Description	DWP usage of Understanding Society data on separated parents
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/parental-conflict-indicator-2011-to-2020/parental-conflict-...

Description	Department for Business and Trade announces Understanding Society data will be used in Assessment of the Scale and Nature of Labour Market Non-compliance in the UK
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/jill-dando-institute/research/assessment-scale-and-nature-labour-market-non-co...

Description	Department for Business and Trade cited research it had commissioned using Understanding Society in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2022 to 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Department for Business and Trade cited research it had commissioned using Understanding Society in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2022 to 2023. Oner of the strategy's main aims is to engage with businesses and workers to improve state-led enforcement of employment rights
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/labour-market-enforcement-strategy-2022-to-2023

Description	Department for Business and Trade uses Understanding Society data in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Department for Business and Trade uses Understanding Society data in its Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/labour-market-enforcement-strategy-2023-to-2024

Description	Department for Business and Trade uses research based on our data in its Shared Parental Leave (SPL) evaluation report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Department for Business and Trade uses research based on our data in its Shared Parental Leave (SPL) evaluation report. This is an example of a government department using and citing our data. It refers to Olsen, W., Gash, V., Kim, S. & Zhang, M. (2018). The gender pay gap in the UK: evidence from the UKHLS, Government Equalities Office: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706030/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_UK_evidence_from_the_UKHLS.pdf
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-parental-leave-spl-evaluation

Description	Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy cites research using Understanding Society in Consumer protection study 2022
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/consumer-protection-study-2022

Description	Department for Culture, Media and Sport cites research using our data in research and analysis
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This report sets out DCMS' approach to embedding best practice for valuing cultural and heritage assets.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/embedding-a-culture-and-heritage-capital-approach

Description	Department for Culture, Media and Sport discusses Understanding Society as a data source and cites research using our data in its Grassroots Sport Facilities Investment Programme: impact evaluation
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Department for Culture, Media and Sport discusses Understanding Society as a data source and cites research using our data in its Grassroots Sport Facilities Investment Programme: impact evaluation, showing our data being used by a government department
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grassroots-sport-facilities-investment-evaluating-the-imp...

Description	Department for Culture, Media and Sport study recommends Understanding Society as a data source for evaluation
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Department for Culture, Media and Sport published an Ipsos Mori report Youth Investment Fund Phase 2: Impact evaluation feasibility study, which recommends Understanding Society as a data source for evaluation
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-investment-fund-phase-2-impact-evaluation-feasibili...

Description	Department for Culture, Media and Sport used Understanding Society in Youth provision and life outcomes research,
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Department for Culture, Media and Sport commissioned an independent provider to conduct the youth provision and life outcomes research. DCMS committed to strengthen the evidence base around the impact of the youth sector as part of the DCMS Youth Review. It conducted this research to address specific evidence gaps within the sector.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-provision-and-life-outcomes-research

Description	Department for Culture, Media and Sport uses research using Understanding Society in its research and analysis, Evaluation of Sport Survival Package
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Department for Culture, Media and Sport uses research using Understanding Society in its research and analysis, Evaluation of Sport Survival Package (see annexes, pp96-7)
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-sport-survival-package

Description	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport cites research using Understanding Society in written evidence to DCMS Committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/106685/pdf/

Description	Department for Education used Understanding Society in its Review of the evidence on numeracy skills interventions for adults
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Department for Education used Understanding Society extensively in its Review of the evidence on numeracy skills interventions for adults
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-evidence-on-the-numeracy-skills-interventio...

Description	Department for Education uses a question from Understanding Society in its Children of the 2020s (Cot20s) longitudinal study
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Department for Education's own use of our data helps to shape government policy on education
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-of-the-2020s-first-survey-of-families-at-age-9-m...

Description	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities cited Understanding Society in Partnerships for People and Place: learning and evaluation report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This report provides a detailed record (including approach, methodology, case studies and recommendations) of the Partnerships for People and Place programme, a 2-year programme of work funded by HM Treasury via the Shared Outcomes Fund which ran from February 2021 to March 2023.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partnerships-for-people-and-place-learning-and-evaluation...

Description	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities cites report using Understanding Society in research on rough sleeping
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The DLUHC report, Monetising the social benefits of reducing rough sleeping, was commissioned by DLUHC to inform DLUHC's evidence base on rough sleeping and to improve Departmental assessments of the costs and benefits of interventions designed to prevent and/or reduce rough sleeping.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monetising-the-social-benefits-of-reducing-rough-sleeping

Description	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities cites research using our data in The Khan Review
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Dame Sara Khan has published her independent review into social cohesion and resilience with recommendations to build cohesion and strengthen democratic resilience.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-khan-review-threats-to-social-cohesion-and-democratic...

Description	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities mentions Understanding Society several times as a data source in its Levelling Up Fund: Impact evaluation scoping report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The government's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities mentions Understanding Society several times as a data source in its Levelling Up Fund: Impact evaluation scoping report
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-impact-evaluation-scoping-report

Description	Department for Transport cites research using Understanding Society in its Agglomeration in transport appraisal: the effect of COVID-19
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agglomeration-in-transport-appraisal-the-effect-of-covid-...

Description	Department for Transport uses Understanding Society in its research and analysis Transport appraisal and wellbeing
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This report focuses on how wellbeing-based evidence could be applied in appraisal within the transport analysis guidance (TAG). It also details how wellbeing can have an impact on transport projects and policies.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-appraisal-and-wellbeing

Description	Department for Work and Pensions Parental Conflict statistics
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/parental-conflict-indicator-2011-to-2020#full-publication-u...

Description	Department for Work and Pensions cites research using Understanding Society in its research and analysis, Are household formation decisions and living together fraud and error affected by the Living Together as a Married Couple policy?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/are-household-formation-decisions-and-living-together-fra...

Description	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society as indicator of parental conflict
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society as an indicator of parental conflict (p.6) in its Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2024, 21 March 2024, updated 21 May. 'Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families' indicator data used to track progress in tackling disadvantages affecting families' and children's outcomes.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-helping-workless-families-indicators-2024

Description	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society for Public services productivity estimates
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	DWP's Households Below Average Income (HBAI) report presents information on living standards in the United Kingdom year on year from financial year ending (FYE) 1995 to FYE 2021. It provides estimates on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households based on disposable income. Figures are also provided for children, pensioners and working-age adults.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-...

Description	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society in Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-helping-workless-families-indicators-2023...

Description	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society in Income Dynamics: 2010 to 2021
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Department for Work and Pensions uses Understanding Society to examine persistent low income and changes in household income for its official statistics: Income Dynamics: 2010 to 2021
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2010-to-2021

Description	Department for Work and Pensions uses questions from Understanding Society in Government Social Research report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Department for Work and Pensions uses questions from Understanding Society (among other sources) in Government Social Research report on Attitudes and Awareness before State Pension age, 7 October 2024 (see Appendix A, p.43). This report presents the results of a survey commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to understand awareness of the State Pension system and attitudes toward retirement among a cohort approaching State Pension age.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/attitudes-and-awareness-before-state-pension-age

Description	Department for Work and Pensions' official statistics on Income Dynamics: 2010 to 2020 uses our data
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This shows our data being used by a government department to generate official statistics. Income Dynamics provides estimates of the rates of persistent low income. An individual is classed as being in persistent low income if they are in low income in at least 3 out of 4 years. Income Dynamics also provides estimates of mobility across the income distribution, including low income entry and exit rates, as well as analysis on the events associated with low income entry and exit.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2010-to-2020

Description	Department of Health & Social Care uses Understanding Society as a data source in Feasibility study for survey of incomes and assets of adults with social care needs
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This document summarises the findings from a research project exploring the feasibility of collecting data about the care needs, income and assets of people with care and support needs in England.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/surveying-incomes-and-assets-of-adults-with-social-care-n...

Description	Department of Health and Social Care mentions Understanding Society as a data source in its Care data matters: a roadmap for better adult social care data guidance
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Department of Health and Social Care mentions Understanding Society as a data source in its Care data matters: a roadmap for better adult social care data guidance. See annexes A and C.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-data-matters-a-roadmap-for-better-adult-social-care-...

Description	Department of Health and Social Care uses Understanding Society in Feasibility Study for Survey of Incomes and Assets of Adults with Social Care Needs
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Department of Health and Social Care uses Understanding Society in Technical annex workstream 1: review of past studies and data sources, and cites research using our data in Feasibility Study for Survey of Incomes and Assets of Adults with Social Care Needs, both published alongside Surveying incomes and assets of adults with social care needs, 7 November 2024
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/surveying-incomes-and-assets-of-adults-with-social-care-n...

Description	Department of Health and Social Care uses Understanding Society to estimate the cost of lost productivity due to smoking-related early deaths
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Department of Health and Social Care used Understanding Society to estimate the cost of lost productivity due to smoking-related early deaths (p.194) in its Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment, 20 March 2024 (withdrawn 15 November 2024) and in The Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment, 13 November 2024. The bill aims to "be a landmark step in creating a smoke-free UK and stopping the next generation from becoming addicted to tobacco and nicotine. The Bill will be the biggest public health intervention since the ban on smoking in indoor public places in 2007. The Bill is a key pillar of the Government's Health Mission to help people stay healthier for longer, reduce the number of premature deaths from the biggest killers like cancer, and raise the healthiest generation of children in our history."
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-tobacco-and-vapes-bill-impact-assessment

Description	Discussion about Feasibility of Longitudinal Research in Engineering Diversity with the Royal Academy of Engineering
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study: Methodological Advice
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/early-life-cohort-feasibility-study/

Description	Energy Security and Net Zero Committee published evidence from Scope which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to its Preparing for the winter inquiry
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Energy Security and Net Zero Committee published evidence from Scope which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to its Preparing for the winter inquiry. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123393/pdf/

Description	European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture cites research using Understanding Society in its Culture and democracy, the evidence report
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/07370fba-110d-11ee-b12e-01aa75ed71a1/langua...

Description	Evidence preparation for Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact	Evidence fed into the decision making process of the Bank of England/MPC and the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin for Q4 (not published yet).

Description	Exemplar reseach findings and guidance for the Welsh Government
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health

Description	Expert witness to the House of Commons Public and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6820/civil-service-people-survey/

Description	Fatherhood Institute uses Understanding Society in report: The kids are alright
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Fatherhood Institute uses Understanding Society in The kids are alright: Adolescents and their fathers in the UK, part of Contemporary Fathers in the UK, billed as "the most comprehensive review ever undertaken of decades of research into the roles and impacts of UK fathers in families", 1 January 2024
URL	https://www.fatherhoodinstitute.org/contemporary-fathers-in-the-uk

Description	Fawcett Society mentions research using our data in its report, System Update: Addressing the gender gap in tech
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/system-update-addressing-the-gender-gap-in-tech-report

Description	Fawcett Society used Understanding Society in its report, The Ethnicity Motherhood Pay Penalty
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/the-ethnicity-motherhood-pay-penalty

Description	Financial Times uses our data to suggest that UK economic inactivity may not have risen after all
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Financial Times uses our data to suggest that UK economic inactivity may not have risen after all. John Burn-Murdoch, What if the UK isn't actually the sick man of Europe? 6 December 2024: "Britain's illness-related inactivity crisis looks increasingly like a mirage"
URL	https://www.ft.com/content/1409c952-28c0-4a3f-be90-493234a949b2

Description	Findings of paper on UK COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy (Behaviour, Brain & Immunity, 2021), influencing government policy on topic.
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The research in our paper, on the correlates of vaccine hesitancy among the UK population, influenced government SAGE committee deliberations on the topic during the early roll out of the vaccines (graph from mentioned paper included).
URL	https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9527...

Description	Fraser of Allander Institute cited research using Understanding Society in its economic commentary, The economy has proved to be resilient in the short term, but growth remains fragile in 2023 and beyond
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://fraserofallander.org/the-economy-has-proved-to-be-resilient-in-the-short-term-but-growth-rem...

Description	Gingerbread cites research using Understanding Society in its The Single Parent Employment Challenge report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/single-parent-employment-challenge-0

Description	Gingerbread used Understanding Society in The Invisible Family: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on single parents living in London
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Gingerbread's report shows that there are differences between the challenges single parents face at a local and national level, and says "The pandemic has highlighted the importance of childcare and mental wellbeing as social infrastructures ... To try to make the challenges of single parenthood more 'visible', and to better protect single parents who live in London following the Covid-19 pandemic, Gingerbread have identified several policy recommendations at a local and national level. These recommendations are divided into three policy areas identified by single parents as areas of concern in the qualitative interviews: employment, childcare and mental health."
URL	https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/policy-campaigns/publications-index/the-invisible-family-the-impact-o...

Description	Health Equals statistics on regional trends and disparities in health
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL	https://healthequals.org.uk/

Description	Health Foundation cites research using Understanding Society in Towards a healthier workforce
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Health Foundation cites two pieces of research using Understanding Society in Towards a healthier workforce, 3 October 2024: note 5, p32 refers to Chandola T, Zhang N. Re-employment, job quality, health and allostatic load biomarkers: prospective evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. International Journey of Epidemiology, 2018; note 19, p11 and Annex 1 both refer to Department for Work and Pensions, A Study of Work and Health Transitions: Analysis of Understanding Society, Department for Health and Social Care, 2021
URL	https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/reports/towards-a-healthier-workforce

Description	Health Foundation mentioned Understanding Society in its Can you tell we care? report on identifying unpaid carers
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/can-you-tell-we-care

Description	Health Foundation uses our data to calculate the volume and value of voluntary work 2010/11-21 in its report, Understanding unpaid carers and their access to support
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/understanding-unpaid-carers-and-their-access-to-su...

Description	Health and Care Research Wales cites research using Understanding Society in review of impact of COVID-19 on health and access to health care of disabled people
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Health and Care Research Wales cited research using Understanding Society in its 'Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and access to health care of disabled people: a rapid review'. The Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Branch of Welsh Government suggested the research with the aim of informing the work of the Disability Rights Taskforce, Welsh Government.
URL	https://healthandcareresearchwales.org/impact-covid-19-pandemic-disabled-people

Description	Health and Social Care Select Committee published evidence submitted to its Prevention in health and social care inquiry submitted by Dr Nicola Byrom which cited Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/118047/pdf/

Description	House of Commons Education Select Committee published our evidence submitted to its inquiry, Screen time: impacts on education and wellbeing
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Education Select Committee published our evidence submitted to its inquiry, Screen time: impacts on education and wellbeing. Publication by a committee brings the data and evidence to the attention of parliament/government. https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7912/screen-time-impacts-on-education-and-wellbeing/publications/written-evidence/ The committee also published evidence from evidence from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER, University of Essex) which mentioned research using our data (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/125520/pdf/), evidence from the Manchester Institute of Education which mentions research using our data (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/125445/pdf/), and evidence from CLOSER which mentioned research using our data (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/125549/pdf/)
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/125352/pdf/

Description	House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published our evidence as part of its inquiry into outdoor and indoor air quality targets
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published our evidence as part of its inquiry into outdoor and indoor air quality targets. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/121521/pdf/

Description	House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published evidence from UCL Social Biobehavioural Research Group, which mentions Understanding Society as a source, as part of its inquiry into Prevention in health and social care
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published evidence from UCL Social Biobehavioural Research Group, which mentions Understanding Society as a source, and cites research using UKHLS, as part of its inquiry into Prevention in health and social care. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7205/prevention-in-health-and-social-care/publications/written...

Description	House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published evidence from the Fatherhood Institute which mentioned Understanding Society data as part of the committee's Men's health inquiry
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123275/pdf/

Description	House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry publishes evidence citing Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This research has been commissioned as part of the CASE (Culture and Sport Evidence) programme, a joint programme of strategic research led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in collaboration with Arts Council England, Historic England and Sport England. The CASE programme has been developed to directly influence culture and sport policy through collection of social and economic research. This research explored the potential of the Understanding Society surveys to help us build understanding of relationships between culture and sports engagement and young people's health and wellbeing.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7981/children-young-people-and-the-built-environment/publicati...

Description	House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry publishes evidence citing Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This research has been commissioned as part of the CASE (Culture and Sport Evidence) programme, a joint programme of strategic research led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in collaboration with Arts Council England, Historic England and Sport England. The CASE programme has been developed to directly influence culture and sport policy through collection of social and economic research. This research explored the potential of the Understanding Society surveys to help us build understanding of relationships between culture and sports engagement and young people's health and wellbeing.
URL	https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/download-file/Culture%20sport%20and%20wellbeing%2...

Description	House of Commons Library uses our data in its Poverty in the UK: Statistics research briefing
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	House of Commons Library uses our data in chapter 5 (Poverty dynamics: persistent poverty and entering and exiting poverty) of its Poverty in the UK: Statistics research briefing, brings the data to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07096/

Description	House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes evidence from Sport for Development Coalition which cites research using our data
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/111047/html/

Description	House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes our written evidence
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes our written evidence to its Tackling homelessness inquiry, 19 December 2024
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8577/tackling-homelessness/publications/written-evidence/

Description	House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee publishes evidence from CLOSER which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to the Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 inquiry
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee publishes evidence from CLOSER which mentions research using Understanding Society submitted to the Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 inquiry. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/119362/pdf/

Description	House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee publishes our evidence with its adult social care report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee was appointed to consider the planning for, and delivery of, adult social care services in England. Its findings will inform government planning and policy on this issue.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/580/adult-social-care-committee/publications/

Description	House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee publishes Understanding Society evidence as part of its inquiry into digital exclusion, and mentions our data in its final report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee publishes Understanding Society evidence (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/118778/html/) as part of its inquiry into digital exclusion, and mentions our data in its final report. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/40662/documents/198365/default/

Description	House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee publishes Understanding Society's written evidence as part of its inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee published our written evidence as part of its inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living, bringing it to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7296/digital-exclusion-and-the-cost-of-living/publications/

Description	IPPR used Understanding Society data in its Watching me, watching you: Worker surveillance in the UK after the pandemic
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ippr.org/articles/worker-surveillance-after-the-pandemic

Description	IPPR uses Understanding Society and cites research using our data in its For public health and public finances: Reforming health and social care
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ippr.org/articles/for-public-health-and-public-finances

Description	IPPR uses Understanding Society in Healthy people, prosperous lives: The first interim report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ippr.org/articles/healthy-people-prosperous-lives

Description	IPPR uses Understanding Society in Tipping the scales: The social and economic harm of poverty in Scotland
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ippr.org/articles/tipping-the-scales

Description	IPPR uses our data in report on Health and Prosperity
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	IPPR uses our data in its report, Our greatest asset: The final report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity, 17 September 2024: The nation's health challenges have reached historic proportions, and change is needed. Led by an understanding that the boldest health reforms only come when there is a strong social and economic case for them, this commission has spent the last three years testing one simple idea: that better health is Britain's greatest untapped route to prosperity.
URL	https://www.ippr.org/articles/our-greatest-asset

Description	Independent Age report: Longer-term pensioner poverty and poverty transitions: A quantitative analysis of the Understanding Society survey
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.independentage.org/longer-term-pensioner-poverty-and-poverty-transitions-a-quantitative-...

Description	Industrial Injuries Advisory Council cites research using our data in COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council is a non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, and cites research using our data in its COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts report, published by Department of Health & Social Care on 16 November 2022
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-and-occupational-impacts/covid-19-and-occupation...

Description	Insights report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/findings/

Description	Institute for Employment Studies cited research using Understanding Society in its Parental Rights Survey 2019
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/parental-rights-survey-2019

Description	Institute for Employment Studies cites research using Understanding Society in report Exploring the interactions between job quality, industries and health
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Employment Studies cites research using Understanding Society (Long work hours, weekend working and depressive symptoms in men and women: findings from a UK population-based study) in Exploring the interactions between job quality, industries and health report for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives, 22 November 2024
URL	https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/exploring-interactions-between-job-quality-industries-...

Description	Institute for Employment Studies uses UKHLS in Supporting healthy lifestyles report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Employment Studies uses UKHLS in Supporting healthy lifestyles among young adults in the workplace, 17 September 2024: Early adulthood is an important period to establish healthy behaviour patterns for later life. This is an age when individuals tend to have poor diet and low levels of physical activity, and a time of weight gain and increasing mental illness. In addition, there have been recent concerns about high sickness absence and high economic inactivity among young adults. The workplace has potential to be an environment which supports a healthy lifestyle, enabling young adults to develop healthy behaviours, reducing sickness absence and preventing later life chronic disease. However, there has previously been little focus on how workplaces can support healthy lifestyles for young adults. This research aimed to better understand the needs of young adults (age 16-24 years), learn from the perspectives of young adults, employers and wider stakeholders, and identify practical intervention opportunities for future research.
URL	https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/supporting-healthy-lifestyles-among-young-adults-workp...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society data in its A blueprint for a better tax treatment of pensions report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/blueprint-better-tax-treatment-pensions

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society data in the Reforming inheritance tax chapter of its Green Budget 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/reforming-inheritance-tax

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in Student loans in England explained and options for reform
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/articles/student-loans-england-explained-and-options-reform

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Assessing the Welsh Government's consultation on reforms to council tax report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/assessing-welsh-governments-consultation-reforms-council-tax

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Firm concentration & job design: the case of schedule flexible work arrangements working paper
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/firm-concentration-job-design-case-schedule-flexible-work-arrangemen...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in its Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic working paper
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/parental-labour-market-instability-and-childrens-mental-health-durin...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in report on careers of education leavers since COVID-19
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/are-kids-alright-early-careers-education-leavers-covid-19-pandemic

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in the Gender, immigration and ethnicity chapter of its Deaton Review of Inequalities
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/gender-immigration-and-ethnicity/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society in working paper 'Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK'
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The IFS is the UK's leading independent economics research institute. It analyses and informs economic and social policy decisions and helps policymakers - and those who hold them accountable - understand the impact that their choices will have on individuals, households and businesses.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-working-age-disability-benefits-recipients-uk

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society in Wealth and welfare across generations
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/wealth-and-welfare-across-generations

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in The effects of youth clubs on education and crime
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in The effects of youth clubs on education and crime, 12 November 2024: Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, report provides first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/effects-youth-clubs-education-and-crime

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in its Sociological measures of inequality report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/sociological-measures-of-inequality/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society data in its The distribution of public service spending report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/the-distribution-of-public-service-spending/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in Deaton Review of Inequality
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The chapter forms part of a major project, the Deaton Review, led by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton, which aims to understand what drives inequality in the UK, and what can be done to mitigate it. The review aims to be "the most ambitious study of its kind yet attempted, we will aim to understand inequality not just of income, but of health, wealth, political participation, and opportunity; and not just between rich and poor but by gender, ethnicity, geography, age and education. We will cover the full breadth of the population - not just what is happening at the very top and very bottom. We will examine what concerns people about inequality, what aspects of it are perceived to be fair and unfair, and how those concerns relate to the actual levels of inequality and the processes by which they are created. We will examine the big forces that drive inequalities - from technological change, globalisation, labour markets and corporate behaviour to family structures and education systems."
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/families-and-inequalities/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/do-work-search-requirements-work-evidence-uk-reform-targeting-single...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/intensive-margin-labour-supply-and-dynamic-effects-work-transfers

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in The gender gap in pension saving
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/gender-gap-pension-saving

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in When and why do employees change their pension saving?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/when-and-why-do-employees-change-their-pension-saving

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Inequalities in disability report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/inequalities-in-disability/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Intergenerational mobility in the UK report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/intergenerational-mobility-in-the-uk/

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022 report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Institute for Fiscal Studies used Understanding Society data in its Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022 report, making findings on household incomes during the pandemic, and trends in child poverty and material deprivation before the COVID-19 pandemic. The IFS is the UK's leading independent economics research institute, analysing and informing economic and social policy decisions and to help policymakers - and those who hold them accountable - understand the impact that their choices will have on individuals, households and businesses. Its initiatives such as the Mirlees Review, the IFS Green Budget and the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, have been guiding politicians and civil servants in implementing effective economic policies for over 50 years. The IFS communicates its work widely on a national and international scale, providing independent commentary and analysis to stakeholders in the UK, Europe and in low- and middle-income countries around the world, opening up policy debate.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-poverty-and-inequality-uk-2022

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Long COVID and the labour market report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The IFS is the UK's leading independent economics research institute, analysing and informing economic and social policy decisions and to help policymakers - and those who hold them accountable - understand the impact that their choices will have on individuals, households and businesses. Its initiatives such as the Mirlees Review, the IFS Green Budget and the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, have been guiding politicians and civil servants in implementing effective economic policies for over 50 years. The IFS communicates its work widely on a national and international scale, providing independent commentary and analysis to stakeholders in the UK, Europe and in low- and middle-income countries around the world, opening up policy debate.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/long-covid-and-labour-market

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Stimulus payments and private transfers working paper
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society, and specifically our Covid data, in its working paper, 'Stimulus payments and private transfers', which reports that private transfers can affect the spending response to stimulus payments, as those receiving income windfalls may transfer resources to other households in greater financial need. The results suggest that public payments crowd out private transfers, which may be useful in informing HM Treasury decisions in future.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/stimulus-payments-and-private-transfers

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data for Adequacy of future retirement incomes report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data for Adequacy of future retirement incomes: new evidence for private sector employees report, 16 September 2024. Report undertakes new modelling to examine the adequacy of pension saving for current generations of private sector employees.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/adequacy-future-retirement-incomes-new-evidence-private-sector-emplo...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in House price rises and borrowing to invest
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in House price rises and borrowing to invest, 27 March 2024. Report proposes a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/house-price-rises-and-borrowing-invest-1

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in Pressures on public sector pay
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in Pressures on public sector pay, part of its Green Budget 2024 (https://ifs.org.uk/collections/ifs-green-budget-2024), 27 September 2024 (with a brief mention in their Green Budget 2024: Full report, 10 October 2024): Over a fifth of government spending goes on pay. We examine recruitment and retention challenges which mean that pressures could mount going forward.
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/pressures-public-sector-pay

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in its Characteristics and consequences of families with low levels of financial wealth report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/characteristics-and-consequences-families-low-levels-financial-wealt...

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data in its Living standards and inequality report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-and-inequality-chapter

Description	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data to calculate lifetime student loan repayments
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data to calculate lifetime student loan repayments in its Scottish Budget: Higher education spending (p.15), 20 February 2024 (see also The IFS Scottish Budget Report - 2024-25, 22 February 2024). How much does the Scottish Government spend on higher education, and what challenges does it face on university funding and living cost support?
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/ifs-scottish-budget-report-2024-25

Description	Institute of Employment Studies used Understanding Society extensively in its report, Caught in a gap - the role of employers in enabling women to build better pensions
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/caught-gap-%E2%80%93-role-employers-enabling-women-bui...

Description	Institute of Public Health and Well-being - Inaugural session of the new Mental Health Research Group
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	The event was attended by interdisciplinary researchers from various departments at the University. The discussion held was invaluable in advancing this area of research and facilitating networking opportunities among academics.

Description	International Economic Association World Congress in Medellin
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	International Health Economics Association (IHEA) Biennial World Congress in Cape Town
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	International Longevity Centre UK cites Understanding Society data in its report, One hundred not out: A route map for long lives
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ilcuk.org.uk/route-map-for-long-lives/

Description	Invited speaker at "Social Mobility and Education", meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science and Policy (Birgitta Rabe)
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation cites Understanding Society in its UK Poverty 2023 report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/work/uk-poverty-2023-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation used Understanding Society data in its series of briefings, What protects people from very deep poverty, and what makes it more likely?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty-and-destitution/what-protects-people-from-very-deep-poverty-and-...

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation used our data in its Poverty in Scotland 2023 report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Joseph Rowntree Foundation used our data in its Poverty in Scotland 2023 report an example of our data being used by a third sector organisation seeking to change government policy and practice.
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/work/poverty-in-scotland-2023

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data for Anxiety nation? Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/anxiety-nation-economic-insecurity-and-mental-distress-2020s-britain

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in UK Poverty 2024
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in UK Poverty 2024: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, 23 January 2024: "The UK is entering this election year with unacceptably high levels of poverty, appallingly high for some groups. We need a coherent plan with creative policies to end poverty in the UK. This report looks at the current situation across different groups and regions, and the future prospects for poverty in the UK."
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in its The future of care needs report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in its The future of care needs: a whole systems approach, 22 August 2024: "This new approach brings together action to improve paid care with support for unpaid carers and social networks."
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/care/the-future-of-care-needs-a-whole-systems-approach

Description	Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data in its report, The caring penalty
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.jrf.org.uk/care/the-caring-penalty

Description	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care use Understanding Society as a data source
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The What older people want document is a rapid evidence assessment on what older people want, and can afford, when it comes to their housing choices when looking to move
URL	https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673f1d09b3f0df6d2ebaf02d/What_older_people_want_resea...

Description	Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in Always on your mind report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in Always on your mind - Preventing persistent money and mental health problems, 20 March 2024 (see Annex on methodology). Report looks at the impact of struggling with financial and mental health difficulties over time. It shows that when we experience mental health problems on a long term basis it makes it more likely that we will also experience financial difficulty, and vice versa.
URL	https://www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/publications/always-on-your-mind/

Description	Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in its report, In the public interest? on debt collection
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Money and Mental Health Policy Institute uses our data in its report, In the public interest? The psychological toll of local and national government debt collection practices, 9 September 2024. Report looks at the psychological harms caused by public sector debt collection practices, particularly for those with mental health problems.
URL	https://www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/publications/in-the-public-interest/

Description	My Home Life England: Researching older people's experiences of living in residential care.
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The research has: * led to the design of a new workshop 'help care teams reflect upon these 6 'thriving' themes and develop ideas and practical tips for improving practice.' * featured in the Caring times https://caring-times.co.uk/magazines/caring-times-february-2025/
URL	https://myhomelife.org.uk/thriving-in-residential-care-research-older-people-care-homes/

Description	National Foundation for Educational Research uses our data in its Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2024
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	National Foundation for Educational Research uses our data to call for teaching to be "competitive with other jobs in pay and workload" in its Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2024, 20 March 2024. NFER's annual Teacher Labour Market report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, monitors the progress the education system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge by measuring the key indicators of teacher supply and working conditions.
URL	https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/teacher-labour-market-in-england-annual-report-2024/

Description	Nest Insight uses our data to investigate automatic pension enrolment
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Nest Insight (an offshoot of the National Employment Savings Trust) uses our data in its How does pension automatic enrolment affect savings?, 1 August 2024. Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions is a strong policy intervention designed to address shortfalls in retirement saving among the working age population. A broad evidence base has established that the policy substantially increases pension participation rates, leading to higher average saving within the pension. However, it is possible that the effect of automatic enrolment in generating new saving within the pension might be offset by less saving elsewhere within the individual's finances. This project focused on how pension automatic enrolment affects other forms of saving.
URL	https://www.nestinsight.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/How-does-pensions-automatic-enrolment-affe...

Description	Nevin Economic Research Institute used Understanding Society in its How are we unequal? The adjusted gender pay gap in Northern Ireland working paper
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.nerinstitute.net/research/how-are-we-unequal-adjusted-gender-pay-gap-northern-ireland

Description	Northern Health Science Alliance used Understanding Society in Parallel Pandemic - COVID-19 and Mental Health report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The report is backed by the NHSA's mental health trust members: Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust and Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust. It will be used to help shape policy and practice in the region in tackling the aftermath of the pandemic
URL	https://www.thenhsa.co.uk/2022/07/parallel-pandemic-report/

Description	Northern Health Science Alliance uses Understanding Society in Overcoming Health Inequalities report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The report shows that people in England's most deprived neighbourhoods work longer hours than those in the rest of the country but live shorter lives with more years in ill health costing an estimated £29.8bn a year to the economy in lost productivity. People living in these communities were also 46% more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in the rest of England. The findings appear in a joint report by the All-Parliamentary Party Group for 'left behind' neighbourhoods and Northern Health Science Alliance, so we nknow that these results will be seen by parliamentarians and policy makers.
URL	https://www.thenhsa.co.uk/2022/01/new-report-shows-almost-30bn-health-cost-of-englands-most-deprived...

Description	Northern Health Science Alliance uses our data in its Woman of the North report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Northern Health Science Alliance uses our data in its Woman of the North: Inequality, health and work, 2 September 2024: Women in the North of England face unequal challenges and inequalities in their lives and health compared to those in the rest of the country. They are more likely to work more hours for less pay and to be in worse health. On top of this, they are more likely to be an unpaid carer, live in poverty and to have fewer qualifications. The inequity between women living in the North of England and those in the rest of the country has grown over the past decade harming women's quality of life, work, their families and communities
URL	https://www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/2024/09/Woman-of-the-North-report.pdf

Description	Northern Ireland Executive mentions research using Understanding Society in Pensions Dashboards Regulations
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Department for Communities of the Northern Ireland Executive cites research using our data on pensions/ethnicity in The Pensions Dashboards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (p.27), 8 December 2022
URL	https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/pensions-dashboards-regulations-northern-ireland-2022

Description	Northern Ireland Executive's Department for Communities used Understanding Society in Intermediate Rent Policy - screening
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Northern Ireland Executive's Department for Communities used Understanding Society in Intermediate Rent Policy - screening. The policy aims to achieve an increase in the supply of affordable homes for rent for lower-moderate income households.
URL	https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/intermediate-rent-policy-screening

Description	Northern Ireland Executive's Department for the Economy cites research using Understanding Society data in its Skills Research Digest Q3 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Northern Ireland Executive's Department for the Economy cites research using Understanding Society data in its Skills Research Digest Q3 2023
URL	https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/publications/q3-2023-research-digests

Description	Northern Ireland's Department for the Economy uses Understanding Society in its report The impact of parental leave policies on labour market outcomes
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Northern Ireland's Department for the Economy uses Understanding Society in its econometric analysis for its report The impact of parental leave policies on labour market outcomes. This is an example of a government department using our data. https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/economy/parental-leave-policies-econometric-analysis-report.pdf
URL	https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/publications/impact-parental-leave-policies-labour-market-outcomes

Description	Nuffield Council on Bioethics refers to Independent Age research using our data in its The future of ageing report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications/future-of-ageing

Description	Nuffield Trust uses our data in Falling short: How far have we come in improving support for unpaid carers in England?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating debate. Its recommendations will be seen by parliamentarians and policymakers and others
URL	https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/falling-short-how-far-have-we-come-in-improving-support-fo...

Description	OECD cited research using Understanding Society in its Socio-economic and ethnic health inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes across OECD countries working paper
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/socio-economic-and-ethnic-health-inequa...

Description	OECD cites Understanding Society as a data source in its Teleworking through the gender looking glass working paper
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/teleworking-through-the-gender-looking-...

Description	OECD mentioned Understanding Society in its COVID-19 and policy for science report
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/covid-19-and-policy-for-science_8f86e60b-en

Description	OECD used Understanding Society in its report Measuring Population Mental Health
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/measuring-population-mental-health_5171...

Description	OECD used evidence from Understanding Society in its Retaining Talent at All Ages report
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/retaining-talent-at-all-ages_00dbdd06-en

Description	OECD uses Understanding Society in On Shaky Ground? Income Instability and Economic Insecurity in Europe
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/on-shaky-ground-income-instability-and-...

Description	ONS cites Joseph Rowntree Foundation report in analysis of Cost of living and depression in adults
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Office for National Statistics cites research using our data in its analysis into the prevalence of depression among adults in Great Britain in autumn 2022. Exploring this in the context of the rising cost of living.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/mentalhealth/articles/costof...

Description	ONS uses our data in statistics on Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This ONS analysis looks at characteristics of patients treated in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services and whether patients are representative of the population with a probable Common Mental Disorder (CMD) as defined by the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) in England. This identifies groups with lower access to IAPT to help to improve the coverage of the service.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/mentalhealth/articles/sociod...

Description	ONS uses our data to measure happiness in partner relationships
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	ONS uses our data to measure happiness in partner relationships, and depression/anxiety, in its UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard, 8 August 2024. An overview of well-being in the UK on an individual, community and national level. Considers change across 59 measures of well-being, grouped by 10 topic areas.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/ukmeasuresofnationalwellbeing...

Description	Office for Budget Responsibility mentioned Understanding Society as a data sourcen for government departments
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Office for Budget Responsibility publishes letters from DfE, DHSC, DWP and HMRC to HMT on evaluation plans for policies which mention Understanding Society as a data source, 28 October 2024
URL	https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/Letters_from_Departments_to_HM_Treasury_evaluation_plans.pdf

Description	Office for National Statistics "Income and earnings statistics guide" cites my work
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/methodologies/...

Description	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society for Public services productivity estimates
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Office for National Statistics produces updated measures of output, inputs, and productivity for public services in the UK between 1997 and 2019. Includes service area breakdown, as well as impact of quality adjustment and latest revisions.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/publicservicesproductivity

Description	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Income and earnings statistics guide
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Income and earnings statistics guide
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/methodologies/...

Description	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Mental health, current and upcoming work: March 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in Mental health, current and upcoming work: March 2023, indicating that our data is being used by ONS to guide government policy and practice on mental health.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/articles/...

Description	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in its UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society in its UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard. The dashboard is a visual overview of how people in the UK are doing across 10 domains of national well-being, bringing together the latest data on how people in the UK are doing as individuals, communities, and a nation. It also considers how sustainable our well-being is for the future.
URL	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/ukmeasuresofnationalwellbeing...

Description	Office for Students Student Survey Expert Group
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/

Description	Office of Manpower Economics research, What teachers do after leaving & implications for pay-setting, cites research using Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-teachers-do-after-leaving-implications-for-pay-setti...

Description	Onward used Understanding Society as a data source for its 2023 Social Fabric Index
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ukonward.com/reports/2023-social-fabric-index/

Description	Onward used Understanding Society in its Levelling Up Locally report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ukonward.com/reports/levelling-up-locally/

Description	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development cites research using Understanding Society in culture and creative economy report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. Its report provides an overview of cultural and creative sectors in the Glasgow City Region, highlighting trends in employment, business dynamics, entrepreneurship and financing as well as cultural participation. It offers analysis and recommendations to support the region in continuing to build on its local cultural and creative ecosystem.
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/industry-and-services/culture-and-the-creative-economy-in-glasgow-city...

Description	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) uses our data in its report, How to Make Societies Thrive? Coordinating Approaches to Promote Well-being and Mental Health
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/how-to-make-societies-thrive-coordinati...

Description	Our COVID-19 data is cited in the French Government's Observatoire National du Suicide report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	This official report from a branch of French government will help to guide its Covid/mental health policy
URL	https://www.vie-publique.fr/rapport/286200-rapport-observatoire-du-suicide-limpact-de-la-crise-du-co...

Description	Our evidence to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee published with their Meeting housing demand report, and cited in the report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/8354/documents/85292/default/

Description	POST cites research using our data in its Affordable Housing 'horizon scanning'
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	POST cites research using our data in its Affordable Housing 'horizon scanning', 19 December 2024 (specifically cited: Kate Dotsikas, David Osborn, Kate Walters & Jennifer Dykxhoorn, Trajectories of housing affordability and mental health problems: a population-based cohort study, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02314-x; Will Raderman, Nina T. Rogers, Emily T. Murray, Variations in housing affordability and health relationships by measurement and sub-population assessment, 2021: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251094)
URL	https://post.parliament.uk/affordable-housing/

Description	Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology cited research using our data in its Teacher recruitment, retention, training and development report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The horizon scan identified recruitment, retention, training and development of the teaching workforce as being of relevance to parliament over the next 5 years. As education is devolved, this article focuses on education in England unless otherwise specified. Government data shows that the number of teachers in state-funded schools has increased over the last decade, from 441,000 teachers (full-time equivalent) in 2010/11 compared to 469,000 in 2023/24. However, the increase in teachers has been at a slower rate than pupil numbers, with accompanying rises in classroom sizes and teaching vacancies. There are a range of financial and other incentives in place to encourage recruitment and retention and, in 2019, the government introduced a new Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy.[4] Incentives for teacher training and development include financial bursaries, student loan reimbursements, funded early-career support, and leadership qualifications.
URL	https://post.parliament.uk/teacher-recruitment-retention-training-and-development/

Description	Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology named Chris Coates, Understanding Society, as a contributor to its research briefing Consumer debt and mental health
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	We provided evidence to POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology), which named Chris Coates, Understanding Society, as a contributor to its research briefing Consumer debt and mental health, 21 October 2024
URL	https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0732/

Description	Participation in Goverment Statisical Service Hamonisation network
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/government-statistical-service-and-statistician-group/c...

Description	Participation in Goverment Statisical Service Hamonisation network
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/government-statistical-service-and-statistician-group/c...

Description	Participation in the Event Data Triggered Collection workshop on Pregnancy
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Pensions Policy Institute uses our data, particularly on low earners, in its report, Every little helps: Should low earners be encouraged to save?
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.pensionspolicyinstitute.org.uk/research-library/research-reports/2023/2023-08-02-technic...

Description	Presentation Four: Understanding Society (UKHLS)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	Productivity Institute cites Government Equalities Office research using UKHLS
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Productivity Institute cites Government Equalities Office research, The gender pay gap in the UK: evidence from the UKHLS (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-gender-pay-gap-in-the-uk-evidencefrom-the-ukhls), in Part-time work and productivity, 15 March
URL	https://www.productivity.ac.uk/research/part-time-work-and-productivity/

Description	Public Health Scotland cited research using Understanding Society in its COVID-19, physical activity, inequalities evidence review
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
URL	https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-physical-activity-inequalities-evidence-revi...

Description	Public Health Scotland uses Understanding Society in The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland and England
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Public Health Scotland cited research using Understanding Society in its report The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland and England
URL	https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-alcohol-consum...

Description	RAND Corporation cites reseahc using our data in report on hybrid work and employee wellbeing
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The global policy think tank RAND Corporation referred to research on flexible working/stress biomarkers using our data in Employee Wellbeing, Work Behaviours and Work Outcomes in a Hybrid Work Context, published in October 2022. RAND has over 400 clients in 48 countries worldwide, so its reach with a report of this kind is considerable, and the work has relevance for employers in any field
URL	https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2083-1.html

Description	RAND Corporation uses Understanding Society data in its report, The societal and economic burden of insomnia in adults
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2166-1.html

Description	RSA used Understanding Society in 'How a universal basic income can address the crisis in anxiety and depression'
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	New research from the RSA in partnership with a multidisciplinary team led by Matthew Johnson, Professor in Politics at Northumbria University, explores the possible benefits of a universal basic income in the UK. The report is supported by a foreword from Rt Hon Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales, who shares that in Wales the basic income trial will: "Give [young people] choices - they will be able to decide whether they want to undertake education, develop businesses, grow their skills, make plans and decide how they want to experience life as they make the transition to adulthood." The report's policy recommendations include the finding that Universal Basic Income is affordable, and that "policymakers should commit to trials of Universal Basic Income".
URL	https://www.thersa.org/reports/universal-basic-income-anxiety-depression-mental-health-crisis-interi...

Description	Research using Understanding Society cited in the House of Commons library's briefing, Loneliness and isolation in elderly and vulnerable people
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Department for Culture, Media and Sport research (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/factors-associated-with-loneliness-in-adults-in-england/investigating-factors-associated-with-loneliness-in-adults-in-england#what-types-of-people-are-particularly-vulnerable-to-experiencing-loneliness) using Understanding Society was cited in the House of Commons library's briefing, Loneliness and isolation in elderly and vulnerable people.
URL	https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2023-0215/

Description	Resolution Foundation used Understanding Society data in its report, Pressure on pay, prices and properties - How families were faring in October 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/pressure-on-pay-prices-and-properties/

Description	Resolution Foundation uses our data in Firm foundations report on flexible contracts
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Resolution Foundation uses our data in Firm foundations - Understanding why employers use flexible contracts (p.10), 25 April 2024. Although there is a growing body of research on the impact of flexible contracts on workers, there is far less understanding about what drives employers to hire staff on such terms. In this briefing note - the first in a two-year research programme on precarious work, supported by Unbound Philanthropy - we seek to redress this by drawing on a survey of more than 750 employers fielded in April 2024 exploring why they use flexible contracts, and what might reduce their reliance on such contracts in the years to come.
URL	https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/firm-foundations/

Description	Resolution Foundation uses our data in We've only just begun report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Resolution Foundation uses our data in We've only just begun - Action to improve young people's mental health, education and employment, 26 February 2024. Report is on action to improve young people's mental health, education and employment
URL	https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/weve-only-just-begun/

Description	Resolution Foundation uses our data in its Low Pay Britain 2023 report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/reports/low-pay-britain-2023/

Description	Resolution Foundation uses our data in its report Tax planning - How to match higher taxes with better taxes
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/reports/tax-planning/

Description	Runnymede Trust uses our data in its Dear Stephen: Race and belonging 30 years on report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/dear-stephen-race-and-belonging-30-years-on

Description	Scientific Advisor for NatCen on Education & Outcomes Panel Study B (primary school) (Birgitta Rabe)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact	I advise on questionnaire design, improving its relevance and quality for use by the DfE and other policy makers.

Description	Scientific Advisor for NatCen on Education & Outcomes Panel Study C (secondary school) (Birgitta Rabe)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact	I advise on questionnaire design, improving its relevance and quality for use by the DfE and other policy makers.

Description	Scottish Government Labour Market Evidence Programme
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Whilst the evidence programme will inform the Scottish Government labour market ambitions, translating this into specific policies will happen over time. Two Understanding Society evidence briefings have already been shared with the Scottish Government - one on work and health and the other on economic inactivity. These issues are currently being examined, with detailed policy proposals expected in the near future.
URL	https://www.gov.scot/publications/employment-our-vision/pages/labour-market-ambitions/

Description	Scottish Government cites research using Understanding Society in Adult lifetime skills: a literature review
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Scottish Government cites research using Understanding Society (Adult learning and life satisfaction, What Works Wellbeing, 2018; Learning ladders: adult training and progression out of low pay, Social Mobility Commission, 2020) in Adult lifetime skills: a literature review, bringing the data and its use to the attention of government and parliament
URL	https://www.gov.scot/publications/adult-lifetime-skills-literature-review/

Description	Scottish Government cites use of our data in its report, Scottish Child Payment and the labour market
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	This publication presents Scottish Government analysis of how Scottish Child Payment interacts with the labour market in Scotland including how it impacts labour market decisions of its clients.
URL	https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-child-payment-labour-market/documents/

Description	Scottish Government uses Understanding Society in its Persistent Poverty in Scotland 2010-2021 official statistics
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Scottish Government uses Understanding Society as a measure in its Persistent Poverty in Scotland 2010-2021 official statistics
URL	https://data.gov.scot/poverty/persistent.html

Description	Scottish Government uses Understanding Society to calculate statistics on persistent poverty
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Scottish Government uses Understanding Society to estimate the proportion of people, children, working-age adults and pensioners living in persistent poverty in Scotland and in the other countries in the UK. The estimates are used to monitor progress in reducing poverty.
URL	https://data.gov.scot/poverty/2022/persistent.html

Description	Scottish Government uses our data for Vaping - understanding prevalence and trends among adults and children: research
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Scottish Government uses our data as a source for its own analysis in 'Vaping - understanding prevalence and trends among adults and children: research'.
URL	https://www.gov.scot/publications/understanding-prevalence-trends-vaping-adults-children/

Description	Seminar for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology trainees that are currently using Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	Social Mobility Commission uses Understanding Society data in its State of the Nation 2023: People and Places policy paper
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Social Mobility Commission uses Understanding Society data in its State of the Nation 2023: People and Places policy paper to calculate various measures of social mobility. This isd an example of a government body using our data for its own research. The report builds on the new Social Mobility Index, which gives a much more systematic way of measuring social mobility across the whole of the UK. This report is then seen and acted on by the government.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2023-people-and-places

Description	Social Mobility Commission uses our data in its State of the Nation report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The Social Mobility Commission reports on the state of social mobility in the country, using a new framework and setting out a new approach for the government to use to tackle the issue
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2022-a-fresh-approach-to-social-mobil...

Description	Spirit of 2012 uses Understanding Society in its Volunteering Together: Inclusive Volunteering and Disabled People report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The new National Disability Strategy is an opportunity to address the inequalities faced by disabled people. There are a number of new initiatives that aim to build on surge in some forms of volunteering during the lockdowns. This research will help organisations better understand the background and needs of disabled people, open up positive volunteering opportunities for disabled people and address harmful stereotypes and disparities. These are issues that need to be tackled if disabled people are to participate on equal terms in society.
URL	https://spiritof2012.org.uk/insights/volunteering-together-inclusive-volunteering-and-disabled-peopl...

Description	Sustained Pressure report by Bright Blue think tank on benefit claimants and wellbeing uses Understanding Society
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	http://www.brightblue.org.uk/anvar-sarygulov-sustained-pressure/

Description	The Health Foundation Evidence Hub on what drives health inequalities
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The Evidence Hub provides detailed information on the factors that are driving health inequalities - encouraging other sectors and organisations to think how they can help tackle health inequalities.
URL	https://www.health.org.uk/evidence-hub

Description	The Wales Centre for Public Policy uses our wellbeing data as a source for Data Analysis to Support Multi-Agency Working for vulnerable children and families
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact	The Wales Centre for Public Policy uses our wellbeing data as a source for Data Analysis to Support Multi-Agency Working for vulnerable children and families, 12 January 2024. Multi-agency data can be used to identify trends, risks and opportunities, and to inform the development of effective policies and services for vulnerable children and families. The report makes recommendations on better use of data.
URL	https://wcpp.org.uk/publication/data-analysis-to-support-multi-agency-working-for-vulnerable-childre...

Description	The effect of incentives on the willingness to participate in a gamified app study - promotion of Understanding Society data
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL	https://massworkshop.org/5th-mass-workshop-in-2024/

Description	Think tank Onward uses our data to measure charitable donations
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Think tank Onward uses our data to measure charitable donations by income in Giving Back Better (p.28), 24 January 2024
URL	https://www.ukonward.com/reports/giving-back-better-unlocking-philanthropy/

Description	Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education uses Understanding Society in The value of higher education report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	TASO (Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education) uses Understanding Society in The value of higher education report. TASO is funded by Office for Students, and the report focuses on the impact on disadvantaged young people graduating from higher education
URL	https://taso.org.uk/news-item/new-report-the-value-of-higher-education/

Description	Treasury Committee publishes evidence using Understanding Society as part of inquiry
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Treasury Committee publishes USDAW's evidence to its Acceptance of Cash inquiry, which cites Age UK's (June 2024) use of Understanding Society in Facts and figures about digital inclusion and older people, 17 December 2024
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/131983/pdf/

Description	Trialling Event-Triggered Data Collection in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel: Response and Measurement Quality - promotion of Understanding Society data
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cesr/cipher-2024/

Description	Trussell Trust cites Understanding Society in evidence to Work and Pensions Committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Trussell Trust cited Understanding Society in para 33, p.10 of its written evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee inquiry 'Health assessments for benefits', which published its report in June 2022 [https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1468/health-assessments-for-benefits/publications/]. The Trust's evidence concludes with five points of policy development, which are more likely to have fed through to DWP as a result of appearing in the submission.
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/42079/html/

Description	UK Data Service Advisory Committee
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

Description	UK Health Security Agency cites research using Understanding Society in its Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in the UK: a rapid mapping review - supplementary material
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	UK Health Security Agency cites research using Understanding Society in its Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in the UK: a rapid mapping review - supplementary material. This is an example of a government body citing research using our data in a report prepared for government use.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-to-reduce-trans...

Description	UKDS Advisory Board Member
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

Description	Understanding Society health data mentioned in Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper, A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://ifs.org.uk/publications/coefficient-variation-ordered-categorical-data-analyzing-relative-he...

Description	Understanding Society used in Compass report, Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Understanding Society data was used for original research in Compass/Northumbria University report, Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure. They also cited research using our data: Davillas A, Jones AM, Benzeval M. The Income-Health Gradient: Evidence From Self-Reported Health and Biomarkers in Understanding Society, Panel Data Econometrics, 2019: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780128158593000226; and Parra-Mujica F, Johnson E, Reed H, Cookson R, Johnson M. Understanding the relationship between income and mental health among 16- to 24-year-olds: Analysis of 10 waves (2009-2020) of Understanding Society to enable modelling of income interventions, PLoS ONE
URL	https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/treating-causes-not-symptoms-basic-income-as-a-public-...

Description	Understanding Society used in developing the Department for Education's SEND futures longitudinal study
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Department for Education used our data, bringing it to the attention of government, and influencing government policy
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-futures-longitudinal-study-discovery-phase

Description	Understanding Society used in evidence to Low Pay Commission Report 2023
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Low Pay Commission reports that trade union Usdaw cites Understanding Society in its evidence to the Low Pay Commission Report 2023 (paragraph 5.42, p.110), 4 March 2024
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-pay-commission-report-2023

Description	Understanding Society work cited by the Department for Work and Pensions in their methodology for estimating poverty dynamics
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	The Government has improved its monitoring of poverty by taking into account the data quality findings of my paper in its methodology.
URL	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2010-to-2020/income-dynamics-background-inf...

Description	United Nations Development Proghramme cited research using Understanding Society in Human Development Report 2021-22
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)'s Human Development Report 2021-22: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World is the latest in its series of global Human Development Reports published since 1990 as independent and analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.
URL	https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2021-22

Description	Wales Centre for Public Policy cites research using Understanding Society in its Loneliness Inequalities Evidence Review
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.wcpp.org.uk/publication/loneliness-inequalities-evidence-review/

Description	Wellesley Institute cites research using our data in Wealth inequality, health and health equity
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Wellesley Institute mentions research using our data (Eleni Karagiannaki, The scale and drivers of ethnic wealth gaps across the wealth distribution in the UK: evidence from Understanding Society: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/119885/1/III_Working_Paper_97_Karagiannaki.pdf) in Wealth inequality, health and health equity (note 55, p.6), 27 March 2024. We know income is a social determinant of health, and income inequality has been attributed to poor health outcomes. But what about wealth? Wealth inequality has received less analysis, but some suggest it is equally, if not more, important for understanding health inequities. This think piece offers an examination of why wealth inequality matters for health and some potential directions for reducing the wealth gap in order to achieve health equity.
URL	https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/publications/think-piece-wealth-inequality-health-and-health-equi...

Description	Welsh Government cites research using Understanding Society in its Science evidence advice NHS in 10+ years report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.gov.wales/report-projections-health-evidence-and-policy-recommendations

Description	Welsh Government cites research using our COVID-19 Survey in its Impact of COVID-19 protections in Wales report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	The Welsh Government cited research using our COVID-19 Survey in its Impact of COVID-19 protections in Wales report.
URL	https://www.gov.wales/impact-covid-19-protections-wales

Description	Welsh Government mentions Understanding Society data on persistent poverty in Wellbeing of Wales, 2024
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	The report states: A person is considered to be in persistent poverty if they are in relative income poverty in at least 3 out of 4 consecutive years. Data from the Understanding Society survey shows that an individual in Wales had a 12% likelihood of being in persistent poverty between 2018 and 2022 (after housing costs were paid). A child in Wales had a higher likelihood of being in persistent poverty at 18%.
URL	https://www.gov.wales/wellbeing-wales-2024-html

Description	Welsh Government uses Understanding Society in its assessment of need for advice services
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in systematic reviews
Impact	Welsh Government uses Understanding Society in its assessment of need for advice services, A needs analysis and predictive model of social welfare information and advice services in Wales.
URL	https://www.gov.wales/social-welfare-information-and-advice-services-wales

Description	What Works Centre for Wellbeing: time use research
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://whatworkswellbeing.org/

Description	Work and Pensions Committee published evidence citing Understanding Society submitted to its inquiry into benefit levels in the UK
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee published three written submissions of evidence from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, the Fabian Society, and Public Health Scotland, each of which cited Understanding Society, submitted to the committee's inquiry into benefit levels in the UK. Publication by a parliamentary committee brings the work to the attention of government and parliament. See URL below for RNIB submission. Also: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/121036/pdf/ and https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/120929/pdf/
URL	https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/120800/pdf/

Description	Working Families Academic Advisory Board
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The organisation uses the insights and guidance provided by the Academic Advisory Board to inform decision-making across a range of its activities. It's impact on policy, reglution and practice is published annually through an annual Impact Report. A link to the latest copy of the impact report is provided below.
URL	https://workingfamilies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Working-Families-Impact-Report-21-22_final...

Description	Working Families Academic Advisory Group
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Contributing to the introducing new legislation on employment rights as work
URL	https://workingfamilies.org.uk/about-us/academic-advisory-board/

Description	Working with the Evaluation Task Force (Cabinet Office) to showcase the use of panel data for policy evaluations
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This work with and alongside the Evaluation Task Force (ETF) included a presentation to the team, a conference on using panel data to undertake policy evaluations, appointment of policy evaluation fellows, and a commitment to produce a series of use cases in 2023. The briefing to the ETF raised their knowledge of the unique properties of longitudinal data and their relevance to evaluating policy. The policy evaluation conference (separate engagement entry for this) attracted bookings from 279 delegates from across government departments and different sectors, demonstrating engagement on this issue, with postive feedback from delegates at the conference.
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2022/12/02/we-need-a-long-term-evaluation-culture

Description	Workshop Opportunities for better data in early life
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	abrdn Financial Fairness Trust uses our data in Caught in the middle
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	abrdn Financial Fairness Trust uses our data in Caught in the middle - Insecurity and financial strain in the middle of the income distribution, 20 February 2024. The 'squeezed middle' is now the 'precarious middle' with those on middle incomes* struggling to save, and more likely than before to be in insecure jobs and insecure homes. For single parents, the problem is particularly acute, with those who are in work more likely to be in insecure work than not. Caught in the middle, published today from Professor Donald Hirsch at the Financial Fairness Trust and Eleni Karagiannaki from the London School of Economics, found: Job insecurity among the middle third of the income distribution appears to have got worse since it was highlighted nearly thirty years ago. In particular, insecure work has grown sharply for single adults.
URL	https://www.financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/news-and-views/all-news-articles/middle-incomes-insecurit...

Description	pandemic work cited by Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/price-cap-working-paper-reviewing-potential-impact-covid-19-de...

Description	AFS Understanding Society: Waves 13-15 extension Wave 16
Amount	£8,814,534 (GBP)
Funding ID	AFS: ES/T002611/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2022
End	12/2027

Description	British Academy Research Project Quinquennial Review (Renewal): Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study
Amount	£25,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	AQ2223/230020
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	03/2029

Description	Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration: Securing the Future of Social Surveys
Amount	£3,423,739 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/X014150/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2023
End	06/2026

Description	UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration: the transformative Trusted Research Environment for the UK longitudinal research community
Amount	£6,631,094 (GBP)
Funding ID	MR/X021556/1
Organisation	Medical Research Council (MRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2023
End	05/2028

Description	Understanding Society Waves 17-19 (Fieldwork Grant 1)
Amount	£31,810,116 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/Y010469/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	12/2029

Description	Understanding Society Waves 17-22 - centre activities
Amount	£19,283,443 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/Y003071/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	03/2030

Title	Code creator
Description	The code creator has been developed to allow data users to create their own data file containing their variable selection. The code creator works from the main Understanding Society dataset and can be found in the variable search area of the Understanding Society website. After selecting their variables, users are sent a file with Stata code that include their choice of variables, plus a set of commonly used sociodemographic variables and cross-sectional and longitudinal weight variables.
Type Of Material	Data analysis technique
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The code creator has been well received by the data user community, particularly by less experienced users who need additional support in navigating the dataset.
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation

Title	Data dashboard
Description	The data dashboard allows users to build charts that show trends over time and compare different population groups. The first dashboard uses variables from the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey. Data dashboards will be added over time, with ones on wellbeing and household finances currently in development to be released in 2023.
Type Of Material	Data analysis technique
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The COVID-19 data dashboard has been used by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing to show the impact of the pandemic on different groups.
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/topic/covid-19/data-dashboard

Title	Scottish Government Strategic Insights Unit - Drivers of Labour Market Inactivity
Description	A set of variables and demographic data were creating from Understanding Society, including pivot tables, to facilitate research into the dynamics of the economically inactive population.
Type Of Material	Data analysis technique
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	Economic inactivity, particularly in the context labour market shortages, has become a key issue in policy. This dataset has facilitate analysis into the demography of economic inactivity, and importantly understand why people become economically inactive (e.g. health reasons, discouragement, caring responsibilities) and how this vary with age, income, skills and equality characteristics. Government is planning to take action, with specific policy proposal expected as part the March 2023 Budget Statement.

Title	The Comparative Panel File
Description	Open access code deposited at Github enables the user to create harmonised data across multiple household panel studies worldwide
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Multiple comparative research projects have used the data
URL	https://www.cpfdata.com/

Title	Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2020
Description	The Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2020, is designed to enable cross-sectional analysis of individuals and households relating specifically to their annual interviews conducted in the year 2020, and, therefore, combine data collected in three waves (Waves 10, 11 and 12). It has been produced from the same data collected in the main Understanding Society study and released in the longitudinal datasets SN 6614 (End User Licence) and SN 6931 (Special Licence). Such cross-sectional analysis can, however, only involve variables that are collected in every wave in order to have data for the full sample panel. The 2020 dataset is the first of a series of planned Calendar Year Datasets to facilitate cross-sectional analysis of specific years. Full details of the Calendar Year Dataset sample structure (including why some individual interviews from 2021 are included), data structure and additional supporting information can be found in the 8988_calendar_year_dataset_2020_user_guide. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society is to understand the short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of each adult member of a nationally representative sample. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart. When individuals move they are followed within the UK and anyone joining their households are also interviewed as long as they are living with them. The fieldwork period for a single wave is 24 months. Data collection uses computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and web interviews (from wave 7), and includes a telephone mop-up. From March 2020 (the end of wave 10 and 2nd year of wave 11), due to the coronavirus pandemic, face-to-face interviews were suspended and the survey has been conducted by web and telephone only, but otherwise has continued as before. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. In 2020 an additional frequent web survey was separately issued to sample members to capture data on the rapid changes in people's lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic (see SN 8644). The COVID-19 Survey data are not included in this dataset.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Not yet known
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8988

Title	Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2021
Description	The Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2021, is designed to enable cross-sectional analysis of individuals and households relating specifically to their annual interviews conducted in the year 2021, and, therefore, combine data collected in three waves (Waves 11, 12 and 13). It has been produced from the same data collected in the main Understanding Society study and released in the longitudinal datasets SN 6614 (End User Licence) and SN 6931 (Special Licence). Such cross-sectional analysis can, however, only involve variables that are collected in every wave in order to have data for the full sample panel. The 2021 dataset is the second of a series of planned Calendar Year Datasets to facilitate cross-sectional analysis of specific years. Full details of the Calendar Year Dataset sample structure (including why some individual interviews from 2022 are included), data structure and additional supporting information can be found in the document '9193_calendar_year_dataset_2021_user_guide'.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Various
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9193

Title	Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2022
Description	The Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2022, is designed for analysts to conduct cross-sectional analysis for the 2022 calendar year. The Calendar Year datasets combine data collected in a specific year from across multiple waves and these are released as separate calendar year studies, with appropriate analysis weights, starting with the 2020 Calendar Year dataset. Each subsequent year, an additional yearly study is released.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Not yet known
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9333

Title	Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020
Description	The Understanding Society Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020, was a monthly survey of households from the Innovation Panel sample. The aim of the study was to test methods for collecting data about life events (such as new health conditions, pregnancy, job changes, residential moves, and partnership changes) close in time to when the events occur. The survey asked about the occurrence of events, details of the events, and implications for wellbeing, mental health, finances, and support networks. The survey started in February 2020 and was fielded monthly until January 2021. The recall period for each survey was the previous calendar month, that is, the survey collected data about life events from January to December 2020. Innovation Panel sample members in households that regularly used the internet were invited to a monthly web survey. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual Innovation Panel interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier pidp.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	n/a
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8990

Title	Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020
Description	The Understanding Society Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020, was a monthly survey of households from the Innovation Panel sample. The aim of the study was to test methods for collecting data about life events (such as new health conditions, pregnancy, job changes, residential moves, and partnership changes) close in time to when the events occur. The survey asked about the occurrence of events, details of the events, and implications for wellbeing, mental health, finances, and support networks. The survey started in February 2020 and was fielded monthly until January 2021. The recall period for each survey was the previous calendar month, that is, the survey collected data about life events from January to December 2020. Innovation Panel sample members in households that regularly used the internet were invited to a monthly web survey. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual Innovation Panel interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier pidp.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Not yet known
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8990

Title	Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Twitter Study, 2007-2023
Description	Understanding Society, (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. At Wave 10 of the Innovation Panel (IP) (SN 6849), conducted in 2017, respondents were asked for permission to link their Twitter data to their survey responses. This study consists of the Twitter data collected from consenting respondents and corresponding data retrieved through the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) for them covering the period between June 2007 and February 2023. Data in this dataset can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the main annual Innovation Panel interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier pidp. For full details of this study, please refer to the User Guide.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	N/A
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9208

Title	Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Wellbeing App Study, 2020
Description	Understanding Society, (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Wellbeing app study was conducted in 2020 as part of the annual Innovation Panel (IP) Wave 13 interview. All adult respondents who had completed at least one previous IP interview were invited to download an app onto their smartphone or tablet. They were asked to use the app every evening for 14 days to report on their emotional state and self-regulation, external stressors, attachment, and interactions with loved ones. Participants were incentivised throughout the fieldwork period, with incentives being paid at the end of their two-week participation period. Of the 2,152 respondents who were invited to the app study, 967 completed the daily app questionnaire at least once. The Wellbeing app data were collected between 14 July and 26 November 2020. The protocols for the mobile app data collection included three experiments: i) varying the value of incentives for completing the study, ii) varying the length of the daily questionnaire, and iii) varying the placement of the invitation to the app study within the annual IP interview. The data deposited for the Wellbeing App Study include the survey and paradata collected with the app. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual IP interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier, pidp. The Wellbeing app was developed and implemented by Connect Internet Solutions Ltd. For more information about the main IP study, see SN 6849.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	n/a
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9065

Title	Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-16, 2008-2023
Description	The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households or individuals are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the other is a Special Licence (SL) version (available under SN 7083).
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Various
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6849

Title	Understanding Society: Linked Nest Auto-enrolment Pensions Dataset, 2014-2022: Secure Access
Description	The Understanding Society: Linked Nest Auto-enrolment Pensions Dataset, 2014-2022: Secure Access study contains a file extracted from the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), a defined contribution workplace pension scheme set up as part of the UK government's workplace pension reforms under the Pensions Act 2008, with the first members being brought into the scheme in October 2012. This file can be linked (within the UK Data Service Secure Lab) to Understanding Society participants using the cross-wave personal identifier (variable pidp). For all individuals with a valid consent to Nest linkage collected in Wave 11 of Understanding Society, and a Nest account, the data file includes information on: participation in, and levels of savings and withdrawals within, the UK's pensions auto-enrolment system; workers' behaviour within the workplace pensions system; labour market dynamics, including earnings patterns broken down into individual employments.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Not yet known
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9127

Title	Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2023
Description	Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2023 contains information about the start and end dates of all partnerships, i.e., marriages, civil partnerships, cohabitations (living together as a couple) as reported by adult respondents in all Understanding Society (UKHLS) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) samples. This has been created from the following data: (i) Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 (SN 6614) and (ii) British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories, 1991-2009 (SN 5629). See SN 6614 for full details of the Understanding Society main study. For the sixth edition (February 2025), data from Wave 14 of the main Understanding Society study were added to the study and the documentation updated accordingly. Additional data cleaning and consistency checks were also conducted. Users have been made aware that the Stata format files contain additional Stata date variables that are not present in the SPSS and tab-delimited versions. This is due to differences between the available date variable formats in the Stata and SPSS software packages. MAIN TOPICS Adult cohabitation, marriage and civil partnerships dates.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere.
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8473

Title	Understanding Society: Pregnancy and Early Childhood (PEACH), 2009-2021
Description	Release of the pregnancy and early childhood (PEACH) file, consolidating data from children across all waves, offering researchers a valuable resource to explore easily and more in depth UKHLS early life data.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The dataset has been downloaded multiple times from researchers from different disciplines (Economics, Sociology, Health policy etc), who are currently using to conduct their research projects.
URL	http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=9075

Title	Understanding Society: Pregnancy and Early Childhood (PEACH), 2009-2022
Description	The Pregnancy and Early Childhood (PEACH) dataset consists of a single crosswave file that brings together the key data reported by parents for all children aged under 10 years as reported in the w_child file, w_newborn file and information on pregnancy and parenting styles from w_indresp files across waves 1 to 13 of the main study. The information is provided at the child level using the child's identifier (crosswave person identifier - pidp) to ensure each row is uniquely identifiable. In addition, the pidp of the parent or responsible adult providing information at different waves is included to make it easy to link back to family circumstances. A total of 303 variables are included, created from 164 questions. Full details can be found in the user guide. This dataset is designed to be linked to the main Understanding Society datasets SN 6614 (end user licence), SN 6931 (special licence) or SN 6676 (secure access), so that the child's development can be related to their broader family circumstances. Information can be linked for the child using the crosswave personal identifier variables beginning with "pidp" as appropriate or for the parent providing the information.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Data are used by a wide range of academic, policy and third sector users
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/peach/

Title	Understanding Society: Waves 1-11, 2009-2020: Special Licence Access, School Codes
Description	Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society: Special Licence Access, School Codes dataset contains school code variables for child respondents and adult respondents (all adults at Wave 1 and new entrants at subsequent waves) to Understanding Society. A household identification serial number is also included for file matching to the main data. See documentation for further details.  These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section below). Those users who wish to make an application for these data should contact the HelpDesk for further details. Latest edition information For the 8th edition (November 2021) Wave 11 data have been added.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2021
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere.
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=7182#7

Title	Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009
Description	Data from 14 waves of UKHLS and 32 waves of BHPS
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Data are used by a very wide range of users in academic, policy and third sector
URL	https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/

Title	Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009
Description	This release combines thirteen waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand the short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of each adult member of a nationally representative sample. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart. When individuals move they are followed within the UK and anyone joining their households is also interviewed as long as they are living with them. The study has five sample components: the general population sample; a boost sample of ethnic minority group members; an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6); participants from the BHPS; and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey (see SN 6849). The fieldwork period is for 24 months. Data collection uses computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and web interviews (from wave 7) and includes a telephone mop-up. From March 2020 (the end of wave 10 and 2nd year of wave 11), due to the coronavirus pandemic, face-to-face interviews were suspended, and the survey has been conducted by web and telephone only but otherwise has continued as before. Face-to-face interviewing was resumed from April 2022. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a self-completion questionnaire. For the general and BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. The biomarker data, and summary genetics and epigenetic scores, are available via UKDS (see SN 7251); detailed genetics and epigenetics data are available by application (see below). In 2020 an additional frequent web survey was separately issued to sample members to capture data on the rapid changes in people's lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic (see SN 8644).
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Numerous
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6614

Title	Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012
Description	Understanding Society, (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2012, was completed with 15,646 adult participants from the General Population component living in England, Scotland or Wales who completed a full Wave 2 interview. In addition, blood samples were obtained from 9,920 individuals. The Wave 3 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2011-2012, was completed with the BHPS sample component. Assessments were conducted with 5,053 individuals and blood samples were obtained from 3,366 individuals. The Nurse Health Assessment, which included physical measures, such as height, weight, lung function, blood pressure and grip strength, as well as a range of blood samples, followed the main wave interview by approximately five months. As well as a range of blood analytes, two proteomic panels have been produced and a number of epigenetics clock variables have been derived. The physical measures, biomarkers and questionnaire data from the Nurse Health Assessment interview are available from the UK Data Service. Genetics and epigenetic information is also available, with and without survey data; see the Understanding Society website's health data section for more information -  https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/health/data.For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614, Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS. The Special Licence version of the Understanding Society: Nurse Health Assessment study is held under SN 7587. It contains variables covering prescription medication codes and associated usage questions, together with polygenic score variables, derived from analysis of the genetics data, that are not included in the standard End User Licence version (SN 7251). Users are advised to check that study first to see if the data are suitable for their needs before making an application for the Special Licence version. See documentation for further details.Latest edition information For the 4th edition (October 2022) Proteomics and Epigenetic Clock data files have both been added. For full details please refer to the user guides. Suitable data analysis software These data are provided by the depositor in Stata format. Users are strongly advised to analyse them in Stata. Transfer to other formats may result in unforeseen issues. Stata SE or MP software is needed to analyse the larger files, which contain over 2,047 variables.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The fourth edition adds proteomics variables and epigenetic clocks to the dataset.
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=7251#3

Title	Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012: Special Licence Access
Description	Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. Nurse Health Assessment The Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2011 was completed with 15,591 adult participants from the General Population component living in England, Scotland or Wales who completed a full Wave 2 interview. In addition, blood samples were obtained from 10,175 individuals. The Wave 3 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2011-2012 was completed with the BHPS sample component. Assessments were conducted with 5,053 individuals and blood samples were obtained from 3,342 individuals. The Nurse Health Assessment followed the main wave interview by approximately five months. The physical measures, biomarkers and questionnaire data from the Nurse Health Assessment interview are available from the UK Data Service. Genetics information is also available; see the Understanding Society website's health data section for more information - https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/health/data. The standard End User Licence version of the Understanding Society: Nurse Health Assessment study is held under SN 7251. Users are advised to check that study first to see if the data are suitable for their needs before making an application for the Special Licence version. The Special Licence version contains variables covering prescription medication codes and associated usage questions that are not included in the End User Licence version. See documentation for further details.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	This 2nd edition adds proteomics, epigenetic clocks, and polygenic score variables to the nurse dataset.
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=7587#1

Title	Wellbeing: Science and Policy: Teaching Dataset, 2023 (Layard, P. R. G., De Neve, J.,LSE, University of London)
Description	This study contains the datasets for the exercises of the textbook: Layard, R. and De Neve, J-E. (2023) 'Wellbeing: Science and Policy', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009298926. The datasets are extracted from SN 6614 Understanding Society: Waves 1-11, 2009-2020 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009. Should any queries arise in regard to these teaching datasets, they should be directed to the authors of the book. These datasets are not maintained by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), the producer of the main Understanding Society study. MAIN TOPICS Variables include: Age; Life satisfaction reported; Education level; Equivalence scale adjusted HH income; Equivalence scale adjusted HH income (log); Age-squared; Ever diagnosed with mental health condition; Number of health conditions ever diagnosed; Unemployed; Partnered.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Not yet known
URL	https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9044

Description	Activity tracker - GPS data
Organisation	University of Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Developed and designed innovative data collection from smartwatches
Collaborator Contribution	Colleagues in Glasgow are extracting GPS data and making it useable
Impact	pre pilot testing of data obtained from Smartwatches. Currently developing a pilot study
Start Year	2023

Description	Activity tracker data collection
Organisation	Avicenna Research
Country	Canada
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Designed an innovative data collection using smartwatches to track physical activity sleep and GPS
Collaborator Contribution	Avicenna are designing software to extract data from devices
Impact	Software developed and tested in pre-pilot. Currently designing fuller pilot study
Start Year	2023

Description	Business For Health Collaboration
Organisation	BUSINESS FOR HEALTH
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	In for development phase of the programme, which has secured short-term funding, the contribution of Understanding Society Policy and Partnership's Unit is to: - play a role as a longitudinal data expert and evidence provider; identify data that link to their measurement framework - scope out and co-design a research project on young workers and their health challenges - contribution to workshops about evidence gaps and what future research will be needed - help improve access to Understanding Society data and build research capacity
Collaborator Contribution	The Business for Health collaboration is a consortium of over 15 leading organisations. The programme will identify how businesses can help people stay healthy and well in work and return to work optimally after illness - thus benefiting the entire workforce at all levels of health and wellbeing. We propose to develop and test measures and methods that will produce evidence-based guidance for business and government, leading to the development of interventions that can be tested and evaluated at scale.
Impact	Successful development proposal submitted to the National Institute for Health Research's Work and Health Programme Set of 'think tank' and 'do-tank' advisory workshops organised involving employees, business organisations, academics, policy organisation, occupational health and wellbeing organisations and Integrated Care Systems in three locations to help inform the design of the programme Work on measurement framework. Three workshops were organised in 2024 as well as other related events held, e.g. a roundtable by Understanding Society on Women, Work and Health. Unfortunately, Business for Health was not invited to submit a full funding proposal in 2025 but the need for a healthy workforce is more widely recognised.
Start Year	2023

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Department for Education
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Department for Work and Pensions
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Department of Transport
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Government of Scotland
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Government of the UK
Department	Department of Health and Social Care
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Office for National Statistics
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	Co-funders' Group
Organisation	Welsh Assembly
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period.
Collaborator Contribution	Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions.
Impact	See Direct Access entries
Start Year	2020

Description	ETDC fieldwork
Organisation	Ipsos
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We have developed an innovative data collection - a monthly check in with participants to ask about key life changes
Collaborator Contribution	Ipsos are carrying out fieldwork on the event triggered data collection enhancement project
Impact	Pilot then if successful, full fieldwork for ETDC which will result in innovative data for the research and policy community close to the time of key life changes
Start Year	2024

Description	GSOEP-UKHLS Collaboration
Organisation	German Institute for Economic Research
Country	Germany
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Sharing learning about best practice in leading longitudinal household panel studies
Collaborator Contribution	Sharing learning about best practice in leading longitudinal household panel studies
Impact	Outcomes = improved questionnaires, survey methods disciplines - sociology, economics, public health, demography
Start Year	2024

Description	IP17 sensor and EPC data
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	IP17 is a platform for methodological experiments. We design and manage the study, and share data with research community
Collaborator Contribution	The University of Glasgow are sending participants indoor air quality monitors and with consent, UCL are linking to EPC data.
Impact	This work will results in a dataset shared with research community with novel environmental data
Start Year	2022

Description	IP17 sensor and EPC data
Organisation	University of Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	IP17 is a platform for methodological experiments. We design and manage the study, and share data with research community
Collaborator Contribution	The University of Glasgow are sending participants indoor air quality monitors and with consent, UCL are linking to EPC data.
Impact	This work will results in a dataset shared with research community with novel environmental data
Start Year	2022

Description	Panel Survey Methods Network
Organisation	Australian Government
Department	Department of Social Services
Country	Australia
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Collaborator Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Impact	Improved research practice in various contexts.
Start Year	2008

Description	Panel Survey Methods Network
Organisation	German Institute for Economic Research
Country	Germany
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Collaborator Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Impact	Improved research practice in various contexts.
Start Year	2008

Description	Panel Survey Methods Network
Organisation	Government of the United States of America
Department	U.S. Census Bureau
Country	United States
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Collaborator Contribution	Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings.
Impact	Improved research practice in various contexts.
Start Year	2008

Description	Quadram Institute Bioscience - Microbiome analysis for w16 pilot
Organisation	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Working with QIB to collect microbiome samples for analysis
Collaborator Contribution	Analysis of microbiome samples collected on w16 pilot. Data returned to the Study.
Impact	Outcomes yet to be realised. Project started in March 23
Start Year	2023

Description	Royal Victoria Infirmary - analysis of venous blood samples for validation purposes
Organisation	Royal Victoria Infirmary
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	Working with the RVI to agree analysis of venous blood samples collected on UKHLS.
Collaborator Contribution	Analysis of venous bloods and return of data to UKHLS.
Impact	Not yet known
Start Year	2024

Description	Select Research - body measurement collection at IP15
Organisation	Select Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Working with Select Research to create the app to the Study's specifications.
Collaborator Contribution	Providing a BVI app which enables IP15 and w16 pilot participants to submit body measurement information. Data return to the Study.
Impact	Outcomes yet to be realised.
Start Year	2022

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	City of London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	Ipsos
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	Kantar Group
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	National Centre for Social Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	Office for National Statistics
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	Ulster University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University of Lausanne
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University of Manchester
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University of Southampton
Department	ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University of Southampton
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration
Organisation	University of Warwick
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I lead this collaboration as Director.
Collaborator Contribution	The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects.
Impact	In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors.
Start Year	2023

Description	Understanding Society Associated Studies scheme
Organisation	London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	LSE is an example of an organisation that we have collaborated with for an Associated Study. We oversee the Study, approve it and work with the applicants on taking forward their study.
Collaborator Contribution	Managing the associated study and agreeing to deposit data from the project at the UKDS, linked to UKHLS.
Impact	Associated study projects, datasets, publications, etc. Multidisciplinary.
Start Year	2016

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	Family Action
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	Frontier Economics
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	Health Foundation
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	House of Commons
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	McKinsey & Company
Department	McKinsey & Company, UK
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	Trades Union Congress (TUC)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Policy & Partnership Forum
Organisation	West Yorkshire Combined Authorities
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings. Consult Forum members outside of these meetings as required.
Collaborator Contribution	An advisory group made up of representatives from government departments, charities, business and trade unions. They provide guidance to the Study on maximising the use of data and evidence in policymaking and propose ideas for building partnerships.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration
Start Year	2021

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Department for Work and Pensions
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Durham University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Government of Wales
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Lancaster University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Nuffield Foundation
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology [POST]
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	Royal Borough of Greenwich
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	University of Essex
Country	United Kingdom
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Strategic Oversight Board
Organisation	University of St Andrews
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Facilitate bi-annual meetings for the Board to meet. Engage with the Board as and when strategic guidance is required.
Collaborator Contribution	The Board represent a range of stakeholders who independently oversee the direction and operational delivery of the Study, working closely with the Scientific Leadership team.
Impact	Multi-disciplinary
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	Cardiff University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Bristol
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Essex
Country	United Kingdom
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Florence
Country	Italy
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Leeds
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Liverpool
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Manchester
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Sheffield
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of Southampton
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society Topic Champions
Organisation	University of the West of England
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. Updated entry to reflect current membership.
Collaborator Contribution	Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions,
Impact	Multi-disciplinary collaboration. Business Sociology Economics Life Sciences Physical sciences Political science
Start Year	2022

Description	Understanding Society biosocial fellowship (GB)
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Impact fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Research project undertaken by the fellow - External exposome, social disadvantage and biological ageing
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society biosocial fellowship (JK)
Organisation	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Research project undertaken by the fellow - Investigating Quality of Life in UK Cancer Survivors: Insights from Understanding Society data
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society biosocial fellowship (LB)
Organisation	King's College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Research project undertaken by the fellow - Social and biological pathways of cardiovascular risk for LGBQ+ populations
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society biosocial fellowship (S-IO)
Organisation	University of Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Allowing the research project undertaken by the fellow - Fertility Histories, Social Capital, and Physiological Health: Unravelling the Long-Term Health Impacts of Reproductive Choices
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society biosocial fellowship (SF)
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Research project undertaken by the fellow - Does arts and cultural engagement get under the skin? Examining epigenetic and physiological markers of ageing in Understanding Society
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society ethnicity fellowship (CL)
Organisation	University of St Andrews
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society fellowship scheme
Collaborator Contribution	Research project undertaken by the fellow - Ethnic Diversity in Digital Experiences among Youth
Impact	Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete.
Start Year	2025

Description	Understanding Society fieldwork - wave 13-15 - Verian
Organisation	Kantar Group
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Management of the sub-contract with Kantar for the provision of fieldwork services for waves 13-15 of Understanding Society - partnership working (with NatCen as consortium partners) to deliver the survey.
Collaborator Contribution	Delivery of the fieldwork and associated activities for Understanding Society waves 13-15
Impact	See all other outputs, which are dependent on the delivery of fieldwork by our partner agency.
Start Year	2020

Description	Understanding Society fieldwork - wave 13-15 - Verian
Organisation	National Centre for Social Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Management of the sub-contract with Kantar for the provision of fieldwork services for waves 13-15 of Understanding Society - partnership working (with NatCen as consortium partners) to deliver the survey.
Collaborator Contribution	Delivery of the fieldwork and associated activities for Understanding Society waves 13-15
Impact	See all other outputs, which are dependent on the delivery of fieldwork by our partner agency.
Start Year	2020

Description	Wellbeing Dashboard with the What Works Wellbeing Centre (WWWC)
Organisation	What Works Centre for Wellbeing
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Understanding Society will develop a wellbeing data dashboard that will show trends in wellbeing variables over time for different population groups. The tool will increase the availability of descriptive wellbeing statistics for UK policy, promoting the use of longitudinal wellbeing data in exploratory analysis and in the scoping stages of policy and evaluation. It will improve the availability of statistics for key wellbeing variables and allow users to track the overall performance of different population groups over time. It will make an important contribution to the conversation and understanding of national wellbeing within policy and practice.
Collaborator Contribution	The WWCW commissioned consultants to identify which factors are correlated with wellbeing outcomes and prepare the data-set that would 'drive' the wellbeing dashboard. They will also host workshops with key users groups to promote project visibility & engagement, and ensure that project objectives are well-understood and that the functionality of the dashboard meets user needs.
Impact	Production of an input data-set by the consultants commissioned by the WWCW Development of a beta-version of the welling dashboard - expected publication in early 2024 Final dashboard completed and launched in Spring 2024 To date the dashboard has generated 1,809 page views (Jan 2025)
Start Year	2022

Description	Working Families Academic Advisory Board
Organisation	Working Families
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	This is a collaboration with Working Families to: - share relevant research and signpost gaps in the evidence base - contribute insights to policy debates and government consultations - advise on Working Families' research, such as the Modern Families Index and Employers Benchmark - share opportunities for research collaboration - provide a conduit between academic research and policy and practice
Collaborator Contribution	Working Families provides a forum for researchers to translate their research into impact and policy work, and to network with each other and Working Families.
Impact	Development of the Modern Families Index Submission to the government's consultation on changes to flexible working policy Various publications produced by the organisation: https://workingfamilies.org.uk/research-publications/
Start Year	2021

Description	w16 blood validation
Organisation	Royal Victoria Hospital
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	Collecting blood venously and by finger prick and carrying out a validation study to confirm whether they measure biomarkers in the same way
Collaborator Contribution	Analyzing the blood to create useable data that is feedback to participants and then available for the validation study and ultimately will be made available to the research community.
Impact	Analysis of blood and resulting data
Start Year	2024