Summary information

Study title

Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study Teaching Dataset, 2020-2021

Creator

University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research
University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST)

Study number / PID

9019 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-9019-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.As the UK went into the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the biggest social survey in the UK, Understanding Society (UKHLS), developed a way to capture these experiences. From April 2020, participants from this Study were asked to take part in the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey, henceforth referred to as the COVID-19 survey or the COVID-19 study.The COVID-19 survey regularly asked people about their situation and experiences. The resulting data gives a unique insight into the impact of the pandemic on individuals, families, and communities. The COVID-19 Teaching Dataset contains data from the main COVID-19 survey in a simplified form. It covers topics such as Socio-demographics Whether working at home and home-schooling COVID symptoms Health and well-being Social contact and neighbourhood cohesion Volunteering The resource contains two data files: Cross-sectional: contains data collected in Wave 4 in July 2020 (with some additional variables from other waves); Longitudinal: Contains mainly data from Waves 1, 4 and 9 with key variables measured at three time points. Key features of the dataset Missing values: in the web survey, participants clicking "Next" but not answering a question were given further options such as "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say". Missing observations like these are recorded using negative values such as -1 for "Don't know". In many instances, users of the data will need to set these values as missing. The User Guide includes Stata and SPSS code for setting negative missing values to system missing. The Longitudinal file is a balanced panel and is in wide format. A balanced panel means it only includes participants that took part in every wave. In wide format, each participant has one row of information, and each measurement of the same variable is a different variable. Weights: both the cross-sectional and...
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Methodology

Data collection period

22/04/2020 - 30/09/2021

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Families/households
Individuals
National

Universe

Adults (16 years old and over as of April 2020), in households who had participated in at least one of the last two waves of the main study Understanding Society.

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample
Full sample of the main Understanding Society study. See the main study for details.

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Web-based interview

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

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