Study title
Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas
Creator
Study number / PID
7248 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-7248-14 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
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 Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.This dataset contains Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) Census 2011-defined geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data. LSOA’s are provided for England and Wales households, Super Output Areas (SOA) are provided for Northern Ireland and Data Zones (DZ) are provided for Scotland.
These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information).
These data are consistent with the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD). Please see the Geographical Lookup Tables document for further details.
Census 2001, 2011 and 2021 LSOA access restrictions
Census 2001 and 2021 - defined LSOA geographic variables are also available under Special Licence access conditions to match to Understanding Society data - see SN 6670 and SN 9169 respectively. When placing an order for these data, users should note that, to minimise the risk of disclosure, users may access only one of SN 6670, SN 9169 and SN 7248 (this study).
Latest Edition Information
For the 14th edition (November 2024), Wave 14 data have been added, and the documentation has been updated. In addition, Wave 13 data has been re-deposited with superfluous entries removed.
Main Topics:
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
29/06/2009 - 16/05/2024
Country
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
Respondent households included in Understanding Society.
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Funding information
Grant number
ES/K005146/1
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2013
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use is not permitted.
Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.
Access is limited to users based in the UK or in countries deemed by the UK to have an adequate level of data protection as follows: European Economic Area (EEA) countries or Andorra, Argentina, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay.
Users should note that if they require both Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Middle Layer Super Output Areas data then both studies must be for the same Census year.