Summary information

Study title

Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009: Special Licence Access, Travel to Work Areas

Creator

University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research

Study number / PID

6675 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-6675-16 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

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 Travel to Work Areas (TTWA) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society and harmonised BHPS to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data. 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.

Latest Edition Information

For the 16th 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.

Methodology

Data collection period

29/06/1991 - 16/05/2024

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals
Families/households
National

Universe

Respondent households included in Understanding Society.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Funding information

Grant number

ES/K005146/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2011

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.

Related publications

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