Summary information

Study title

Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-16, 2008-2023: Special Licence Access, Census 2001 Rural-Urban Indicators

Creator

University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research

Study number / PID

7641 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-7641-8 (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.

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: Innovation Panel: Special Licence Access, Census 2001 Rural-Urban Indicators dataset contains Census 2001 Rural-Urban Indicators geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society: Innovation Panel to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main Understanding Society: Innovation Panel data. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information).

Latest edition information

For the 8th edition (November 2024), data for Wave 16 was deposited and the documentation was updated accordingly. Waves 1 to 15 have been redeposited with the only change being a variable label spelling correction.

Main Topics:

Variables include household identification number and Census 2001 Rural-Urban Indicator codes for matching with each wave of Understanding Society: Innovation Panel to date.

Social behaviour and attitudes

ADMINISTRATIVE AREASHOUSEHOLDSCENSUS DATARURAL AREASURBAN AREAS

Data collection period

01/01/2008 - 18/12/2023

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals

Families/households

National

Universe

Respondent households included in the main Understanding Society: Innovation Panel.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Grant number

ES/K005146/1

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2015

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.

Users should note that they can request both the 2001 and 2011 Output Area Classification or Urban-Rural indicators data, as long as they do not request Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Middle Layer Super Output Areas data.

If Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Middle Layer Super Output Areas data is required, only the Output Area Classification or Urban-Rural indicators data matching the year of the Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Middle Layer Super Output Areas data, can be applied for.