Study title
Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Area Classification
Creator
Study number / PID
7629 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-7629-12 (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 Census 2011 Output Area Classification (OAC11) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data.
These are the classifications for Output Areas and not the Output Area codes themselves. The lowest level of geography available under Special Licence is Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA). There is also a 2001 census version of the Output Area Classifications: see SN 6674.
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 12th 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.
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
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.