Study title
Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023: Special Licence Access, School Codes
Creator
Study number / PID
7182 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-7182-11 (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.The Understanding Society: Special Licence Access, School Codes dataset contains school code variables for child respondents and adult respondents (all adults at Wave 1 and new entrants at subsequent waves) to Understanding Society. A household identification serial number is also included for file matching to the main data. See documentation for further details.
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 12th edition (November 2024) Wave 14 data have been added and the documentation updated.
Main Topics:
Variables include household identification number, school codes and school country codes for matching with Understanding Society data.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/2009 - 16/05/2024
Country
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
Households and their individual members resident in the United Kingdom.
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.
Data storage and access are limited to the UK and countries that the UK deemed to have an adequate level of data protection as follows: European Economic Area countries, Andorra, Argentina, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay.