Summary information

Study title

Understanding Society: Waves 1-14, 2009-2023: Special Licence Access, School Codes

Creator

University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research

Study number / PID

7182 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-7182-11 (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.

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.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/2009 - 16/05/2024

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals
Families/households
National

Universe

Households and their individual members resident in the United Kingdom.

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

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.

Related publications

Not available