Summary information

Study title

Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Wellbeing App Study, 2020

Creator

University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research

Study number / PID

9065 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-9065-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Understanding Society, (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 Wellbeing app study was conducted in 2020 as part of the annual Innovation Panel (IP) Wave 13 interview. All adult respondents who had completed at least one previous IP interview were invited to download an app onto their smartphone or tablet. They were asked to use the app every evening for 14 days to report on their emotional state and self-regulation, external stressors, attachment, and interactions with loved ones. Participants were incentivised throughout the fieldwork period, with incentives being paid at the end of their two-week participation period. Of the 2,152 respondents who were invited to the app study, 967 completed the daily app questionnaire at least once. The Wellbeing app data were collected between 14 July and 26 November 2020. The protocols for the mobile app data collection included three experiments: i) varying the value of incentives for completing the study, ii) varying the length of the daily questionnaire, and iii) varying the placement of the invitation to the app study within the annual IP interview. The data deposited for the Wellbeing App Study include the survey and paradata collected with the app. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual IP interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier, pidp. The Wellbeing app was developed and implemented by Connect Internet Solutions Ltd. For more information about the main IP study, see SN 6849. Suitable data analysis software These data are provided by the depositor in Stata format. Users are...
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Methodology

Data collection period

13/07/2020 - 26/11/2020

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals
Families/households
National

Universe

Respondent households from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel sample.

Sampling procedure

Sub-sample of the IP study, which uses multi-stage sampling. See the User Guide for details.
Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Questionnaire implemented in a mobile application

Funding information

Grant number

ES/N00812X/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2023

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.