Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-11, 2008-2018

<p class="MsoBodyText">For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.</p><p><b>Innovation Panel</b><br>
The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological
research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its
design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main
stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey
representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection
takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing
(CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person
completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older
answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion
questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a
paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple
experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a
particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to
survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science
questions. The experiments are described in the User Manual and in <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers" title="Understanding Society Working Papers">Understanding Society Working Papers</a>. <br><br>
There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is
available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the
other is a Special Licence (SL) version (available under SN 7083). The
SL version contains month and year of birth variables in addition to
age, county variables, more detailed country and occupation coding for a
number of variables; and various income variables have not been
top-coded (see the documentation available with the SL version for more
detail on the differences). In addition, there are a number of SL
geographical datasets that are designed to be used in conjunction with
the primary datasets.
Low- and Medium-level geographical identifiers are also available
subject to SL access conditions and fine detail geographic
data are available under more restrictive Secure Access
conditions that contains British National Grid postcode grid references
(at 1m resolution) for the unit postcode of each household surveyed.</p><p>Further information may be found on the <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage" title="Understanding Society">Understanding Society</a> main stage webpage and links to publications based on the study can be found on the Understanding Society <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications">Latest Research</a> webpage.<br><br>
For the tenth edition (June 2019), Wave 11 has been deposited with
accompanying documentation, and Waves 1 to 10 redeposited with some data
edits. See the documentation for details of the changes.
</p><b>Co-funders<br></b>In addition to the Economic and Social Research
Council, co-funders for the study included the Department of Work and
Pensions, the Department for Education, the Department for Transport,
the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Community
and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Scottish
Government, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Northern Ireland
Executive, the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs, and the Food
Standards Agency.<br> <p>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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.</p>