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

<p><br></p><p>For full details of the main Understanding Society study, 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>
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There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement (SN 6849), and the other is this Special Licence (SL) version (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 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. Prospective users of this SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version. <br>
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For the ninth 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.
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</p> <span></span>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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.