Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Wellbeing App Study, 2020

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span>, (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.</p><p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society Innovation Panel</span> 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), web surveys and telephone interviewing (CATI) to a small extent. </p><p>For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.</p>
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<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal">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: </p><ul><li>i) varying the value of incentives for completing the study, </li><li>ii) varying the length of the daily questionnaire, and </li><li>iii) varying the placement of the invitation to the app study within the annual IP interview. </li></ul><p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal">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 (<a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6849" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SN
6849</a>) using the personal identifier, pidp.<br></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal">The Wellbeing app was developed and implemented by Connect Internet Solutions Ltd. For more information about the main IP study, see SN 6849.</p>
<p><strong>Suitable data analysis software</strong><br>
These data are provided by the depositor in Stata format. Users are strongly advised to analyse them in Stata. Transfer to other formats may result in unforeseen issues.</p>
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