Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Twitter Study, 2007-2023

<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>
<p>At Wave 10 of the Innovation Panel (IP) (SN 6849), conducted in 2017, respondents were asked for permission to link their Twitter data to their survey responses. This study consists of the Twitter data collected from consenting respondents and corresponding data retrieved through the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) for them covering the period between June 2007 and February 2023. Data in this dataset can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the main annual Innovation Panel interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier pidp. For full details of this study, please refer to the User Guide.<br></p>
<p><b>Co-funders</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Suitable data analysis software</b></p>
<p>The depositor provides these data in Stata format. Users are strongly advised to analyse them in Stata, as transfer to other formats may result in unforeseen issues.</p>