Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study, 2020: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas

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. <p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span>The <i>Understanding Society </i>COVID-19 Study is a regular survey of households in the UK. The aim of the study is to enable research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the short and long term. The surveys started in April 2020 and have taken place monthly until July 2020. From September they take place every other month. They complement the annual interviews of the <i>Understanding Society</i> study.</span><span></span></p> <p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span>This dataset contains Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) geographic variables for the <i>Understanding Society</i> COVID-19 study.</span><span></span></p> <p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span>A file is provided for each wave of the <i>Understanding Society</i> COVID-19 study to date containing the Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) geographic variable and a personal identification serial number (pidp) for file matching to the main data in SN 8644. There are two types of waves: web waves have a file postfix of _w and telephone waves have a file postfix of _t.</span><span></span></p> <p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span>In addition, this dataset contains Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) geographic variables that can be matched to a dataset released with the main <i>Understanding Society</i> COVID-19 study (SN 8644) containing data taken from waves 10 and 11 of the main <i>Understanding Society</i> survey specifically for the respondents in the <i>Understanding Society</i> COVID-19 study. This file is called jk_lsoa11_cv and as well as containing the LSOA11 geographic variable also contains a personal identification serial number (pidp) and a household identification serial number for both wave 10 (j_hidp) and wave 11 (k_hidp).</span><span></span></p> <p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span>Further details on the files in this dataset can be found in the <i>Understanding Society</i> COVID-19 User Guide.</span><span></span></p> <p><span>New edition information</span></p> <p>For the third edition (December 2020), the new data file for wave 5 has been deposited.</p> <p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"></p>