Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey & British Household Panel Survey (UKHLS): UKHLS COVID-19 Survey, Baseline

The COVID-19 surveys asked a series of questions about a January-February 2020 pre-pandemic “baseline”. These questions, which cover aspects of health, employment and finances were only asked of respondents once: the first time they completed a full COVID-19 survey. This means that baseline information for the sample of respondents is spread across different data files, depending on when the respondent first completed the survey. To simplify analyses, we have collected the responses to these questions in a single file, “xbaseline”.