Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2018

<p>The <em>Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2018</em> contains information about the start and end dates of all partnerships, i.e., marriages, civil partnerships, cohabitations (living together as a couple) as reported by adult respondents in all Understanding Society (UKHLS) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) samples. This has been created from the following data: (i) Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 (SN 6614) and (ii) British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories, 1991-2009 (SN 5629). See SN 6614 for full details of the Understanding Society main study.</p> <p><span>For the second edition (May 2020), an updated data file and user guide have been deposited,  which build on the first edition data by adding in partnership histories for the IEMB sample and updating partnership histories for the remaining samples (GPS, BHPS, EMBS) using data collected in Waves 7-9. Additional cleaning and consistency checks were also conducted.</span><br> </p> <p>Understanding Society (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>