Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Linked Credit Reference Agency (CRA) Dataset, 2012-2018: Secure Access

<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 numbers 6614 and 6676.</p>
<p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Linked Credit Reference Agency (CRA) Dataset, 2012-2018: Secure Access</span> study contains, for study participants who provided consent, a file containing credit histories collected by a Credit Reference Agency (CRA) before being linked to their study records by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).</p>
<p>The data in this study can be linked through the pidp variable to one of the main Understanding Society Innovation Panel datasets: SN 6849 (End User Licence), SN 7083 (Special Licence) or SN 7332 (Secure Access). Further details on those studies can be found on the <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000053#!/access-data" target="_blank">Understanding Society series</a><a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000053#!/access-data"></a> webpage.</p><p>For all individuals with a valid consent to CRA linkage collected in Wave 9 of the IP, the data file contains detailed information on credit items held by individuals. The monthly dataset that has been linked to the main survey sample covers a period of six years (2012-2018). A credit item is a (typically financial) product taken out by an individual. Credit items contained in the CRA data include current accounts, mortgages, credit items (e.g. personal loans, motor finance, credit cards, retail credit and subprime credit such as payday loans) as well as some household bills (e.g. mobile phones, gas and electric bills but not council taxes).</p>
<p>See documentation for further details.</p>