Understanding Society, Waves 1-, 2008- : Special Licence Access

<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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. <p class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoBodyText">For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.</p> <p><b>Innovation Panel</b><br> </p> <p>The Innovation Panel 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) and web surveys. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households or individuals are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. The experiments are described in the User Manual and in Understanding Society Working Papers. Wave 12 included an experiment involving the collection of biomeasures by nurses, interviewers and respondents themselves. The biomeasures included in the experiment were: height, weight, blood pressure, venous and dried blood samples and hair samples. Biomarkers have been derived from the different blood and hair samples to compare analytes across sample types. Due to COVID-19 Waves 13 and 14 were implemented using computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and web surveys. Wave 15 included additional data on body measurements. Respondents were asked to install the BodyVolume app on their smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android) and use it after the interview to take two photos of themselves. The app used the body outlines along with profile information that the respondent entered in the app (age, sex, height, weight, level of activity) to calculate measures including waist and hip circumference, total body fat, visceral body fat, and lengths of different body parts.</p> <p>There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the other is a Special Licence (SL) version (available under SN 7083). The SL version contains month and year of birth variables in addition to age, county variables, more detailed country and occupation coding for a number of variables; and various income variables have not been top-coded (see the documentation available with the SL version for more detail on the differences). In addition, there are a number of SL geographical datasets that are designed to be used in conjunction with the primary datasets. Low- and Medium-level geographical identifiers are also available subject to SL access conditions and fine detail geographic data are available under more restrictive Secure Access conditions that contains British National Grid postcode grid references (at 1m resolution) for the unit postcode of each household surveyed.</p> <p>Further information may be found on the Understanding Society main stage webpage and links to publications based on the study can be found on the Understanding Society Latest Research webpage.</p> <p><b>Latest edition information</b></p> <p>For the twelfth edition (October 2023), Waves 14 and 15 have been deposited with accompanying documentation, and all previous waves redeposited with various corrections - see the documentation file '6849_ip_waves_1-13_changes_collated.pdf' for details of the changes.</p> <p><span></span></p>

*理解社会（Understanding Society）* 即英国家庭纵向研究（UK Household Longitudinal Study），于2009年启动，由埃塞克斯大学社会与经济研究所（Institute for Social and Economic Research，ISER）联合调研机构Kantar Public与NatCen共同开展。该研究继承并整合了1991年启动的英国家庭追踪调查（British Household Panel Survey，BHPS）。

如需了解*理解社会*主研究的详细信息，请参阅研究编号6614。

**创新面板**

创新面板旨在开展与纵向调查相关的实验性与方法学研究。在可行范围内，其设计、内容与数据采集流程均与*理解社会*主调查保持一致。该面板是一项覆盖大不列颠人口的多主题家庭调查，每年通过计算机辅助个人访谈（Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing，CAPI）与网络调查完成数据采集。由一名家庭代表填写家庭问卷，所有年满16周岁及以上的受访者需完成成人个人访谈，其中包含自填式问卷；10至15周岁的青少年则需填写纸质自填式问卷。

创新面板包含多项实验研究，将家庭或个体随机分配至特定调研工具或调查流程中，实验可涉及调查流程、问卷设计或实质性社会科学研究问题。相关实验说明详见《用户手册》与《理解社会》工作论文集。第12波调查开展了一项由护士、访员及受访者自行完成生物测量的实验，本次实验采集的生物测量指标包括身高、体重、血压、静脉血样本、干血样本及毛发样本。研究人员已从不同血液与毛发样本中提取生物标志物，用于对比不同样本类型中的分析物。

受新冠疫情影响，第13与14波调查改为采用计算机辅助电话访谈（Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing，CATI）与网络调查开展。第15波调查新增了身体测量相关数据：受访者需在智能手机或平板（支持iOS与Android系统）上安装BodyVolume应用，并在访谈结束后使用该应用拍摄两张自身全身照片。该应用结合身体轮廓与受访者在应用中填写的个人信息（年龄、性别、身高、体重、活动水平），可计算腰围、臀围、体脂总量、内脏脂肪含量及各身体部位长度等多项指标。

创新面板数据主要包含两个版本。其一可通过标准最终用户许可协议（End User Licence，EUL）获取，另一版本为特殊许可（Special Licence，SL）版（可通过数据集编号SN 7083获取）。特殊许可版除包含年龄变量外，还涵盖出生年月变量、县级行政区划变量、部分变量更详细的国家与职业编码，且多项收入变量未进行数据封顶处理；有关两个版本差异的更多细节，请参阅特殊许可版配套文档。此外，还有多款专为配合主数据集使用而开发的SL地理数据集。低层级与中层级地理标识符可通过符合SL访问条件的方式获取；而包含每户受访家庭单位邮政编码的英国国家网格（British National Grid）1米分辨率邮政编码参考的精细地理数据，则需遵循更为严格的安全访问条件方可获取。

更多相关信息可查阅*理解社会*主研究官方网页，基于该研究的出版物链接可在*理解社会*最新研究网页获取。

**最新版本信息**

截至2023年10月发布的第12版中，第14与15波调查已随配套文档一同存档，所有过往波次均已完成修正并重新存档；有关修正内容的详细信息，请参阅文档文件'6849_ip_waves_1-13_changes_collated.pdf'。