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The UK Household Longitudinal Study

Capturing life in the UK in the 21st century Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal household panel study of its kind and provides vital evidence on life changes and stability

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Every time you are interviewed, you are contributing to a unique study about life in the UK

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I will survive – can art make us healthy?

Evidence from Understanding Society supports claims that the arts are good for our health.

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New briefing note: Growth with purpose

Understanding Society outlines policy ideas for productivity and fairness.

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Barriers to Opportunity report published

The new Insights report sifts through the latest evidence on how children and young people are doing, and the factors influencing their life chances

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Children’s Society: young people’s wellbeing significantly lower

Children’s Society outlines significant decline in children’s happiness with their life as a whole

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Latest research

The association between mental health and cognitive ability: evidence from the Understanding Society survey

  1. Syka Iqbal
  2. Muhammad Waqas
  3. Min Hooi Yong
  4. Ronan McGarrigle
  5. Eleftheria Vaportzis

(Not) again: exploring the impact of second parental dissolution on the mental health of emerging adults

  1. Kimberly Jacobs
  2. Elke Claessens
  3. Dimitri Mortelmans
  4. Sarah Van de Velde

Class origin closure: economic advantages of occupational elitism

  1. Dirk Witteveen

The gendered landscape of informal caregiving: cohort effects and socioeconomic inequalities in England

  1. Maria Petrillo
  2. Ricardo Rodrigues
  3. Matt Bennett
  4. Gwilym Pryce
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Understanding Society in the media

Research using data from the Study is frequently featured in the media.

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Latest media articles

Is Britain bowling alone?

Pushover fathers tell kids ‘wait until Mum gets home’

The psychology behind why we pay to avoid uncertainty

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