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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

Essential information for survey participants

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

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Weather’s effect on how we feel about life and money

Many of us have complained about the long, wet winter we had in the UK this year, but can weather conditions influence us more deeply?

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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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Latest research

The moderating effect of childhood disadvantage on the associations between smoking and occupational exposure and lung function; a cross sectional analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)

  1. Caroline Carney
  2. Michaela Benzeval

Variation in employment inequality between workers with vocational and general education over the career

  1. Viktor Decker

A study of mental-health and food bank use in the UK using propensity score matching

  1. Muhammad Waqas
  2. Syka Iqbal
  3. Barbara Stewart-Knox

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

Pushover fathers tell kids ‘wait until Mum gets home’

Is Britain bowling alone?

The psychology behind why we pay to avoid uncertainty

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