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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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Insights 2026: Children and young people’s futures

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The disappearance of the hump shape in illbeing by age

Lifetime happiness trend changes as youth mental health suffers.

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Training can boost job mobility and pay growth

New report calls for government and business investment in skills

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Understanding Society Wave 15

The latest wave of UKHLS is now available from the UK Data Service

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Late-onset ADHD symptoms in the general population: a scoping review of longitudinal trajectories in population-based cohorts

  1. Sophie Bayard
  2. Clarisse Madiouni
  3. François Radiguer
  4. Mäeva Roulin
  5. Sébastien Henrard

Sex/gender differences in individual and joint trajectories of common mental health symptoms in early to middle adolescence

  1. Aja Louise Murray
  2. Anastasia Ushakova
  3. Lydia Speyer
  4. Ruth Brown
  5. Bonnie Auyeung
  6. Xinxin Zhu

Quantifying the relationship between climatic conditions and personal financial and health wellbeing

  1. Georgios Chrysanthou
  2. Panagiotis Tzouvanas

Metabolic factors modulating the connection between diabetes and pulmonary alterations

  1. Maurizio Di Marco
  2. Kálmán B. Bódis
  3. Zengbin Li
  4. Dania M. Méndez Cárdenas
  5. Katsiaryna Prystupa
  6. Iryna Yurchenko
  7. Yanislava Karusheva
  8. Kathrin Fricke
  9. Sandra Trenkamp
  10. Martin Schön
  11. Oana-Patricia Zaharia
  12. Amalia Gastaldelli
  13. Martin Heni
  14. Malte Kelm
  15. Antonino Di Pino
  16. Michael Roden
  17. Robert Wagner
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Pets increase life satisfaction as much as marriage or close friendships
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