Understanding Society has a wealth of information for data users of all levels
It has a highly comprehensive online source of information regarding its variables, methodology, survey design and implementation. It is also an up-to-date source of training courses, data releases and other relevant news regarding longitudinal research.
Useful documentation links
The Innovation Panels documentation provides links resources such as the questionnaires, technical and fieldwork documents and variable search. A pathway for experienced users page explores the data, the Code creator and highlights the different valued added datasets we produce.
Variable search
Find the variables you need for your research by searching by variable name or data file. It can be used to find other variables with related data throughout the dataset.
Creating syntax with the Code creator
To help researchers get started with their research the Code creator extracts data from the Main Study and produces a simple flat data file. Select the variables needed from the Variable Search, ‘save’ the variables and ‘build’ the code. It provides you with ready-made Stata syntax to run on the downloaded data.
Topic page
The Survey methods topic page provide an overview of the methodological processes conducted on the Study.
