Wave 5 of the COVID-19 survey was completed by our participants in September. The COVID-19 study is a regular survey of households in the UK with the aim of enabling research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Data from annual Understanding Society interviews collected in 2019 are also included in the COVID-19 data release, allowing researchers to explore the longer-term impact of COVID-19 on study participants.
What’s included in Wave 5?
This data relase includes modules on:
- Coronavirus illness
- Management of long-term health conditions
- Fertility intentions
- Loneliness
- Housing
- Employment
- Partner and domestic division of labour
- Parents and children
- Return to school
- Internet use
- Diet and food security
- Alcohol, smoking and exercise
- Life satisfaction
- For 5-11 year olds, a strengths and difficulties questionnaire.
Wave 5 can be downloaded from the UK Data Service.
The Wave 5 release also includes improvements to the Wave 1 to 4 data, including improvements to the weighting. It’s recommended that researchers who have been using the earlier waves download and use the updated Waves 1- 5.
New data has been included in this release for school code variables for the COVID-19 study. This Special Licence Access dataset provides state school codes, country of state school, private school name and private school town variables for both mother and father responses to the survey. These data can be matched to data from Wave 11 of the main Understanding Society survey.
New editions of the Special Licence Access datasets Census 2011 Lower Layer Super Output Areas and Local Authority District have also been released.
You can find the COVID-19 questionnaires, field work documents, dataset variables and the User Guide in the data and documentation area.
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