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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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Children’s worries include good grades and rising prices

Children’s average happiness is lower across six aspects of life in 2022/23 compared to 2009/10

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Calendar Year 2023 data now available

The latest release of our Calendar Year datasets can now be accessed via the UK Data Service.

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Deputy Director of Understanding Society

Professor Annette Jäckle debates survey methods on BBC Radio 4

The Deputy Director of Understanding Society, Professor Annette Jäckle, has featured on a BBC Radio 4 programme to unpick the reality behind a recent headline about young people.

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Breathing unequal air in the UK

Does pollution affect immigrant populations disproportionately?

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Latest research

Does the informal carer identification method matter? Evidence from self‑declaration and time diary approaches

  1. Sean Urwin
  2. Charles Smith
  3. Matt Sutton

Effects of self-rated health on union formation and dissolution in six countries

  1. Matthijs Kalmijn

Estimating population mental health effects of the rollout of Universal Credit in the UK using standard and novel difference-in-differences analysis, 2009–2019

  1. M. Marimpi
  2. B. Barr
  3. A. Baxter
  4. S. Hugh-Jones
  5. D. Taylor-Robinson
  6. S.V. Katikireddi
  7. H. Brown
  8. M. Cheetham
  9. S. Morris
  10. L. Munford
  11. Matteo Richiardi
  12. M. Sutton
  13. C. Bambra
  14. P. Craig
  15. S. Wickham

Gender implications of new assortative mating patterns: mating down and sharing more equally the domestic work?

  1. Anna Martinez Mendiola
  2. Clara Cortina
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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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Employees of Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnic origin almost twice as likely to opt out of workplace pensions as other employees
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Government action needed to stop and reverse the proliferation of millions of small pension pots
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Ethnic minorities face higher air pollution levels
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