Data collected from the survey’s thousands of participants is securely stored by the UK Data Service, from where researchers can access it online. All of the associated documentation is available here.
Surveys
Main survey
Providing high quality longitudinal data about subjects such as health, work, education, income, family, and social life to help understand the long term effects of social and economic change.
Innovation panel
Helping develop leading edge survey methods and content that will ensure the ongoing success of Understanding Society and to generate important new knowledge.
COVID-19
An additional short survey that collects information about our participants experience of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Specialist datasets
Linked Data
Allows researchers to make use of additional information that the survey does not collect in the annual interviews.
Teaching datasets
To support lecturers and teachers we produce datasets that are specifically designed to be used by students and new data users.
Health and biomarkers
Collecting information about participant’s social and economic circumstances, attitudes and beliefs and also gathering information about their health.
Pregnancy and early childhood
A single cross-wave file that brings together the key data reported by parents for all children aged under 10 years, plus information on pregnancy and parenting styles, from all waves of the main survey.