How our data makes a difference for organisations from charities to government.
Research shows lower self-rated mental health and a higher likelihood of undiagnosed conditions.
The Children's Society uses Understanding Society to look at how children's wellbeing changes over time.
Research shows that girls’ confidence drops during adolescence, but Girlguiding helps mitigate this, and can raise girls’ confidence higher than boys’
New report from the RSA highlights potential benefits of universal basic income
How has Understanding Society been used by researchers, policymakers and analysts in the first ten years of the Study?
The Young Women's Trust worked with Understanding Society to look at why economic inactivity is disproportionately high amongst young women.
Investigating the different trajectories of mental health among adolescents to better understand which factors are associated with better mental health.
Children’s Society report uses Understanding Society for annual look at UK youth
Using Understanding Society data to examine the impact of the grammar school system on people's earnings.
Evidence on working life for women and young people contributes to the development of proposed new rights for flexible workers.
Welsh Government uses Understanding Society data to monitor the mental wellbeing of children.
Understanding Society linked data reveal the relationship between worklessness and children's educational outcomes.
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The Economic and Social Research Council is the primary funder of the study The Study is led by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.
