How our data makes a difference for organisations from charities to government.
Independent think tank Bright Blue used our data to assess claimants’ financial difficulties
Monetary Policy Committee cites our data in findings on productivity and working from home
Energy regulator cites research using our data in consultation on tariff cap during Covid
New case study: how government used our COVID-19 Survey to model changes in household income under furlough
Chief Medical Officers refer to research on school closures and children’s difficulties in guidance to Health Secretary
Our data used in living standards, poverty and inequality report
Public Health England uses our data in its Covid-19 mental health and wellbeing surveillance
Understanding Society data and analysis was used to understand how people in the UK felt about the COVID-19 vaccines.
How has Understanding Society been used by researchers, policymakers and analysts in the first ten years of the Study?
Bullying index shows prevalence in schools and impact on children’s wellbeing
Age UK analysis shows older people at risk of malnourishment
Coram Family and Childcare worked with Understanding Society on a project to understand more about how childcare prices might influence mothers' decisions about work.
Investigating the different trajectories of mental health among adolescents to better understand which factors are associated with better mental health.
The Young Women's Trust worked with Understanding Society to look at why economic inactivity is disproportionately high amongst young women.
Understanding the impact of parenthood on measures such as income, hours worked and childcare.
NatCen research shows disadvantaged and financially vulnerable suffering most
Office for National Statistics uses Labour Force Survey and Understanding Society to see which groups find it hardest to find a new job after being unemployed
Influential report uses Understanding Society data
Financial inclusion monitoring uses Understanding Society to examine money worries and pensions
Policymakers hear from experts during Evidence into Policy events programme
Children’s Society report uses Understanding Society for annual look at UK youth
Research supports new Welsh Government homeworking aim
Department for Transport study uses Understanding Society data
Understanding Society data used in follow-up to 2010’s Marmot Review
Understanding Society data used for Government Equalities Office report.
The Scottish Government uses Understanding Society for research on mothers returning to work and gender roles and attitudes.
The Social Metrics Commission used Understanding Society to measure rates of poverty persistence.
Using Understanding Society data to examine the impact of the grammar school system on people's earnings.
The mental health charity Mind hosted a parliamentary event at Westminster to discuss the impact of housing on mental health.
Evidence on working life for women and young people contributes to the development of proposed new rights for flexible workers.
Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation fund an independent, longitudinal study of homelessness in the UK – the Homeless Monitor – that has contributed to a change in homelessness legislation.
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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.
