Lecturers and teachers can now download a new teaching dataset from Understanding Society. The data file combines the responses from adult interviews from the General Population and Ethnic Minority Boost samples from Wave 1 to Wave 9 (2009-2018) into one long file format. The dataset also includes some basic household level information, such as household income.
This new dataset is designed for those teaching longitudinal data methods and for data users who are new to using longitudinal data and would like more guidance in analysing Understanding Society. The teaching dataset comes with a User Guide, which explains the survey and the dataset, and analysis guidance using Stata syntax. The teaching dataset has been created using Stata statistical software, but the datafile can also be downloaded in SPSS and tab-delimited text formats. The User Guide provides guidance on converting the datafile in Stata format to R.
You can download the teaching dataset here.
A second teaching resource using the ethnicity and health data in the Understanding Society survey is also available: Understanding Society: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset
Survey methodology
