Wave 13 is the latest data release of the Understanding Society main survey.
In this wave the Understanding Society questionnaire was redeveloped in three areas: employment, wealth and retirement. Employment questions now better capture responses from people who have more than one job and take into account non-standard working, including portfolio working. The retirement planning module has been updated to take into account changes in the retirement landscape. Questions about the benefits and disadvantages of retirement have been replaced with questions about expected working patterns and timings in older age. You can find full information about the changes to employment questions in Wave 13 in the user guide.
What’s in Wave 13?
Wave 13 has four new modules on:
- Mental health conditions
- Job searching
- Other work
- Gambling (self-completion)
The rotating content for Wave 13 was last carried in Waves 10 and 11. These include questions on:
- Family networks
- Parents and children (0-15)
- Partner relationships (self-completion)
- Child maintenance
- Nutrition
- Social care
Modules that are asked every three years which are included in Wave 13 include:
- Sleep quality
- Mental wellbeing (self-completion)
- Remittances
- Benefit data linkage consent
- FCA data linkage consent
Full details on the modules carried in Wave 13 can be found in the main survey user guide.
Youth questionnaire content
Young people aged 10-15 complete their own survey in each wave. For Wave 13 they answered questions on:
- Family support
- Family talking and quarrelling
- Bullying at home and at school
- Behaviour
- Homework
- Savings, pocket money and earnings
- Nutrition, obesity and exercise
- Caring
- Environmental behaviour and attitudes
