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Important information for participants on Understanding Society interviews during the coronavirus outbreak
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
How question wording can help surveys more accurately measure change and stability.
Our participants are involved in the development of new ways to gather health data through an innovative pilot project that aims to find out whether people can collect their own blood and hair samples.
New labour market histories that span the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society help researchers track changes in working lives.
The Understanding Society Innovation Panel is where methodological experiments and new ideas are tested, helping us develop and refine the main Study.
Simplifying the tracking of partnership changes in Understanding Society and BHPS.
We've developed a new teaching dataset to give students a foundation in using longitudinal data for research.
Our study participants help us understand what real people think, experience and feel.
The latest wave of data is now available to researchers.
If you have created syntax for the Understanding Society dataset you can now share it with other data users through our website.
Funded PhD Studentships working with the Understanding Society team are now open for applications.
6 December 2018 - registration is now open.
The Institute for Social and Economic Research has released a new edition of the British Household Panel Survey.
Training and events hosted by Understanding Society.
On 25-27th July, over 200 survey methodologists gathered at the Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys II conference to share methodological research findings and to discuss developments in carrying out longitudinal surveys.
CLOSER has created a series of mini animations to introduce longitudinal data - how it's collected and how researchers use it.
Who uses them? What impact do they have? And how can they develop for the future?
A new report commissioned by CLOSER considers the impact and opportunities of new technology on data collection.
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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.