People in England’s most deprived neighbourhoods work longer hours than those in the rest of the country but live shorter lives with more years in ill health costing an estimated £29.8bn a year to the economy in lost productivity.
Programme provides funding for 12-month projects using our data – and further resources for dissemination and impact
Find out what life is like for young people now and what’s changed over time by visiting Understanding Society’s new youth website.
The rapidly increasing price of fuel could be making people’s physical and mental health worse.
New body will help to optimise Study’s policy engagement and impact
Two in five (40%) pensioners spent at least one year of the last decade in poverty according to new research from national charity, Independent Age.
Understanding Society launches 11th annual Insights report, showcasing Covid research.
How information from Understanding Society help us better understand the role of this vital hormone.
How was children’s education impacted by the Covid-19 school closures? New research explores how the move to remote learning affected children during the pandemic period.
New study finds we did become a little bit more egalitarian during the first lockdown, but many women ended up doing more than their fair share again once restrictions eased.
The final wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study has been released.
Join Understanding Society for a new programme specifically for researchers who would like to work on our 2019 General and European elections data.
Submit your abstract to present at our People and Places mini-conference taking place online 4-7 April 2022.
Survey methods specialist, Dr Tarek Al Baghal will be helping to lead the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
24-28 January – join Understanding Society for a week of online policy debates
The latest wave of the main survey is now available to download from the UK Data Service.
Men are more sensitive to losing jobs, but moving into poverty has a larger impact on women.
Understanding Society is funding Fellowships in mixed mode measurement.
Education data from the Scottish Government has been linked to Understanding Society and is now available for researchers to use.
New research shows that unemployment increases the risk of separation and that partnerships are equally affected by men and women's unemployment.
Understanding Society is welcoming suggestions for content to include in its future main questionnaires about Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships.
Download the PEACH (Pregnancy and Early Childhood) dataset - designed for researchers working in child development.
There’s been a huge increase in the number of people working at home during the Covid pandemic and most want to keep doing it ‘at least sometimes’
The latest wave of Innovation Panel data is now available from the UK Data Service.
As furlough ends in the UK, new research looks at the impact it had on household spending and on financial distress.
New research from the Centre for Population Change shows that life satisfaction was consistently lower for everyone in 2020-2021 compared to 2018-2019. But people with jobs, partners, and degrees did better than those without.
The chances of a teenager getting involved in politics is linked to how much education their parents had, according to UCL and University of Roehampton researchers.
The link between lifestyle and wellbeing has been well documented, but this is the first study to prove that what you eat and the exercise you do affects life satisfaction.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) administrative data has been linked to Understanding Society and is now available for researchers to use.
Join Understanding Society, the UK Data Service and the Young Foundation for a multi-disciplinary data dive examining the challenges of how households can transition to net zero and scale up pro-environmental behaviour.
We are now seeking applications for new Fellowships from researchers who wish to work with Understanding Society.
Research using Understanding Society shows men’s life satisfaction similar whether employed or self-employed.
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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.
