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Older adults from ethnic minority groups report having fewer close friends and fewer friends who live locally than older white people, according a new study.
Understanding Society would like to understand more about how life turns out for people who move away from the UK.
A new report from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), produced in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Understanding Society, reveals that inequalities between families and between generations are increasingly embedded in society.
New research has found that parents experience ‘temporary depression’ when an adult child returns home but recover their levels of wellbeing in the subsequent year.
Understanding Society invites proposals for the content and design of the 2021 Innovation Panel survey.
The launch of Understanding Society's Insights 2020 report see experts discuss how to bring the country together.
Understanding Society has launched its ninth Insights report. This year we focus on three areas of research: social integration, work and health, and geographical mobility. .
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
Professor Susan Harkness, Understanding Society Topic Champion for Social Policy, has been working with the Cabinet Office in a project looking at what happens to women's jobs when they come back from maternity leave.
Playing sport, learning to play a musical instrument or joining a drama group give children vital skills and the chance to socialise with different groups of people, but research from the Social Mobility Commission has found that whether children take part in these types of activity is heavily influenced by how much money their family has.
We can already see the gap between boys and girls when they're 15
Simplifying the tracking of partnership changes in Understanding Society and BHPS.
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But the Low Pay Commission finds women are more likely to be trapped in low paid work.
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And working flexibly or from home doesn't help.
UK-born grandchildren of immigrants tend to mirror the money-saving behaviour of their grandparents' country of birth, according to new research from the London School of Economics.
Fathers are less likely to hold traditional attitudes towards gender roles if they have a school-aged daughter.
Have you used household panel data in your research? Understanding Society is accepting abstracts for its Scientific Conference which will be held on 2-4 July 2019.
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.
Understanding Society's annual review, showingcasing research that uses the Study, is published today.
Research on ethnicity and immigration using Understanding Society data is the focus of a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
Understanding Society Impact Fellow Raj Patel on the action needed to tackle the gender pay gap.
The UK's biggest celebration of social science returns this November with the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science.
The Social Metrics Commission use Understanding Society to show who is poor now and how that has changed over time.
A new edition of the Understanding Society Waves 1 - 7 dataset has been released today.
Eight new research papers which used data from Understanding Society and the British Household Panel Survey were presented at the eighth Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) conference.
10 year olds who frequently argue with their mother are significantly more likely to develop mental health problems by the time they are 14, a new report from The Children’s Society and Barnardo’s has found.
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