Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-7, 2008-2014: Secure Access, National Grid Reference (Easting, Northing, OSGRDIND)

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p><i>Understanding Society</i>, or the <i>United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study</i> (UKHLS), is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex. The survey research organisation is NatCen Social Research (formerly the National Centre for Social Research), and in Northern Ireland, the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA).<br> <br> As a multi-topic household survey, the purpose of <i>Understanding Society</i> is to understand social and economic change in Britain at the household and individual levels. It is anticipated that over time the study will permit examination of short- and long-term effects of social and economic change, including policy interventions, on the general well-being of the UK population. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, work, financial resources, and health. Further information about the survey may be found in the documentation, and on the <a href="http://www.understandingsociety.org.uk/" title = "Understanding Society">Understanding Society</a> web site.<br> <br> The study is an annual survey of each adult member of a nationally representative sample. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave. If individuals leave their household, all adult members of their new household are interviewed. Each wave is collected over 24 months, such that the first wave of data was collected between January 2009 and January 2011, the second wave between January 2010 and January 2012, and so forth. Data collection takes place using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire.<br> <br> The study has four sample components: the General Population component, the Innovation Panel, a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, and participants in the former <i>British Household Panel Survey</i> (BHPS) (held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5151 - Secure Access version held under SN 6340). Waves 1-2 include the General Population component and the ethnic minority boost sample. The Innovation Panel data are held separately under End User Licence SN 6849 (Special Licence version held under SN 7083; Secure Access version held under SN 7332). Former participants of the BHPS joined <i>Understanding Society</i> from Wave 2. BHPS sample members have an identifier within the <i>Understanding Society</i> datasets from Wave 2 onwards, allowing the matching of BHPS data to <i>Understanding Society</i>.<br/>The <i>Innovation Panel</i> is conducted as part of <i>Understanding Society</i>. It is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage <i>Understanding Society</i> survey, held at the UK Data Archive under SNs 6614 (End User Licence version), 6931 (Special Licence) and 6676 (Secure Access). It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually mainly using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The <i>Innovation Panel</i> has multiple experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. The experiments are described in the User Manual and in <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers" title="Understanding Society Working Papers">Understanding Society Working Papers</a>. Further information about the <I>Innovation Panel</i> is also available on the main <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel" title="Innovation Panel">Innovation Panel</a> webpage.<br> <br> <b>Secure Access Dataset</b>:<br> The <i>Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-7, 2008-2014: Secure Access, National Grid Reference (Easting, Northing, OSGRDIND)</i> dataset contains British National Grid postcode grid references (at 1m resolution) for each household surveyed, derived from the ONS National Statistics Postcode Directory (NSPD). Grid references are presented in terms of Eastings and Northings, which are distances in metres (east and north, respectively) from the origin (0,0), which lies to the west of the Scilly Isles. Each grid reference is given a positional quality indicator to denote the accuracy of the grid reference. In the majority of cases, the assigned grid reference relates to the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean. No grid references are provided for postcodes in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.<br> <br> The Secure Access version of <i>Understanding Society: Innovation Panel 2008-2014</i> includes all variables in the End User Licence version, plus files containing the 3 variables relating to the National Grid Reference for each household: Easting, Northing and positional quality indicator (OSGRDIND). All other files are the same as in the End User Licence version, which is held under SN 6849.<br> <br> <b>Related UK Data Archive studies</b>:<br> The Secure Access version of the dataset has more restrictive access conditions than standard End User Licence or Special Licence access datasets (see 'Access' section below). Further details and links to the less restrictive versions can be found on the <a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053" title="Understanding Society series">Understanding Society series</a> Key data page.<br> <br> For the fourth edition (September 2015), Wave 7 has been deposited with accompanying documentation, and Waves 1 to 6 redeposited with some data edits. See the documentation file '7332_ip1-6_changes.pdf' for details of the changes.<br> <br><B>Main Topics</B>:<br>The survey instrument is constructed using modules. For a fuller listing of modules and questionnaire content see the ISER <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel/dataset-documentation" title="Innovation Panel Dataset Documentation">Innovation Panel Dataset Documentation</a> webpage. Experiments are described in the User Manual for the Innovation Panel.<br> <br> The household questionnaire includes a composition listing of all household members and collects information about gender, date of birth, marital and employment status, and relationship to the household respondent. The household questionnaire also has questions about housing, mortgage or rent payments, material deprivation, and consumer durables and cars.<br> <br> The individual interview is asked of every person in the household aged 16 or over, and covers: demographics, baseline information, family background, ethnicity and national identity; religion; partnership and fertility histories; health, disability and caring; current employment and earnings; parenting and childcare arrangements; contact with non-resident children; benefit payments; household finances; consents to administrative data linkage. See the User Guide for additional modules carried only in some of the waves. A proxy module, a much shortened version of the individual questionnaire, collects demographic, health, and employment information, as well as a summary income measure.<br> <br> The adult self-completion questionnaire was a pencil-and-paper instrument (PAPI) at Waves 1 and 3, and in Waves 4-7 included an experimental comparison with Computer Assisted Self-Completion (CASI). It includes subjective questions, particularly those which are potentially sensitive or require more privacy. For example, the self-completion questionnaire covers feelings of depression, sleep behaviour, neighbourhood participation and belonging, life satisfaction, and attributes of friends. There was no adult self-completion questionnaire at Wave 2.<br> <br> The youth self-completion questionnaire (also PAPI) is given to children aged 10-15 years in the household. It covers computer and technology use, relationships with parents, feelings about areas of life, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and educational plans