Abstract
AbstractUnderstanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) has now been collecting a range of data from its nationally representative sample of participants for 10 years. This significant ‘birthday’ offers a moment to reflect on its contribution to sociological research, and on its current and future potential for fundamental and cutting-edge sociological analysis. While the study shares many features with other longer-standing household panel studies, including its direct predecessor the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), it incorporated from the outset distinctive features that make it particularly valuable for analysis in specific fields, including biosocial research, ethnicity and migration studies, and analyses of the interplay between environmental, social and institutional contexts and individual characteristics. Understanding Society has incorporated methodological development and innovation since its inception, which has facilitated more extensive forms of data collection.
Highlights
The completion of the first round of interviews in 2009/ 2010 of the multi-disciplinary, multi-topic data resource, Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), ushered in the largest nationally representative household panel study to date and set the scene for enhancing key areas of sociological research
After outlining the rationale for and design of the study, we focus on three specific areas: the rich potential for research on (i) race, ethnicity and migration, (ii) individuals in socio-spatial contexts, and (iii) biosocial processes
Aims and Implementation Understanding Society was commissioned in 2007 with an ambitious agenda to both capitalize on the success of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which had been running since 1991, and to reflect changing and emerging research agendas, around biosocial research
Summary
The completion of the first round of interviews in 2009/ 2010 of the multi-disciplinary, multi-topic data resource, Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), ushered in the largest nationally representative household panel study to date and set the scene for enhancing key areas of sociological research. The study implemented a split between a smaller amount of annually collected core content and other topics collected at varying frequencies. This modular design increased the topics covered, capturing a richer set of measures across the study.
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