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Policy Impact Assessment: Autumn Budget Statement 2026.
  1. Frimpong Rejoice
Who does what and why in the household? Insights into factors influencing children’s and adolescents’ participation in household longitudinal surveys
  1. Violetta Parutis
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Psychology
  5. Young People
  6. Child Development
  7. Sociology Of Households
  8. Social Psychology
The health and economic costs of welfare reform: A quasi-experimental evaluation of the roll-out of Universal Credit in England
  1. Silas Amo-Agyei
  2. Luke Munford
  3. Daras Konstantinos
  4. Clare Bambra
  5. Ben Barr
    6. , et al
Annual report on trends in panel attrition in Understanding Society, 2026 edition
  1. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  2. Peter Lynn
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Demography
  4. Ethnic Groups
How panel members react to multiple requests for additional data over time
  1. Jasmine Mitchell
  2. Annette Jäckle
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Psychology
From Pandemic to Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Distributional Impact of UK Tax and Benefit Policies, 2019–2023
  1. Daria Popova
  2. Matteo Richiardi
  3. Justin van de Ven
Report on the UKHLS pilot for the activity / sleep / geolocation tracker study
  1. Owen Preston
  2. Magda Borkowska
  3. Annette Jäckle
  4. Jonathan Burton
  5. Giulia Poerio
    6. , et al
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Health
  5. Geography
  6. Science And Technology
Are we stepping into the future? Exploring the representativeness of web-only surveys of the general population
  1. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  2. Annette Jäckle
  3. Jamie Moore
  4. Gabriele Durrant
  5. Jonathan Burton
    6. , et al
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Demography
  5. Social Change
  6. Science And Technology
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Understanding Society is the UK Household Longitudinal Study collecting annual data from individuals in households across the UK to provide rich and detailed evidence for research and policy making.
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MiSoC is the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change conducting ground-breaking research into how people’s lives are changing and what makes a difference to reducing inequalities in society.
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CeMPA is the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis providing free-to-access models for analysis of the potential impact of tax and benefit policies in the UK and around the world.
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Cross National Surveys Unit provides expertise in survey methodology for large scale social science survey research projects around the world.
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