Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice

[…] from those who drop out. If they are, this could introduce bias to the survey estimates and some special measures may be needed to reduce the possible impact of this bias. In order to enable the effect of advice to be identified, a random proportion of over-indebted sample members were encouraged to seek advice. […]

Covid-19 in Wales: the mental health and wellbeing impact

[…] Welsh Government as mental health is a key determinant of educational success, future earnings, employment, and physical health of an individual. This paper intends to quantify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social restrictions on mental health outcomes using the UK household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), covering the pre-COVID-19 pandemic period (2009-2019) and […]

Text messages to incentivise response in a web-first sequential mixed-mode survey

[…] emails and letters was supplemented with text messages. Effects of the text messages on survey response and fieldwork efforts were assessed. In addition, we also investigated the impact of SMS on the device selected to complete the survey, time to response, and sample balance. The results show a weak effect of the SMS reminders […]