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Grassroots Sport Facilities Investment Programme : impact evaluation feasibility study

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) commissioned Ipsos MORI to complete this study into the feasibility of evaluating the impact of government investment into multi-sport and tennis grassroots facilities across the UK. The research and recommendations were supported by close consultation with programme partners across the UK. The report will serve as […]

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

[…] lead to biased estimates if participants not responding or dropping out of the study are different from those who continue to participate. Different strategies can minimise the impact of nonresponse during the fieldwork. For instance, survey incentives or increasing the number of calls have been successful in increasing response rates. This paper explores one […]

Involvement with the arts and participation in cultural events – does personality moderate impact on well-being? Evidence from the U.K. Household Panel Survey

[…] If available, results are mostly of an associative nature confirming an interdependence between the two. In this light, this study adds to the literature by investigating causative impact of participation in creative activities and attendance to cultural events on well-being in the British population. This study also examines the moderation effect of personality traits […]

Labour market status and well-being during the great recession: a changing relationship? -PhD thesis-

[…] health. Aggregate positive psychological health was associated with a recession period decline, in contrast to SWB which remained stable. Labour market statuses were found to moderate the impact of recession. People who were economically inactive were associated with the largest declines in positive psychological health during the recession period, compared to the pre-recession period, […]

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex – written evidence (ASC0059) [House of Lords. Adult Social Care Committee. Adult social care inquiry]

Key Points: Research using Understanding Society data has shown: 1) The impact of being a carer on young carers can compound existing inequalities, and costs the country £1bn+ per year. Better state provision would reduce these impacts. 2) Of the two million carers aged 65 or over, 417,000 of them are 80+. They are […]

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ethnic minorities in Manchester: lessons from the early stage of the pandemic

[…] to studies of pre-COVID-19 economic and ethnic composition in Manchester and in the combined authority area of Greater Manchester. We then make inferences about the pandemic’s short-term impact specific to the city region. Greater Manchester has seen some of the highest rates of COVID-19 and as a result faced particularly stringent “lockdown” regulations. Manchester […]

Can encouraging respondents to contact interviewers to make appointments reduce fieldwork effort? Evidence from a randomized experiment in the UK

[…] received an appeal to their altruistic tendencies that emphasized that being an “early bird” would make their interviewer’s life easier. A parallel experiment sought to evaluate the impact of differential standard incentives on response. The early-bird take-up rate was higher for the incentivized group (10 percent compared with 6 percent for the non-incentivized group) […]