Data from Waves 1 and 2 of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel are now available to download providing an exciting new research opportunity.
The Innovation Panel is used to test questions, procedures and methods in a context that is similar to the main Understanding Society survey and other household panel surveys, but with 1500 households also has a sample size that is sufficiently large to enable quantitative evaluation in its own right.
Four waves of data have been collected so far and Waves 1 and 2 are now available to download from the Economic and Social Data Service
The first four waves of the Panel included innovative studies aiming at improving survey processes, at reducing non-response, non-response bias and attrition, and examining statistical issues for data analysis. The outcome of these studies are also available for researchers to use. There is also an annual competition in which academics and other interested groups can propose questions and experiments.
Annette Jäckle, who is responsible for running the Innovation Panel said:
“The data are quite unique in that we have the longitudinal data, retrospective histories about people’s lives before the start of the panel, but we also have experimental and methodological data and they are also available to use in secondary research. We hope that researchers will be keen to make good use of the Innovation Panel and all it has to offer as well as the main survey data as and when it becomes available.”
Listen to Annette Jäckle talking about the Innovation Panel in the ISER Research Podcast Series.