Introduction to Understanding Society - Part 1

This course is aimed at new users of Understanding Society, as well as those who have so far only made use of simpler aspects of the dataset. It aims to guide the user through the complexities of using these data for cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, and ensure that they can make effective use of Understanding Society for their own research projects.

Part 1 of the introduction to Understanding Society workshop, is a series of lectures over a 3,5 hour period, during which participants will learn about Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, specifically they will learn about:

• Design of the survey and research possibilities
• Who is interviewed, and when, how often?
• What information is collected, and from whom?
• How is the information collected? What questions are asked?
• How the information collected is stored (file structure and content)?
• What other information can be linked with the survey data, and how?
• How to access these datasets

Understanding Society is a longitudinal study that collects comprehensive information about the lives of individuals, and their households, at one-year intervals enabling inter-disciplinary research across multiple topics. Participants will also learn how to effectively and efficiently search and find the variables/questions that they are interested in analysing.

Course materials
Participants will be provided handouts of the presentation slides.

Host or Publisher Understanding Society