Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. This dataset contains Census 2001-defined geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society and harmonised BHPS to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data. LSOA’s are provided for England and Wales households, Super Output Areas (SOA) are provided for Northern Ireland and Data Zones (DZ) are provided for Scotland. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information). These data are consistent with the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD). Please see the Geographical Lookup Tables document for further details. Census 2001, 2011 and 2021 LSOA access restrictions Census 2011 and 2021 - defined LSOA geographic variables are also available under Special Licence access conditions to match to Understanding Society data - see SN 7248 and SN 9169 respectively. When placing an order for these data, users should note that, to minimise the risk of disclosure, users may access only one of SN 7248, SN 9169 or SN 6670 (this study). Latest Edition Information For the 16th edition (November 2024), Wave 14 data have been added, and the documentation has been updated. In addition, Wave 13 data has been re-deposited with superfluous entries removed.

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