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. 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. In Wave 5 adult respondents who finished higher education in 1995 or after at a UK institution were asked about the higher education establishment that they attended. This dataset contains the higher education institution identifiers for up to four higher education establishments per respondent. In Wave 11 the data was re-gathered on the same basis. As well as the higher education institution identifiers the ukprn of the establishment has also been released. Users of the Wave 11 file should be aware that approximately 2,000 respondents that didn’t give consent to a linkage consent question were incorrectly not asked for their establishment identifiers. In Wave 12 the respondents affected by the incorrect data collection in Wave 11 were asked the same questions again and data was also collected of newly eligible survey members. For full details of this dataset including explanations of the issues at Wave 11 and how they were corrected at Wave 12 please refer to the High Education user guide. The details in this dataset can be linked to the main Understanding Society datasets SN 6614 (end user licence), SN 6931 (special licence) and SN 6676 (secure access) using the crosswave personal identifier pidp. The institution identifiers in the data files can be used to link to publicly available datasets published by HESA and elsewhere. Latest Edition Information For the 5th edition (November 2024), Wave 14 data has been added and the User Guide updated.

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