DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-6849-12
title: Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-11, 2008-2018
title: Understanding Society: Waves 1- , 2008-
title: United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study; UKHLS

description: &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological 
research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its 
design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main 
stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey
 representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection 
takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing 
(CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person 
completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older 
answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion 
questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a
 paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple 
experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a 
particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to 
survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science 
questions. The experiments are described in the User Manual and in &lt;a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers" title="Understanding Society Working Papers"&gt;Understanding Society Working Papers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is 
available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the 
other is a Special Licence (SL) version (available under SN 7083). The 
SL version contains month and year of birth variables in addition to 
age, county variables, more detailed country and occupation coding for a
 number of variables; and various income variables have not been 
top-coded (see the documentation available with the SL version for more 
detail on the differences). In addition, there are a number of SL 
geographical datasets that are designed to be used in conjunction with 
the primary datasets. 
Low- and Medium-level geographical identifiers are also available 
subject to SL access conditions and fine detail geographic 
data are available under more restrictive Secure Access 
conditions that contains British National Grid postcode grid references 
(at 1m resolution) for the unit postcode of each household surveyed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information may be found on the &lt;a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage" title="Understanding Society"&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/a&gt; main stage webpage and links to publications based on the study can be found on the Understanding Society &lt;a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications"&gt;Latest Research&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For the tenth edition (June 2019), Wave 11 has been deposited with 
accompanying documentation, and Waves 1 to 10 redeposited with some data 
edits. See the documentation for details of the changes.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Co-funders&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;In addition to the Economic and Social Research 
Council, co-funders for the study included the Department of Work and 
Pensions, the Department for Education, the Department for Transport, 
the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Community
 and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Scottish 
Government, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Northern Ireland 
Executive, the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs, and the Food
 Standards Agency.&lt;br&gt; &lt;p&gt;Understanding Society (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.&lt;/p&gt;