DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-7332-10
title: Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-13, 2008-2020: Secure Access, National Grid Reference (Easting, Northing, OSGRDIND)
title: Understanding Society: Waves 1- , 2008-: Secure Access
title: United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study; UKHLS

description: &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; &lt;p&gt;For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/i&gt; is conducted as part of &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/i&gt;. It 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 &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/i&gt; survey, held at the UK Data Archive under SNs 6614 (End User Licence version), 6931 (Special Licence) and 6676 (Secure Access). 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 web surveys. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The &lt;i&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/i&gt; has multiple experimental studies in which households or individuals 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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Understanding Society Working Papers&lt;/a&gt;. Further information about the &lt;i&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/i&gt; is also available on the main &lt;a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/innovation-panel" title="Innovation Panel" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Innovation Panel&lt;/a&gt; webpage. Due to COVID-19 Wave 13 was implemented using computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and we surveys.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Secure Access Dataset&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-13, 2008-2020: Secure Access, National Grid Reference (Easting, Northing, OSGRDIND)&lt;/i&gt; dataset contains British National Grid postcode grid references (at 1m resolution) for each household surveyed, derived from the ONS National Statistics Postcode Directories (NSPD). Grid references are presented in terms of Eastings and Northings, which are distances in metres (east and north, respectively) from the origin (0,0), which lies to the west of the Scilly Isles. Each grid reference is given a positional quality indicator to denote the accuracy of the grid reference. In the majority of cases, the assigned grid reference relates to the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean. No grid references are provided for postcodes in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Secure Access version of &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society: Innovation Panel 2008-2020&lt;/i&gt; includes all files in the Special Licence version, plus files containing the 3 variables relating to the National Grid Reference for each household: Easting, Northing and positional quality indicator (OSGRDIND). All other files are the same as in the Special Licence version, which is held under SN 7083.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Related UK Data Archive studies&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br&gt;The Secure Access version of the dataset has more restrictive access conditions than standard End User Licence or Special Licence access datasets (see 'Access' section below). Further details and links to the less restrictive versions can be found on the&lt;a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053" title="Understanding Society series" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Understanding Society series&lt;/a&gt; Key data page.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Co-funders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&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;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;International Data Access Network (IDAN)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;These data are now available to researchers based outside the UK. Selected UKDS SecureLab/controlled datasets from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) have been made available under the International Data Access Network (IDAN) scheme, via a Safe Room access point at one of the UKDS IDAN partners. Prospective users should read the &lt;a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/securelab-access-to-non-ons-data_idan.pdf" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;UKDS SecureLab application guide for non-ONS data for researchers outside of the UK via Safe Room Remote Desktop Access&lt;/a&gt;. Further details about the IDAN scheme can be found on the &lt;a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/about/research-and-development/international-data-access-network-idan/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;UKDS International Data Access Network&lt;/a&gt; webpage and on the &lt;a href="https://idan.network/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;IDAN&lt;/a&gt; website.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Latest edition information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;For the ninth edition (October 2021), Wave 13 has been added with accompanying documentation, and Waves 10 to 12 redeposited with some value label changes. See the documentation file '7332_ip_waves_1-12_changes_collated.pdf' for details of the changes.&lt;/p&gt;