DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-7642-3
title: Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (National Pupil Database), England, 1995-2018: Secure Access
title: Understanding Society: Waves 1- , 2008-: Controlled/Secure Access
title: United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study; UKHLS; NPD

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/span&gt; (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 &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;British Household Panel Survey&lt;/span&gt; (BHPS), which began in 1991.&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secure Access Dataset:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (National Pupil Database), England, 1995-2018: Secure Access&lt;/i&gt; study contains nine files extracted from the
&lt;i&gt;National Pupil Database&lt;/i&gt; (NPD) for England. These can be linked (within the Secure Access service) to
&lt;i&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/i&gt; participants using the cross-wave personal identifier (variable pidp). The NPD files include information on pupil background, attainment, school absences and exclusions for all individuals with a valid consent to education linkage collected in Waves 1 and 4 of &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/i&gt;. This includes consents collected from parents of children aged 4-15 and of young adults aged 16+ and born in 1981 or later. The included files cover Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) data on pupil background; pupil attainment data for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) (age 5) and Key Stages (KS) 1 (age 7), KS2 (age 11), KS3 (age 14), KS4 (age 16) and KS5 (ages 17-18); and absences and exclusions (ages 4-18). See documentation for further details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Related UK Data Archive studies&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span&gt;The equivalent study to this one that covers Scotland is in preparation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This study is frequently linked through the pidp variable to one of the main Understanding Society datasets: SN 6614 (End User Licence), SN 6931 (Special Licence) or SN 6676 (Secure Access). A Special Licence dataset containing School Codes for the main Understanding Society study (SN 7182) is also available. Further details can be found on the
&lt;a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053" title="Understanding Society series"&gt;
Understanding Society series Key data&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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The Archive also holds separate (i.e. not linked to &lt;i&gt;Understanding Society&lt;/i&gt;) data from the
&lt;i&gt;National Pupil Database&lt;/i&gt;, available under Secure Access and Safe Room Access conditions. See SNs 7626, 7627 and 7628 (Secure Access) and SNs 7590, 7625, 7600, 7595, 7612 and 7606 (Safe Room Access) for details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;Latest edition information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;The third edition (November 2020) includes Understanding Society participants who gave consent at Wave 4 and could be linked to the National Pupil Database (NPD).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; It includes NPD data up to academic year 2017/18. It also contains
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Understanding Society participants who gave consent and could be linked at Wave 1 and did not re-consent at Wave 4. NPD data up to academic year 2012/13 is included for these participants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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