Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study extension for Wave 12

了解社会：英国家庭纵向研究是世界上最大的家庭小组研究，旨在解决21世纪的关键科学和政策问题。它收集了代表英国人口的家庭中所有年龄的个人的高质量年度纵向数据。这些数据使研究人员能够探索人们生活变化的经历、原因和后果——他们的家庭结构、健康、收入、支出、就业和住房。该研究还提供了额外的样本，以详细探讨主要移民和少数民族群体的情况；并收集有关认知、健康和遗传学的客观测量数据，以了解人们的健康与更广泛的环境如何相互作用。我们越来越多地能够确保与地点和组织的背景信息的联系，并在征得同意的情况下，与个人层面的数据（包括行政记录、社交媒体和商业信息）建立联系。此外，该研究还尝试了创新的数据收集方式，以不断提高可用数据的内容和质量。最后，我们投资支持研究人员并与政策制定者合作，以确保基于这些数据的研究用于为政策和实践提供信息。这项研究始于2008年的创新小组（IP），该小组负责测试方法，第一波主要的实地工作始于2009年。它建立并整合了英国家庭小组调查（BHPS），这意味着我们从1991年开始就有一些家庭的年度信息。迄今为止，主要研究的七波和IP的九波，以及从护士访问中收集的数据，都存放在英国数据服务中心。波浪9-11和IP11-12的数据收集和规划正在进行中；IP10和Wave 8数据将在2018年发布。本次投标包括主要研究的第12波、IP13和ip14以及相关活动的数据收集费用。在Wave 12中，我们将继续在混合模式框架中推动web优先的数据收集，以降低成本，同时保持响应率和数据质量。我们正在资助方法学研究金来支持这一点。此外，在IP13和ip14中，我们将尝试其他收集和收集数据的方法-例如，波间调查，应用程序，扫描直到收据-以扩大可用的研究机会。我们也在联系其他潜在的受访者：那些我们在BHPS中失去的人，我们可以找到他们，以及研究中不生活在同一家庭的人的伴侣。最后，我们将试图通过采访离开研究的移民群体来理解为什么他们会这样做，我们还将采访被调查者搬进养老院时的家庭成员。政策和研究议程是不断发展的，在纵向研究中，重要的是要平衡创造长系列的相同数据，并包括针对新兴主题的新问题。对于第12次浪潮，我们正在审查我们的调查是否充分捕捉到了技术对我们生活的不同方面的影响。我们已经任命了一些专家——话题冠军——来改进调查的内容和我们向用户展示数据的方式。我们的目标是专注于开发儿童时期的内容，目前这些内容是有限的。支持大学、政府、第三部门和企业的研究人员有效地使用数据是研究成功的基础。我们设有政策组，直接与政府部门和第三界别机构合作，协助他们使用“了解社会”的数据。我们亦举办多项活动，向政策使用者推广研究结果。我们正在计划一系列国际活动，以促进有效的比较研究，特别是与利用该研究进行政策分析有关的研究。我们也资助政策研究金，以促进研究的政策影响。

Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study is the largest household panel study in the world, designed to address key scientific and policy questions of the 21st century. It collects high quality annual longitudinal data on individuals of all ages in households representative of the UK population. Such data enable researchers to explore the experiences, causes and consequences of changes in people's lives - their family structure, health, income, expenditure, employment and housing. The Study has additional samples for the detailed exploration of the circumstances of key immigrant and ethnic minority groups; and collects data on cognition, objective measures of health and genetics to understand how people's health and wider circumstances interact. Increasingly we have been able to secure linkage to contextual information for places and organisations, and with consent, to individual level data including administrative records, social media and commercial information. Additionally, the Study experiments with innovative ways of collecting data to continually improve the content and quality of data available. Finally, we invest in supporting researchers and working with policy makers to ensure the research based on these data is used to inform policy and practice. The Study began in 2008 with the Innovation Panel (IP), which tests methods, and the first main wave of fieldwork started in 2009. It builds on and incorporates the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which means for some families we have annual information from 1991. To date, seven waves of the main Study and nine waves of the IP, as well as data collected from a nurse visit, are deposited in the UK Data Service. Data collection and planning are ongoing for Waves 9-11 and IP11-12; IP10 and Wave 8 data will be released in 2018. This bid covers the costs of data collection for Wave 12 of the main Study and IP13 and 14, and associated activities. In Wave 12 we will continue to push web-first data collection within our mixed mode framework to reduce costs while maintaining response rates and data quality. We are funding Methodological Fellowships to support this. Additionally, in IP13 and 14 we will experiment with other ways of collecting and harvesting data - for example between-wave surveys, apps, scanning till receipts - to expand the research opportunities available. We are also reaching out to other potential respondents: those whom we lost in BHPS where we can find them, and the partners of people in the Study who do not live in the same households. Finally, we will be trying to understand why people who emigrant do so by interviewing such groups as they leave the Study, and also we will interview family members when a respondent moves into a care home. Policy and research agendas are constantly evolving, and it is important in a longitudinal study to balance creating long series of the same data with including new questions that address emerging topics. For Wave 12 we are reviewing whether our survey adequately captures the way in which technology impacts on different aspects of our lives. We have appointed a number of experts - Topic Champions - to improve the content of the survey and the way we present the data to users. We also aim to focus on developing our content in childhood, which is limited at present. Supporting researchers in universities, government, third sector and businesses to use the data effectively is fundamental to the success of the Study. We have a Policy Unit that directly works with government departments and third sector organisations to help them use Understanding Society data, and we undertake a wide range of activities to promote findings based on the Study to policy users. We are planning a range of international events to promote effective comparative research, especially in relation to policy analysis using the Study. We are also funding Policy Fellowships to promote the policy impact of the Study.