UK POPULATION LAB INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT GRANT

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This proposal includes five work packages that are aimed at enhancing specific aspects of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, and synthesising and sharing lessons for the development of longitudinal studies more generally. Understanding Society is a large longitudinal resource of value to a wide range of UK and international academics, students, researchers in government, civic society and businesses. The Study is multi-topic, and has some key features which make it a unique resource: the collection of annual data on people of all ages allowing analysis of short term dynamics for the whole population; data collection over a long period permitting analysis of life course changes; including all members of the household so family inter-relations and connectedness can be explored; a large sample size from all four countries of the UK, meaning that very specific subgroups of the population can be studied and the impacts of policy variation investigated; the inclusion of biomeasures, biomarkers, genetic and epigenetic information; and, additional boost samples on immigrant and ethnic minority groups.The projects proposed in this application, include investigating the use of Understanding Society for cohort analysis and for research around birth and early life; further improving the representativeness of Understanding Society and creating opportunities for research on 'missing populations' within the Study; the value and challenges of integrating survey and administrative data; innovation in survey design (such as mixed modes, use of incentives, linkage to social media);and, innovation in content around key life events an d separating parents.The proposed work packages involve: reviewing and synthesising literature, undertaking empirical analysis of Understanding Society, consulting expert users, conducting qualitative research to explore and improve the design of the study going forward. Across the work packages outputs will include two think pieces, eight empirical reports (four qualitative reports and four based on descriptive analyses of the Study), three methods briefings, a list of geographical resources, and a substantial methodological review paper. For each work package a short interim summary will be provided at the end of March 2019 and all final outputs will be produced by the end of June 2019. Subsequently, some of the reports and briefings will be published as Understanding Society working papers on our website, and/or in peer review journals. The qualitative data from the shared care research project will be deposited in the UK Data Service.Lessons from all of this research will be built into the development of Understanding Society going forward.