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。它收集代表英国人口的家庭中所有年龄段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。这项研究还有更多的样本，用于详细探索关键移民和少数族裔群体的情况；并收集关于认知、健康的客观衡量标准和遗传学的数据，以了解人们的健康与更广泛的环境如何相互作用。我们越来越能够确保与地方和组织的背景信息建立联系，并在征得同意的情况下与个人层面的数据建立联系，包括行政记录、社交媒体和商业信息。此外，这项研究还尝试了收集数据的创新方法，以不断提高可用数据的内容和质量。最后，我们投资于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被用于为政策和实践提供信息。这项研究始于2008年，由测试方法的创新小组(IP)开始，第一波主要的实地考察始于2009年。它建立在英国家庭调查(BHPS)的基础上，并纳入了BHPS，这意味着对于一些家庭，我们从1991年开始拥有年度信息。到目前为止，七波主要研究和九波IP，以及从护士访问中收集的数据，都存储在英国数据服务中。9-11浪和IP11-12浪的数据收集和规划正在进行中；IP10和8浪的数据将于2018年发布。该标书涵盖了主要研究的第12波和IP13和14以及相关活动的数据收集费用。在第12波中，我们将继续在我们的混合模式框架内推动网络优先数据收集，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奖学金来支持这一点。此外，在IP13和14中，我们将试验其他收集和收集数据的方法-例如波间调查、应用程序、扫描收据-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，我们可以找到他们的地方，以及研究中不住在同一个家庭的人的伴侣。最后，我们将试图理解为什么移民的人会在离开研究时采访这些群体，也会在受访者搬进养老院时采访他们的家人。政策和研究议程在不断演变，在纵向研究中，重要的是平衡创建长系列相同的数据和包括解决新出现的主题的新问题。对于第12波，我们正在审查我们的调查是否充分地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--主题冠军--来改进调查的内容和我们向用户展示数据的方式。我们还致力于在儿童时期开发我们的内容，目前这方面的内容有限。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这项研究成功的基础。我们有一个政策组，直接与政府部门和第三部门组织合作，帮助他们使用理解社会的数据，我们还开展了广泛的活动，向政策使用者宣传基于研究结果的结果。我们正在计划一系列国际活动，以促进有效的比较研究，特别是在利用该研究进行政策分析方面。我们还资助政策研究金，以促进这项研究的政策影响。

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.