Nest (the National Employment Savings Trust) is a large workplace pension provider set up by the UK government to accept enrolments from workers who are eligible for enrolment into a workplace pension, under the UK’s national programme of pensions auto-enrolment. The Nest linked dataset provides data from the Nest pensions accounts of 1672 Understanding Society participants who gave their permission to have these data linked and made available for research.
The UK government introduced workplace pensions auto enrolment on a phased basis, starting in October 2012. Larger employers were brought into the programme first, with employers of all sizes becoming covered by the rules by 2017. Under the legislation, every employer must automatically enrol all their eligible workers into a suitable pension scheme. Many employers have turned to Nest to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties – as of 31 March 2022 one million employers had registered with the scheme.
Access the linked Nest data
The linked data are available via the UK Data Service under their Secure Access category. Researchers are required to attend a Safe Researcher training course to access the Study. For full information on the linked dataset please look at the user guide that accompanies the dataset.
Safe Researcher training is delivered by the UK Data Service. The course is online and run regularly throughout the year. For details see the the UK Data Service training calendar.
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