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A new report from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), produced in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Understanding Society, reveals that inequalities between families and between generations are increasingly embedded in society.
New research has found that parents experience ‘temporary depression’ when an adult child returns home but recover their levels of wellbeing in the subsequent year.
Understanding Society invites proposals for the content and design of the 2021 Innovation Panel survey.
Understanding Society has launched its ninth Insights report. This year we focus on three areas of research: social integration, work and health, and geographical mobility. .
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
Professor Susan Harkness, Understanding Society Topic Champion for Social Policy, has been working with the Cabinet Office in a project looking at what happens to women's jobs when they come back from maternity leave.
New labour market histories that span the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society help researchers track changes in working lives.
Which households lose or gain the most under universal credit? And are the effects short-lived or persistent?
The 2019 Innovation Panel competition is now open and accepting applications.
But the Low Pay Commission finds women are more likely to be trapped in low paid work.
Have a question about using Understanding Society? Discuss it directly with our User Support team during the online helpdesk hour.
Have you used household panel data in your research? Understanding Society is accepting abstracts for its Scientific Conference which will be held on 2-4 July 2019.
The latest wave of data is now available to researchers.
If you have created syntax for the Understanding Society dataset you can now share it with other data users through our website.
Funded PhD Studentships working with the Understanding Society team are now open for applications.
Understanding Society's annual review, showingcasing research that uses the Study, is published today.
Understanding Society Impact Fellow Raj Patel on the action needed to tackle the gender pay gap.
The UK's biggest celebration of social science returns this November with the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science.
The Social Metrics Commission use Understanding Society to show who is poor now and how that has changed over time.
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