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New labour market histories that span the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society help researchers track changes in working lives.
New research from UCL shows that women who work more than 55 hours a week are at a higher risk of depression.
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.
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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.
Research on ethnicity and immigration using Understanding Society data is the focus of a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
Understanding Society Impact Fellow Raj Patel on the action needed to tackle the gender pay gap.
The Social Metrics Commission use Understanding Society to show who is poor now and how that has changed over time.
Training and events hosted by Understanding Society.
A new edition of the Understanding Society Waves 1 - 7 dataset has been released today.
Employees who are satisfied with their jobs are more likely to volunteer in the community than those who are unhappy at work.
Using five years of longitudinal data from Understanding Society, a new study has considered what affects 16-25 year olds’ chances of finding employment after leaving education.
For the first time in the Study’s history, data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) has been harmonised with Understanding Society to create 25 years of longitudinal data.
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