Understanding Society User Support

Hello Yihua,

This variable is collected from new entrants who have not been interviewed before, excluding rising 16-year-olds whose marital status is any of the following: married, civil partner, separated from spouse, divorced, widowed, separated from civil partner, a former civil partner (civil partnership having dissolved) or a surviving civil partner (partner having died). Consequently, there is a high number of inapplicables cases in wave 13 because they are not new entrants. You can find the variable universe and routing using the “variable search engine at https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/variables/lmar1y/ just look for “Question universe”.

UKHLS has recently released a partnership history file, which includes details about the start and end dates of all partnerships, such as marriages, civil partnerships, and cohabitations (living together as a couple) reported by adult respondents in all Understanding Society (UKHLS) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) samples. This dataset could be helpful for your analysis. You can download the dataset from the following link SN8473. Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2022: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8473

I hope this information is helpful.

Best wishes,
Roberto Cavazos
Understanding Society User Support Team