Understanding Society User Support

Dear ISER staff,

my name is Raffaele Ciula and I would like to use the Understanding society dataset to assess the effect of the universal credit on child health using a longitudinal quasi-experimental analysis.

I have few questions regarding the structure of the understanding society dataset:

I would like to make a difference between outcome variables between the wave seven and the wave nine. What does it mean that the wave 7 includes the years 2013-2015, that it is three years time? Also, as the wave 7 (2013-2015) and the wave 9 (2015-2017) have an overlapping year, does this mean that I cannot use these wave to make differences between outcome variables between those waves (for example difference between children's health status in the period 2015-2017 and the children's health status in the period 2013-2015)?

I would like to use the wave 9, but the special licence forms are difficult to understand and to fill, is there a free version of the understanding society regarding the 9th wave?

Can you help me fill the UK data service special licence form? I sent an email to the UK data service staff last week, but I have not received any help yet. If you can help me, I will send you the questions which are difficult to understand and to answer. If you cannot help me can you suggest me an email address to which I can ask for help regarding filling the special licence form? Thanks for your help;

Best Regards,

Raffaele Ciula