Understanding Society User Support

Dear Niamh,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.

1. The mainstage user guide provides these details, please see table 1: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/d/308/mainstage-waves-1-6-user-guide.pdf?1479807450

2. Once you have decided which wave data you will use, you can check the questionnaire from that wave (or search the online data documentation): https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage

3. Please check the frequency distribution of the variable “country” in the individual and household level files (indall, indresp, hhresp) for the waves you want in the online documentation.

Projected sample size for Scotland for 2018: estimate 1350 responding households and 2400 responding adults in 2018. Note, that this is based on estimates for Wave 10 Year 1 and Wave 9 Year 2. These can only be estimates because we only have complete figures for Wave 6 – with Waves 7, 8, and 9 still in the field. The sample numbers for 2018 depend on the response rates at these earlier waves.

4. We aim to release our latest data through the UK Data Service annually in November. As per the data collection schedule, data collection during 2018 will be part of waves 9 and 10 with anticipated release dates of November 2019 and 2020 respectively.

We hope this helps, best wishes, Victoria.