Understanding Society User Support

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understanding Society User Support Officer

Dear Kirsty,

Understanding Society is a longitudinal study where the fieldwork for each wave takes two years. The data from the link you provided which states it is from 2012/2013 is from Wave 4, 2013/2014, Wave 5 and 2014/2015, Wave 6.

We do not ask every question at each wave, as some questions are part of a module which appears every two or three years (or sometimes less often). You can see which questions were asked at each wave by looking at the questionnaires here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/questionnaires and which modules appear in each wave here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/long-term-content-plan

You can look at each year of a particular wave separately, but if the question had not been asked in every wave you would have a smaller sample size.

To create the tables of responses by age and sex that you require, please download the data as described here: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/access-data

Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understanding Society User Support Officer