Biobanks aim to improve our understanding of health and disease by collecting and
analysing diverse biological and phenotypic information in large samples. So far, biobanks …

Abstract Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, builds on the
success of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). This paper describes some of the …

Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction
between ethnicity, gender and parental household's employment status affecting young …

There is an extensive literature on the domestic division of labour within married and
cohabiting couples and its relationship to gender equality within the household and the …

Abstract Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) has now
been collecting a range of data from its nationally representative sample of participants for …

BACKGROUND Surveys of immigrants face challenges of coverage, representativeness,
and response rates. Longitudinal studies of immigrants and ethnic minorities, which have …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sample design of Understanding Society and
the consequent nature of design weights as well as a description of procedures that are …

Higher educated people tend to be more accepting of homosexuality than lower educated
people. This has inspired claims that education leads to a higher acceptance of …

The first aim of this paper is to describe information about Understanding Society-the UK
Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)-that is relevant for research using its income data …

This paper describes the extent and correlates of non-response at waves 1 and 2 of
Understanding Society. We examine both household-level and individual-level non …