Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Understanding Society, (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

The Understanding Society: Linked Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Dataset, 2013-2015 study contains vehicle data extracted from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) for vehicles that Understanding Society respondents have specifically identified as having access to: 32 key variables for each vehicle are included. Vehicle statistics contain but are not limited to: brand name, year of manufacture, year of first registration, price band, engine size, vehicle mass, CO2 emissions, and fuel type.  This dataset can be linked through the household identifier variable (hidp) to one of the main Understanding Society datasets: SN 6614 (End User Licence), SN 6931 (Special Licence) or SN 6676 (Secure Access). See documentation for further details.Update July 2023:The user guide has been replaced with a new version.

Main Topics:

Topics covered in the data files all relate to licensing details for vehicles. See documentation for further details.

No sampling (total universe)

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Compilation/Synthesis