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.

This is a teaching resource for those who are new to data analysis. It is a step-by-step guide starting from exploring a survey, understanding the structure of the survey data and then using the data to do some simple exercises to measure differences in health and wellbeing across ethnic groups. The survey used here is Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study which interviews individuals in the sampled households every year. To make it easier to use the teaching dataset accompanying this teaching resource only includes responses given by adults (16+ year olds) during the first interview to questions about ethnicity, health and wellbeing and some key socio-demographic characteristics such as age, sex, education, income, labour market status etc. The statistical software used to construct the dataset is Stata, but it is also available to download in SPSS and tab-delimited text formats.Nandi, Alita and Wiltshire, Deborah. (2019). "Teaching Resource: Analysing ethnic differences in health using data from Understanding Society".For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614, Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS.Latest edition informationFor the second edition (August 2020), updated data and documentation files were deposited.

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Social behaviour and attitudesMinoritiesGeneral health and well-being

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Compilation/Synthesis