Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Understanding Society (the 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.

In Wave 5, adult respondents who finished higher education in 1995 or after at a UK institution were asked about the higher education establishment that they attended. This dataset contains the higher education institution identifiers for up to four higher education establishments per respondent. In Wave 11, the data were re-gathered on the same basis. As well as the higher education institution identifiers the UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) of the establishment has also been included. Users of the Wave 11 file should be aware that approximately 2,000 respondents who did not give consent to a linkage consent question were incorrectly not asked for their establishment identifiers. The respondents affected have been asked the same questions again in Wave 12. It is expected that this extra data will be released when Wave 12 is released in November 2022. The details in this dataset can be linked to the main Understanding Society datasets SN 6614 (End User Licence), SN 6931 (Special Licence) and SN 6676 (Secure Access) using the crosswave personal identifier pidp. The institution identifiers in the data files can be used to link to publicly available datasets published by HESA and elsewhere.Latest edition informationFor the second edition (November 2020), data for Wave 11 were added to the study.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Telephone interview

Face-to-face interview

Self-completion

Web-based interview