23 November 2021, 11am-12pm
Alexey Bessudnov (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter) will share top tips on getting started with Understanding Society in your PhD/MReS research.
Funded by ESRC, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on the changes and stability of people’s lives in the UK on a wide variety of topics.
As with most other longitudinal household surveys, the structure and documentation of the Understanding Society are quite complex. Sometimes this may seem as an obstacle for researchers who are just starting to use the data. Alexey provided top tips on how the Understanding Society files are structured and how they can be linked and reshaped, demonstrated how to work with the Understanding Society files in R, and suggested possible questions that could be posed by researchers using Understanding Society.