Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012: Special Licence Access

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.The Understanding Society Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2012, was completed with 15,646 adult participants from the General Population component living in England, Scotland or Wales who completed a full Wave 2 interview. In addition, blood samples were obtained from 9,920 individuals. The Wave 3 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2011-2012, was completed with the BHPS sample component. Assessments were conducted with 5,053 individuals and blood samples were obtained from 3,366 individuals. The Nurse Health Assessment, which included physical measures, such as height, weight, lung function, blood pressure and grip strength, as well as blood samples, followed the main wave interview by approximately five months. As well as a range of blood analytes, two proteomic panels have been produced and a number of epigenetics clock variables have been derived. The physical measures, biomarkers and questionnaire data from the Nurse Health Assessment interview are available from the UK Data Service. Genetics and epigenetics information is also available, with and without survey data; see the Understanding Society website's health data section for more information -&nbsp;https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/health/data.For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614,&nbsp;Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS.The standard End User Licence version of the&nbsp;Understanding Society: Nurse Health Assessment&nbsp;study is held under SN 7251. Users are advised to check that study first to see if the data are suitable for their needs before making an application for the Special Licence version. The Special Licence version contains variables covering prescription medication codes and associated usage questions that are not included in the End User Licence version, and polygenetic risk scores derived from genetics data.&nbsp;See documentation for further details.Latest edition informationFor the third edition (January 2023), corrections have been made to 60 variables in the file xindresp_ns, with a further six being dropped. The files&nbsp;'b_labblood_ns' and 'c_labblood_ns' have also been withdrawn. The testosterone polygenic score available in xpolygen_ns has also been corrected. For full details, please refer to the document '7587_revisions_jan_2023' and the updated user guide.Suitable data analysis software These data are provided by the depositor in Stata format. Users are strongly advised to analyse them in Stata. Transfer to other formats may result in unforeseen issues. Stata SE or MP software is needed to analyse the larger files, which contain over 2,047 variables.Main Topics:The main measures in the Nurse Health Assessment are anthropometric measurements - height, weight, waist circumference, percentage of body fat; blood pressure, lung function, grip strength, and a number of derived variables for prescription medications. The biomarkers include lipids, liver and kidney function, markers for anaemia, diabetes, and inflammation as well as a number of hormones that provide information about ageing.</p

Understanding Society: Waves 1-2, 2009-2011: Special Licence Access, Geographical Accessibility

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.The Understanding Society: Waves 1-2, 2009-2011: Special Licence Access, Geographical Accessibility (UKHLS-accessibility) dataset is the output of a research project that linked information from the Department for Transport's (DfT) Accessibility Statistics with information from the first two waves of Understanding Society. It provides user-friendly access to information about the areas in which study members live, taken from more than 20 published tables describing small areas (Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) levels in England in terms of more than 600 unique data items relating to access to eight domains of public service (i.e., Employment Centres, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Further Education, General Practitioners, Hospitals, Food Stores, and Town Centres). For further information, see the documentation. This work was supported by the Life Transitions and Transport Behaviour project of the Economic and Social Research Council's Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) programme (grant number: ES/K00445X/1), a collaboration between the University of the West of England, the Department for Transport and the Institute for Social and Economic Research. Additional support was received from the Understanding Society project (grant number: ES/K005146/1). These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section). Those users who wish to make an application for these data should contact the HelpDesk for further details.Main Topics:Variables cover eight domains of public service (Employment Centres, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Further Education, General Practitioners, Hospitals, Food Stores, and Town Centres)

Do Unions Cause Job Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Quasi‐Experiment in the United Kingdom

Unionized workers tend to be less satisfied with their jobs than their non‐union counterparts. Despite 40 years of research that has sought to explain this phenomenon, the causes of this relationship are not fully understood. Drawing on nationally representative panel data from the UK, this study uses quasi‐experimental methods to compare how the job satisfaction of union members and their non‐union counterparts changes in response to an exogenous event. Results suggest that working conditions rather than the behaviour of unions are the more likely cause of union member job dissatisfaction

Ethnic Disparities in Neighbourhood Selection: Understanding the Role of Income

Resurgent fears that segregation could undermine the cohesion, prosperity and security of British society require re‐examining how ethnicity and economic resources interact to structure the types of neighbourhoods people relocate to when they move. This article uses the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study and 2011 census data to assess how ethnicity and income intersect to stratify the ethnic and socio‐economic composition of the neighbourhoods people move to in England and Wales. The results suggest that greater access to resources allows people from most ethnic groups to act on shared residential preferences by moving to more advantaged locales. Furthermore, higher incomes accelerate ethnic deconcentration by carrying Asians into neighbourhoods with a greater share of White Britons. However, there is also considerable inertia and ethnic inequality in neighbourhood destinations. The geography of local opportunity structures constrains the types of neighbourhood people relocate to and ethnic minorities tend to move to less advantaged neighbourhoods than their White British peers. Although Britain is not ‘sleepwalking to segregation’, there are persistent ethnic and socio‐economic disparities in neighbourhood outcomes

Life Satisfaction and the UK Citizenship Process: Do Tests and Ceremonies Enhance Immigrants' Lives?

Gaining citizenship in the UK requires applicants to pass a “Life in the UK” test and (if successful) attend a citizenship ceremony. Critics of this policy agenda assert that it exacerbates exclusion of an already vulnerable and disadvantaged population. The UK government justifies the requirements in part on the basis that they facilitate integration, thus enhancing immigrants’ lives. This article, using data from the UK longitudinal household survey (“Understanding Society”) considers outcomes for immigrants by investigating whether gaining citizenship in the current period is associated with immigrants’ subjective well‐being. Results from regression models and matching analyses show that participating in the citizenship process (or not) is not generally associated with individuals’ life satisfaction