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New Understanding Society Innovation Panel data available

Wave 10 of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel (IP) has been released. Researchers can now download the data from us by following the registration instructions.

The Innovation Panel
is a longitudinal survey designed for researchers to use as a test-bed
for innovative ways of collecting data and developing new areas of
research.

The Panel conducts multiple experiments and
methodological tests each year which are submitted by researchers
worldwide. The next call for proposals will be launched in Spring 2019.

The
Innovation Panel team has published a new working paper which
summarises the results of experiments and methodological tests: Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: Results from Methodological Experiments.

Breakdown of the experiments in wave 10

  • Applying prospect theory to survey advance letters (Peter Lynn)
  • Financial management and perceptions of ownership of money within couples (Hayley Fisher, Hamish Low)
  • Can
    we improve the representativeness of non-resident parents, and collect
    robust data on reasons for separation? (Caroline Bryson, Stephen McKay)
  • Evaluating consent for linkage to the electoral register (Nicole Martin, Maria Sobolewska)
  • Comparing static and dynamic presentation of question grids (Tim Hanson)
  • Twitter Linkage Consent (Tarek Al Baghal, Curtis Jessop, Luke Sloan)

Training for IP data users

The online course Introduction to the Innovation Panel using Stata
consists of an introductory presentation about the Innovation Panel,
followed by a series of examples. The focus of the course is on
understanding which data are available and how to prepare them for
analyses, rather than on analysis methods.