Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 16: results from methodological experiments and new data

Abstract

This paper presents some preliminary findings from wave 16 of the Innovation Panel (IP16) of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Understanding Society is a major panel survey in the UK. In June 2023, the sixteenth wave of the Innovation Panel went into the field. IP16 used a mixed-mode design, using on-line interviews, face-to-face interviews, and telephone interviews. This paper describes the design of IP16, the experiments and other studies carried, new datasets produced, and the preliminary findings from early analyses of the data.