Working paper Understanding Society Working Paper Series

Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 17: results from methodological experiments and new data

By Jim Vine, Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Carlos Carillo-Tudela, Monica Costa Dias, Mick P. Couper, Thomas F. Crossley, Simon Elam, Annette Jäckle, Violetta Parutis, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Owen Preston, Martin Pullinger, Sean Urwin, Elia Valentini, Sandra Walzenbach, Elise Whitley, Qunshan Zhao and Mingyu Zhu

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Understanding Society Working Paper Series
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2026-11
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Abstract

This paper presents some preliminary findings from Wave 17 of the Innovation Panel (IP17) of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Understanding Society is a major panel survey in the UK. In July 2024, the seventeenth wave of the Innovation Panel went into the field. IP17 used a mixed-mode design, using on-line interviews, face-to-face interviews, and telephone interviews. This paper describes the design of IP17, the experiments and other studies carried, and the preliminary findings from early analyses of the data.