The self-employment core module asked a set of new questions about the HM Revenue and Customs Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant (SEISS). These included a new COVID-19 module asking about Coronavirus symptoms, testing, results, whether hospitalised, shielding and long-term health conditions.

New questions, or questions that had changed, went into the field in July 2020. From April 2020, all adult participants were moved to an online questionnaire, with a telephone interview as a follow-up for those who couldn't complete their interview online. Adult participants who usually complete their interview face-to-face were offered an online or telephone interview instead. In mid-March 2020 face-to-face interviewing was suspended due to the first lockdown of the pandemic period. Health related questions on disability, nutrition, obesity, exercise, smoking and alcoholĭownload Understanding Society Wave 11 What impact did COVID-19 have on Wave 11?.The youth questionnaire for Wave 11 included: Questionnaire content for Wave 11 changed midway through the fieldwork period in response to the COVID outbreak and new questions were added to the main survey, to complement the data being collected in the new COVID-19 survey. The data from Wave 11 also covers the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the self-completion section of the survey rotating content included asking respondents about partner relationships, alcohol consumption, identity, loneliness, voting behaviour, social support.

Wave 11 also includes modules that are carried every two waves and were last included in Wave 9.

Political behaviour, added to capture responses to the 2019 European Elections and General Election.

What's in Wave 11?Īlongside the regular content, Wave 11 contains a set of new modules, introduced for the first time. The dataset also includes the harmonised BHPS data from 1991. With the release of Wave 11, Understanding Society now covers the period from 2009 to 2020.

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