A new study study of multiple health behaviours of parents and their dependent children has been published by the Public Health Research Consortium. The report was carried out as part of a project on multiple health behaviours led by by Hilary Graham at the University of York with Catherine Law (UCL), Lucinda Platt (LSE) and … More Multiple health behaviours of parents and children
Six waves of Understanding Society data have now been released. This gives researchers the opportunity to learn more about how the lives of families and households in the UK have evolved over since. We can look at what has changed and what has stayed the same in people’s work, attitudes, family lives, health, housing, education … More Understanding Society Wave 6
This paper investigates women’s labour force participation in the UK among women from different ethnic groups. The paper studies variation in entries into the labour market and exits from the labour market. This is unlike much analysis that focuses on the rates at a single point in time. It explores whether there is variation in … More Women’s labour market entries and exits
Patterns of Minority and Majority Identification in a Multicultural Society explores dual and individual ethnic and national identies among the UK’s minority and majority populations. Using the acculturation framework popularised by Berry it explores the strenght of minority groups’ ethnic and British identities and how they covary. It also capitalises on the fact that the … More Dual ethnic and national identities
If you are interested in carrying out ethnicity research using Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), please download the Ethnicity Research User Guide, which provides an introduction to carrying out ethnicity related research making use of this rich and unprecedented data set. A range of other information and resources are available on the Understanding Society website ethnicity pages … More Understanding Society: Ethnicity research user guide
Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK youth uses Understanding Society to examine the prevalence and clustering of meeting recommendations among 10- to 15-year olds in the UK. Access the abstract and details of the article from the International Journal of Public Health website Photo credit: Bruce Tuten
Ethnicity and bullying involvement in a national UK youth sample uses Understanding Society to investigate ethnic differences in bullying involvement (as victim and bully), controlling for potential confounders, including age, gender, economic situation, family structure and parent–adolescent relationships. The article was published in the Journal of Adolescence. Access the article via Professor Dieter Wolke’s Research Gate profile
Lucinda Platt 