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by Jonathan Burton

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Professor @annettejackle.bsky.social debates survey methods on BBC Radio 4

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

The Radio 4 programme, More of Less, looked into the survey statistic by Resume Templates claiming 77 percent of young people brought a parent along to their job interviews.

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
PODCAST: Does pollution affect immigrant populations disproportionately?

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/bre...

Chris Coates looks at air pollution and in particular how common is it for immigrant populations to live in more polluted areas. With @ruettenauer.bsky.social and L’myah Sherae
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
BLOG: Young people’s aspirations rise with parents’ income, by Alexander O’Donnell & Alexandra Wake

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
What? Hang on... Only Connect is on tonight???
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Field an experiment or suggest questionnaire content for the next wave of the @usociety.bsky.social Innovation Panel.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

Two types of proposal can be submitted:

New survey content and Experiments and methodological tests.

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
What? Hang on... there's no Only Connect on tonight???
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
"Do you resist change?" @jdickerson.bsky.social on @slate.com Plus Political Gabfest
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
BLOG: How do you build a survey that works? by Peter Lynn

"In an article published today in the journal Nature: Human Behaviour, I attempt to tackle this question."

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Research has found that children who have been in childcare were more likely to come from higher-income households, and to have parents with higher education qualifications. It also showed differences in children’s emotional behaviour, depending on the type of childcare they’d received.

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Childcare more common in higher income families.

Welsh Government uses @usociety.bsky.social to investigate childcare and effects on children

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/impact/welsh...
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
The data give researchers a view on the the entire family before and after childbirth. Parents answer questions on fertility, pregnancy and child development, and children complete their own survey from the age of 10.

by Jonathan Burton — Reposted by Mel Bartley

jonburton.bsky.social
The latest Pregnancy and Early Childhood data from @usociety.bsky.social are now available from the UK Data Service.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Understanding Society collects information on social, economic and behavioural factors, and information on babies/children
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
This follows in the trail of great User Guides, such as:
BHPS – Harmonised User Guide
Calendar Year Datasets User Guides
Family Matrix User Guide
Marital and Cohabitation Histories User Guide
Ethnicity Research
Cognitive Ability Measure
National Pupil Database Wave 1 Linkage
DVLA User Guide

by Jonathan Burton — Reposted by Mel Bartley

jonburton.bsky.social
New User Guide for @usociety.bsky.social with information on the geographical identifiers and geographical classifications datasets available in Understanding Society and provides information on how they can be used.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentatio...
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
- Indoor environments and energy use
- Adaptation to eco-climate emergency
- Youth online survey

User Guide: www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentatio...

Data:
beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogu...

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
New data from @usociety.bsky.social Innovation Panel is now available.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

What new experiments are now available?
- Youth survey invite mailing
- Consent decision process
- Identification of informal caregiving
- Labour market expectations
...
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton, Maria Sobolewska

usociety.bsky.social
New blog: Tak Wing Chan @ioe.bsky.social with a detailed look at immigration and social cohesion. Pundits and some research tell us that diversity undermines trust and solidarity, but can we accept findings which don’t take poverty and inequality into account?
Is there a trade-off between diversity and social cohesion? - Understanding Society
Material deprivation, not social diversity, threatens to stretch and tear the social fabric diversity and social cohesion
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton, David D. Buck, Maria Sobolewska

usociety.bsky.social
New case study! Charity @pbe.co.uk used our data to show that the £28 billion annual bill for disability benefits creates £42bn in positive effects
Wellbeing boost from disability benefits outweighs cost - Understanding Society
Wellbeing boost from disability benefits worth £12,300 per person New case study shows wellbeing boost from disability benefits worth £12,300 per person
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Online course: Survey Measurement of Health: Implications for Social Science Research

A short online training course on the implications of survey measurement of health for future social science research online on 22 and 23 September.

www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/new...
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Each webinar takes place 13.00 to 14.15.
- Linked data: 2 October
- Employment: 9 October
- Family, households and children: 16 October
- Income, wealth and housing: 23 October
- Ethnicity and immigration: 30 October

Topic webinars are free to attend, but you do need to register in advance.

by Jonathan Burton — Reposted by Dave O’Brien

jonburton.bsky.social
Join the Understanding Society user support team for lunch-time learning on some of the key topic areas covered by @usociety.bsky.social. The free, one-hour online courses are designed for both new and experienced users of Understanding Society.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/09...
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
PODCAST from @usociety.bsky.social about pets!

Can we put a monetary value on what pets bring to our lives?

Interviews with Adelina Gschwandtner (Kent) and Ashleigh Brown (RSPCA)

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/pet...
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton

usociety.bsky.social
Our podcast is back from its summer break! Our new episode has Adelina Gschwandtner @kent.ac.uk and Ashleigh Brown from RSPCA discussing pets and life satisfaction, and how it’s possible to work out a monetary value for the benefits we get from cats and dogs
Pets and life satisfaction - Understanding Society
Can we put a monetary value on what pets bring to our lives?
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Topic webinars
One-hour, lunch time webinars on key topics in @usociety.bsky.social

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/trainin...

Linked data – 2 October
Employment – 9 October
Family, households & children – 16 October
Income, wealth & housing – 23 October
Ethnicity & immigration – 30 October

by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Reviewing our questions on ethnicity and immigration.

Let us know your views on this important part of the @usociety.bsky.social survey.

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/06...
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton

rrluthra.bsky.social
Two year postdoc at @universityofessex.bsky.social to work with my amazing colleague (see below) on her ERC project "Applied stereotypes, social networks and self-fulfilling prophecies: How stereotypes reinforce social inequalities" Closing date 28.09.2025
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
Quality of Expenditure Data Collected With a Mobile Receipt Scanning App in a Probability Household Panel - by Alexander Wenz, @annettejackle.bsky.social @jonburton.bsky.social Mick P. Couper & Brendan Read.

doi.org/10.18148/srm...
This paper reports on a novel approach using smartphone technology to collect expenditure data in a probability household panel of the general population in Great Britain. Respondents were asked to download an app on their smartphone and report their purchases of goods and services over the period of one month. The app directed respondents to use the built-in camera to photograph all paper receipts that they received at a point of sale. In a separate diary section of the app, they were able to manually enter other expenditures, such as non-receipted payments. In this paper, we compare the quality of the reported expenditure with benchmark data from the Living Costs and Food Survey, the national budget survey in the United Kingdom. The results suggest that total expenditure reported with scanned receipts plus direct entry aligns closely with the national budget survey whereas app data from scanned receipts only clearly underestimate expenditure. Examining category-level expenditure similarly shows that for most categories, the reported expenditure from scanned receipts plus direct entry aligns more closely with the benchmark than scanned receipts only. In addition, the app data align more closely with the national budget survey for respondents who are older, male, have an above-median income, and live in rural areas. The implications of measurement differences vary: comparisons of estimated budget shares are closer to the benchmark for some categories than others.
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by Jonathan Burton

jonburton.bsky.social
History of the World in 47 Borders by @jonnelledge.bsky.social whilst crossing the Canadian/Alaskan border
Kindle version of Jonn Elledge’s book “A History of the World in 47 Borders” with the border of Canada and Alaska in the Yukon in the background
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton, Brady T. West, Florian Keusch

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📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!

The latest issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴 is here – featuring new research on survey design, data quality, sampling, nonresponse, & more.

See the issue:
🔗 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/issue/vi...

#SurveyResearch #SurveyMethods #ESRA
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Reposted by Jonathan Burton, Patrick Präg

usociety.bsky.social
We're reviewing our questions on ethnicity and immigration. If you'd like to give us feedback on the questions we ask and the variables you use for your research there's information on how to take part in the review on our website: www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/06...
Reviewing our questions on ethnicity and immigration - Understanding Society
We are undertaking a review of the questions included in Understanding Society on the topics of ethnicity and immigration.
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
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