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The UK Household Longitudinal Study

Capturing life in the UK in the 21st century Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal household panel study of its kind and provides vital evidence on life changes and stability

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Children’s Society: young people’s wellbeing significantly lower

Children’s Society outlines significant decline in children’s happiness with their life as a whole

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Links between disability and smoking

Smoking rates have been falling for decades, but tobacco is still a major cause of illness and premature death – and different groups in society remain persistent smokers

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Entrepreneurs in uncertain times

During the pandemic, government support made it easier for businesses to survive.

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Parental psychological distress and early regulatory problems: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

  1. Edith Aguirre
  2. Michaela Benzeval
  3. Ayten Bilgin

Cumulative risk of undiagnosed mental distress in the UK general population: the role of protected characteristics

  1. Claire Wicks
  2. Cara Booker
  3. Meena Kumari
  4. Antonella Trotta
  5. Emily Hall
  6. Susan McPherson

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

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Victimization experiences, internalizing problems and family bonds among adolescents from the UK: multi-group structural equation modeling using an intersectionality informed approach

  1. Susanne Birnkammer
  2. Cara Booker
  3. Claudia Calvano
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Understanding Society in the media

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The psychology behind why we pay to avoid uncertainty
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Why your job dictates how much you save — no matter what you earn
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