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Our Dr Angus Holford @AngusHolford explains his research with @rabe_b funded by @NuffieldFound to a packed audience at @NEUnion event @MiSoC_Essex @usociety @ResearchEssex

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Using UKHLS to measure levels of persistent poverty.
Between 2017 and 2021, 12% of people in Scotland were in persistent poverty after housing costs.
The rates were highest for children (18%) and lower for working-age adults (10%) and pensioners (10%).
data.gov.scot/poverty/persiste

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We’ve got a new mini-episode of our podcast out: @tweetpaulfisher @iseressex takes just nine minutes (and eight seconds) to explain government ‘stimulus payments’ and how we react to them – spend or share? understandingsociety.ac.uk/pod

Also two workshops on Monday 10th July: Introduction to Geographical Data Linkage – Linking Open Data to UKHLS; and Introduction, overview, and basic training in use of Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) panel data understandingsocietyconference

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Registration for the Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2023 is now open: @usociety 11 - 13 July, University of Essex. 32 sessions, 105 presenters, 121 presentations! Keynotes from @HeejungChung @AnnetteJackle & @roryc_coulter understandingsocietyconference

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Recently published in SRM: "How and Why Does the Mode of Data Collection Affect Consent to Data Linkage?" by @AnnetteJackle , @jburton123 , Mick P. Couper, Thomas F. Crossley & @SaWalzenbach @usociety @iseressex @umisr @EUI_EU @UniKonstanz
ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/art

The latest @OffMenuOfficial episode with @nickmohammed - I wasn't expecting it for some reason, but this was the maddest one yet!

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This is definitely worth a look if you’ve used data in an undergraduate social science dissertation this year (and our Associate Director, Outreach @alitanandi @iseressex is on the judging panel) twitter.com/UKDataService/stat

Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Wellbeing App Study, 2020 data available. Adults were invited to download an app and use it to report on their emotional state and self-regulation, external stressors, attachment, and interactions with loved ones. beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datac

New @usociety working papers:
Short-term impact of increasing the value of unconditional and conditional incentives in Understanding Society by @pablocalv & @ProfPeterLynn

New @usociety working papers:
Understanding Society: How does the Study as data infrastructure generate benefits for science, policy and society? by @RajPatel08

New @usociety working papers:
Proteomics in Understanding Society: pre-analytic condition impacts on measurement by @anna_dearman Meena Kumari & Yanchun Bao

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The Swiss Household Panel has a new documentation webpage. All information is now compiled on one page and easily accessible. 👇forscenter.ch/projects/swiss-h

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Paul Fisher does a great job summarising our recent paper in this 10 minute podcast twitter.com/usociety/status/16

I really enjoyed this book and would 100% recommend to anyone who is interested in cinema, Hollywood, the silent era, culture and society in the 1920s... It's full of enthralling vignettes of life in the early decades of the 20th century.
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Because my book Camera Man recently came out in paperback, @nprfreshair is re-airing a super-fun interview I did with them on its publication last year about the life, films & hist…
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Hi all - @iseressex are looking to recruit a Systems Manager to ensure our IT infrastructure and operations are sufficiently robust to maintain ISO certification whilst modernising and developing systems and processes to meet user needs. hrorganiser.essex.ac.uk/tlive_

Participation of household panel members in daily burst measurement using a mobile app: effects of position of the invitation, bonus incentives, and number of daily questions - @AnnetteJackle @jburton123 Mick P. Couper & Brienna Perelli-Harris - @usociety understandingsociety.ac.uk/res

Understanding Society Wave 16 pilot: biomarker data collection in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, @usociety by Christine Woods @jburton123 Tarek al Baghal @MBenzeval Violetta Parutis & Meena Kumari understandingsociety.ac.uk/res

- asked participants to download an app to report on their spending for a month
- people could either take a photo of their receipt, or manually enter expenditure
- total expenditure reported with scanned receipts plus direct entry aligns closely with the national budget survey

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Quality of expenditure data collected with a mobile receipt scanning app in a probability household panel - by @wenz_alexander @AnnetteJackle @jburton123 Mick P. Couper @brendanpaulread - uses @usociety. understandingsociety.ac.uk/res

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