Understanding Society is an initiative by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, which contains headline findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. This offers data on 14 topic areas using results from approximately 100,000 individuals in 40,000 households, as well as young people aged 10-15. Topics include social support networks, housework and gender, risky behaviours of 10-15 year olds, population diversity, employment and racial discrimination, immigrants and overseas remittances, higher education and social background, working hours, employment and the recession, sports participants and measuring well-being:

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